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Rocksplit House

The beautiful Rocksplit House is sure worth a glance if you love great design and relate to architecture. The project was developed by the Cometa Architects team, these guys were given a land plot on a steep hill on the Greek Island of Kea to create a building for a family of four. Inspired by the landscape and century old building techniques and materials they came up with this stunning creation you see in the images below. This award winning house was put in place with the idea of blending with its surroundings, using quarried stone set against each other with micro-cement surfaces that give it this century old look that naturally sets on the surroundings. It was built using an old technique called "kotounto” that elevates the building enabling it to breathe and let water run through it throughout the raining season. The house features three different volumes and also plenty of modern tech, it has solar panels on the roof that will provide heat for the under floor installation, a water collecting system on the three rooftops that will be stored in an underground reservoir, and cross ventilation to keep it cool.



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HUSK ARMCHAIR - Image

HUSK ARMCHAIR

The Husk Chair was designed by Patricia Urquiola for furniture store B&B Italia. It consists of a hardshell in Hirek and a series of soft cushions stitched together. Three styles of cushion are available, standard, large, and very large, you can also opt for a headrest. via...
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TIMEPIECE PRINTS

Nine37 is a small design shop, they love posters and watches, so they designed an absolutely gorgeous collection of illustrated prints based on some iconic timepieces. Printed on premium luster photo paper, the prints are 18x24 and you can choose from some of the most popular timepieces such as the Rolex Submariner, Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer, IWC Big Pilot, or James Bond´s favorite, the Omega Speedmaster. source: Cool Material...
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HEMEROSCOPIUM HOUSE | BY ENSAMBLE STUDIO - Image

HEMEROSCOPIUM HOUSE | BY ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Hemeroscopium is of Greek origin and means "place the sun sets", it refers to a place that exists in the imagination... but is still real... Located is Las Rozas, Madrid Spain, this impressive residence has 4,300 square ft, it was designed by Ensable Studio and took them a year to engineer but only a week to build, don´t belive us? check out the video on this post´s detail page. via homedsgn ...
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