House Design Photo: February 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Expansive Views From Alpine Terrace by H+H Creative

Expansive Views From Alpine Terrace by H+H Creative
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A skylit central stairway brings warmth and continuity to this Victorian duplex that is now a large single family home with a studio apartment and private garden.

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NYC - JFK Airport: TWA Flight Center
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The TWA Flight Center, or Trans World Airlines Flight Center, opened in 1962 as standalone terminal designed by Eero Saarinen for Trans World Airlines (TWA) at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), then known as New York International Airport, Anderson Field, but commonly known as Idlewild. In 1969, the terminal received a new departure-arrival concourse and lounge, known as Flight Wing One, designed by Roche-Dinkeloo. Following TWA's financial deterioration and eventual purchase by American Airlines in 1991, the terminal ended operations in October 2001. While portions of the original complex have been demolished, the vacant landmarked head house still sits in front of the JetBlue Airway's Terminal 5 (T5), which was completed in 2008. Adaptive reuse proposals for the head house have included a restaurant, a conference center, and a hotel lobby.

The elevated and gently arched concrete walkways leading to the departure lounges were unusual in form, but served a function soon to be commonplace in modern airport design. The Windowless tubes are lined with red carpeted floors and feature light-colored concave walls that rise from a low curb to meet the broad, flat acoustical-tile-clad ceiiling. The side opening are fitted with diffusers in front of the fluorescent light fixtures.

Saarinen's Detroit-based firm was commissioned in 1956 to design the terminal. Given the directive to capture "the spirit of flight", the design featured a prominent wing-shaped thin shell roof over the main terminal, unusual tube-shaped departure-arrival corridors originally wrapped in red carpet and expansive windows that highlighted departing and arriving jets. The terminal was also the first with enclosed passenger jetways, closed circuit television, a central public address system, baggage carousels, electronic schedule board and baggage scales, and the satellite clustering of gates away from the main terminal. The terminal was finally dedicated on May 28, 1962--a year after Saarinen's death--and he received the AIA Gold Medal posthumously that year.

John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK, FAA LID: JFK) is busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States, handling more international traffic than any other airport in North America and the leading freight gateway to the country by value of shipments. Originally known as Idelwild Airport, after the Idlewild golf course it displaced when construction started in 1943, it was renamed Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport that same yaer, and then to New York International Airport, Anderson Field in 1948. The airport was renamed after John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in 1964. Over ninety airlines operate out of JFK, and it currenly serves as the base of operations for JetBlue Airways and a international gateway hub for American Airlines and Delta Air Lines. In the past, it has been a hub for Eastern Air Lines, National Airlines, Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) and Trans World Airlines (TWA).

The Trans World Flight Center was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1994. The ground floor interior was separately designated, also in 1994.

In 2007, the TWA Terminal at Kennedy Airport was ranked #115 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

National Historic Register #05000994 (2005)

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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House Industries featured in CA
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Communication Arts did a feature piece on font design gurus House Industries, plus they were chosen for the cover. Here's a little preview of how they did it, time lapse:
www.houseind.com/showandtell/index.php?id=314
www.commarts.com

Design Glut workspace
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(via New York Magazine)

Rietveld Schröderhuis Prins Hendriklaan 50, Utrecht

Rietveld Schröderhuis Prins Hendriklaan 50, Utrecht
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Rietveld Schröderhuis Prins Hendriklaan 50, Utrecht

Eighty years after it was built, a visit to the Rietveld Schröder House remains a fascinating experience. It was designed by Gerrit Rietveld for Truus Schröder in 1924. As Rietveld’s client she had a great influence on the result. This house is the only building ever realized on the basis of the architectural principles of De Stijl. Typical features are the use of the Stijl colours red, blue and yellow, in combination with white, grey and black, the relation between interior and exterior and the unity between the free-standing pieces of furniture and the fitted parts of the interior. According to Rietveld and Schröder one had to have an active attitude to life.
For them too living in a home is a conscious act. The furnishing of the house reflects this conviction. The occupant has to perform a transaction for every activity: the bathroom is created by opening out a wall, while the sleeping areas could be screened off with sliding walls, and privacy was obtained by placing shutters in front of the windows. The house is literally a machine for living in.
The house is literally a machine for living in. After the death of Truus Schröder in 1985 the house became the property of the Rietveld Schröderhuis Foundation that in turn entrusted it to the Centraal Museum to administer once it had been restored. It has been open to the public since 1987. At the end of 2000 UNESCO placed it on the World Heritage List as ‘an important and unique icon in Western architectural history and a masterpiece of human creativity.’ The Schröder House occupies a key position in Rietveld’s work. Many people want to see it, but not everyone has the chance to come to Utrecht. Moreover it can only accommodate a fairly small number of visitors. As administrator, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht has therefore decided to make the house available online.

www.rietveldschroderhuis.nl/rshEng.jsp

www.rietveldschroderhuis.nl/rsh.jsp

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Doll’s house and furniture made by Jack Restall for his daughter in 1938

Doll’s house and furniture made by Jack Restall for his daughter in 1938
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This doll’s house was made in 1938 and was said to be based upon a type of suburban house built in Handsworth during the 1930s. The house and its contents were designed by Pat Conolly whilst he worked for the furniture and soft furnishings company Frederick Restall Ltd in Great Hampton Street.

Accession number: 2004.1302

Design House Stockholm lamp
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Kids Cubbies, Cubby house furniture and Kids playground equipment
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Kids cubbies, cubby house furniture and kids playground equipment, original timber designs from Matt's Homes and Outdoor Designs. Located Bayswater, Melbourne, 1300 62 88 77. www.mattshomes.com.au

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From left: wall and trim color (bottom square is white trim color), carpet choice (only in bedrooms), porcelain tile: 13" in utility room (laid straight) and second bathroom (laid on diagonal), 18" in master bathroom (laid on diagonal), hardwood for entry, hallway, study, dining room, family room, kitchen and breakfast area, 4" travertine tile for backsplash (laid on diagonal), granite for kitchen countertop, maple cabinets in kitchen and all bathrooms.

1964 Ranch House
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Some original details from the ranch house in Alleghany County, Virginia, in which I grew up. My parents had it built in 1963/1964.

The original bathroom (we had just the one for the four of us up until my sister and I were adults and had moved out; only then my parents added two extra baths!)

1964 Ranch House
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Some original details from the ranch house in Alleghany County, Virginia, in which I grew up. My parents had it built in 1963/1964.

Vanity cabinets and tile floor in the original bathroom (we had just the one for the four of us up until my sister and I were adults and had moved out; only years later did my parents add two extra baths!)

Added tile to the cabinet design
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Finalist presentation – Software Design - Finland, Signbook , Opera House July 7th 2010
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Signbook is an easy-to-use multilingual open platform for signs. Registered users can share signs, learn, comment and evaluate the signs via social media. Signbook was made to produce educational easy-to-use materials about the linguistic study and terminology work in the field of sign languages and will increase the general knowledge of the structure of sign language.

Team:
Petteri Lehtonen
Kimmo Koski
Johannes Maliranta
Tomi Härkönen

Monday, February 25, 2013

HELP ME HELP MYSELF!

HELP ME HELP MYSELF!
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New Yorkers Protest the US0 BILLION Wall Street BAILOUT: Wall Street, NYC - September 25, 2008

Phototgrapher: a. golden, eyewash design - c. 2008.

This is actually a GOOD guy. See: billionairesforbush.com/index.php for more information.

Friends,

The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four-hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans COMBINED! 400 of the wealthiest Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net worth is .6 trillion. During the eight years of the Bush Administration, their wealth has increased by nearly 0 billion -- the same amount that they were demanding We give to them for the "bailout." Why don't they just spend the money they made under Bush to bail themselves out? They'd still have nearly a trillion dollars left over to spread amongst themselves!

Of course, they are not going to do that -- at least not voluntarily. George W. Bush was handed a 7 billion surplus when Bill Clinton left office. Because that money was OUR money and not HIS, he did what the rich prefer to do -- spend it and never look back. Now we have a .5 trillion debt that will take seven generations from which to recover. Why -- on --earth – did -- our -- "representatives" -- give -- these -- robber -- barons -- $ US850 BILLION -- of – OUR -- money?

Last week, proposed my own bailout plan. My suggestions, listed below, were predicated on the singular and simple belief that the rich must pull themselves up by their own platinum bootstraps. Sorry, fellows, but you drilled it into our heads one too many times: THERE...IS...NO…FREE... LUNCH ~ PERIOD! And thank you for encouraging us to hate people on welfare! So, there should have been NO HANDOUTS FROM US TO YOU! Last Friday, after voting AGAINST this BAILOUT, in an unprecedented turn of events, the House FLIP-FLOPPED their "No" Vote & said "Yes", in a rush version of a "bailout" bill vote. IN SPITE OF THE PEOPLE'S OVERWHELMING DISAPPROVAL OF THIS BAILOUT BILL... IN SPITE OF MILLIONS OF CALLS FROM THE PEOPLE CRASHING WASHINGTON "representatives'" PHONE LINES...IN SPITE OF CRASHING OUR POLITICIAN'S WEBSITES...IN SPITE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PROTESTING AROUND THE COUNTRY... THEY VOTED FOR THIS BAILOUT! The People first succeeded on Monday with the House, but failed do it with the Senate and then THE HOUSE TURNED ON US TOO!

It is clear, though, we cannot simply continue protesting without proposing exactly what it is we think THESE IDIOTS should/'ve do/one. So, after consulting with a number of people smarter than Phil Gramm, here’s the proposal, now known as "Mike's Rescue Plan." (From Michael Moore's Bailout Plan) It has 10 simple, straightforward points. They are that you DIDN'T, BUT SHOULD'VE:

1. APPOINTED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO CRIMINALLY INDICT ANYONE ON WALL STREET WHO KNOWINGLY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS COLLAPSE. Before any new money was expended, Congress should have committed, by resolution, to CRIMINALLY PROSECUTE ANYONE who had ANYTHING to do with the attempted SACKING OF OUR ECONOMY. This means that anyone who committed insider trading, securities fraud or any action that helped bring about this collapse should have and MUST GO TO JAIL! This Congress SHOULD HAVE called for a Special Prosecutor who would vigorously go after everyone who created the mess, and anyone else who attempts to scam the public in future. (I like Elliot Spitzer ~ so, he played a little hanky-panky...Wall Street hates him & this is a GOOD thing.)

2. THE RICH SHOULD HAVE PAID FOR THEIR OWN BAILOUT! They may have to live in 5 houses instead of 7. They may have to drive 9 cars instead of 13. The chef for their mini-terriers may have to be reassigned. But there is no way in hell, after forcing family incomes to go down more than ,000 dollars during the Bush years, that working people and the middle class should have to fork over one dime to underwrite the next yacht purchase.

If they truly needed the 0 billion they say they needed, well, here is an easy way they could have raised it:

a) Every couple makeing over a million dollars a year and every single taxpayer who makes over 0,000 a year should pay a 10% surcharge tax for five years. (It's the Senator Sanders plan. He's like Colonel Sanders, only he's out to fry the right chickens.) That means the rich would have still been paying less income tax than when Carter was president. That would have raise a total of 0 billion.

b) Like nearly every other democracy, they should have charged a 0.25% tax on every stock transaction. This would have raised more than 0 billion in a year.

c) Because every stockholder is a patriotic American, stockholders should have forgone receiving a dividend check for ONE quarter and instead this money would have gone the treasury to help pay for the bullsh*t bailout.

d) 25% of major U.S. corporations currently pay NO federal income tax. Federal corporate tax revenues currently amount to 1.7% of the GDP compared to 5% in the 1950s. If we raised the corporate income tax BACK to the levels of the 1950s, this would give us an extra 0 billion.

All of this combined should have been enough to end the calamity. The rich would have gotten to keep their mansions and their servants and our United States government ("COUNTRY FIRST!") would've have a little leftover to repair some roads, bridges and schools...

3. YOU SHOULD HAVE BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE LOSING THEIR HOMES, NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BUILD AN EIGHTH HOME! There are 1.3 million homes in foreclosure right now. That is what is at the heart of this problem. So, instead of giving the money to the banks as a gift, they should have paid down each of these mortgages by 0,000. They should have forced the banks to renegotiate the mortgage so the homeowner could pay on its current value. To insure that this help wouldn't go to speculators and those who tried to making money by flipping houses, the bailout should have only been for people's primary residences. And, in return for the 0K pay-down on the existing mortgage, the government would have gotten to share in the holding of the mortgage so it could get some of its money back. Thus, the total initial cost of fixing the mortgage crisis at its roots (instead of with the greedy lenders) is 0 billion, not 0 BILLION.

And let's set the record straight. People who have defaulted on their mortgages are not "bad risks." They are our fellow Americans, and all they wanted was what we all want: a home to call their own. But, during the Bush years, millions of the People lost the decent paying jobs they had. SIX MILLION fell into poverty! SEVEN MILLION lost their health insurance! And, every one of them saw their real wages go DOWN by ,000! Those who DARE look down on these Americans who got hit with one bad break after another should be ASHAMED.! We are a better, stronger, safer and happier society when all of our citizens can afford to live in a home they own.

4. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A STIPULATION THAT IF YOUR BANK OR COMPANY GOT ANY OF OUR MONEY IN A "BAILOUT," THEN WE OWN YOU. Sorry, that's how it's done. If the bank gives me money so I can buy a house, the bank "owns" that house until I pay it all back -- with interest. Same deal for Wall Street. Whatever money you need to stay afloat, if our government considers you a safe risk -- and necessary for the good of the country -- then you can get a loan, but WE SHOULD OWN YOU. If you default, we will sell you. This is how the Swedish government did it and it worked.

5. ALL REGULATIONS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BE RESTORED. THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IS DEAD! This catastrophe happened because we let the fox have the keys to the hen-house. In 1999, Phil Gramm authored a bill to remove all the regulations that governed Wall Street and our banking system. The bill passed and Clinton signed it. Here's what Sen.Phil Gramm, McCain's chief economic advisor, said at the bill signing:

"In the 1930s ... it was believed that government was the answer. It was believed that stability and growth came from government overriding the functioning of free markets.

"We are here today to repeal [that] because we have learned that government is not the answer. We have learned that freedom and competition are the answers. We have learned that we promote economic growth and we promote stability by having competition and freedom.

"I am proud to be here because this is an important bill; it is a deregulatory bill. I believe that that is the wave of the future, and I am awfully proud to have been a part of making it a reality."

FOR THIS NOT TO REOCCUR, This BILL SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPEALED! Bill Clinton could have helped by leading the effort for the repeal of the Gramm bill and the reinstating of even tougher regulations regarding our financial institutions. And when they were done with that, they should have restored the regulations for the airlines, the inspection of our food, the oil industry, OSHA, and every other entity that affects our daily lives. All oversight provisions for any "bailout" should have had enforcement monies attached to them and criminal penalties for all offenders.

6. IF IT'S TOO BIG TO FAIL, THEN THAT MEANS IT'S TOO BIG TO EXIST! Allowing the creation of these mega-mergers and not enforcing the monopoly and anti-trust laws has allowed a number of financial institutions and corporations to become so large, the very thought of their collapse means an even bigger collapse across the entire economy. No ONE or TWO companies should EVER have this kind of power! The so-called "economic Pearl Harbor" can't happen when you have hundreds -- thousands -- of institutions where people have their money. When we have a dozen auto companies, if one goes belly-up, we DON'T FACE A NATIONAL DISASTER! If we have three separately-owned daily newspapers in your town, then one media company can't call all the shots (I know... What am I thinking?! Who reads a paper anymore? Sure glad all those mergers and buyouts left us with a STRONG and "FREE" press!). Laws Should have been enacted to prevent companies from being so large and dominant that with one slingshot to the eye, the GIANT FALLS and DIES. And no institution should be allowed to set up money schemes that NO ONE understands. If you can't explain it in two sentences, you shouldn't be taking anyone's money!

7. NO EXECUTIVE SHOULD EVER BE PAID MORE THAN 40 TIMES THEIR AVERAGE EMPLOYEE, AND NO EXECUTIVE SHOULD RECEIVE ANY KIND OF "PARACHUTE" OTHER THAN THE VERY GENEROUS SALARY HE OR SHE MADE WHILE WORKING FOR THE COMPANY. In 1980, the average American CEO made 45 times what their employees made. By 2003, they were making 254 times what their workers made. After 8 years of Bush, they now make over 400 times what their average employee makes. How We have allowed this to happen at publicly held companies is beyond reason. In Britain, the average CEO makes 28 times what their average employee makes. In Japan, it's only 17 times! The last I heard, the CEO of Toyota was living the high life in Tokyo. How does he do it on so little money? Seriously, this is an OUTRAGE! We have created the mess we're in by letting the people at the top become bloated beyond belief with millions of dollars. THIS HAS TO STOP! Not only should no executive who receives help out of this mess profit from it, but any executive who was in charge of running his company into the ground should be FIRED before the company receives ANY help.

8. CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE STRENGTHENED THE FDIC AND MADE IT A MODEL FOR PROTECTING NOT ONLY PEOPLE'S SAVINGS, BUT ALSO THEIR PENSIONS AND THEIR HOMES. Obama was correct to propose expanding FDIC protection of people's savings in their banks to 0,000. But, this same sort of government insurance must be given to our NEVER have to worry about whether or not the money they've put away for their old age will be there. This should have meant strict government oversight of companies who manage their employees' funds -- or perhaps it means the companies should have been forced to turn over those funds and their management to the government? People's private retirement funds must also be protected, but perhaps it's time to consider not having one's retirement invested in the casino known as the stock market??? Our government should have a solemn duty to guarantee that no one who grows old in this country has to worry about becoming destitute.

9. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH, CALM DOWN, AND NOT LET FEAR RULE THE DAY. Turn off your TVs! We are NOT in the Second Great Depression. The sky is NOT falling, Chicken Little! Pundits and politicians have lied to us so FAST and FURIOUS it's hard not to be affected by all the fear mongering. Even I wrote to and repeated what I heard on the news last week, that the Dow had the biggest one day drop in its history. Well, that was true in terms of points, but its 7% drop came nowhere close to Black Monday in 1987 when the stock market in one day lost 23% of its value. In the '80s, 3,000 banks closed, but America didn't go out of business. These institutions have always had their ups and downs and eventually it works out. It has to, because the rich do not like their wealth being disrupted! They have a vested interest in calming things down and getting back into their Jacuzzis before they slip into their million thread-count sheets to drift off to a peaceful, Vodka tonic and Ambien-induced slumber.

As crazy as things are right now, tens of thousands of people got a car loan last week. Thousands went to the bank and got a mortgage to buy a home. Students just back to college found banks more than happy to put them into hock for the next 15 years with a student loan. I was even pre-approved for a USK personal loan. Yes, life has gone on with little-or-no-change (other than the whopping 6.1% umeployment rate, but that happened last month). Not a single person lost any of his/her monies in bank, or a treasury note, or in a CD. And, the perhaps the most amazing thing is that the American public FINALLY didn't buy the scare campaign. The citizens didn't blink, instead telling Congress to take that bailout and shove it. THAT was impressive. Why didn't the population succumb to the fright-filled warnings from their president and his cronies? Well, you can only say 'Saddam has the bomb' so many times before the people realize you're a lying sack of shit. After eight long years, the nation is worn out and simply can't take it any longer. The WORLD is fed up & I don't blame them.

10. THEY SHOULD HAVE CREATED A NATIONAL BANK, A "PEOPLE'S BANK." Since they're really itching to print up a trillion dollars, instead of giving it to a few rich people, why don't We give it to ourselves? Now that We own Freddie and Fannie, why not set up a People's bank? One that can provide low-interest loans for all sorts of people who want to own a home, start a small business, go to school, come up with the cure for cancer or create the next great invention. And, now that we own AIG - the country's largest insurance company - let's take the next step and PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR EVERYONE. MEDICARE FOR ALL! It will SAVE us SO MUCH MONEY in the LONG RUN (not to mention bring peace of mind to all). And, America won't be 12th on the life expectancy list! We'll be able to have a longer lifespan, enjoying our government-protected pension and will live to see the day when the corporate criminals who caused this much misery are let out of prison so that We can help re-acclimate them to plain old ordinary, civilian life -- a life with ONE nice home and ONE gas-free car invented with help from the People's Bank.

P.S. Call your Senators NOW !!! ---> www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Since they voted against passing the extension of unemployment benefits and skipped out to "campaign" to us to be re-elected...call them and tell them you will vote for the other "guy" if they don't get their act together!

bbb low-cost housing, tegnestuen vandkunsten
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bbb low-cost housing, kvistgård, elsinore, denmark.
architects: tegnestuen vandkunsten, 2004-2008.

before closing everything down for the summer, I thought I'd take a break from my palermo photos and show you a few snapshots from the completed first stage of the bbb housing project I have worked on for tegnestuen vandkunsten.

many of you commented on the prototype I uploaded last year, here is a chance to see the finished project. people started moving in about half a year ago if I remember correctly. the photos are from yesterday...

as I have written earlier, it is a courtyard project in which the houses are gathered nine by nine in clusters around a small, communal garden or square. the clusters are all identical but they are placed freely on a sloping site which centres naturally on a little lake.

I can't help feeling that the low-cost tag is not entirely fair. we did the original competition with a high degree of prefabrication in mind but the impact of repeated units is softened considerably by the quality of the site and the scale of the buildings...but most importantly, we never felt we were made to compromise for budget reasons. it remains a central tenet and experience of vandkunsten that key qualities of housing are independent of budget. that may be a provocative statement to all those struggling with budget restraints in social housing, but just think about how often the wrong decisions are forced on a project by thick-headed bureaucrats and ignorant clients rather than a lack of money.

what made me really happy yesterday was the way people are making the place their own. what I saw was only the beginning and as such both careful and hesitant, but it showed an impressive understanding of our intentions. I only fear there are too many restrictions on what residents are allowed to do. we love rules in denmark but the real sustainability of this project does not lie in the sturdiness of its materials but in the fundamental adaptability of its scale and method of construction. I hope changes will be allowed over time.

I also can't wait to see what people will make of their communal squares. they were finished simply with a lawn and a couple of young apple trees but the possibilities for making unique and personal spaces out of them are many and the process of doing so should generate a real sense of community...not that it seems to be lacking. from our client we have heard stories of how people are helping each other moving in - always a challenge, but particularly so in a project where you have to do part of the finishing work yourself.

when you arrive at a place as a stranger, the sense of community often proves itself as a kind of natural surveillance. this place is full of kids (as we had hoped) and people were discreetly keeping an eye on me and my camera as I toured the place, a sign of the individual responsibility they feel. you cannot force that on anyone but you can support it in the design: here, in the way all kitchens open onto the communal garden; in the way the covered access becomes a niche in that space while at the same time framing a view of the private garden and the landscape beyond.

all modest means, describing a modulation of social spaces from public to private.

our own discussion at home right now is whether we should move there ourselves. it would be so much better for our daughter but it would add 40 kilometers to our daily commute - both ways - a problem as old a suburbia itself.

my first text on the project
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www.vandkunsten.com

Obama in Ghana - The design and the real T-shirt
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Obama in Ghana 017, screen- and transfer-print, with a textile application in form of the black star. (0019). Design by Stefan Meisel for Monde Perso. For this design we used an artwork of Mel Mercelo which can be seen here in it's original version of the used Obama image.

The idea to create a Obama in Ghana collection for his first visit as elected President of the United States to an African country came up with the first news mid May. German designer and photographer Stefan Meisel who’s living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast since 2007 made the first layouts in the first days of June, together with designer Yves Dossou who created already a street wear collection for the Ivory Coast in 2002. The both creative are working together since February 2009 to bring fresh air in West African street wear. The studios and ateliers are beside the front shop called “Monde Perso” – which is a French catchword for “Create your own (personal) world” - in the centre of Abidjan.

L'idée de créer une collection Obama au Ghana pour sa première visite en tant que Président élu des États-Unis à un pays africain est venu avec la première nouvelle mi Mai. Designer et photographe allemand Stefan Meisel qui vit à Abidjan en Côte d'Ivoire depuis 2007 a fait la première mise en page dans les premiers jours de Juin en collaboration avec le designer Yves Dossou qui a créé déjà une collection street wear pour la Côte d'Ivoire en 2002. Les deux créateurs travaillent ensemble depuis Février 2009 pour donner un nouveau souffle au street wear en Afrique de l'Ouest. Les studios et les ateliers sont à côté du magasin "Monde Perso" dans le centre d'Abidjan

Monde Perso - Personnalisation des vêtements et autres supports
Sérigraphie, Flex, Transfert, Broderie, Strass ect.
Abidjan Marcory-Résidentiel, Côte d'Ivoire
Tél.: (+225) - 21 26 57 94 Mail: mondeperso[at]yahoo.fr

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Obama’s Remarks at Cape Coast Castle
U.S. president says former holding area for slaves also offers hope

Taken from the site America gov.

THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary
July 11, 2009

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT CAPE COAST CASTLE, Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast, Ghana 3:57 P.M. GMT

THE PRESIDENT: Michelle, the children, as well as other members of my family, just got an extraordinary tour of this castle. It is reminiscent of the trip I took to Buchenwald because it reminds us of the capacity of human beings to commit great evil. One of the most striking things that I heard was that right above the dungeons in which male captives were kept was a church, and that reminds us that sometimes we can tolerate and stand by great evil even as we think that we're doing good.

You know, I think it was particularly important for Malia and Sasha, who are growing up in such a blessed way, to be reminded that history can take very cruel turns, and hopefully one of the things that was imparted to them during this trip is their sense of obligation to fight oppression and cruelty wherever it appears, and that any group of people who are degrading another group of people have to be fought against with whatever tools we have available to us.

So obviously it's a moving experience, a moving moment. We want to thank those who arranged for the tour and the people of Ghana for preserving this history. As painful as it is, I think that it helps to teach all of us that we have to do what we can to fight against the kinds of evils that, sadly, still exist in our world, not just on this continent but in every corner of the globe.

And I think, as Americans, and as African Americans, obviously there's a special sense that on the one hand this place was a place of profound sadness; on the other hand, it is here where the journey of much of the African American experience began. And symbolically, to be able to come back with my family, with Michelle and our children, and see the portal through which the diaspora began, but also to be able to come back here in celebration with the people of Ghana of the extraordinary progress that we've made because of the courage of so many, black and white, to abolish slavery and ultimately win civil rights for all people, I think is a source of hope. It reminds us that as bad as history can be, it's also possible to overcome.

Thanks, everybody.

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NAS my day
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The three boxes on the left can house up to 6 x 3.5" drives.
Each box can be RAID0/RAID1/JBOD and a variety of other modes using 2 HDs.

Those two tiny boxes are not to be underestimated -- via eSATA connection and build-in RAID, they outperform all other NAS. At a fraction of the price. And in most cases, you just plug in existing drives. works with NTFS, XFS or any Linux EXT format. And USB -- if you use a laptop.

OTOH, the "big" box on the left is a real Linux-based NAS server with Gigabit Ethernet interface -- but won't be as speedy as those eSATA boxes. The built-in DVD-RW drive and the ability to place this box far away from my desktop PC & eSATA drives makes this a useful addition. I might add a second LG NAS box -- one for occasional backup services, one for day-to-day network activity.
The NAS also helps me to backup my MSI netbook and possibly I could burn CD/DVD from the netbook via this NAS

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the house where I spent my teenage years
help me design my house
Image by shellipsm
someone else lives there now, but I helped put the insulation in when I was 10 years old! (I also snuck out onto the roof and snuck out a few times in highschool!)

Nice House Design Template photos

Products Brochures Templates
house design template
Image by Andrea Balzano
YOU CAN FIND THIS TEMPLATES @ graphicriver.net/item/products-brochures-trifold-flyer-bi...

This is a complete layout for a Printable Set of Brochures: A3 (4x A4 pages) + Trifold Brochure + Flyer + Business Card.
Photos and Logos are used only to show a preview of how the brochure can look alike, they are not included in the download.
This layout is not limited for a single business, can be used for general purpose.
The files are created in order to be used by everyone, with just a basic knowledge of the softwares.
The preview images are made by using first a 3D software and then Photoshop: is available upon request, please send me an email through my profile page.

- InDesign CS3-4-5 (.INDD, .IDML, .INX), Illustrator CS (.Ai, .EPS), Photoshop (.PSD)
- A3 ISO 420×297 mm (16,5x11,7 inches) + bleeds (4x A4 Pages)
- Trifold Brochure A4 ISO 210×297 mm (8,27x11,7 inches) + bleeds
- Flyer A5 ISO 148x210 mm (8,27x5,83 inches) + bleeds
- Business Card 88,9x50,8 mm (3,5x2 inches)+ bleeds
- 300 DPI / Print Ready / CMYK
- .PDF instructions
- ALL made with FREE fonts
- Organized Layers
- SUPER EASY to CUSTOMIZE

YOU CAN FIND THIS TEMPLATES @ graphicriver.net/item/products-brochures-trifold-flyer-bi...

Club Flyers Template 03
house design template
Image by Andrea Balzano
FIND THEM @ www.graphicriver.net/item/3-club-flyers-templates/667339?...

This is a Unique Flyers Pack made by 3 Different Layouts for Club Flyers.
Photos are used only to show a preview of how the flyers can look alike, they are not included in the download.
These layouts are not limited for a single business, they can be used for general purpose.
The files are created in order to be used by everyone, with just a basic knowledge of the softwares.

- 3 Flyers 100×200 mm + bleeds (3,9×7,87 inches) + bleeds
- 3 Photoshop (.PSD)
- 300 DPI / Print Ready / CMYK
- .PDF instructions
- ALL made with FREE fonts
- Organized Layers
- SUPER EASY to CUSTOMIZE

FIND THEM @ www.graphicriver.net/item/3-club-flyers-templates/667339?...

Club Flyers Template 01
house design template
Image by Andrea Balzano
FIND THEM @ www.graphicriver.net/item/3-club-flyers-templates/667339?...

This is a Unique Flyers Pack made by 3 Different Layouts for Club Flyers.
Photos are used only to show a preview of how the flyers can look alike, they are not included in the download.
These layouts are not limited for a single business, they can be used for general purpose.
The files are created in order to be used by everyone, with just a basic knowledge of the softwares.

- 3 Flyers 100×200 mm + bleeds (3,9×7,87 inches) + bleeds
- 3 Photoshop (.PSD)
- 300 DPI / Print Ready / CMYK
- .PDF instructions
- ALL made with FREE fonts
- Organized Layers
- SUPER EASY to CUSTOMIZE

FIND THEM @ www.graphicriver.net/item/3-club-flyers-templates/667339?...

Club Flyers Template 02
house design template
Image by Andrea Balzano
FIND THEM @ www.graphicriver.net/item/3-club-flyers-templates/667339?...

This is a Unique Flyers Pack made by 3 Different Layouts for Club Flyers.
Photos are used only to show a preview of how the flyers can look alike, they are not included in the download.
These layouts are not limited for a single business, they can be used for general purpose.
The files are created in order to be used by everyone, with just a basic knowledge of the softwares.

- 3 Flyers 100×200 mm + bleeds (3,9×7,87 inches) + bleeds
- 3 Photoshop (.PSD)
- 300 DPI / Print Ready / CMYK
- .PDF instructions
- ALL made with FREE fonts
- Organized Layers
- SUPER EASY to CUSTOMIZE

FIND THEM @ www.graphicriver.net/item/3-club-flyers-templates/667339?...

Renovated Beach House with Modern Flair

Renovated Beach House with Modern Flair
modern beach house design
Image by Posh Living, LLC

Lovell Beach House
modern beach house design
Image by boutmuet
The Lovell Beach House is located on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California. The building was completed in 1926 and is now recognized as one of the most important works by architect Rudolf Schindler, second only to the Schindler House, built four years earlier for his family as a show house and studio. Both of these early houses by Schindler are considered landmarks of early modern architecture in America.

The residence is on the ocean front, not far from the Wedge at Newport Harbor, in a tightly packed neighborhood of buildings. The house is sheltered from the street on the west side by raising the living quarters above the ground level. The open space below reveals the reinforced concrete frames that were formed in the shape of a figure 8. Two stairways pass through the openings in the frames leading to the kitchen and the main entry. The garage is on the north side of the ground floor and the garden is on the south side, between the house and the beach.

The interior is arranged around a two-story living/dining room, with full height, curtain wall windows on the east and south side facing the ocean. The kitchen and breakfast area are located on the north side of the first floor, with a terrace on the ocean side over the garden. Lamps and built-in furniture were provided as part of the original design. Bedrooms on the second floor are connected by a corridor overlooking the main living room. Each of the bedrooms originally had access to an open sleeping porch, but these were enclosed by Schindler in 1928.

Color Board for a Modern Beach House Renovation
modern beach house design
Image by Posh Living, LLC

Modern
modern beach house design
Image by mikecogh
I don't particularly like this house, but its lines and style represent a lot of contemporary design. And the brand new Suzuki Swift fits the picture. The whole scene just struck me as very modern.

Used at propertibagus.com/rumah-dan-properti/using-bookcases-to-e...

Lovell Beach House
modern beach house design
Image by eli.pousson
Designed by architect Rudolph Schindler and completed in 1926, the Lovell Beach House is one of the earliest example of International Style residential architecture in the United States.