Sustainable Flexible House Northcote Design Melbourne, Australia

The flexible house architecture design idea designed by Zen Architects located in Melbourne, Australia demonstrates original use of area to maximize living rooms and storage space, and makes exciting home spatial volumes. Sustainably sourced, radically-swan contemporary timber decking, flooring design plan and fencing reduced waste, and natural “lino”, carpets and underlay’s, little emission color paints, and ply wood cabinetry all contributed to decrease off-gassing. Rainwater harvesting and Grey water recycling have been fully included, minimizing storm water run-off, and use of mains water. Water-efficient shower heads and appliances further reduce waste. Existing vegetation assists to retain water on site, and landscaping incorporates indigenous and drought tolerant plants.









These sustainable flexible home decor living rooms are sloping to the north, thermal mass logically heats and cools the building and double glazing and high levels of insulation reduce heat transfer. The high ceiling uses a ‘stack effect’ to bring together and remove heat via clerestory windows, and open able windows throughout facilitate cross ventilation. The house modern ceiling form bounces light into a living space through an internal window that would not otherwise have received natural afternoon light. On site composting, worm farm, clothes line, secure bike storage, solar hot water with gas boost for hydro-id space heating, zoning for heating, and ceiling fans all act to further reduce energy consumption.

Enzo Hotel by Manuelle Gautrand Architects

Enzo Hotel by Manuelle Gautrand Architects, The Triangular Shape Hotel Design Based In Paris

This great project name is Enzo Hotel. This three start hotel is based in Paris, precisely in District Boulevard D’Indichine-19EME District, Paris. France. The area for this construction for about 5.400 m2. The construction cost which this hotel project has been spended is confidential. This Enzo Hotel can accommodate for about 150 rooms. BNP Paribas Immobilier is the famous contributor client for this hotel.










The great Enzo Hotel which constructed by the Manuelle Gautrand Architect is based in Paris. The unique of this hotel come from the shape itself which take the strong triangular. The triangular shape is chosen intended to engage the hotel lively streetscape. The brilliant color which the hotel took is inspired by the around nature of its hotel located. As a result the unique and great aesthetic for the building itself is added. Besides, it gives the sleek texture to the hotel shape. The architect of this hotel said that the fragmented bands of the hotel give a kinetic effect to overall volume which one can view the movement of the car there, a certain impression of a speed.



The mass of the building is reduced according to the surrounding areas itself which so narrow. So the design needs the professional designer to done it. The different ideas in plan of the building‘s organization is generated by the tapering and narrow ground floor plate of the hotel. Depending upon the angel viewed, the volume offering the different perceptions. It is resulting a project which continually changing with overall dynamic comprehensive view.

Great Panaromic in West Seattle Residence

The comfortable living space has been completed designed by the Lawrence Architecture which is located in the West Seattle district of Seattle, Washington. This living space design has a view property of living space for about 3,800 square feet, and 925 square feet detached the garage. The main materials which are construct this building is include the concrete, steel and a glass. While providing the privacy for the main living space is a curtain wall-enclosed the pavilion, the sites and the house is organized by a concrete wall which is up to twenty-four feet high such as the garage, the entry and the service spaces which are on the street of the wall.









The element for the circulation which is including the stairs with the cantilevered steel treads also organized by the wall. The pavilion is capped by the supported on steel frames and the triangular steel trusses and also the roof swoops over the concrete wall. Eight by sixteen foot sections of the curtain wall are pivoted for the ventilation. Which are normally in place but it is removed for the photographs; the star has the demountable guardrails. The daylight basement level is occupied by a family room, media room, children’s bedroom and the bathrooms. While in a loft space above the kitchen is placed the master bedroom. Above the garage which is accessible via stair or the future elevator there is a living space.

Modern Contemporary House Designs in Hollywood Hills – The Michael Parks House

The talented designer Michael Parks is proud to announce the completion of renovation of the House of Representatives dramatically Parks, three bedrooms are modern and innovative, three-bath hillside home, located in Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills. Creative ingenuity behind a year and a half from the House Garden of transformation made all the more appealing because the owner, has no formal architecture / design education. But he designed and led the project itself – a metamorphosis of architecture through the park she finds a new career and a passion for creating ground-breaking modern design.











Parks face many challenges when he bought a house: dry rot and termite damage to each area of the post, and home-built wooden beams, window frames that are not connected with them, a floor plan poor with valuable and useable space just a little right one bedroom, a kitchen, where the park really put his foot through a rotten floor, poor ventilation without isolation and a lot of odd-shaped coupled with a difficult slope conditions. But the park looked through the various housing problems and instead look incredible, unrealized potential.















Modern contemporary Park house now stands as evidence of forward-thinking, slender, open, airy and inviting modern architecture who completed a rare feat with a minimalist aesthetic combines both comfort and hip, understated luxury. With perfect proportion and geometry bold, designs Parks’ use of strategic interaction between volume and mean horizontal and vertical to determine the home’s appearance – attractive and elevate the senses of people who visit.

Foreign Architects in India

The profession and practise of architecture in India has undergone a complete transformation in this decade. The last eight years have been a boom time, not seen since the heady days of Post Indipendance India.

The booming economy and the burgeoning middle class has prompted developers to bring in foreign architects with foreign fees to design everything from airports to residential and office towers and bungalows and resorts.

Foreign architects bring in the tried and tested processes and function precision to bring about a complete turnaround in the way projects are designed and built. They pair up with Indian firms who have the expertise on the ground to get things done and built.

Foreign architects for the most part are bringing in foreign solutions and design principles which may not all work in India, but the public does not think a second before lapping it all up. We are literally bringing New York, Chicago, Tokyo or Shanghai to Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and countless other towns and cities.

Only time will tell if this is successful in the long term. India is not the only place in the world where this is happening. China is way ahead of us in transplanting urban fabric from the West into their cities.

The TOI has an interesting article about the whole phenomenon of foreign architects coming to India.

" Time was when there was only the occasional eruption of concrete. Today, India’s skyline is a work in progress. But while the towering new skyscrapers, sprawling IT parks, glitzy airports and swanky townships reflect desi aspirations, the blueprint, more often than not, is foreign.

Be it a slum redevelopment project in congested Mumbai or Kolkata’s new museum of modern art, the global imprint on the country’s fast-changing urban landscape is evident. Made in India but designed by a clutch of foreign architects looking to cash in on the country’s real estate boom. For Edinburgh-based RMJM, the company behind the distinctive Scottish Parliament, a foray into India four years ago has translated into business of £1 billion. That, the company says, is unprecedented for a UK architecture firm doing business in India. “There’s a cue here for UK business — we need to be in India in a very big way,” says RMJM CEO Peter Morrison. RMJM, which currently has 38 projects under way in India, is now looking to establish a permanent base in Mumbai.

Many others have taken the cue. Celebrated British architect Lord Norman Foster, who shaped London’s skyline with buildings such as the Gherkin and designed the Reichstag in Berlin, has entered India in a tie-up with a Mumbai real estate firm, the Neptune group. Other big UK names in India are Laing O’Rourke, Davis Langdon and Mott MacDonald. Not just UK, firms from Canada (Arcop) to Australia (Omiros One) have designs on India.

But does India really need foreign architects or is it just about getting a brand on the brochure? Most builders agree it’s as much about star power as it is about international quality. After all, well-heeled buyers respond to designers with international reputations as much as they respond to a luxury label like Gucci or Prada. “When people purchase an expensive apartment, a famous architect is extra validation they’re making a good choice,” says Kunal Banerji of Ansal API which signed up US firm Chelsea West to design Manhattan-style condos at its Aquapolis project in Ghaziabad.

The Mahindra group’s real estate arm Mahindra Lifespaces, which has roped in US-based architect and design firm HOK (of Dubai marina fame), says their reasons go much beyond the brand. “The selection of an international architect or planner is driven by the unique needs of the project. For instance, the 325-acre Mahindra World City project is one of the largest such developments under implementation and to that extent the width and depth of on-ground implementation experience is currently available only with international firms who have conceived and implemented such projects in different parts of the world,” says Anita Arjundas, COO of Mahindra Lifespaces.

Size does matter and with Indian developers going beyond stand-alone commercial blocks and residences to converting huge swathes of land into townships and IT parks, a ‘foreign hand’ does come in handy. “Foreign firms can visualise and handle massive scale. Also, their designs are very innovative. They create landmarks and not just buildings,” says Shantanu Malik, DGM-Architect, Unitech Ltd.

It’s a win-win for Indian architects as well. “Working with foreign firms gives us exposure to international standards. There is a lot to learn from their use of detailing and modern materials,” adds Malik.

Unitech often hires multiple design firms for a single project. For instance, it has 10 global architecture and design consultants for the $3 billion Unitech Grande, a super-luxury residential complex spread over 347 acres along the Noida expressway. This project draws on the expertise of US-based mall designer Callison, landscape artists SWA and EDAW, Britain’s RMJM for architecture and interiors and HOK for floor plans, besides a course designed by Australian golfer Greg Norman.

With so much demand, it isn’t surprising that Mark Igou, director in the US architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Llp (SOM), has been shuttling between New York and India over the last three years. “I spend more than three months a year in India, familiarising myself with the ground situation.” And ground reality is what SOM — the firm which has designed the Burj Dubai, which will be the world’s tallest skyscraper when it is finished in 2009 — is faced with in Mumbai where it is designing homes for slum dwellers in Mumbai’s Santa Cruz as part of a masterplan for Unitech. “It’s a unique design challenge — recreating the same sense of community that exists in their current housing so that people don’t want to return to the slums they left,” says Igou. SOM is also using the services of sociologists and cultural anthropologists to get a sense of the social and cultural aspects of the lives of those being rehabilitated.

Whether it’s slum housing or a swanky township, India is essential to the design inputs. “Education and social interaction are both important to Indians so our designs will reflect these needs. So residential units would have schools nearby and public spaces for people to interact,” he says. Besides projects like the Jet Airways headquarters in Mumbai, SOM is also working in Tier-II cities like Ahmedabad and Nagpur.

Be it the Indian ethos or the vagaries of its climate, Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott keeps it in mind when he is on the drawing board. Ott, who has designed a technopark for Tata Consultancy Services at Siruseri, Chennai, in association with countryman Carlos Ponce de Leon, says, “I am constantly studying the history and traditions of India, hoping to integrate some of its characteristics in my buildings. And though my work is definitely contemporary, the clues from the past are integrated in a modern vocabulary.”

Ott is building on the work that earlier foreign architects have done in India. Apart from Lutyens and Le Corbusier, several other international architects have showcased their designs in India. Ahmedabad’s Indian Institute of Management reflects Louis Kahn’s trademark style of veering towards monolithic masses resembling ancient ruins. Christopher Charles Benninger designed the Mahindra United World College of India, near Pune. British-born Laurie Baker planned the Fishermen’s Village in Poonthura in Kerala, while American Joseph Stein gave shape to Delhi’s India International Centre.

Now, a new generation of foreign architects has designs on India. And their glittering computer-generated images look set to redefine the country’s skyline. "