Family’s are living in multi-residences under one roof – this means that the demands on our households have changed dramatically. Working with a variety of ages, heights, abilities, and needs requires careful planning and considerations.

Simple isn't boring

There’s a new wave of designing with a return to understated elegance. No need for the over the top, elaborately decorative rooms, just spaces that are authentic, historic, and artful. Simple is just as beautiful.

Farm-to-table

It isn’t what we use our kitchen for that’s changed, but rather how we use them. We’re focused on farm freshness and natural products that are safe and healthy. That means that our planning centres are different that out-of-the-box kitchens.

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Canada Pavilion Construction Update (via archiCentral) for Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China is going to cost a cool $45mil.

The design for the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2010 is now finalized.  The design approach, which has an open air public space as its center [...]

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Another home has awe struck me, but this time it is COMPLETELY OPPOSITE of Stefan Boublil‘s Black Apartment in NYC. Sometimes the modernist movement hits us, inspires us, move’s us rather, in mysterious and profound ways. Suppose [...]

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Prefab 20/20 challenges you to bring forth exciting and attractive housing alternatives: your solution will amplify the advantages of its production, assembly, and logistics, without loosing sight of its social implications. Your solution will showcase quality urban living space on a compact scale, and eliminate the social stigma of utilitarian prefabricated home [...]

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Tube Office

On May 15, 2009 By

How much work or how creative would you be if this was your office?

I know that I would never leave, be so productive, and actually take lunch.

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The late Yves Saint Laurent & partner Pierre Bergé will be auctioning off the estate from the Paris apartment  at 32 rue de Babylone (7emé Arr.) and Wallpaper* has a sneak peak slideshow for us all.

Highlights include paintings by Picasso, Goya, Léger, Matisse and an iconic geometric composition by [...]

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And the winner isn’t… is an introspective slideshow by Wallpaper* which covers a series of the 9 worst designs from toasters to cars. The interior of the Palm, Dubai (shown) takes the cake, trophy, plaque and award for the effing ugliest in my books. The terrible use of orange and blue [...]

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Prefab: dwell 02.2009

On January 4, 2009 By

Yes, my container housing fetish lives onward and upward. Dwell beats a path to Marmol Radziner‘s Southern California factory to watch its assembly line in action in the February 2009 Prefab issue.

Its as if sometimes they’re inside my head or something.

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