12/31/09

Clever Cell Phone Bracelet: The Dial

 
Imagine getting a call and whipping one of these super high-tech cellular bracelets right off your wrist to pick it up? Dubbed “the Dial” by its inventor Jung Dae Hoon, this wearable technology is not exactly the greenest gadget, but we think the fact that it serves double duty as an accessory and has a small material footprint is worth mentioning. We also like that it offers the option of several interchangeable skins, so that you can just give your Dial a facelift if you get bored with it instead of buying a whole new phone.

 

Modern wallpaper - Interior bedroom, glam and pretty


Modern wallpaper - Interior bedroom, glam and pretty  
Interior bedroom, glam and pretty. The geometry of the table and lamp play off the round shapes so nicely, too. And the clock! And the red cord of the lamp next to the red borders of the parasols! Oh, oh.



Create an Elegant Style of Home Decor

create an elegant style of home decor
create an elegant style of home decor
create an elegant style of home decor

If you are looking to create an interior decor that's elegant in style, then here are some ideas that you can use to help you achieve the results you're looking for.

When it comes to deciding on the finishing touches for your new home or renovation, it depends not only your budget, but more importantly, knowing what you want. Many people try to perform a renovation without knowing what they really want when it comes to interior decor, and as a result, find it more difficult to turn their ideas into reality.

So here are some tips that you can use to create an elegant style of home decor, and to find out the various ideas that are available when it comes to interior decorating in this style.



Modern Contemporary Designers - get your house a new countenance modify

Modern Contemporary Designers -  get your house a new countenance modify
Modern Contemporary Designers -  get your house a new countenance modify
Modern Contemporary Designers -  get your house a new countenance modify




Who doesn't wants to have a beatific house, which is not appreciated by anyone who visits it? Who won't like to be in a locate that looks cozy and comfortable? Even the top Hollywood stars take the help of the inland designers to add a assorted and unique countenance to their house. You can also get a assorted and unique countenance to your house with the help of the inland designers.

There is assorted type of inland designers. The equal inland design is those which provide a equal and rich countenance to your house. These are some of the artist designs that are previously used in most houses. You can check discover the assorted designs that are available with the inland designers. You can make use of the inland designers to modify check discover the walk through with the help of which you can get the morphed and changed countenance of your house on the computer. They are well alive of the market trends and the assorted new gadgets that can be settled in your house to make it unique and stylish.

Interior designers not only are answerable for selecting the objects that are to be settled inside the house. Even the shades on the wall and the tiles on the floors is something that comes low their job. Once you select a portion design, all you need to do is sit backwards and relax. The assorted designs that are provided by the inland designers are dependent on amount that you are selection to spend. You can get your house a new countenance modify by spending a small amount of money. If you are easy spending a beatific amount the designers would provide a design accordingly. There are a number of equal designs as well that are being used these days. These equal designs provide a classy countenance to your house and make it countenance unique.



12/30/09

Arctic Mobile Unit Keeps North Pole Visitors Warm

 
Living in a land filled with perpetual snow, we can only imagine that Santa Claus has some special magic to keep him and all his elves warm all year. For the rest of us, a stay in the North Pole requires proper equipment — like this arctic mobile unit designed by 2-B-2 Architecture's Andrey Bondarenko. The compact little unit operates off a solar battery and power generator and can keep its occupants safe and warm for 15 days, operating between -40 to +10C and withstanding winds up to 85 km/hour (abo

ut 50 mph).

Rotterdam supermarket

Apartment house

Building of this project has already begun: Dutch bureau MVRDV will begin building in the centre of Rotterdam. This object will combine two functions — an apartment house (228 apartments) and the market area.

Supermarket in Rotterdam

On the market area 100 trading places, shops and restaurants will take places. In a building is also an underground part — a parking on 1200 places and a supermarket.

In each apartment there will be own balcony, and also a window which leaves on the market area. The project is planned to construct by 2014th year. The general investments into the project makes 175 million euro. The building total area will make 100,000 sq. m.

Apartment in Rotterdam
Habitation in Rotterdan
Market area
Supermarket

Apartment house Rotterdam

The project is symbolical enough, but is conceived as new city typology; this steady combination of products and meal, leisure, habitation and a parking.


Huge pipes as an architectural element

Huge pipes

The building for company T Bailey Inc is made as factory expansion on manufacture of steel pipes. The architect of the project — Tom Kundig from studio Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects — used huge pipes as a design element.

We make pipes!

Total area of office of 1100 sq. m. For construction of office architects used directly that product which is made by the customer. Visitors will get to a building on huge pipes. In a huge vertical pipe the large fan which will condition air at the main office is placed. The conditioner will be charged by energy of the sun.

Factory expansion

Architectural factory of pipes

The interior corresponds to stylistics. The concrete floor, open structure, a covering minimum. The roof inclination will direct streams of rain water to a garden, for watering of trees growing there.


Modern white kitchen-a narrow green border as a design motif

Modern white kitchen-a narrow green border as a design motif

In this kitchen, designer Richard Mishaan used a narrow green border as a design motif -- see how it bleeds from the walls to the curtains? The curtains and window seat feature a Donghia awning stripe (‘Kauai’ Sunbrella), and the ‘Pudding’ pendant light is by FontanaArte.


12/29/09

In the European Union since 2010 forbid standard lamps

Andris Piebalgs

The eurocommissioner on power Andris Piebalgs has promised to develop legislative offers on introduction in the Usual lampEuropean Union since 2010 of an interdiction for trade in usual lamps on which share it is necessary an order of 80% of the European market, have informed on Saturday the Belgian mass-media.

According to the eurocommissioner, refusal of such lamps and transition on ampoule a led will allow to reduce to 60% a current consumption house economy, and also will promote the aims laid down by EU to lower on 20% by 2020 annual consumption of an electricity in member countries of this regional organisation.

Londoners can exchange usual lamps for the harmless free of charge

Eco lampCampaign for an exchange of usual lamps on harmless (economical) lamps starts on Friday in London, the mayoralty of the British capital has informed.

Social campaign which carries the amusing name "lamp amnesty", is sponsored by a network of department stores B&Q and portal Simulateur D'aube. Within three days all interested persons can exchange free of charge two old lamps on two economical.

LampsBy estimates of the power companies, each such lamp will allow to reduce harmful emissions in atmosphere at the expense of fuel burning to 120 tons of carbonic gas a year, and for the simple British will save 7 pounds sterling at the payment of invoice for an electricity.

Economic ampoule burn as brightly, as well as usual lamps, but serve approximately in 12 times longer and consume on 80% of less electricity.

European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs


Entertaining ecology in Hamburg

New building in Hamburg

Sauerbruch Hutton became the winner in competition on building of a new building for Office for Urban Development and Environment. The building is planned to construct by 2013.

City in a miniature

The project represents a complex of buildings and a tower where public zones (restaurants and showrooms) will be placed. In the central lobby city models of Hamburg which can be examined through a glass facade will be exposed.

Office in Hamburg
Showroom in Hamburg
Urban Development

Showroom in Hamburg

In a building passive and active measures, for example, thermal isolation, cross-country-ventilation, the system of heating using a solar energy, the geothermal equipment are combined.


Create Your Interior Design Painting -apace and easily able to create a marbled effect on the wall

Create Your Interior Design Painting -apace and easily able to create a marbled effect on the wall


Create Your Interior Design Painting -apace and easily able to create a marbled effect on the wall

Create Your Interior Design Painting

How the exclusive of your bag looks is just as essential as how the right looks. Sure you could argue that everyone sees the right while only you, your family, and your guests see the inside. Since you are the only ones who see the inside, it should emit your personality and be a pleasure for everyone. That's where having the right inland organisation craft ideas comes in handy. Each person has their possess individual sense of style and a artefact they envision their home. Paint is an inexpensive artefact to add personality and unique looks to any wall or room in your home.

It can be difficult to choose the exact artefact you poverty your inland walls to appear. With every of the do it yourselfers discover there today, there are plentitude of inland organisation craft ideas that hit been modified to be easy for the average person to create. One of the most popular techniques is sponge painting. By craft the desired walls a darker colouration than the accent colouration you are apace and easily able to create a marbled effect on the wall. Latex paints impact best for this job. You may poverty to experiment with assorted sized and shaped sponges on a disposable surface, like older wood, to find the effect you like the most.



Wettingen School Cafeteria











The old cafeteria of the Wettingen School was too small, due to constantly raising pupil number, so :mlzd projected the new cafeteria according to the typology of the existing buildings.

The new cafeteria has a rural character and part of a the conceptual and formal analogy with the traditional farm, which makes the volume, types and structural features of the interior space.

The building envelope, composed of a homogeneous coverage of black anodized aluminum sheets, plays with the light that seeps between the silhouettes of the flowers and leafs cutout of the aluminum sheets.

12/28/09

Studio Ippolito Fleitz Group











The number of co-workers at Ippolito Fleitz Design Studio has grown with its tasks, therefore the architects and communications designers have jointly created for themselves a new place of work on a floor of an old office building in Stuttgart.

The design of the space is in accordance with their own demanding standard as “identity architects”; the office is to be the hallmark that conveys their identity to both clients and co-workers.

Two long work desks cultivate a creative and communicative atmosphere. Shelving and furniture are executed in white or dark wood. Contrasting accents of color are set by textile bands above the workplaces that serve as light switches, and the areas of green plants. In addition to two conference rooms, cheerful communication islands are available for discussions. The studio with spacious kitchen and oversized mires is a place of both inspiration and relaxation.