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Houzz App Adds 3D Preview to Help You Shop (9 photos)

May 3, 2017 Erin Carlyle 0
If you can’t envision how a piece of furniture or art you are considering might look in your home, a new feature in the Houzz app could help. Houzz’s 3D feature for iPhone and iPad enables you to place items in your room and turn them around to any angle. The Houzz app, updated with this new feature…

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Spanish Urban Beach House for the Perfect Summer Vacation

May 3, 2017 HD Staff 0

Are you ready for summer? Are you ready for endlessly beautiful days and nature at its peak? We all look forward to summer. That’s a fact. It is basically coded into our DNA. Summer is the best time of year, and the best time for a vacation. Barcelona is one of the best places to […]

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Obama Foundation Unveils TWBTA-Designed Obama Presidential Center

May 3, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

The Obama Foundation today unveiled the design of former President Barack Obama’s Presidential Center, reports The Chicago Tribune. Designed by Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects, the center’s design comprises three buildings. At the north of the site, the tallest building will contain the center’s museum, while buildings to the south will house a library, auditorium, and restaurant, arranged around a public garden.

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“Hard to believe this is a product of one of the most admired creative partnerships of the last two decades”

May 3, 2017 Owen Hatherley 0

By bringing together commerce and ornament, the now-defunct Foreign Office Architects has produced a shopping centre that looks like a giant black slug, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. You remember Foreign Office Architects. The London-based firm was dissolved five years ago with the split of its main partners, Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo, but

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Tower-house I / SOUTH

May 3, 2017 Valentina Villa 0

Tower-house I interprets the form of dwelling, widely found throughout the outer Mani, southern Greece; a combination of defense tower and farmhouse. This was articulated by a monolithic, stone structure with few openings, so as to protect dwellers from extensive heat as well as piracy. The surrounding landscape is characterized by dry stone retaining walls transforming a steep topography into a series of arable plateaus; these long walls were the most prominent man-made intervention in this harsh landscape for centuries.

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Why Copper Works in the Kitchen (17 photos)

May 3, 2017 Anne Ellard Design 0
Copper has been the metal of the moment for some time now. While it can fit in anywhere in your home, the kitchen is where this warm metal can really take center stage and show off its natural beauty, whether it’s perfectly polished or weathered and worn.
From pots and pans to countertops and…

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The Complex Construction of Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand Museum Tower to be Featured in New Documentary

May 3, 2017 Patrick Lynch 0

With construction now well underway on One Thousand Museum in Miami, one of Zaha Hadid’s largest projects to be completed posthumously, Curbed has reported that the 62-story tower will be the subject of an upcoming Discovery/PBS documentary covering the creation of complex structures from around the world. Titled “Impossible Builds,” the program will highlight the building’s unique glass fiber reinforced concrete exoskeleton.