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Solid Stone Wall Slides into Place on a Rural House’s Face
Bird’s Nest Bed for Sleeping, Playing & Incubating Ideas
Winged House Delicately Perched in a Pristine Island Setting
Solar-Powered Flower Pedal Lights Glow Naturally at Night
Killer Concrete Sink Series Shows the Elegance of Erosion

Solid Stone Wall Slides into Place on a Rural House’s Face

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Contemporary & in the Architecture category ]

We expect small sliding wood doors, or larger industrial-steel ones, but rock is rarely something you see moving with any grace or stealth.

A very elegant, yet complex, workaround, this electric sliding wall serves to accommodate local building requirements that the replacement home have the same small windows as the old stone structure that stood there before.

Along the same lines, restrictions prevented a two-story high, so the entire structure had to be sunk half a floor to accommodate a second level above.

But the beauty is that the casual visitor would never knew that necessity drove these design decisions – independently, they add character, complexity and functionality to the home by British architects Baynes & Co.

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Bird’s Nest Bed for Sleeping, Playing & Incubating Ideas

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Furniture & in the Beds category ]

With a fifteen foot diameter and pillows galore, you can pack up to sixteen people into this playful piece of hybrid furniture.

O*GE sums it up well: “Its powerful, yet simple concept and intriguing character needs no explanation or user manual: Ready to to be used, to be played in, and be worked in.”

Sleeping, sitting, working or meeting, it is certainly more than your ordinary sleeping space – made on demand and available in three sizes for those adventurous enough to want to buy one. As for the giant bedside lamp … only time will tell.

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Winged House Delicately Perched in a Pristine Island Setting

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Green Homes & in the Architecture category ]

Typically, new home construction means bulldozing a path to the work site, the site itself and the space around it, resulting in destruction that extends well beyond the footprint of the structure.

In this case, a lovely indoor-meets-outdoor, long-span layout wraps itself around an outcrop of rock and threads between various existing trees to avoid disturbing the nests of bald eagles and other natural elements of the site.

Concrete, wood and steel manage to bend to nature while also establishing modern living spaces – they also work to transition between open and closed platforms, walkways, and rooms in transition both inside and out.

Designed by Heliotrope Architects and set on Orcas Island in Washington state. From the architects: “This new residence is located on a pristine site comprised of a mature douglas fir and pacific madrone forest, with occasional rocky clearings and several small ponds …. The long, narrow footprint of the home allows every room a view of the sea while also retaining a strong connection to the surrounding forest.”

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Solar-Powered Flower Pedal Lights Glow Naturally at Night

Posted: 01 Apr 2012 12:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Lamps & Lights & in the Furnishings category ]

It is great to have garden lamps that glow at night after charging during the day, but despite their natural energy source they can seem a little artificial at times – hence these more organic forms by Emma Caselton.

“The solar garden lamp, with six illuminating petals, is suspended by use of it's cable. The 'petals' are made from transparent solar cells, and each one is embedded with an LED, making the solar panels the decorative element as well as the power source.”

Instead of simply sticking out of the ground at regular intervals, these can be hung whimsically, grouped together or scattered apart – they also look rather nice indoors as swell.

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Killer Concrete Sink Series Shows the Elegance of Erosion

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 10:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Sinks & Basins & in the Fixtures category ]

Concrete is rarely considered a subtle material, but artificially subjected to the corrosive forces of time and the elements shows another side to its potential. “Concrete, as it has been known for more than 2000 years, died in early 2004. Born during the Roman Empire, Traditional Concrete thrived as aqueducts, sidewalks and lawn gnomes.”

Gore Design Co. works on fireplaces, furniture, counters and more, but their sinks stand out from the collection, and reflect a rather aggressive philosophy of creative self-expression.

Some are simple cast shapes that add interest to flowing water, while others exhibit material processes found in nature or simply imposed by, say, a hand printed on still-curing concrete.

“A full-blown green design studio. Fewer credit cards. One guy plus a small creative team who've decided this is where they want to be. We're a little off-kilter. We like caffeine. We were damaged by soul-draining corporate jobs. We've recovered. We wear shorts and T-shirts to work. We eat a lot of sandwiches. We recycle. We make beautiful, functional art. We're believers in change. There's little that we don't see within our reach. We love what we do. We know we can do more, and we will…”