Italian kitchen manufacturer Snaidero presented the new Kube kitchen model designed by Giovanni Offredi in elm wood at the 2008 Eurocucina show. Snaidero has now announced a new version with a gloss ice-white lacquer finish.

From Snaidero:
The distinguishing features of Kube are its horizontal and vertical lines, with striking contrasting shapes, materials and colours, which convey a sensation of sturdiness and duration, as well as a simple and immediately identifiable style. With its essential design, this kitchen provides simple, yet up-to-date and dynamic shapes, offering a harmonious blend of elementary prisms …

Architect: John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
Project Team: John Friedman (principal designer), Alice Kimm, John Martin, Leigh Christy, Pauline Shu
Client: Craig Ehrlich
Contractor: Anthony Bonomo
Photography: Benny Chan, Fotoworks
Floor Area: 3995 SF
Construction Cost: $1.1 million
Completion: July 2004
This 3,900 square foot house in Santa Monica tests the hypothesis that it is not necessary to sacrifice beauty for sustainability - that one can have both. Furthermore, it suggests that attentiveness to sustainability can inspire and elicit beauty where it might not be otherwise.

The house incorporates a number of passive and active green strategies, as well …

Project Location: Mt Martha House
Architect / Designer: Graham Jones Design
Builder / Landscaper: Modcon Developments
Products Used: Board and Batten, New Deck, Sawn Screen Boards, Dressed Screen Boards, Boardwalk, Large Section DAR, T&G Flooring, Shiplap, Lining Boards

Mt Martha modern house was designed by Australia’s Graham Jones Design. This Modern house is built of radial timber, selected for its notable environmental and technical benefits. The secret is in the way the wood is cut. Waste not, want not, and radial sawing allows the highest return of timber per log. The timber is also …

Australian firm Street & Garden Furniture Co. have renovated their office, an ex-warehouse space in Brisbane creating “A great place to hand out”. Considerations included where to place games tables, sound system, bar and balconies for Fridays afternoons and entertaining clients. The project employed scaled-up fabrication methods and materials used in the company’s street furniture projects.

“A great place to hang out” was the prerequisite for this ex-warehouse space in Brisbane, Australia. Considerations included where to place games tables, sound system, bar and balconies for Fridays afternoons and entertaining clients. It …

Product Description:
Preeminent designer Barry Dixon approaches each project with the design philosophy that the greatest quality a home might possess is that of innate, soulful hospitality. His work features a masterful blend of traditional and contemporary decor that mixes color and texture in astounding ways. Barry Dixon Interiors exemplifies Dixon’s belief that our homes reflect our past, emanate our present and suggest our future.From a Manhattan loft choreographed for entertaining to Arts and Crafts in a woodland glade, to embassy elegance in Washington, D.C., Barry Dixon has seen and designed …