interior-architect-designer

Worlds tallest building, Burj Khalifa - or Khalifa Tower

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:29:26 +0100

Architect - Adrian Smith

It will contain more than 1,000 apartments, an Armani-branded hotel, and offices up to the 160th floor.

Architecture and Interior Design using Ice

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:39:02 +0100

This Ice Hotel is rebuilt every year with 30,000 tons of snow and 4,000 tons of ice blocks using a design based on the architecture of medieval Cathedrals. Temperatures in the ice hotel vary between -4 to -9 degrees c even when outside temperatures drop below -30c.By late April the suns rays are beginning to take their toll and by June the ice hotel has returned to its liquid state.

"The dropping of the temperature to several degrees below zero in Jukkasjärvi marks the start of an ephemeral art endeavour. Using only frozen water form the Torne River, artists from all over the world gather in this small Swedish village, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, to create an exclusive art exhibition: ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi."

Modern Architecture I admire

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:05:29 +0100

I came across this today on Coolboom and I just had to add it to my blog

Otto Bock HealthCare building in Berlin

Designers from the past

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:46:36 +0100

Billy Baldwin (1903 – 1984) defined Interior Design as
"making people feel wonderful in their homes"

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His pet aversions were jumble and clutter, satin and dam-ask,
fake fireplaces, false books and ostentation of any kind.
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He also went on to say:

"I've always believed that architecture is more important than decoration.
Scale and proportion give everlasting satisfaction that cannot be achieved
by only icing the cake."

"Decorators should never insist on throwing out everything the client has.
Even when they are far from perfect, loved possessions add personality."

"If you spend most of your decorating money on a Chippendale table or a
Chinese lacquer screen, don't fill in the gaps with mediocrity."

"The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books".

Stunning Interior Design

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:10:33 +0100

Lello bookstore in Portugal

Boundary Hotel by David Tang

Ashmoleum Museum by Rick Mather

Cathedral at St Savin, France. Unesco world heritage

French rural Architecture

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:42:43 +0100

Those people familiar with French Architecture and countryside will recognise these photographs of buildings and landscapes. This is because my Dad lives there and as he is now retired with nothing to do !! he has been busy making my website and blog (under my careful supervision of course !) Should you like what he has done and need a website yourself for a small business, e.g.gite, chambres d'hote etc then you can contact him at accouder'@gmail.com If you live in central France or have a 'maison secondaire' and require plans / ideas for interior design etc, then contact me initially at lulu@tallululahward.com and if necessary I will despatch him to carry out a site survey (in a previous life he was a builder so he knows how to operate a tape measure!)
Should you be interested in reading about the life of two people trying to integrate into a small village then go to Edna's blog which details A Life in France. They have now been there 5 years and lived through and survived 'the ups and downs' that all immigrants experience to one degree or another. On this blog of French life you will find some excellent recipes , vivid descriptions of the local fetes, good photos of French Architecture, and many accounts of their time spent tramping round their local landscape, and getting to know their local neighbours.