The Disappearing Picture

Posted by Gregory Macmillan on February 13th, 2009 in General Topics

THE DISAPPEARING PICTURE

Over the last fifteen years, Western interior design has got Zen.

Has finally got ‘it’: Relishing the sense of geometric purity, reaching into the connections between spaces, sensitively contrasting material and texture.

It represents a shift in mindset. We are finally able to appreciate opulence represented by absence. It’s a huge change for a culture used to expressing the good life in the form of more and more things, ever greater quantities of ’stuff’. (more…)

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Reducing the intrusiveness of building work in residential projects

Posted by Lizzy Van Lysebeth on September 10th, 2008 in General Topics

For a homeowner having strangers walking through the front door with all kinds of materials and equipment, making lots of noise and bringing dust to the most unlikely places disrupting his daily routines, tranquillity and private space, can become very upsetting. Nevertheless there is much that we as designers/architects/builders can do to lower the threshold to stress free building work.

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