Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,450 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. This tallest skyscraper in the United States has four glass box viewing platforms. These balconies are suspended 1,353 feet (412 m) in the air on the 103rd floor. As per reports, the inspiration for The Ledge came from . . .
Year: 2009
Amazing Garage Door Art!
Seems like it is Garage Monday! We brought you the winning designs from the Maserati garage design contest earlier today but here is something different: Garage door prints that make it look like you own boats and jets! These utterly realistic images are printed on plastic sheets which are stuck on garage doors – the . . .
14 Insanely Cool Car Garage Designs
Italian sports car manufacturer Maserati, in partnership with Architectural Digest Magazine recently held a contest that invited applicants to design a dream garage fit for parking a Maserati. The garage design contest received many interesting entries and Maserati just now announced the winning design. The winning garage design was by Holger Schubert from LA in . . .
28 Red and White Living Rooms
Of late I came across so many attractive living rooms that use the red and white combination that I thought it was time to put in a post. Color-wise, White is subtle and Red is intense. Togethor these two colors seem to work really well. Not all the rooms that we feature today will use . . .
Yellow Kitchens
The color yellow instills optimism, enlightenment and happiness. It carries with it a feeling of something positive, something promising. What better place to be enlightened and stimulated than at the heart of your home? Yes, we are talking about yellow kitchens this time! Check out our handpicked set of beautiful yellow kitchen designs below: (BTW, . . .
citizenM Hotel Interiors, Amsterdam
A trip or travel is said to be perfect only when we find a home away from home. Any tourist destination would boast of hotels and resorts that cater to the needs of its tourists. Here we cover one such magnificent hotel by the name citizenM, located at Amsterdam. With the opening of this hotel . . .
Stunning Paper Crafts from Ingrid Siliakus
You have already seen the intricate paper castle designed by Wataru Itou that we featured before. It seems there are quite a few people specializing in paper crafts. Traditionally, Paper Architecture is the art of creating an object out of a single piece of paper. We came across an artist named Ingrid Siliakus who specializes . . .
Orange Kitchens
To continue with our series on kitchens by color, we bring you Orange kitchens today. Orange radiates fun, flamboyance and energy. Orange is considered to be an extreme colour and sometimes tend to evoke a ‘love it’ or ‘hate it’ attitude from people. Orange, like red, is also said to be appetizing. Scroll down to . . .
Sustainable Home Designs for Katrina Victims
Actor Brad Pitt has partnered with real-estate developer and philanthropist Steve Bing to create low-price, sustainable homes as part of the “Make it Right” project. A set of duplex designs were proposed by 13 of the world’s top architects to visualize and design green, sustainable houses for hurricane Katrina victims.The designs had to be flexible, . . .
Red Kitchens
Another round of kitchens sorted by color! The color that we will feature today is red and it is associated with passion, lust and generally used to signify intense feelings and emotions. Red is also said to induce hunger and want and it is a well known fact that most fast food companies use this . . .
Living Room TV Setups
For many homes, the living rooms also double up as entertainment centers. The overall entertainement experience you get from these depend a whole lot on the placement of your TV and speakers. We feature in this post a few excellent tv room setups we found in this rather interesting Swedish forum. It is not uncommon . . .
World’s Largest Barbie Store
Barbies and young girls. We will probably never understand the connection between them but that doesn’t make us not appreciate the creativity involved in this structure that is devoted to the world’s most famous and loved doll. Mattel, the parent company that own some of the world’s top toy brands, (including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fischer . . .
Dream Paper Castle!
Architecture and design intrigue us – whatever the scale, whatever the medium. And Wataru Itou, an art student from Tokyo just wins us over with this wonderful paper craft art installation he showed off at an exhibition in Japan. The installation is hand made, complete with electrical lights and a moving train, all made of . . .
Beautiful Cliffside Villa
There may have been times when we have drove past luxurious bungalows and beautiful villas and wished our dream homes to be similar or close to it. Here we take you through a tour of one such beautiful, modernist cliff side villa designed by Foster+Partners.The villa is situated on a steep site overlooking the Mediterranean . . .
Amazing 3D Immersion Technology!
It seems like some of the futuristic movie environments, that we showed you yesterday might become reality sooner than we thought. Check out EON Reality‘s immersive 3D visualization technology(video shown below) that is used by architecture firm WATG to provide clients a walkthrough experience like no other. Stereoscopic images are projected onto 3 white walls . . .
Design of Techno Environments in Movies
Okay, this post is going to be a bit different from what we usually cover at Home-Designing. But have you ever wondered who designs those futuristic looking techno environments that you see in sci-fi flicks like Minority Report, Star Trek and the like? Answer: Companies like OOOii. This Hollywood based company focuses on creating interactive . . .
Kids bedroom designs by Mariani
Designs can be many, but it’s always challenging to save space without having to compromise with the beauty and aesthetics while furnishing and decorating a room. Here we have compiled pics of some innovative yet contemporary designs for kids’ rooms from Italian maker Mariani which is based in Milan. Apart from making kids rooms bright, . . .
Brown Kitchen Designs
It seems that each of us is partial to a particular color. Our color preferences do affect our decision making and this is particularly significant in a niche like interior design. It is not uncommon to find people who even fix their color choices beforehand and then hunt for ideas and inspiration that use only . . .
Twilight House – Cullen’s Home Decor
I don’t know how many of you have seen the movie Twilight. It is actually, a love story between a vampire(acted out by Robert Pattinson) and a human(acted out by Kristen Stewart). The movie had people swooning over for a lot of different reasons. Being an architecture and interior design blog, we would kind of . . .
10 Beautiful Bedroom Designs
If you are a regular follower, you will know that we occasionally compile a list of beautiful designs for a particular room or space. Sometimes we make these posts cover general topics like foyers or bathrooms but occasionally we go as specific as to even deal with a specific colour like green living rooms or . . .
Office Meeting Room Designs
We have had a few requests asking us to do a post on office meeting rooms. So here is one, finally! We will start off with a few conventional meeting rooms and gradually move into more ‘revolutionary’ ones. Meeting Room Design by Burak Office meeting room by Pangmen Meeting Room With Wall Art by Nemanja . . .