Roomah: Takuya Hiromasa Mori and Hasokai House Kuro "in Fukui, Japan

Kuro is a strange house in Fukui, Japan, architects Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori.
It is a house with a wooden frame and leather finished in dark wood, hence its name, "Kuro," which means "black" in Japanese. The house is about 162 square meters on a fully landscaped plot in the style of traditional Japanese garden, 457 square meters.
Its construction ended last year, although the original design in 1980.

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Roomah: Schemata Architecture Office "63.02 ° House" in Tokyo

The name of this house of Schemata Architecture Office is the provision with respect to the street, whose main facade forms an angle of 63.02 ° with respect to this.

This built in Nakano, Tokyo, completed in December 2007, with an area of about 71.4 m 2

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Roomah: Ofis arhitekti "Jarovlaska Square" in Moscow

Ofis arhitekti, office of Slovenian architects have designed a complex, called Jarovlaska Square in Moscow, combining offices, homes, shopping areas, a hotel and a sports compleo.

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Roomah: Enertia Houses: Casas Geo-Solar

In Time magazine has described geo-solar homes as one of the best inventions of the past 2007 years.
These homes are heated with a system that respects the environment, geothermal energy use in summer and winter using solar energy. The heat of the walls is also used for radiant conditioning systems.

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Roomah: Emergency Care Center South / + Architects

The Emergency Care Center South - CAE SUR Concesionaria of the Central Motorway (urban motorway that crosses the city, from north to south at 60 km in length) contains the Offices of Personnel Security and Maintenance, Operation Center Traffic, parking Emergency Vehicle and Maintenance, and the wineries of the general program areas.

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Roomah: Juan de Dios Aldea School / García, eagle, and Arteaga Pedraza

The school is in a sector which still preserves agricultural land and in immediate connection with one of the most deprived populations in the metropolitan area. Is in the order of a confusing transition fabric, porous and formed by smaller units. Coping patterns of suburbanization of poverty is approached as unique and distinguished piece in the fabric, capable of giving meaning to the place.

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Roomah: Museo Soumaya / Fernando Romero - Laboratory of Architecture

At Platform we have published works of the new generation of Latin American architects who are giving that talk. Among these is a group of Mexican architects, who at one time worked together. Architects such as Fernando Romero, Tatiana Bilbao, Michel Rojkind Dellekamp and Derek have managed to position the world Mexican architecture, with a high level of experimentation, but with a strong influence on the local.

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Roomah: Bipolaire Architects "40 Housing for Youth" in Torrevieja

From the outset, the project of 40 houses for rent in Torrevieja couple was considered by the developer, the IVVSA as its pilot project sustainable. Wanted to understand the possibilities of housing VPO "sustainable" and added costs. Prior to the presentation of the first drawings of writing a report which explained the possible improvements to a standard dwelling, together with an estimate of costs. In this way, the developer had a document to decide where to invest in improving the quality and avoid unnecessary discussions and subsequent changes, as was going to be a learning process for both the developer for the construction and technical equipment.

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Roomah: A-Cero "Casa Santander"

Santander House is a shelter located in a sloping rectangular plot of about 2200 m2, overlooking the River Miera.

The design idea was to emphasize the views of the River Miera, oriented to the south. The slope of the terrain helped the provision of housing, resulting in a set of 3 volumes around a central core that is spread on the ground.

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Roomah: Oscar Niemeyer "The architect centennial"

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is 100 years old on December 15. Better known in the world as Oscar Niemeyer, this genius of architecture celebrate its centenary in his home in Rio de Janeiro, with the family, which includes five grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. But the main cities and some European, accompanied him in the celebrations, with tributes, including competitions in Portugal, exhibits of the island of Madeira to Switzerland, television programs and books of remembrance in Germany.

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Roomah: LOQ Kit prefabricated modular housing

LOQ Kit is a modular system for building houses, designed by architect Patrick FreeTar. It is a system of building houses that allows a variety of different combinations, and in turn gives the possibility to adjust the housing and expand, including adding or subtracting plants. Its mounting system means that we can disassemble and move it to another place they mounted again in the new location.

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Roomah: Construction: House in calle Colina Vista Hermosa / Smiljan Radic

In the commune of Las Condes in Santiago, Chile, a new building designed by architect Smiljan Radic. These are two houses out of concrete platforms, above the level of the ground, which has a slope that rises from the street. These trays, build a plane for home, patio and terrace with access to each house, containing a glass box that houses the public spaces on the first floor and bedrooms on the second. A second volume, clad in wood, leaves and perpendicular to the main volume contains the stairs and a veranda on the second floor. Under concrete trays are stored cars to street level.

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Roomah: Made in Italy: Kartell

To them comes to mind when speaking of "Made in Chile", "Made in Peru", "Made in Argentina", "Made in Mexico" etc? Associated with those labels that concept? Clearly the message?

Here in Italy the "Made in Italy" is sacred. Everyone knows that means pride and live with that philosophy as well as design firms such as Kartell, Arflex, Cassina, Techno, Boffi, Gavina, Elam, Flos, Artemide, B & B Italia, Zanotta, AnonimaCastelli, Abet Laminati, Gruppo Guzzini , Poltronova, Driade, De Padova, Flou, Gruppo Molteni, Alessi, Cappellini, Luceplan, Alias, FontanaArte, Moroso, Magis and Poltrona Frau will also coincide in the same ... quality, quality and quality.

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Roomah: Bicentennial Tower, Mexico City / OMA: The highest in Latin America

A few days of the Millennium Tower will probably be the highest tower Santiago, showing the Costanera Center, announcing that it would be the highest, but in South America. Not much to step out again relieved by a tower in Panama City or the announcement of the towers and BAF May in Buenos Aires. And so the race for height was installed in South America.

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Roomah: Steven Holl "Masterplan Hudson Yards in New York

Steven Holl has been submitted, on November 18, a city in Hudson Yards plan, ordering the former railway facilities in the Hudson River in Midtown New York. This plan was created as a result of the order made by Extell Development Company, presenting this proposal as one of five companies that were sponsoring the bidding of the project management.

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Roomah: Erick van Egeraat building the new Russia

Erick van Egeraat won the international competition for the National Library of Kasan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The new National Library will have an area of 81,000 m2 and is located in the Plaza tukay in the south-east edge of downtown.

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Roomah: Under Construction: Building Thomas / Gonzalo Mardones V.

In the commune of Vitacura This site is under construction apartment building, designed by Gonzalo Mardones. It is a building of three stories high over a withdrawal, with a total of 7 departments. As noted in the memory of the building:

"The volume of the building acknowledges the limits of each department to the outside. Is shown as a composite made from the sum of distinct, full and empty windows, balconies, openings, beams, etc.. "

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Roomah: Nader Khalili "Adobe Houses Super Adobe" in California

Nader Khalili, Iranian by birth and Californian by adoption, not an architect of the pile. In the late seventies, at Cal-Earth, the organization he works for, he developed the 'super-adobe' ( 'superblock' in English), a construction technique based on sandbags and barbed wire, tested earthquake and tested by the authorities in California challenging.

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Roomah: Vacation house in the Rigi / AFGH

The building is located on the edge of the site, to maximize the distance to the neighbors and leave room for other construction. The basement of the concrete anchor block on the slope of the land and houses and access services. On this volume is a wooden house, which appears as a boat. This apartment faces east, protecting access.

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Roomah: Construction: Extension Faculty of Law University of Chile / Eliash, Moreno Marsino

In construction phase is the expansion of the Faculty of Law, University of Chile, by Humberto Eliash and Moreno Marsino Architects. The new building concludes a series of interventions performed on the original 1938 building, the architect Juan Martínez, such as the refurbishment of the library and made the Hall a few years ago.

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Roomah: Jean Prouvé's house auctioned

Jean Prouvé was considered by many as the pioneer in the prefabrication of houses. In 1951 (20 years before the tower Nagakin of Kurokawua) made this model, the Maison Tropicale, a prototype of the ideal home for the French colonies in Africa.

The auction house Christie's will make the sale at a price which is estimated between $ 4 and $ 6 million.

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Roomah: Cardboard Furniture

In Designboom we find a good variety of models of chairs and other furniture from cardboard, which is easily assembled using the cut patterns and assembly instructions to us.

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Roomah: Rak Jebel al JAIS Mountain Resort / OMA

The trend of the OMA Architecture strong contrasts and forms reflected this time in the Rak Jebel al JAIS complex located in the Emirates. A project that is beyond the conventional concept of a resort and applied the strategy of living ancantilado. The various programs are embedded in the mountains, being connected by a road on top of the gorge.

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Roomah: Shigeru Ban "Metal Shutter Houses"

Metal Shutter Houses is one of the last projects of Shigeru Ban Japanese architect known for the Houses of Paper and Paper Church in Kobe, which built on the occasion of the terrible earthquake.

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Roomah: Sports Hall Bale / 3LHD

Bale (Valle in Italian) is a small place in Istria with 1000 inhabitants. The new Sports Hall which is next to the old school, and the second largest building after the church will be used also for various social gatherings.
The size of the building has been defined by the size of a basketball court and amended by additional installations in the gallery: a fitness center and sauna, while the locker room is planned as an annex to the school
The traditional dry-stone of the place has been used as a template for all surfaces, and small stone traditionally used in the construction of huts, called Kazuno, structural example of the archetype has been used as the basic structural pattern.

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Roomah: Cloud 9 - Enric Ruiz Geli Villa Bio "Llers, Girona

Contemporary architecture is the platform of culture and contemporary art.

Living is a platform that can be turned into art. THE ART OF HABITAR.

The platform will see it as a LINEAR LANDSCAPE OF EVENTS.

This landscape is folded into the site and form a spiral growing.

The platform is a linear structure of concrete section in the shape of "C".

The blind are employed as FACADES longitudinal beams and create an overhang of 15 m.

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Roomah: Bionics Tower in Shanghai

Will a cold so unbearable on the floor 300 that will not fail to enjoy the sights? At about 1000 meters high, how can change the scales? How big buy cars, people, street trees, parks? ¿Aguantaría mild temper any community meetings in a house with 100,000 neighbors? Questions that must be done in a future city dwellers vertical daughters over the skyscrapers, the lovers, and between sinful thought, which now inhabit the imagination of many architects around the world and the Spaniards are not foreign but actors. This is the case of Eloy Celaya, Rosa Cervera and Javier Pioz, authors of the proposed Tower Bionics, a mastodon thought to Shanghai, with 1228 meters high, which was disrupted following the tragedy of the Twin Towers, but that seems definitely not dead.

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Roomah: Rafael Moneo "Prado Museum's new"

The culture minister, Carmen Calvo, introduced the expansion of the Prado Museum, whose centerpiece is the new building of Rafael Moneo. The cube designed by the architect includes in its interior cloister of the church of the Jeronimos.

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Roomah: RAK Convention and Exhibition Center / OMA

It seems that the reality is getting closer to overcoming fiction. The new convention center and exhibition of Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE, designed by work and grace of OMA, Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf is a large area of steel, glass, inn on the desert and linked by a system high-speed highways. If any fan of the empire I dreamed of living on Tatooine or something, now is a thing to travel to the Arabian Peninsula.

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Roomah: Luise KunsHotel, a hotel with lots of art

Arte Luise KunsHotel is a hotel in Berlin which is composed of a palace and a classic 1825 building annex built in 2003. The hotel has 50 rooms that are 50 different works of art. Guests define it as a "gallery where you can sleep."

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Roomah: Hidalgo Hartmann - House Bianna, Girona

Located in an agricultural valley surrounded by mountains, the house is subjected to the role of their natural environment with respect, integrating into their lands and opening up the hearings with specific openings that frame the landscape.

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Roomah: Skyline of Paris, until now was the Eiffel Tower, will now be the beacon of Mayne.

The Californian Thom Mayne, the prestigious office of Morphosis, has a new skyline for the city of lights, Paris Lighthouse. This project located in the area of La Defense, with its 300 meters high, marks a new milestone in the city in 2012, being the tallest building since the construction of the famous Eiffel Tower.

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Roomah: Commercial Offices CGE - TNG Architects

The work is a commercial office of an electricity company. Is located in a corner spot in a parallel street one block from the main avenue of Puente Alto. Aims to provide services for customers and house payments.

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Roomah: The Ode to a glass-Studio Battersea Power Station in London

Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos are present in the Battersea Power Station, one of the regeneration of London's most important in recent years. The project, Battersea Weave Office Building. One of the most attractive buildings in the Masterplan developed in conjunction with Arup, Grimshaw, Keiichi Tahara, Reid Architecture, among others.

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Roomah: Beautiful gardens with little work

The process of designing a garden as beautiful as we see in the image, and much to enjoy throughout the year, requires some "tricks". In that sense you propose the following suggestions to enjoy a lot of green, as this image taken from work recently.

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Roomah: Zaha Hadid / Maggie Center: Center for the Treatment of Cancer.

To the Iraqi architect, Zaha Hadid, gandora the 2004 Pritzker Prize, is the center for the treatment against cancer, Maggie Center. Located at the Hospital Kirkcaldy, Five, Scotland, was recently inaugurated in November 2006.

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Roomah: Shop for Wine, Vina Viu Manent / Moure-Rivera Architects

Recovers an old colonial area, including the use of wood from old cuba, which brings smells, textures of the past but with a contemporary design and program.
The floor is rectangular and the perimeter runs a red canopy that does not touch the ground or the roof, thanks to the lighting seems to float, containing furniture and shelves to display wines and accessories World of Viu Manent, at different levels .
The sky was white and flown to generate the same effect of lightness.

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Roomah: Inaugurate the 'Glass Pavilion' Ryue of Kazuyo Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA

Today, Sunday August 27 was opened on 'Glass Pavilion' in the Toledo Museum of Art, located in Ohio, USA The work, done by SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Nishizawa Ryue) contain an extensive collection of art glass, a temporary exhibition gallery and installations made of glass.

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Roomah: Torre Cube, Guadalajara Carme Pinos

The office building "Torre Cube, Carme Pinos has become the focus of the eyes in Guadalajara.El project was born from the desire to create offices ventilated and illuminated with natural light all of them, developed from three concrete cores containing all the facilities and vertical circulations. The cores are the only structure of the building where they exit from the cantilever main girders which support the floor slabs of post.

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Roomah: Beijing Stadium under construction

Finally, images have emerged of the Olympic Stadium by Herzog & DeMeuron next to the China Architecture Design Institute. If you looked at the renders complex construct, in reality the method is very conventional.

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Roomah: ON SITE: New Architecture in Spain

The MOMA in New York is exhibiting a sample of the latest architecture being developed in Spain, a country that in recent years has become the international center for architectural innovation and progress.

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Roomah: House of cards in Japan

In Japan, architect Hidetsugu Aneha, caused national outrage by admitting it falsified the calculations of structural strength in several of its projects. In order to reduce costs and win contracts, has been involved in dubious about 200 structures, including residential towers, hotels and temples.

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Roomah: The origin of uncertain form and chair (rocking chair) - History of uncertain form and chair (rocking chair)

The first sample the creative chair uncertain until now still not know. While some stories have said that it is Benjamin Franklin, but the evidence given does not convince. The historical research has determined vestige of uncertain form and chair the first North American early 18 centuries. Original form and chair used in garden and only two pieces below the curved wooden chairs. In May 1725, chair precarious forms appear in the UK. They also used such as chairs for the garden and also the last image below. Who form the creative chair precarious popular first fact is in North America under United Kingdom. Template designed chairs first is called "Windsor rockers, made the first long-term near Windsor in the early years of 1700. The chair form is the last bar is below the seat, back title image pen (with the mọc straight up in the same pen pictures), and a title (a brief shape curvature). However, there are a precarious chairs with rattan materials with sallow thorn (The wicker rocking chair) is a design common to other designs in that time. Product chairs đan precarious time have been used to point at the top of the U.S. in the mid-18 century. Rattan chairs the sample slices are famous through the proficient skills and the design is very creative.

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Roomah: Fantastic center tables

The collection of signatures Venus Mobil Fresno recently expanded its catalog to the new modular lounge pieces, as well as their new center tables on various measures (see photo).

Precisely these tables center are true works of art, jewelry design decorations adorn any environment. Proposals of great style and quality to our dressing rooms.

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Roomah: Innovative lighting

Schreder Socelec GI continues to innovate in the field of lighting. In this case, has launched four new products: Urbe, Pron, Mast and Portel. This is an elegant design with lights, ideal for use outdoors.

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Roomah: Bonsai: the choice of land

The trees require more care in order to remain capable. In addition, we must take into account certain factors are important in their development, such as the type of land use.

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Roomah: Origin of the bed - History of the bed

History of the bed to say that people are less interested in most. Before 1920 the concept of bed is still not thinking of, is actually the interior is designed independently and then bring them together machines. In May 1926, a man named Nathan S. Ansell was the creation of the bed - a concept that the entire sample furniture is created using a Color. Not long after placing the term "the bed," Mr. Ansell has since recognized that "suite" may be more appropriate. Until now, the concept of "the bed" still be popular.

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Roomah: A modern option for the garden furniture

The options in furniture to incorporate into our garden may pleasantly surprised at the moment, thanks to contemporary and original designs that have broken the barrier of what was considered normal at this point.

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Roomah: Ideas design garden home

1 - brick for the garden
Select background material time to beautify your garden.
2 - Define your space
Your space is where you relax with family and friends.
3 - Create a quiet space
Where you've just read the report note heard without anyone making a complaint, away from the noise of the street market ...
4 - remember the details
Design your garden just to get more space than.
5 - Review of your plants
In a small garden, your landscape will look more important than a garden covered by plants throughout the year.
6 - Use paint to make beautiful designs
Use paint or stain buffer can create a powerful impression for your garden. Applying these principles to use as paint in a house using white light to make them small, the dark space will feel larger ...
7 - Phá broken landscape
In case your garden is big time most areas, please take a room for the trees. Create a garden full of color and flavor with the use of these plants or flowers dust ...

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Roomah: Family Garden

The most important thing in a family is a large garden terrace and a large play area for children. This garden has to be adapted for all ages from young children, teenagers and adults. We put the sides of a broad meadow garden for children to play, a playground area and an area of sand.

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