Tag: Small Spaces - Page 10
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Michelle Kauffman Closing News Prompts Search for Positive Green Architecture Stories
In a week when we heard the sad news that "the queen of prefab design and marketing" Michelle Kaufman is closing her business's doors due to difficulties posed by the economic downturn, TH Blog Love scours the blogosphere for positive green
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Bamboo Chairs, Retractable Tables by Union Elemental
Bogota-based firm Union Elemental makes these neat pieces of furniture using only bamboo and sustainable wood combined with stainless steel.
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Houston Gets Greener with Itsy-Bitsy, Energy Efficient Homes
Thinking about making a move into a home, but really, really want a green space? We stumbled across the perfect (little) eco-home.
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Istanbul's Green-Design Innovators
Amid the over-upholstered and garishly gilded furniture at the Istanbul Decoration and Design Fair hid some ingenious gems -- designers working with recycled and alternative materials and creating multi-purpose furniture for small spaces.
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Minimalist Soap Holder Alert
Sure you could just toss the soap on the counter, or if you're lucky your sink has a little cut-in indentation for holding soap. But it's inevitable that that soap will end up a slimy mess as the water pools under the soap
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A Red Spot in Buenos Aires' Grey Roofs: Container Room by FPS
In order to enlarge a small house owned by a textile designer with a minimum use of energy and materials waste, architects Francisco Fenili, Jorge Perez Gonzlaez and Julio David Sepiurka decided to place a metal container in
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Small House Design "Paco" From Japan
Let's say you needed a really small house, perhaps a Dome Home, to put on a secluded place on a beach, somewhere far off and away. Schemata Architecture Office Ltd. is a group of designers showing a concept small second house that you could build
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Domestic Transformer: 24 Rooms Packed Into One
Apartments are small and expensive in Hong Kong, so architect Gary Chang designed his 344 square foot unit to change into 24 different designs, just by sliding walls and panels around. He even calls it a
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Less is More: Sheds For Living
Richard Frankland of Manchester's FKDA has developed a small but complete little housing unit that is much more than a shed. "The idea of creating such a small living environment came from the growing reports of people being forced from their homes
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Big Things from Small Kitchens
For LifeEdited, Graham describes his needs in the kitchen: The kitchen should have an induction cook-top, a combination microwave/oven, a small fridge (could be a drawer fridge), a dishwasher, an espresso machine, a juicer, a smart system for storing
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Less Is More: Hot Water Bottles
Often, really simple ideas work really well. The hot water bottle is a good example. They are back in style in Japan this winter, with promotion on the web and companies like Yutanpo Cuseberry offering attractive, colorful cotton covers with animal
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Transformer Furniture: 7 Objects That Aren't What They Seem
You might not guess just by looking, but, in the image above, there are two apartments, two sets of dining room furniture, six stools and a bed. Through a variety of gyrations, these objects unfold, change, and otherwise transform, creating functional
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'Pocket Library': Book Storage for Small Places, by Ariel Jacubovich
From our great archive of ideas that show less is more you get it: we love small spaces. Especially important in times of economic stress, they make us think about what we really need, give maximum usage to what we have, and
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Plug and Live System: 18 Boxes from Brazil to Argentina, from Waste to Art
Argentinean architects Gustavo Dieguez and Lucas Gilardi took 18 wood boxes that were waste from the Brazilian automobile industry and transformed them into the Plug and Live System: a collection of modules to build
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Solaleya Makes Weird Houses Feel Normal
Solaleya makes highly efficient homes. They showed off their designs at West Coast Green last week. The thing is, they look a bit like landed UFOs. Not that dome houses are exactly new, but they also aren't the most common of house forms.
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Bright Built Barn is Net-Zero Energy
"The next generation of sustainable building practices will not be about material performance or building imprint on local environments. The next generation of our most sustainable structures will be about designing with future adaptations and
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Electrolux Finalist: Kitchen Works In A Drawer
We have shown a lot of small kitchens but this one, designed by Nojae Park for the annual Electrolux Design Lab Competition, takes (and bakes and stores) the cake. The stove at the top and the fridge at the bottom pull out like drawers
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The Net-Zero Energy Now House is Really Boring.
I mean, really. Except for the metal roof, the Now House looks just like every other sixty year old postwar veteran's house on the street in suburban Toronto. Everybody knows that a zero-energy house has to look all heliotropy and be covered in green
