A blog about property and Northern Ireland from the team at PropertyPal.com
TODD Architects and Planners are the recipient of a prestigious global architectural award for ‘The Boat’ located on the banks of the River Lagan in Belfast. Held this year at London’s Landmark Hotel, Paul Crowe managing director was there to accept the Emirates Glass LEAF Award 2011 for Mixed Use Building of the Year along with developer Harry Dougherty. Read the rest of this post »
Ever fancy changing your view for the day? This unique design allows you to change the view from your window every day of the week. This is a truly a home with a twist, $40,000 more expensive than a similar home of the same size. Read the rest of this post »
What do you do when you are really tight for space, and still want the benefits of modern living? As space is at a premium in China, sometimes really clever design is used to great effect.
Great designs of architects’ website are something of a paradox. Many website designs that we’ve seen created by architects are either obnoxious uses of flash or crucially, so minimal and sparse it hurts – or nightmares to navigate. Perhaps its the fact that architects fancy themselves as aesthetic and artistic connoisseurs – and in this pursuit, the message more often takes secondary place to the visuals – the reverse of what works really well on the web.
The Frank Lloyd Wright home featuring a flow-through waterfall may be the most recognizable residential design in modern history, but for all of its innovations its construction was extremely costly, not to mention the subsequent renovations required to hold its structure together over time. If that was the prototype for integrating moving water into houses, then this design may be one of the best executions of a contemporary, environmentally-integrated approach.
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