Kitchen and Living Room Integration Designs Ideas by Logos

These are the pictures of the brilliant concept of home interior design. These pictures show the kitchen which is integrated with the living room.

Lego Architecture Series Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

A landmark of organic architectural design! 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of one of New York City’s best known museums, the Solomon R. Guggenheim®. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the greatest architects of the 20th century, the museum opened just six months after he passed away. This intricately built LEGO® model (developed and designed by architect Adam Reed Tucker) celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative vision and organic architectural style.

The assembled Solomon R. Guggenheim museum model also includes a booklet full of details about the building’s design and history plus facts about the tower. A creative and eye-catching accent for any desk, shelf or mantelpiece! Perfect for any Wright lover, world tourist or architecture fan! The perfect display for any architect or fan of spectacular city skylines!

Features

* Perfect for any desk, shelf or mantle.
* Fun to build over and over again.
* Part of the LEGO Architecture Landmark Series
* Full Set
* Hours of Fun

Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art

"This is a brief but delightful tour of contemporary architecture with a guide who is famous for his candor. He divides our best-known building designers into the architects, who keep in mind the users of a building, and the artistes, who keep in mind the cover of Architectural Review. Being John Silber, he names names and shows you the artists' buildings, travesty by travesty. This book will gall some of them. Even more so will it embarrass the guileless souls who have fallen under the spell of the artists' metaphorical lyricism 'explaining' their own work- and paid millions for such pretty words." Tom Wolfe"

Have you ever wondered why the Guggenheim is always covered in scaffolding? Why the random slashes on the exterior of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, supposed to represent Berlin locations where pre-war Jews flourished, reappear, for no apparent reason, on his Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto? Or why Frank Gehry's Stata Center, designed for MIT's top-secret Cryptography Unit, has transparent glass walls? Not to mention why, for $442 per square foot, it doesn't keep out the rain? You're not alone.

In Architecture of the Absurd, John Silber dares to peek behind the curtain of "genius" architects and expose their willful disdain for their clients, their budgets, and the people who live or work inside their creations. Absurdism in a painting or sculpture is one thing—if it's not to your taste, you don't have to look—but absurdism in buildings represents a blatant disregard for the needs of the building, whether it be a student center, music hall, or corporate headquarters.

Silber admires the precise engineering of Calatrava, the imaginative shapes of Gaudi, and the sleek beauty of Mies van der Rohe. But he refuses to kowtow to the egos of those "geniuses" who lack such respect for the craft. Absurdist architects have been sheltered by the academy, encouraged by critics, and commissioned by CEOs and trustees. They stamp the world with meaningless monstrosities, justify them with fanciful theories, and command outrageous "genius fees" for their trouble.

As a young man, Silber learned to draw blueprints and read elevations from his architect father. In twenty-five years as president of Boston University, Silber oversaw a building program totaling 13 million square feet. Here, Silber uses his experience as a builder, a client, and a noted philosopher to construct an unflinchingly intelligent illustrated critique of contemporary architecture.

Le Corbusier's megalomaniacal 1930s plan for Algiers, which called for the demolition of the entire city, was mercifully never built. But his blatant disregard for context and community lives on. In Boston, Josep Lluis Sert's unprotected northeast-facing entrance to the B.U. library flooded the first floor with snow and ice every New England winter. In Los Angeles, sunlight glinting off the sharply angled steel curves of Gehry's Walt Disney Music Hall raises the temperature of neighbors' houses by 15 degrees. And of course, Libeskind's World Trade Center plan, with its spindly 1776-foot tower and quarter-mile-high gardens, proved so impractical it had to be re-designed, in an exasperating negotiation hardly worthy of the complex tragedy of the site.

New Supermarket Design

Supermarkets are changing. Gone are the days of boxy, frozen warehouses stacked high with package goods. Today's supermarkets can be inviting or theatrical, artfully urban or charmingly rural. An informative guide to the fast-changing world of modern supermarket architecture, New Supermarket Design is a sumptuous, visual tour of the most groundbreaking innovations in the field.

From the American Midwest to the streets of Tokyo, this beautiful book collects 40 of the most revolutionary ideas in store design, product arrangement, and thematic conception. New Supermarket Design features work from some of the most renowned architects on the international scene, clearly explained and accompanied by stunning full-color illustrations.

Reciprocal Frame Architecture

In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of buildings both ancient and modern. This new book explores the principles of these apparently simple structures and demonstrates how they can be used in the context of a modern building.

Starting with historic designs by de Honnecourt, Da Vinci and Serlio, the book presents the wealth of possible RF morphologies, and investigates the geometrical, structural and practical design issues of reciprocal frames.

The case studies look at stunning examples of reciprocal frame architecture that range from low environmental impact buildings and self built examples in the UK and USA, to the fascinating and elegant structures of the Puppet Theatre in Seiwa, Tokyo's Spinning House, Sukiya -Yu house, The Toyoson Stonemason museum and the Life Sciences Laboratory - Torikabuto in Japan.

The book is designed to inform and inspire architects and structural engineers alike, and brings to life a structural system whose principles have been used for thousands of years.

* Simple introduction to the design principles of mutually supporting structures
* Explores the impact of structural choices on the aesthetic impact of a building
* Highly illustrated case studies from across the globe

Stylish Comfortable Bedroom Interior Design Ideas

These pictures of bedroom interior designs are good models of bedroom interior designs. If you are confused in choosing the models of bedroom decorations, these bedroom pictures can become the alternatives to follow.

We offer you bedroom layout with amazing and stylish inspiration. All loving contemporary design will find something interesting. Most have a lot of contrast and natural light. Of course the main materials of each bedroom design is a place to sleep and it is not too easy to choose the best materials. The bedrooms shown use comfortable style. They are perfect if you like the minimalist with white ,black and brown color. Some increase bed-and-lower mechanism inside, which allows to adjust the position of the cushion, creating facilities for sleeping or reading well. Just get it

Beautiful Custom Kitchen Range Hoods Decoration Remodeling Idea

Colorful Custom Kitchen Range Hoods Designs

Are you looking for the pictures of kitchen decoration? Here is the pictures of Decoration Ideas of Kitchen. These are the pictures of Colorful Custom Kitchen Range Hoods Designs that can give inspiration in decorating the kitchen

Colorful Custom Kitchen Range Hoods Designs are now wanted by new house owner as the new inspiration to renovate the old and traditional ones. The designs are different since they look more modern and colorful using various kinds of color which can absolutely make the kitchen brighter. On these designs Colourlife tries to perform a unique line of stainless steel wall and ceiling mounted cooker hoods ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary ones. While their shape will not surprise you as they’re either square or rectangular. Beside, the color and pattern options will blow your mind. Have a nice day with the Colorful Custom Kitchen Range Hoods.

Beautiful Home and Garden Design Ideas

It is a comfortable living when the house has the beautiful garden. These pictures show the harmony of house and garden design. these pictures can become the reference for those who are planing to build a house with garden.

These samples pictures and photo galleries of house and garden ideas are so great and inspiring since they can create a wonderful and beautiful atmosphere in the houses exterior decoration. The right choice of the plants and placement are the main power of these gardens. Are you inspired with the models of the garden displayed? If so, designing and creating your house garden as the garden shown will be the smart decision and action so as to make your house exterior layout more and more inviting.

Burmese Design & Architecture

Burmese design, heavily influenced by its proximity to China and India, is a many-layered thing, interwoven with spiritual, religious and political messages. Burmese Design & Architecture takes an in-depth look at the entire span of Burmese design, from arts and crafts to both religious and secular architecture. With over 500 full-color photographs
and expert insights provided by leading archaeological authorities, this is a must-have for serious connoisseurs of architecture, design or Burma itself.

"the true heart of Vietnam style, as described in the fine photos and thoughtful text, still emanates from the ancient aesthetic and traditions of the Vietnamese people."—Los Angeles Times


"Here's America's first in-depth history of the many layers of Burmese design and architecture. You'll see how spirituality, religion, and politics influence these beautiful buildings, be they national or secular."—From House to Home

ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

Architecture in the Digital Age addresses contemporary architectural practice in which digital technologies are radically changing how the buildings are conceived, designed and produced. It discusses the digitally-driven changes, their origins, and their effects by grounding them in actual practices already taking place, while simultaneously speculating about their wider implications for the future. The book offers a diverse set of ideas as to what is relevant today and what will be relevant tomorrow for emerging architectural practices of the digital age.

The contents of the book brings together some of the leading international practitioners with the aim of providing informed views of what is seen as a critical juncture in architecture's evolving relationship to its wider cultural and technological context.

Structure as Architecture: A Source Book for Architects and Structural Engineers

Structure As Architecture provides readers with an accessible insight into the relationship between structure and architecture, focusing on the design principles that relate to both fields. Over one hundred case studies of contemporary buildings from countries across the globe including the UK, the US, France, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia are interspersed throughout the book.
The author has visited and photographed each of these examples and analyzed them to show how structure plays a significant architectural role, as well as bearing loads. This is a highly illustrated sourcebook, providing a new insight into the role of structure, and discussing the point where the technical and the aesthetic meet to create the discipline of 'architecture'.

* Presents a comprehensive analysis of how building structure contributes to architecture
* Connects architectural design ideas and structure in the context of contemporary architecture, materials and structure
* Highly illustrated, providing a sourcebook of architectural and engineering design ideas