Category: House Design

Best Skilled Nursing Design 2023: A Tree-Inspired Building Redefines Care With a Small-House Model, More Staff

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The Forest at Duke (TFAD), recently introduced a new building at the heart of its campus in Durham, North Carolina​. The five-story building embraces the small-house model, with 10-bed households forming neighborhoods, each with a unique personality. The staff and caregivers were integrated into this model, fostering a sense of community. Family-style meals became the norm, and even TFAD leadership participated in meal preparation and sharing. The property was built at a cost of $40,000,000 and is spread out over 109,655 square feet. The metaphor of a tree within a forest guided the design, influencing everything from structure to color…

Women-Led Architecture Practices: Redefining Urban Housing Design at the Time Space Existence Exhibition in Venice

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Women-Led Architecture Practices: Redefining Urban Housing Design at the Time Space Existence Exhibition in Venice © Steve Hall, City Hyde ParkShare ShareFacebookTwitterMailPinterestWhatsAppOr https://www.archdaily.com/1007863/women-led-architecture-practices-redefining-urban-housing-design-at-the-time-space-existence-exhibition-in-veniceAs part of the 6th edition of “Time Space Existence”, the European Cultural Center (ECC) presented the “Reconceptualizing Urban Housing” exhibition. Taking place from May 20 to November 26, 2023, it brings together a diverse array of women-led architectural practices from around the world, each offering a unique perspective on collective housing, particularly within urban settings. The showcased projects feature approaches from Europe, North America, and more developing countries like…

Arteriors Unveils Spring 2024 Collection

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Furniture World News Desk on 3/13/2024 Arteriors, a provider of luxury lighting, furniture, wall décor, and accessories, recently revealed its Spring/Summer 2024 Collection. Among the 221 new offerings: Arteriors Outdoors — consisting of more than 50 pieces that effortlessly blur the lines of indoor and outdoor living, embracing distinctive, heirloom-quality design synonymous with the Arteriors brand. “For over three decades, Arteriors has served as an industrial luminary – dedicated to elevating design where we dine, relax and entertain,” said Terry Clayton, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Arteriors. “Clients have long expressed a desire for our interior…

‘Incredulous’: Oak Bay homeowner gets anonymous letter criticizing house’s design – BC

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An Oak Bay, BC, homeowner is sharing a somewhat nasty letter he received in the mail this month criticizing the exterior design of his house.Walter van de Rijst told Global News that the anonymous card read, “Shame, shame, shame on you for building such a revolting home in Oak Bay, how did it ever get approved?” He was “incredulous” upon reading it, he said in a Friday interview. “It took me back for a second, just wow. Then I thought, this is really funny. Why would somebody go to this much trouble?” van de Rijst asked, adding that the…

Kevin McCloud reveals what he’s learned about good design in 25 years of hosting Grand Designs

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In the first century BC, a Roman architect and engineer named Vitruvius came up with three simple principles of architecture: firmitas, utility and venustas. In the 17th century, English diplomat Sir Henry Wotton translated these precepts as “firmness, commodity and delight”. Today, we take them to describe the qualities of durability, utility and beauty in design.“It’s the idea that [an object] should be well made, well built; it should be easy to use and ergonomic, but it should also bring joy,” Kevin McCloud, the host of Grand Designs, tells ABC RN’s Blueprint for Living. Architects and designers still refer…

This delightful family home is a masterclass in how to inject period property charm into a new build |

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Award-winning editor Alix Walker never sets out to build a house from scratch. Nor did she ever plan to hire a professional to help with the design, but on moving from north London to Hertfordshire in 2021, the property she and her husband Matt found required so many changes that a builder suggested it would be simpler to pull it down and start again. ‘We got swept up in the idea,’ says Alix, who was expecting her fourth child at the time. Matt, a chiropractor (by trade) turned architect drew out the family’s perfect house design on graph paper. On…

Long Reef House / CHROFI

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© Clinton Weaver + 11Share ShareFacebookTwitterMailPinterestWhatsAppOr https://www.archdaily.com/1013841/long-reef-house-chrofiAreas Area of ​​this architecture project Areas: 360 m²Year Completion year of this architecture projectYear: 2021Photographs© Clinton Weaver Text description provided by the architects. Long Reef House is an architectural exercise in reinvention. A complete re-crafting of the interior and a subtle shift in planning have resulted in a profound transformation of the experience of the home. All this is in spite of the fact that there is no more home than what we started with, and all domestic functions are roughly…

Canada consulting on reviving ‘wartime housing’ design catalogue

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In its latest efforts to address Canada’s housing crisis, the federal government is launching consultations to revive a revised version of a wartime housing effort: a standardized pre-approved design catalogue, with the aim of helping speed up construction. “We are living in a housing crisis, but it’s not the first time Canada has been here. After the Second World War when many thousands of soldiers were returning home to be reunited with their families at once, Canada faced enormous housing crunches,” Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Sean Fraser said Tuesday. “One of the tools that was deployed at the…