Small Apartment Zinging with Color

This conceptual apartment, by Anna Marinenko, is positively bursting with bright decor decisions in the choice of paint, furniture, and accessories, but the vivacious palette finds success in this small space by limiting the hues, combining only two colors amidst clean white and fleeting bases of black and grey. The original clock concept was born . . .

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Swanky Sales Office of Condominiums by the Sea

Standing tall by the beach at Hua Hin, Thailand, is the condominium development Baan San Kramm, designed by Somdoon Architects, and built by company Sansiri. The beach town complex has an adjacent sales office that acts as a front-of-house gateway, which provides potential homebuyers access to two impressive show units, and creates the opportunity for . . .

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Inside the Mind of an Architect

Architect Barry Berkus talks in detail about the design process he used for a client. Spontaneous early design process, as featured in the video(after images), led to creation of the custom contemporary Padaro Residence, in Carpinteria, California; a fantastic composition of clean modern architecture that prominently features large expanses of glass to maximise wide stretching . . .

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Sensational Doesn’t Even Begin To Describe It

The WOW factor is abundant and absolutely bursting at this SAOTA designed Clifton House in South Africa. Located on a cliff in Nettleton Road, the most exclusive street in Cape Town, the property revels in an expansive seascape perspective to its facade, and a stylish garden with outdoor living area set into the mountain face . . .

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Spectacular House Surrounded By Moat

This castle style residence, complete with a huge beautiful surrounding moat, is the work of renowned architect Charles Sieger, of The Sieger Suarez Group. This Miami dream castle is designed in perfect symmetry most wondrously appreciated from the air, with aerial views showing the property perfectly central to the shimmering body of water, and reaching . . .

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Eero Saarinen’s Miller Residence

Originally commissioned by Indiana based, modern architecture patron, J. Irwin Miller and his wife in 1953, and designed by famed architect Eero Saarinen, the classic modernist Miller residence was declared a National Landmark in 2000 and finally became the property of Indianapolis Museum of Art after Miller’s wife, Xenia Simons Miller passed away there in . . .

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Jewel of Kahana House, Beachside in Maui, Hawaii

The seven bedroom, seven bathroom Jewel of Kahana house sits oceanfront in West Maui, Hawaii, on an acre of land. Amongst the palm trees, this stunning home is approximately 9,000 Sq. Ft, constructed with an abundance of windows and walls of glass that disappear into the bordering rock walls, allowing every bit of the ocean . . .

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Spectacular Modern House With Open Design And Adjacent Pool

House of Ipês in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was a project embarked upon a decade ago by Marcio Kogan, a design of exposed concrete that many builders deemed practically impossible. The heavy material has been given amazing grace in this construction, with the magnitude appearing to float above the glass volume of the lower floor. In . . .

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Transparent Villa in The Netherlands

Whim Architecture designed the sublime ‘Villa BH’ in Burgh-Haamstede, the Netherlands, over a 2874 square feet floor area. The impressive, almost transparent, structure stands predominantly as glass walls, framed out in white, with natural wood cladding to the roof edge, and sides. A jetty leads through the garden façade, crossing a pebble edged body of . . .

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White Spaces with a Punch of Color

The Micheli Residence in Florence, by Italian architect Simone Micheli, pops with an unusual palette. In exception of a rare feature wall, the large white space finds color from its furniture of carnation pink and sunshine yellow, with a current of neon green and electric blue running through it. Interesting textures break up the fresh . . .

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