Lighting designer has been thinking about how it will be used for various purposes. Light up your lifer and your home with these amazing architectural lighting fixtures by Puntozero. The Zero, Zero 360 and Punto designer lamps are made in Italy using 100 percent glass – inside and outside. These beautiful and functional architectural lighting is the ultimate expressions of versatility, customizable to your style and your space. This lamp can also create a romantic atmosphere, for example, to celebrate Valentine’s Day. These designer lamps come in wall- and ceiling-mounted designs, or as floor of table models. The Zero lamp can be a ceiling-mounted fixture with one, two or three suspended lights that are fixed or movable, or lined up in a row along a track. (more…)

Hemeroscopium house traps, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in an apparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape. With heavy structures and big actions, disposed in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. And this way it defines the place. This swimming pool at Hemeroscopium House, a Spain residence by Ensamble Studio, seems to defy all rules of gravity. (more…)

You can get inspiration from these photographs. Dayton residence has a beauty in each part, like the family room, kitchen, reading room, lounge and garden in the yard. In 2008 Rockefellor Partners in Los Angeles were commissioned to design the home for Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink. Not quick to be built, the design and construction for the Los Angeles residence took over four years. The result is an extremely comfortable family home where the Daytons’ children can explore the outdoors in relative safety. This fits the mandate by the Daytons to design a house that is useful, beautiful, and timeless. (more…)

The Japanese architects at House in Minamimachi have designed by Suppose Design Office, located in the Minamimachi, Hiroshima of Japan.  The house is designed with offset floors allowing natural light from above to penetrate each level. In their research suppose design office noted that the existing building designs in the Minamimachi, Hiroshimao area did not allow for a window opening into the adjacent  property. The house can can be naturally illuminated while maintaining privacy on a small, crowded plot of land. The interior comprises a series of terraces, each shaped differently according to its intended purpose. During the process of designing for a small plot of land, there are a lot of times in which the form of the building is steered by legal constraints. If you are thinking of how you can have the most floor space, the outer shape of the building is automatically decided by how the permitted ratio of square footage to property size, so the architectural design comes out of the number of stories built just to increase the floor space. (more…)

Christina Zerva created House in Nikaia. She seeks to reduce waste of energy, water and materials. By taking advantage of a system of holistic design using technologies, methods and products which not only protect your health and the world around you, but actually enhance the spiritual, emotional, and mental quality of your daily experience. (more…)

This kitchen window combines the best of both worlds: storage and view. Nearly the full height of the wall, it opens the room to a woodsy scene. In this kitchen, the original ranch house–style sliding window was replaced by one big sheet of glass. The counter butts against the base of the window frame, so the wall-spanning window doubles as an eye-catching backsplash. (more…)