The warm and cozy aura of natural tones is the basis for a harmonious and peaceful space effect. The kitchen planning based on this concept: not loudly or flash disturbs the overall picture, how everything fits together naturally. The functional side of the kitchen is only at second glance clear. The living room oriented back to the island - created as edible - works by broken cabinet arrangement as a sideboard.
The pale wood decor “tennessee walnut” is new in “Orlando” program, and emphasizes in this planning the transition to …

This project is a contemporary minimalistic houses designed by Arthur Casas located in Iparonga, Brazil. With warm Cumaru wood paneling exterior, House in Iporanga is an architect’s residence in the middle of the forest. “I always wanted a house in the middle of the forest, in a place where I could relax and recharge my energy”, says Arthur, from Arthur Casas.

The house is in the form of two large simple, symmetrical cubes embracing an open space. As describes, ‘the absence of partitions amplifies the house’s integration with its surroundings and …

Architects: Wingardh Architecture
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Architects in charge: Gert Wingardh, Cecilia Strom, Per Söderberg
Collaborators: Gustav Appell, Ewa Bialecka-Colin, David Christoffersson, Daniel Frickeus, Bengt Hellsten, Robert Hendberg, Rickard Karlsson, Stefan Nilsson, Hanna Samuelsson
Design Year: 2003
Construction Year: 2007-2008
Client: AB Svenska Bostäder
Construction: Tyréns AB
Installations: PO Andersson Konstruktionsbyrå AB
Lighting: Ljusarkitektur P&Ö AB
Constructed Area: 16,600 sqm
Photographer: Patrik Gunnar Helin
Architect Homepage: www.wingardhs.se
Fifty years after the opening of Vällingby, Sweden’s world famous New Town from 1954, works began with its resurrection. After the glorious days when children and their mothers filled the community in the outskirts of Stockholm …

Architects: LAVA
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Project year: 2008
Project Team: Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck with Kadri Kaldam, Martin Völkle, Jan Saggau
Photographs: Gee-ly
Architects Homepage: www.l-a-v-a.net
The Future Hotel forms part of the IAO Inhaus2, a program that focuses on meeting the expectations and requirements of hotel guests using tomorrow’s technology. LAVA has designed the Future Hotel Showcase Room, a demonstration project that investigates the interfaces between architecture, technology and the human body.

Blurring the definition between technology and interior space, the showcase room features the latest innovations in the fields of media and visual …

DRA Family House, A-1160 wien Austria
project management: erwin stättner
building inspection: erwin stättner
land and effective area: 650 m2 / 250 m2
construction: stahlkonstruktion
most important materials: stahl, beton, glas, aluminium
start of planning: 2001
completion: 2003
photographer: herta hurnaus
DRA family house is a unique housing project designed by Querkraft Architects using steel construction suspended over 2/3 of the site in A-1160 wien, Austria. An exceptional view over the city - a small site, on which building guidelines permitted building only in its centre - a slope, too steep for concrete mixers to reach: the frame …