Dancing Apartment: Adding green to the concrete jungle

Designed by Unsangdong Architects, this fabulous building is set to take shape in the heart of South Korea and will boast not just a unique blueprint, but a special feel that is not matched by any other modern structure. Dubbed as the ‘Dancing Apartment’, the structure is planned using oblique lines unlike straight ones that are penciled down in most cases. The advantage of the design is not just a visibly outstanding structure, but the fact that it created an edifice with various community spaces that include parks, leisure facilities, event space, a library and media space. With a swimming pool acting as a seismic dampener at the top and plenty of green all around, who wouldn’t love to live in one of those apartments with a terrace?

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Furniture Design Styles: Drawing Lines and Redefining Conventions

Whenever you wish to decorate or redecorate, the most common advice that comes your way is pick a style and stick to it. So what exactly is this style? What defines a style and how many of them are there today? To be honest, every home has its own style, but we have some broad classifications under which they all fall. In case you are just starting to plan on decorating your interiors and are looking for a style guide

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Bearskin Rug by Eelko Moorer

The Bearskin Rug by Eelko Moorer a London based designer and visionary in product design is a product that is a little bit unusual. Made of urethane rubber the rug can be put on the floor or mounted on the wall (a mounting system has been placed into the rug). In the past if you have a real bear skin rug this would be a symbol of luxury and wealth, and this rubber rug can be a cheap replacement for an original bear skin rug, that is quite expensive

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Apartments with Personal Car Elevators

Last year we presented something similar here on Freshome “Apartments that Allow You To Park Your Car in Balcony“. Today here is something similar, apartments that have an elevator to raise your car up to your personal, apartment-side garage ( you can see a video of how these elevators work on 200 Eleventh Avenue website ). How many apartments like this do you know ? 200 Eleventh Avenue is boasting about its “En-Suite Sky Garage.” Basically, when you drive in, you pull into a car-sized elevator. The elevator recognizes your car automatically and brings you up to your floor. You then pull forward into your garage, and the elevator goes back down. You then step out of your car and right into your apartment. I think that this is extreme luxury, but if they are developing something like this …they might have clients.

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Frame Bar: Flowing Bands For Exclusive Interiors

With arguably the best beaches in all of Europe, for the style-conscious Greece is also home for one of the most special bar designs we’ve seen. Put together by architects from TSIG at St George Lycabettus Hotel in Kolonaki, Athens, the interiors use a very special design pattern where flowing white bands move on from one corner to another like an illusion. Getting your attention at an instant, the elegant bar has an unique charm where all-white accessories contrast with the brown flooring. Definitely a hotel we’d try, even if it’s just for the restaurant downstairs

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James Clar’s Brutalist “Spike Light” Sculpture

A bold and contemporary addition to a spacious room or loft space, James Clar’s Spike Light brings a staple of landscape architecture right into the home. Where a traditional spike light is meant to uplight trees in parks or courtyards, Clar’s Spike Light for an interior space stands a significant 1.2 meters high and is chained to the ground with an immense chrome-plated chain. Chrome-finished and internally lit with a 6×55w compact fluorescent, the Spike Light makes a daring proclamation that best suits the interior designer that craves a hint of architectural brutalism. The Spike Light would definitely be an amazing conversation starter for those who enjoy entertaining, but it’s probably not the ideal choice in sculptural lighting for a home with children

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Stripes & curves, When your world turns to black and white

If you are under the illusion that this is a set out of the 101 Dalmatians flick, then you could be forgiven for feeling so. Conceived and given shape by interior designer Tom Atwood, these absolutely stunning interiors try to capture the beauty of modern minimalist design and style by using various shapes, patterns, curves and stripes etched in nothing but just black and white. Even the staircase keep the contrast, along with uber-cool rugs and bars on the ceiling. The ambience and the beauty created by the harmonious existence of vast dissimilarity in shades, are truly inspirational.

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