Interior Design
Foster + Partners’ First Public Garden Design to Feature in Norton Museum Expansion
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida has announced plans for the first-ever public garden designed by Foster + Partners as part of their $100 million expansion project. To feature a variety of native sub-tropical plantings and gathering spaces, the garden is envisioned as “a new social space for the community.”
Saudi Arabia to invest $500 billion in fully automated city spanning three countries
Robots may outnumber humans in a new pioneering city billed by Saudi Arabia as “a new blueprint for sustainable life”, which would be entirely powered by renewable energy, and served by driverless vehicles and vertical farms. The city called Neom is to span an area of 26,500 square kilometres, stretching across the borders of northwest Saudi Arabia into Jordan and
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New This Week: 3 Kitchens Full of Character and Charm (3 photos)
Nobody wants a boring kitchen. Look to these three kitchens for color, style and personality inspiration to help keep yours from being forgettable.
New This Week: 3 Kitchens Full of Character and Charm (3 photos)
Nobody wants a boring kitchen. Look to these three kitchens for color, style and personality inspiration to help keep yours from being forgettable.
Tennis & Padel School Office / BETA.ø architecture office
The project proposed the construction of a new office for the tennis and padel school in a sports grounds located in a privileged natural setting in Madrid. The arrangement put forward, consisting of an office, a customer service area and a storage space for the equipment needed to give classes in the sporting disciplines, was resolved by paying special attention to the landscape and natural setting of the new building. So, after careful analysis of the grounds, locating each of the trees on the site, it was decided to break the functional programme up into two smaller parts, allowing easy integration of new building into the landscape and respecting the existing tree-lined area.
Calculation for Constructing the Stairs and All of the Main Elements
Calculation for the constructions is like the core to the body. Generally, when starting with the designing, all of the steps should be accompanied by carefully calculating. For the calculating, you should insert the…
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Calculation for Constructing the Stairs and All of the Main Elements
Calculation for the constructions is like the core to the body. Generally, when starting with the designing, all of the steps should be accompanied by carefully calculating. For the calculating, you should insert the…
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The Sisters House / Anik Péloquin architecte
The owners purchased a small house on a secluded lakeside lot in La Malbaie. For its first three decades, the house was used as a hunting lodge, then it became the summer home for the Sisters of Charity. The urbanite owners lived there sporadically for six years to acclimate themselves to the natural setting and define their needs. Because it would have been very expensive to renovate the house, they soon decided to opt for new construction instead. The existing house would remain standing as the “big sister” bearing witness to the history of the place. It would become a bunkhouse for guests.
The Sisters House / Anik Péloquin architecte
The owners purchased a small house on a secluded lakeside lot in La Malbaie. For its first three decades, the house was used as a hunting lodge, then it became the summer home for the Sisters of Charity. The urbanite owners lived there sporadically for six years to acclimate themselves to the natural setting and define their needs. Because it would have been very expensive to renovate the house, they soon decided to opt for new construction instead. The existing house would remain standing as the “big sister” bearing witness to the history of the place. It would become a bunkhouse for guests.


