A condominium need an architecture that meet of the clients need. Here is the design of modern MacAllen Condominium designed by Office dA. The Office dA is a Boston based architecture and design firm led by principal partners. the firm’s work ranges in scale from furniture to urban design and infrastructure, with a focus on architecture. As a pivotal building in the urban revitalization of South Boston , the MacAllen Building’s design requires a reassessment of conventional residential typologies to produce an innovative building that works within a developer’s financially competitive budget. Occupying a transitional site that mediates between highway off-ramps, an old residential fabric, and an industrial zone, the building negotiates different scales and urban configurations. The design addresses two scales and the different edge conditions of the surrounding context through varied spatial conditions, various ways of reacting to the public sphere, and accompanying material and facade articulations to reinforce the scales of interaction.

On the western end, the building responds to the highway with a curtain wall yielding panoramic views for the residents inside the building. On the eastern end, brickwork mirrors that of the residential building fabric, extending the logic of the storefront and pedestrian scale elements on that facade. On the north and south facades, bronzed aluminum panels reflect the industrial neighborhood component and express the structural system organization. Additionally, the Macallen building was designed from the ground up to take advantage of “green” building techniques and materials. It is the first LEED certified building of its type in Boston.

Inspired by the Trailside, here is the best home design with log wooden materials, so, how to create this house? There are several step before designing this. First, change the size and floorplan of the trailside, and than we should choose between handcrafted log, milled log, timber frame, log & timber hybrid, or Mountain. After that, Increase or decrease the "design complexity" of the Trailside. And the last thing is choosing the decoration. --

• Integration of log and timber frame elements

• Luxurious master suite • Large covered porch at the rear of house

Have you ever seen the house upside down? When you come to a region that has recently occurred earthquake, then you will easily find it. And in a state badly damaged, of course. But it would be different if you came to visit Szymbark, a small village in Poland. There was a famous house, visited by many people because it has extremely unique architecture design. The uniqueness of this famous design, because it was built upside down. This upside down house project was designed by Daniel Czapiewski, a Polish bussinesman and philanthropist.

Requires 114 days to build this house, much longer than build a normal house that is usually completed within three weeks. That is because the workers are confused, disoriented, in understanding the idea of ??building the upside down home. The walls are generally built straight, it must be built with a slash. So is the case with certain parts that belong in the top, turn under. Not only the workers who like to be disoriented, even if you do not see these images, might have trouble understanding the upside down home design presented in this article.

From the overall picture in this article, you can see that all parts of the house was built upside down. In fact, to reinforce the impression, the upper house looks like a building foundation. In our imagination, can probably imagine there is a giant coming, then unplug the house and its foundation from the ground. But then the giant made ??a mistake by putting the house upside down. Of course, this is just an ordinary joke, because it is in fact a unique architecture design of the upside down home really exist in Poland. If there is spare time, could become one of the objects to be visited. And don't forget, take pictures in front of the house as proof that you really have to visit it. [via]

Vodafone has a new building as their headquarters, located in Porto Portugal. The building design uses a modern architecture, designed by Barbosa & Guimaraes. Building that serves as the new headquarters, has a slogan Vodafone "Vodafone Life, Life in Motion". When we look more carefully, the first image above, the building has an irregular shape, with many facets as a display face. Maybe we will be stunned while thinking: "How is it possible to make structural design like that?" Concrete structure be the answer to your question. Yes, this building is dominated by the performance of the functions of concrete structural and exterior. In many building designs, we know, more concrete functioned to support the structure. But in this Vodafone headquarters building design, concrete plasticity optimized to obtain a design that is truly unique and unusual. One thing we can learn here, that the concrete can carry out multiple functions properly, structure and exterior function.

When peeled from the technical point of view, this building has a high complexity. With an unusual concrete structures, clearly reduce support for building on it, but to provide flexibility in terms of interiors. On the ground floor which is right next to the auditorium, a room overlooking the Boavista Avenue, cafeteria and offices. While on four floors above the office a place to work, an open space and terrace. Going down to the basement, floors -3 and floor -2 serve as parking vehicles, and the -1 floor is occupied by a technical field and functioned as a training room. This design is sufficient for a building that serves as an office. [via]

Architectural design in this article is very unique, in the use of materials and in shape. About 90% of the entire building uses material from the timber, except for the window because we can not change the timber to be transparent like glass. The form was somewhat unique, in particular the use of a square shape, and in some other part using curved forms. So far, we use wood as an ornamental building, among others, to the ceiling and floor of the room. But in this design, the function is evolving toward more distant, more than just a trimmer. For this design, the wood runs the main function as a protector, because it's almost entirely made ??of wood construction.

The architectural design of this wooden building located in the maritime heart of Helsinki, designed by Pieta-Linda Auttila. If you look closely, this design is really amazing. In some parts of the curved shape, we can imagine how the carpenters have been working hard to get the forms that are not uncommon. Embodiment of harmonious cooperation between Pieta-Linda Auttila as architects and carpenters who have worked hard, producing stunning wooden architecture building design. via

In the world of home and architectural design, we recognize the so-called trend. Trends are always changing and shifting, with the influence of several factors. In line with developments in information technology, reference designs are so readily available, thus allowing inter-cultural exchanges across the world. A person living in Europe could have adopted a Middle Eastern architectural styles, or Asian people use the European style, it has become common fairness. The development of the latest architectural trends, shows a spinning wheel change to Asia.  Now, asian home design to be the best design, most in demand by homeowners, and many are developed by developers around the world. If you feel curious about this design, you should continue to follow this article to gain a valuable reference.

In the second picture, can be an inspiration for you to decorate the room with the asian theme. You can get a beautiful decor with classical calligraphy, Japanese or Chinese style. Calligraphy can be attached to the wall directly on the media or whatever furniture you want. For the choice of words used for calligraphy, you should use strong words, which could give inspiration, courage, and energy to move.

From the third picture, you can find abundant inspiration associated with the values ??of Chinese-style beauty. A special dining room, by adopting asian home design, feature a very unique lighting elements. Using the typical Chinese traditional lights, called lanterns, very powerful in creating a romantic impression. Do not forget, there is a strong myth of the dragon in Chinese society. It will be very supportive, if you bring the Chinese dragon in the form of murals or painting on a red cloth, which serve as mosquito nets as well as insulation between the dining room with other rooms. On the other side of the room, a traditional Chinese fan painting will give the impression of beauty. The combination of dragon and the fan became a kind of equilibrium concept of yin-yang, the dragon as a symbol of strength and courage, while the fan is a symbol of softness. Now the strength and softness combined to create a wonderful dining room designs, with the dominant red color in various places.

Design the room on the fourth image, adopting the Japanese style. Painting the walls with the typical Japanese frames, adorn the walls of the left and the far wall. A typical Japanese interior furniture, a table called Kosatsu, further strengthening the nuances of Japanese tradition in this room. A rectangular table with a clean dark lines. All interior furniture in this room adopting Japanese culture, with a touch of modern design that is very alluring. After reading this article, you are more convinced by the beauty of asian home design, and perhaps you are interested in implementing this design into your modern home design. Please try and good luck!

Decoration Asian Home Design

Asian Home Design with Unique Dining Room Lighting

Interior Asian Home Design

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The history of modern home architecture designs has not been so long, began in 1945 in southern California. At that time, many residential houses were destroyed by war. So, a designer produces a new idea, about a house that uses a completely different design to the design of most of the time. This idea is even contrary to traditional designs, many dominated by the use of building materials of glass and steel. This design is made with the aim that reproduced by developers across the country. It is intended to address the problems of post war housing. Modern design can be identified to offer open-concept interior floors, with walls less. The use of exterior building materials is more dominated by glass and steel. Has a characteristic that is an inclined straight line and tilt, not curved, tapered, or carved.

 

Modern architecture does not begin with the revolution that is not to arrive - arrived discard the pre-modern and replace it with a geometric as one - the only form of architecture, but gradually abolish the ornaments - ornaments and decorations are replaced by geometry. Modern architecture is known to have evolved more or less half a century, beginning about one - around 1920 to 1960 and in September 1930 has held a congress of CIAM is to generate methods of rational thought, to rebuild the buildings - buildings destroyed by World War II. In this case, they apply the speed in building (building component manufacturing), efficient, economical and rational. The emphasis on rationality. Such a building is considered to reflect its function and this phenomenon across national borders and cultures, so it can be considered to be international.

 

 Modern architecture has the view that architecture is the 'process to think' and not 'if feeling' (1750), and 'game space' and not 'form'. In line with the rapid advances in technology influence the architecture. The emergence of technology that supports the building materials of modern architecture. For example, glass that can be used to express the space or spaces. Because the characteristics - characteristics that 'there but invisible'. In addition to realizing the speed of the build is done with mass production of building materials resulting in modern architecture to penetrate the cultural and geographical boundaries, and become an international style of architecture and buildings - buildings in the world to be uniform. Ornament - ornament in the building is considered a crime and klasisme ever used by the fascists and nazi become a negative symbol and should be processed.