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Modern Home Tours Returns to Portland, March 9

As part of the spring 2013 tour, Modern Home Tours is returning to Portland on Saturday, March 9th. The 2013 Portland Modern Home Tour gives residents the opportunity to explore some of the coolest examples of modern architecture and inte [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2013 | Comments : 0

Modern Home Tour is Saturday in St. Pete; ranges from an est...

A St. Petersburg estate designed in the middle of the 20th century typifies architectural modernism. So does the city's Fire Station 8, which is LEED-certified Gold for its environmental assets. Those structures and several other [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Blu Homes acquires San Francisco-based Modern Cabana

VALLEJO — Blu Homes, a manufacturer of prefabricated and sustainability-focused homes and structures with a plant in Vallejo, today announced that it acquired the intellectual assets of San Francisco-based Modern Cabana. The acqu [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Modern With a Twist Home Tours, Multifamily Buying Spree

SANTA MONICA/INGLEWOOD: This fall, the AIA/LA is opening up a few classic pieces of LA architecture that have been renovated by contemporary architects (one a month through December)--they're starting with the John Entenza House on Se [...]

Posted On : Sep, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Practice of Modern Architecture contemporary Home Design Ide...

Practice of modern architecture contemporary home design ideas,manufactured to bring the environment and easy-to-recycle materials is a modern architectural response to the concerns of CO2 emissions. The houses around the world now accoun [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

American Institute of Architects home tour

The idea of modern architecture often conjures images of brutally angular and cold houses. Not so in the Bay Area, where contemporary design is about creating true living spaces that are connected to the people who live in them and the na [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Modern New Zealand Home Visually Anchored in its Landscape b...

Glamuzina Paterson Architects designed an impressive 250 square meter residence bunkered in the landscape of Lake Hawea region, South Island, New Zealand. The overall shape of the residence was perfectly adapted to the environmental requi [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Coast Modern review: Home improvement

A documentary about North American West Coast modern architecture, directed by Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome. 60 minutes. Playing July 6 to 12 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. G American architect Frank Lloyd Wright often designed entran [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Contemporary Architecture Channels English Country Home Trad...

Luxury architecture firm McLean Quinlan, founded by Fiona McLean, is a practice that focuses on sustainable, holistically built homes that consider the landscape and the function of interior design. The practice has been involved in numer [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Holiday homes with grand designs

Grey clouds loom, thunder growls, rain begins to spatter the kitchen window. We are transfixed by the drama – but there is no shortage of that at the country house we're visiting in Cockthorpe, just outside Wells-next-the-Sea in [...]

Posted On : Jun, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Midcentury-modern architecture flourishes in Berkeley home

The basics: Mid-century modern architecture in the United States is a direct descendant of the unadorned-modernist minimalism adapted from the German Bauhaus design tradition of the 1920s and early 1930s. It's no surprise, then, that [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Ontario ski-country retreat is a Modernist home built on a b...

Rob Kastelic and Kelly Buffey built a barn. Generally this wouldn’t be very exciting news, but for architects attuned to the latest thinking in contemporary design, as the two partners of Atelier Kastelic Buffey are, it's a diff [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Ignatov Architects design of Contemporary Home Tree in Varna...

The existing trees inspire the idea of the large home tree. The building aims to assimilate the aspects of nature with the design of architecture. Three parts, the garden, the cantilevered structure and the energy exchanger make the house [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Foreclosed Homeowners Inspire Architects to Float Housing Id...

Amid a housing market profoundly altered by stagnant incomes, declining wealth and Wall Street folly, the Museum of Modern Art displays a waterfall cascading down an atrium in a high-rise apartment. It’s a moment of refreshing whims [...]