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By its shape this house reminds of the previously reviewed Crossbox House, but it has a completely different concept, moreover it’s more like a luxury house and it’s 344 sq. meters big. The client’s wish was to have a contemporary holiday house to escape from the city noise. He arranged a competition between three Portuguese design studios to get the selection of house plans. Pedro Reis won the competition with his project of bi-volumetric house.

The Capricorn House located in Medienhafen, Düsseldorf, Germany was designed by Gatermann + Schossig Architekten. It is situated at the southern point of Düsseldorf harbor. The most essential feature of this eye-catching building with its red glass panels is the so-called i-modulFassade. There the problem of sound pollution exists, so a multi-functional facade module contains the necessary technology for controlling the building’s temperature and air quality. The building is equipped with an air-conditioning system for cooling, heating, ventilation and heat recovery. The architects also integrated lighting, sound absorption and room acoustics elements in the façade panel. The Capricorn building attracts attention and looks very modern and stylish.

Fivetimesone is a group of architects and designers mostly based in the north of Poland. They create objects inspired by nature and strive to expose diverse traditions of European craftsmanship. They also take care of the ecology. Take a look at the pretty pillows collection entitled sTONE collection. It is the seats and seamless pillows made in 100% from natural merino wool. All the pillows have the unique design because they are hand crafted and filled with polyester fibers to ensure high flexibility and long-term usage. The collection will bring comfort and the feeling of harmony to your house. The sTONE pillows are suitable to be placed in your living room or bedroom. Wool, as a natural raw material is durable, insulates against the cold, is hypoallergenic, breathes and does not accept dirt.

Do you want to create a flirty and romantic atmosphere in your bathroom? Then you will be interested in the Mimo Collection by Laufen. The ideas presented by the designer are endless. The main colour of the collection is “pink”. Everything is pink: the sink, the curtain, the closet, even the walls. This Mimo design looks very chic and joyful. Laufen created three colour combinations which call up different associations. Laufen’s bathroom designs are sensual when it’s match with black colour and has exotic essence. Put it with white backdrop and it will then look very elegant or compete against the hot pink walls, then you will get a girly expression. The bathroom may be complemented by pink toilet lid, pink sink base and stopper and the handy shelves. With such design you will create unique and stylish atmosphere.

This amazing house is awarded with the Best Custom Home 5,000 to 10,000 s.f. from MERIT AWARDS. It was designed by Kendle Design Collaborative. The designers try to match the architect concept and the interior design with the surroundings of the Arizona desert. Hereof says the pale and soft palette used. Sandy colour of the cooper roof creates the feeling of the harmony with the terrain. The inhabitants of this residence can enjoy the wonderful landscapes opening outside via a glass wall. The home is oriented toward the lake view. At the same time the designers try to eliminate the view of adjacent homes from the interior of this house enhancing both the views out.

Everyone knows about a great chocolate company Nestle. But do you know about its chocolate museum in Mexico City near Toluca? Michel Rojkind, the 38-year-old principal of Rojkind Arquitectos, put together a team that created a 300-meter long museum along the motorway as the new image of the factory. The project took a mere 2.5 months to finish, including design and construction. This complex consists of museum, a shop, a theatre, and direct access to the factory as well. It is probably the first chocolate museum ever to be called both a piece of origami and a shipping container.

The tradition of giving flowers as gift gets its new modern incarnation with the collection of Fresh flowers by Itunube studio. It is a collection of 32 flowers printed on newsprint, one per page and per day of the month. The Spanish designer Sandra Bautista suggested the way of having the flowers on your table every day. She decided to catalogue them and provided an alternative means of sending them by post. All the flowers for this book were selected and photographed carefully. You can choose any you like: wild, cultivated, hothouse or exotic ones. You simply need to choose a flower, to place it as the cover, to make a roll with all pages together and to put it in a vase. Everyday a different one, everyday a beautiful one!

While we throw a toilet paper roll away without any hesitation, Junior Fritz Jacquet finds a peculiar way to make use of these rolls. He creates unique sculptures out of them. Who could have thought that they could be turned into fascinating face sculptures? Since childhood the designer is fascinated by the paper. He explores and experiments with different techniques of folding and crumpling to create different objects that make the interior brighter and more expressive. The faces are sculptures by hand at first and then coated with shellac and different pigments. These sculptures are not pretty, someone will even consider it ugly, but still they are very unusual and audacious.