AIA Seattle: Machias Elementary School, the Winner of What Makes It GREEN 2012
AIA Seattle is a not-for-profit professional association of architects, allied professionals, and laypeople which is committed to excellence in architecture and service to the public. AIA Seattle has announced the winner of the 2012 What Makes It GREEN? Awards. The jury selected six projects to receive awards, four built and two unbuilt. What Makes It GREEN? was established by AIA Seattle’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) over a decade ago to recognize and learn from the best in sustainable design and promote the importance of sustainable building practices. Among some …
Heineken WoBo (World Bottles): “Brick That Holds Beers”
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Our today’s post is all about the beer Heineken; about the bottles. What’s wrong about the bottles? Well, we are talking about bottles that could be used as building materials. This idea came from Alfred Heineken who visited Caribbean in 1963. It is said that at that time he saw so many beer bottles littering the beach at Caribbean Island of Curacao. On the other hand, he found that many inhabitants of Curacao had not enough materials to build their homes. Thus, he started to develop his idea …
Texas Tiny Houses Turn Materials from Old Buildings into Admirable Tiny Handcrafted Homes
Recycling materials means giving a second life to the unused thing. Inhabitat, as always, shows another creative project of making useful thing from recycled materials. Today we come up with Tiny Texas Houses, prefabricated house company which deserve your attention. Brad Kittel and his crew deconstructed and salvaged old building, mining them for materials that they turn into tiny, handcrafted homes. In doing the projects, Kittle promotes a philosophy called Pure Salvage Living which means taking advantage of the existing yet not being used materials. The homes are smartly …
Sophisticated Innovative Burglar Alarm for Safety Home Protection
People often think having a wireless burglar alarm installed will cost them thousands of dollars. But the truth is that they will end up spending a few hundred dollars to most any major company willing to install a wireless burglar alarm. And believe it or nor, the systems can be installed so easily that they could opt to save money by doing it themselves. All that they need to do to set up most wireless burglar alarms is to place window and door contacts and plug in the control panel …
Luxurious Home Theater Collection for Movie Maniac in Stylish Way
An Award Wining Chicago Interior Designer John Cannon of Cannon Frank, weaves together an elaborate downstairs entertainment zone that revolves around an antique Parisian bar and a breathtaking home cinema, all decorated with the utmost in Art-Deco detailing. The owner once took a photography trip on the Orient Express in the early 1990′s and fell in love with the original styling of that train. So there was some influence from that. We can felt that the theater, train room, exercise room, and game room were perfect places to showcase someone …
