Tag: Modern design
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Residents of The Q Experience Luxurious James Bond Lifestyle with Solar Power
“The Q” is an apartment building in the Little Italy neighborhood of San Diego, California (Jonathan Segal FAIA & Development Company), so named after the gadget-inventing character, Q, of James Bond movie fame. A gross square footage of 90,000 houses 29 residential units, between 400 and 1,900 square feet a piece, along with underground parking.…
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Energy-Efficient Modern Home is Built Inside a Cave in Missouri
If you’ve ever wanted to live in a cave, this beautiful modern home in Festus, Missouri is the perfect blend of energy efficiency and rustic living. The 17,000-square foot underground home is built right inside a sandstone cave, featuring a modern interior space that perfectly accents the unfinished sandstone walls. Owners Curt and Deborah Sleeper…
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Arbor House in the Bronx Provides a Green Community for Low-Income Residents
New York City’s new Arbor House, a green building located in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx, is a $37.7 million project designed as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan, which has a goal of providing 165,000 affordable housing units in the city by 2014. Built by Blue Sea Development, the eight-story…
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A House for All Seasons: D*Haus 8-in-1 Modular is a House for All People
Experimental design and architectural firm, D*Haus Company, takes their inspiration for the creation of structures, furniture, and lighting from mathematics, most specifically from Henry Ernest Dudeney, the mathemetician who figured out how to evolve a perfect square into an equilateral triangle. Their D*Haus modular homes demonstrate their belief that ideas “can help improve and inspire…
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Glass Farm in The Netherlands is a Modern Take on Pre-Warm Farmhouses
This may look like a traditional Dutch farmhouse, but look closely and you’ll notice it is made of glass. It is a mixed-use retail building located in Schijndel, The Netherlands, created by Architect Winy Mass of MVRDV. After the destruction of the town square during WWII, Maas began campaigning to rebuild the area, presenting several…