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Product Of The Week: Samsung QLED Frame TV With Matte Display

April 10, 2022 HD Staff 0

Houseguests may wonder what the remote control is for when they see this Samsung QLED Frame TV with matte display on the wall. This year’s Frame TV Series features an anti-reflection screen that looks very close to a real painting. Get it here. Recommended Reading:  51 TV Stands And Wall Units To Organize And Stylize […]

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Ode to Nature House / Milwicz Architekci

April 10, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

The detached house was designed near Poznań in a quiet area surrounded by a forest. The main design aim was to create a simple longitudinal body that would separate household members from the street and open onto the garden, ensuring privacy. From the garden, there is a view of the beautiful surrounding greenery from the 22-meter string of windows. A large amount of windows also poses a challenge, which is an overheating of the building. However, in the case of this house, the deciduous trees solve this problem. In the summertime, they form a barrier to the sunlight and during winter, after losing leaves, they allow free access.

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Merkem Community Centre / Rapp+Rapp

April 10, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

Merkem is a small village in West Flanders, counting 2,300 inhabitants. After having been completely destroyed in the First World War it was reconstructed in the 1920s in a typical local building style, being a characteristic example of post-war reconstruction architecture. The village is situated along two main roads joining in a T-junction. The commission granted to Rapp+Rapp consisted of two parts: the redesign of public space along the main streets in the village and the construction of a new community centre.

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10 Fold House / Timmins+Whyte Architects

April 10, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

The original single storey Edwardian cottage was dark and lacked connection to the outside.  We used 10 folds in the roof to draw in light along the skinny, long house and site.  The folds minimise bulk to the eastern neighbour and rise up to the large two-storey contemporary western neighbour. The house humbly addresses the street with a contemporary tweak to the Edwardian cottage and the two storey part of the house sits further back from the street hiding the bedroom volume behind it.