Tag: Modern design

  • Life on the Road in Style

    Here is another van into home conversion done right. It was designed and created by builder, architect and entrepreneur Ross Lukeman who wished to enjoy the digital nomad life in style. He completed his van home about half a year ago and now lives in it full time. <img src=”http://www.jetsongreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/office.jpg” alt=”” width=”520″ height=”346″ class=”alignnone size-full…

  • Innovative Façade to Keep a Lebanese Bank Cool

    The new Banque Libano Francaise (BLF) building in Beirut, Lebanon will feature an interesting façade, which will also have the added benefit of keeping the inside temperature at a comfortable level. The building was also designed with economic, social and environmental sustainability in mind. The building is called The Magic Box, and it will feature…

  • Home in Japan Scaled to Fit and Irregular Lot

    Japan has very stringent building codes and high taxes on land, which means that most of the homes, especially in cities like Tokyo, get built on oddly-shaped lots. These are usually the result of existing plots of land getting further subdivided to accommodate several generations of a family. This peculiarity of Japan’s housing market has…

  • Small Apartment Made Spacious by a Clever Transformer Unit

    In many large cities across the world, housing is hard to come by, so more and more people are finding ingenious solutions, which allows them to live big in small spaces. One such example is this Paris micro-apartment, which was made a lot more cozy and spacious by ingenious use of transformer furniture. The renovation…

  • Are self-sustaining eco-communities the future?

    There is no longer any doubt left that finding more sustainable ways to live are crucial to ensure the continued survival of our planet. And that is exactly what the ReGen Village project aims to achieve. It will consist of several eco-villages, which will be built to be completely self-sustaining from the ground up. The…