A shower door is a must-have for your bathrooms but keeping it clean and other maintenance may draw you away from this option. Try these daily life hacks.
Photography
Max Vakhtbovych (Cover image)
The program is one of the most highly anticipated acknowledgments in the Hospitality Architectural Design and Interior Design industry. The renowned Farmani Group, along with 3C Awards, is pleased to formally announce the winners of its first edition of the LIV Hospitality Design Awards.
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LIV Hospitality Design Award
Located on the beautiful Dutch island of Texel, Holiday Home is unlike any other residential villa. Instead of dividing the house into different spaces by walls, Orange Architects decided to divide spaces according to the specific use at any moment in time. Escaping from routine is quite literally built-in.
Project name
Holiday Home
Architecture firm
Orange Architects
Location
De Koog, Texel, The Netherlands
Photography
Sebastian van Damme
Principal architect
Patrick Meijers and Jeroen Schipper
Design team
Patrick Meijers, Jeroen Schipper, Elena Staskute, Paul Kierkels, Eric Eisma, Panagiotis Seltsiotis
Construction
Cor Koper Bouwbedrijf
Material
Wood, Glass, Concrete
Typology
Residential › Cabin House
Designed by Indian architecture and interior design firm Loop Design Studio Playground is a restaurant and lounge located in the main commercial hub of Chandigarh, India. It is an energetic injection of multiple textures, color and materiality that comes together on a beautiful canvas.
Project name
Playground Restaurant
Architecture firm
Loop Design Studio
Location
Chandigarh, India
Photography
Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Principal architect
Suvrita Bhardwaj, Nikhil Pratap Singh
Interior design
Loop Design Studio
Material
Brick, mud plaster and hand-made tiles, concrete, wood, steel, glass
Typology
Restaurant, Lounge
The design concept was formed based on the form of available land and surrounding rocks. In addition, the main idea for usage of the bridge that is between two sides of the site is the residential.
Project name
Valley Residential Bridge
Architecture firm
Didformat Studio
Location
British Columbia, Canada
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, ZBrush, Lumion, Corona Renderer, Quixel Mixer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Amirhossein Nourbakhsh
Visualization
Amirhossein Nourbakhsh
Typology
Residential › Apartments
There are various reasons why it proves to be beneficial to hire an architect. Apart from having a better understanding of your needs, an architect will also help you acquire a better overall design of your home.
Photography
Elf-Moondance (cover image), Haer Briezh
The White Pearl Villa's main concept is to create a shell which provides shading to the house with an opening to provide natural sunlight to the olive tree and the main entrance, linking the stairs with the shell in fluid design.
Project name
White Pearl Villa
Architecture firm
Omar Hakim
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, V-ray, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Omar Hakim
Typology
Residential › House
The objective of this year’s edition of the Kaira Looro international architecture competition was to design a women’s house created to promote gender equality as a determining factor for development in rural Africa.
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Kaira Looro Competition
Capricho is a beautiful housing project of 2712.51 ft² of construction on a lot of 4760.554 ft², the main idea of the design is to create an island-style concept within the enigmatic jungle where the construction is located.
Architecture firm
Houses Tulum
Location
Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Principal architect
Israel Pacheco
Structural engineer
Julio César Cahuich Tun
Supervision
Israel Pacheco
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop
Construction
Houses Tulum
Material
Tzalam wood, Steel structure, Aluminum series 80 in windows, LED luminaires with warm lighting, Chukum (typical material of the area) in the walls, Chukum in the pool
Typology
Residential › House
According to Dailymail, a survey published in 2012 reveals that Brits spend an average of 3 years of their lifetime in the kitchen. If you have a dining table, a kitchen island, or a television in your kitchen, the average time that you spend there would drastically increase.
Photography
Amir Abbas Habibi
