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interview with luke baldwin of site landscapes

Luke Baldwin
In only 9 days our Waterloo showroom will be hosting another Spring Expert in-store. Between 10 -12 on November 5 Luke Baldwin of Site Landscapes will be in the showroom to talk with you about your garden design. If there are any ideas you may have in the back of your mind, or maybe you’re [...]
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falling water continues to inspire….

Frank Lloyd Wright - 'Falling Water'
The other night I was sitting around thinking about my perfect house – as you do. I started by scribbling down some rough floor plans and elevations, then after about an hour, (…it’s amazing how time fly’s) I flicked off all the eraser dust, stood back and smiled upon my creation with utmost pride. Wow, [...]
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new urban solutions

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After reading Claudia Perren’s review on the Home – Real and Ideal exhibition in Architecture Australia, I jumped online to the Boutwell Draper Gallery to see the participating nineteen Architects and nineteen Artists and their take on the brief –‘Urban Solutions’. With a variety of inspiring futuristic structures and some really conceptual models, I started [...]
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a modern granite adds the finishing touch

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Tamizo Architects is small group of young and talented designers from Poland who practice across disciplines of architecture, interiors, applied graphics and industrial design. This is what they have to say about their work: We are mainly interested in ambitious projects whose source is simplicity and functionality. We act according to the philosophy that ‘less [...]
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profile of the week > facade in ottawa

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Now this is a hot facade, courtesy of our friends at Desire to Inspire we bring you another beauty, this time from John Donkin in Ottawa. It’s 1700 square feet and includes amongst other things, a visitors’ apartment which has been cantilevered sideways to create a shaded area in summer and a covered parking spot [...]
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a cape schanck beauty

This Cape Schanck House was designed by Australian architecture firm Jackson Clements Burrows. The site is located on a high inland dune amongst dense coastal ti-tree shrub with expansive western views. On approach, the visitor is fronted by an expansive wall which conceals the primary upper level form. The lower level extends from the steep [...]
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concrete never looked so good

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Fu-Tung Cheng is a designer known for this signature use of concrete. He is also leading authority on concrete design – having founded Concrete Exchange, the only training academy for concrete design and also being the author of several books on concrete design. House 6 is Cheng’s sixth custom home, which he redesigned and constructed from [...]
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evansHouse by bittonidesignstudio Los Angeles

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Los Angeles-based bittonidesignstudio has recently completed the evansHOUSE, located in the modernist landmark community of Crestwood Hills. This small modernist community, which is part of greater Los Angeles has now become an architecturally controlled neighborhood that was originally planned by architects A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith. This particular project is a remodel and [...]
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