Toy storeys: James May and 1,000 helpers built the 20ft-tall Lego house on a wine estate in Surrey. Lego has also banned May from dismantling the structure and giving away the bricks, which the company donated for his forthcoming BBC show James May’s Toy Stories. May slept in the modern house on Friday night, on ‘the most uncomfortable bed I’ve ever slept in’ – when he also discovered the house was not waterproof. May believes that an art gallery, a children’s home or a wealthy private collector might be interested in the house. Knocking it down is just wrong on every level. It’s a really lovely thing – it would break the hearts of the 1,000 people who worked like dogs to build it.via.

Full-Size Modern Lego House built using 3.3million differently coloured bricks

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Scenography Modern Apartment with White Bedroom and Bathroom Decor in Bucharest Romanian architects from AA Studio. It looks simple, but most of the so called modern interior designs don’t manage to exceed the first step, they simply stay at the stage of choosing from catalogues products more or less luxurious. We present you a generous space, of almost 400 sqm , who resulted from uniting 2 apartments placed in mirror. The most spectacular piece of modern furniture has to be the bed, a floating slab, a purple spot in a big white space that has as a benchmark the big plasma tv and the bonsai. Viabizzuno C1 for the bedroom and Ducre Face Long,Delta Light – Connect and Ducre Flat for the bathrooms. The master bathroom offers an impressive spectacle of textures, lighting and mirrors, being one of the climaxes of the apartment.

Scenography Modern Apartment White Bedroom and Bathroom Decor simply stay
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Modern Khosla House Designed by Arthur Erickson crowning a 15-acre wooded site west of Palo Alto, California, the 14,000 square foot house extends from a hilltop in four directions, making it inseparable from the surrounding native landscape. The home of an extensive modern home design automation system reflects the client’s forward looking interest in developing computer-controlled products for home use. The pools are lined with a light green slate. A formal theme of four round columns and a capital is an abstract interpretation of a traditional motif found in the architecture of India, the owner’s original home. A unique system of cable trays and cabinets in each room enables the owner to modify the wiring and components as new products become available. The concrete frame is buff coloured and sandblasted, while exposed concrete walls are bush-hammered.

Modern Khosla House surrounding native landscape

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The site of the modern glass Smith Residence from Arthur Erickson was a slight declivity between two rock outcroppings that are on a prominence that slopes directly down to the sea. The glass house was conceived as a square spiral, built up by the lapping of the major beams around a courtyard. The appearance of the wood of the house is the result of considerable effort to find a finish that would not detract from the beauty of the grain and the natural lustre of the wood. The landscape, other than exposing the bare rock, is confined to paving blocks of the same material as the columns and beams. By reducing not only the number of materials drastically, but also the number of elements in the house design, a certain strength and simplicity is achieved.

Modern Glass Smith House natural lustre of the wood

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The concept of this modern Helmut Eppich House Designed by Arthur Erickson location in West Vancouver, Canada with concrete frame structure makes very effective use of a large site, which was formerly considered unbuildable. Thus, it was only natural that the landscape concept emerged even before the modern house. It is a concrete house of stepped terraces extending laterally across the site, withheld by concrete retaining walls, with concrete beams and columns supporting the roofs and trellises. The house itself, a 3-level structure, retains the hillside and only the carport is visible from the street above. The property, used as a fill dumping ground and in shadow most of the time, presented an especially challenging siting problem.

Modern Helmut Eppich House concrete frame structure

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