Sunday, December 30, 2007

New Media for Professionals Architects and Suppliers " DesignerPages "






Here is the best place to visit for you as an architects or professional designers, its a place to make you get an easy way for looking a new source products in architecture and design. a new media in social networking for architecture and design professionals. its Designer pages

Designer pages offers you a central place to meet and tracking of great projects and finding all kind of products for your interior design needs, such as lighting, Furniture, Seating, chairs, tables, Bathroom accecories and many more in an easy way, just by simply entering the desired product name into search box, then in just a second, you will get what you are looking and you can browse another products trought related categories, related search and applications.










If you are trying to search industrial design products, you will find a tousands of products that available and offered by suppliers in different categories, manufacturers, tags and detail product descriptions that can help you choosing the right one for your needs.

So try submit there and become their member whether you are choosing to be a designers or suppliers to get all the benefits that they offer to you.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Xerox Residence by Blank Studio

















The Xeros " Dry " Residence designed by Blank Studio and located at Phoenix, US West. This Residence is positioned upon the upward slope of a 50’x 250’ double lot facing the mountain preserve to the north and the city center to the south. The building has several environmentally responsible decisions. The primary building material is exposed steel (as structure, cladding, and shading) that is allowed to weather naturally and meld with the color of the surrounding hills.


































































photography: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography, Incorporated
Phoenix, Arizona USA
Via : The Slow Home

Friday, December 21, 2007

Great Light Fixtures at Farreys

Need a fantastic light fixtures selection for your interior and home design, here you can find the best lighting solutions both outdoor and indoor at Farreys.com.




At Farreys you can browse many kind of light fixtures products that you’re looking such as chandeliers that available in many styles design, wide range and thousand of product, low price offers and quick search for any kind of chandeliers that you can browse thru farreys.com sites by price rang, style, brand and many more easy option guide.





















Image of Fluorescent Fixture Group Collection by Kichler Lighting


Their indoor and outdoor home lighting fixture also gives you many products choices that will suit with one of your room or home corner, with the great selection of light fixtures and their quick search feature that they offer to you to find the right product with the right price, you will get an easy way to shop for your light fixtures at farreys.com, enjoy your shopping time.

Friday, December 14, 2007

" Child-friendly Public Transport " With Cool Interior Design on Japanese Train

















This is what we call ‘Child-friendly Public Transport’ from Japan. Designed by Eiji Mitooka for the Regional Trains which travel on a daily basis on the 14.3km Kishigawa line in Japan. This train contains TV screens showing cartoons, hundreds of toys, immaculately clean wooden flooring and cots for younger children.
































Via : indianspencer.blogspot.com

Thursday, December 6, 2007

The Barefoot Home Magazine






















About The Barefoot Home | Dressed- Down Design Fot Casual Living by Marc Vassallo
"This Book May Cause You to Sell, Buy, or Remodel a House within Hours of Reading." says the Amazon reviewer, Daphne Durham

What make this book so special :


- Great photography image from its content.
- Every page that is not covered with photos and mini house plans called "footprints" is full of smart, helpful, inspirational text.
- Great and stunning layout.
- He lays out the ground rules in the first few pages in his chapter called "barefoot dreams," in which he asks readers to "Pour yourself a tall glass of something cool, sit back, flip off your shoes, put your feet up, and dream with you eyes wide open."

get it at Amazon

Maison du Development
















Maison du Developpement Durable.
By placing the front approaches and innovative environmental technologies, the project will minimize its impact on the environment as well as inspire the integration of environmental aspects in the design and renovation of buildings in Quebec.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Nice place to stay and spend your Holidays in Italy

Are you wondering what kind of an attractions will you get when you are trying to visit a beautiful place in Italy. Some famous tourist attraction that already well known there are the Trevi Fountain which stands at 25.9 meters high and 19.8 meters wide and definitely is a spectacular site to behold and is located at Trevi which is in Rome. Duomo or Cathedral church around Italy are definitely a must to visit as well and one of the ancient world wonders,Coliseum where the bloody battle between gladiators. So there are many place to stay for a night in italy hotels where you can get great service and nice price.

Another place that is offer great pleasure in Italy is at Rome, there you can visits Pathenon,Vatican and Sistine Chaple . Get your night at rome hotels thats also offer you a good service and competitive price too.

How bout Venice, a romantic place well known around the world that has beautiful attractions as well. "must visit" place to go in Venice are Canals,Palazzo Grassi, for place to stay in order to rest and continue travel for the rest of other days, stay in any of the venice hotels.

Dont forget to visit Milan and see the great Cathedral of Milan, Leonardo da Vinci Museum, Castello Sforzesco. and if you like soccer/football much you will never regret to spend your holidays there, try to check out milan hotels for nice reservation and great price.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Farreys sensational offer for you | The Light fixtures

At Farrey, the The company that was established in 1924 you can find many kind of services and best deal of all kind home product such as light fixtures that offer you wide variety of lighting design for your home.
The company page for home lighting site is a cool choice for you to laying your selection thru their wide range of variety home light fixture accessories that comes from the best and top manufacturers, such as Minka Lavery, Sea gull, Fine Art Lamps and many more top manufacturers. the design range is also comes with variety of style from contemporary lighting design, Traditional, casual to modern design.

Top brand for their kitchen light fixture also can be the best factor to get one or more kitchen light fixture stuff from the Company that they offer to you. You can browse their kitchen lighting furniture such as Cabinet and undercabinet lighting, Pendant light, from traditional to contempory, and casual design and another great stuff.

ceiling light fixtures include all variety of product such as ceiling mounted, chandelier, wall mounted lamps and many more.
One of The great offer from this website is that they are accepting Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express that can be used to buy all kind and variety of their item. Fast payment options also make the experience in shopping become much more easy.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Great Stainless Steel Product Offer from StanlessSteelStore

Do you love cooking..??? or do already have the best cooking stuff that can support your hobby in cooking very easily to clean, maintain and also have a nice design and come out from great materials too..?? If you don't have all kind of stuff that can support your cooking addict, try to use the best prodcut offer from DomusStainlessSteelCookingAccecories.com that is comes out with great and modern stainless steel materials. They offer you a large variety of cooking stuff such as Stainless Steel Sieve Shaker, Stainless Steel Coffee Canister, Stainless Steel Pepper Mill, Stainless Steel Kitchen Multi-Storage and many more.





















The company also give you a
guarantees one hundred percent refund or product exchange to “unsatisfied customers”. They also gives you nice Discount price, and another variety product specifically made for kitchen, outdoors, decors, , living room, wine bar, bed room, bathroom, and many more.























Thursday, November 8, 2007

Best Architectural search for your mailboxes design


When comes in designing mailboxes, you may find the best article that i wrote below that gonna talk about mailboxes design.
http://www.mailboxixchange.com



The best choice for searching all kind of mailboxes design thats comes with so many style for your residential building can be found at Mailboxixchange, here you can find the maliboxes design with all tags such as residential mailboxes that can give you the best solution for your residential design. This type of choice let you browse thousand of mailboxes style from modern style, minimalist style classic style and another style that can provide your need with their detail product knowledge, material, and also sesational offer with the vest price to buy.

The second choice is the commercial mailboxes that can provide your need in searching for commercial mailboxes design, This type of mailboxes gives you maximum security to your inbox commercial mailboxes design and for sure, the commercial mailboxes design is have a very well performance design, functional, aesthetic, and also maximum security .

Monday, November 5, 2007

Garden Design Exhibition at UK by Kenny Schachter

Earlier this month, in the heart of London, the work of people like Campana Brothers, Ron Arad, Tord Boontje, Zaha Hadid and Ross Lovegrove were presented in the context of Super Covent Garden Design. In the UK, the first exhibition featuring more of a cross between art and design, organized by Kenny Schachter, the studio and gallery in Greenwich Village.

Source: Greenwich Village | yankodesign




Friday, November 2, 2007

Wize Product, The best place to search all kind of Home & Garden Product

Here is the best site for you to find all and thousand of product with an easy way to search all what you needs, with all of their complete categories such as Electronics, Computers and Office, Video Games, health and beauty, Kids and baby, Home and garden, will make you get exact item that you want.

















Their Product Reviews such as home appliance, coffee grinder, ice cream maker, kitchen appliance, waffle maker any many more product reviews gives you an easy guide way to buy product that you need because they gives you complete description, the best prices, and the best review from all buyer that have bought their product before you really buy whether this product is god or not. So try to stop by and look around to the Http://www.Wize.com and search all kind of product that you need.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

5 Tips For A Productive Home Office Interior Design

Setting up a home office can be real fun if you follow a simple blueprint and some key points that can greatly improve your productivity in your newly set up office. Here are some of the key points you should look for.

1) Home Office Interior Design: Home Office Furniture

Furniture is an integral part of an office. Depending upon the nature of your profession you will require various kinds of furniture pieces.

For example if yours is a business that creates graphics and arts related stuff then you will require drawing boards and a whole set of other kinds of “special” furniture. Make a list of all such special types of furniture you may require.

2) Home Office Interior Design: Indoor lighting

Pay special attention to this factor. Lighting is a MUST for good working environment. Your first priority must be to allow good natural sunlight in the office space. So while selecting the location of your office in your home, make it a point to achieve good quality natural sunlight.

Artificial lighting will also be required for the home office space. The best practice is to use diffused or indirect lighting. In this type the actual light source is not directly visible. The light is emitted on a glossy and bright surface which then gets reflected to create an even diffused light in the surrounding are. This method works great for offices because it does not create glare that might cause discomfort in the office space.

3) Home Office Interior Design: Use plants

Plants at selected locations and of selected type can greatly add “life” in your home office. The best suggestion would be shade loving medium side plants that require less water and maintenance.

Also shade loving flowering plants can be used for this purpose. The biggest benefit of flowering plants is that the plant changes its appearance depending upon the flower bearing season, thus giving your office a “new look” without any effort on your part.

4) Home Office Interior Design: Color Schemes

Just like lighting, color schemes for office will have a major impact on your working mindset. Avoid using dull colors such a gray and any shades of black. Also avoid using too much brightness in the office.

The best option would be white and blue. White is a balanced color and the blue creates a cool ting to the entire office environment.

5) Home Office Interior Design: Services

Services include the provision electricity points, water supply etc. Since we are talking about home office it is not necessary to provide any extra services by spending a lot of money. But it is important to think about it NOW because the lack of these can cause a great nuisance. If you expand your office in near future and add more employees then it will a great asset as far as functionality of your office in concerned.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Dwell | an Architecture Interior Design Magazine


Dwell was created to champion an intelligent, thoughtful, and modern sensibility that stimulates our audience to envision—and realize—life at home in the modern world.” dwell is one of my favorite architecture interior design magazine, specializing in sustainable, green and environmental housing design and issues.


Sunday, September 16, 2007

Modern Kitchen | by David Rockwell




This simple modern and beautiful kitchen is designed for you by David Rockwell and build by Sterling Surfaces countertop for the Riverhouse condominiums in New York, this is a nice idea and inspiration for your kitchen furniture at your home or your apartement that need a simple and modern design 
for your best kitchen furniture.
Pictures found on Flickr.



Saturday, September 15, 2007

Borobudur Temple Multimedia Preview

Here is the Borobudur Temple Movie from Toxit Multimedia, read the news that i've give last time here, Next to come is about Prambanan Temple

The Tsunami Museum Award WINNER at NAD | Nangroe Aceh Darussalam
















The Tsunami Museum Award at NAD ( Nangroe Aceh Darussalam ) has been be closed at date of 23 August 2007. Various winner category even also have been selected. Aceh House of Escape Hill selected as first champion at this Award. The team which is consisted of Muhammad Ridwan Kamil, Muhammad Yuliansyah Akbar, A.A Putra Munchana and Asep Budiman is very competent and is true rewarded for the first champion.















Building of House of Aceh Podium taken as elementary analogy of building mass. With concept of podium house, this building also earn to function as a escape hill if only happened disaster tsunami in a period to coming.











































View interior of the NAD Aceh House of Escape Museum

















the image shown the building when the tsunami disaster happen.


This Desain also loaded with local Content. Shaman dance as Hablumminannas reflection ( Relation concept usher human being in Islam) distilasi into pattern of fasade building. The light Of God, a space form of cylinder well flashing light to sky direction derepresent reflection from Hablumminallah ( concept of relation of human being and GOD, Allah SWT).













the other issue and link of this topic can be found here

www.mutsunad.org

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

INTERACTIVE CD of BOROBUDUR TEMPLE You Can it Get Now



An information about existence and history of "Candi Borobudur", stored in a INTERACTIVE CD format, Telling about all Aspect start from history, relief, arca, up to philosophy about The Luxury Candi or" BOROBUDUR" TEMPLE in this world is tidy in visual appearance as well as animation drawing you can get here.



The content of this "Candi Borobudur/BOROBUDUR TEMPLE" Interactive CD is using BAHASA Language,but if you want to get one in other language sush as an english / spanish language you can contact the maker of this Interactive CD at toxit02@yahoo.com



Budha statue inside of stupa in borobudur temple




restoration image of the borobudur temple can you found inside the cd with an interactive flash animation.



another restoration image at borobudur temple




the carving method in making of relief in borobudur temple

Preview flash of the Borobudur Temple movie can be play and found here :

SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
Operating System : Microsoft Windows,
Proccesor : minimize Pentium, Memory : minimize 64 MB RAM
CD-ROM : minimize 16X , Sound Card : Compatibel.

This interactive CD have format of Flash Animation which is available in CD, you Can run in PC , For best appearance, you can use monitor resolution setting at 1024 x 768 pixel

If You want to purchase this nice interactive CD, please contact the owner below ...:
TOXIT MULTIMEDIA
Perumahan Bumi Tirtanirmala Indah B4
Bantul - Jogjakarta
phone : + 62 81 2269 7315
toxit02@yahoo.com

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

9 PROJECTS RECEIVE 2007 AGA KHAN AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE

Here is The nine projects selected by the 2007 Award Master Jury are:

Recipients of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in Kuala Lumpur, 4 September 2007

Samir Kassir Square, Beirut, Lebanon
Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam, Yemen
Central Market, Koudougou, Burkina Faso
University of Technology Petronas, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Malaysia
Restoration of the Amiriya Complex, Rada, Yemen
Moulmein Rise Residential Tower, Singapore
Royal Netherlands Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Rehabilitation of the Walled City, Nicosia, Cyprus
School in Rudrapur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh

The High Resolution image can be found here



1. Samir Kassir Square, Beirut, Lebanon: Award given to architect Vladimir Djurovic.



2. Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam, Yemen.



3. Central Market, Koudougou, Burkina Faso


4. University of Technology Petronas, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

5. Restoration of Amiriya Compleks, Rada, Yaman.



6. Tower residensial Moulmein, Singapore: Award given to Wong Mun Summ dan Richard Hassell from WOHA Architects.


7. Netherlands Royal Embassy , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Award Given to Netherland Architect Dick van Gameren and Bjarne Mastenbroek and Ethiopian architects ABBA Architects.



8. Rehabilitation of the Walled City, Nicosia, Cyprus


9. School in Rudrapur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh : Architect from : Austria andan Jerman Anna Heringer dan Eike Roswag sharing this award with the local communities and the volunterr from NGO Dipshikha.

About Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Via Architectural Record.
Via Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).