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For all of you who have an Iphone, IKEA is releasing its ever popular catalogue as an iPhone app. The iPhone application will be initially launched to the UK market with the UK version of the catalogue available to download from tomorrow, 3 December 2009. Now you’ll be able to browse frequently updated versions of [...]

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What would we do without USB flash drives and gadgets? Some USB drives are so cool you might drool, while some are just bizarre. Whatever you might be inclined to like, you can probably find a USB-powered gadget or flash drive to meet that desire. If you are shopping for your special geek, don’t forget [...]

I know most of you enjoy seeing shows on TV showing how things are made, and admit it, you have a nasty feeling of contempt when seeing how things were before any huge improvement. We thought this would also be the with these pictures. We found them on “The design Firm”, a company that offers [...]

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The Creative Side System TV looks like a typical modern flat panel display wall mounted unit, but it hides a keen extra feature which further optimizes space. The inside reveals a decent storage cabinet for discs, cables and plugs which could give a cluttered look to your stylish interiors. The sleek and neat design only [...]

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Kohler is a design company creating and selling kitchen and bathroom items worldwide. For today we would like to show you these unusual sinks, which we hope will give you an idea of a fresh way to improve how your bathroom looks. Using vivid colours (mostly red, yellow and green), art patterns were applied to [...]

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With the Holidays coming up, we’re sure most of you are looking for ideas on how to make the best of these upcoming special days. We would like to be a part of your quest and try to help you. We hope that we will transform your job of preparing and arranging a Christmas table [...]

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Founded in 1963, “Binns kitchens + bath design” is a design company located in Toronto and Ontario. The firms comes up with new ideas but also does makeovers. We liked the fact that they have a large variety of kitchen designs and we decided to share some of them with you. All the interiors in [...]

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Now there is a danger of highlighting a particular area of a city, as by highlighting something you isolate a whole heap of other things.

Though for any architect visiting den Haag (The Hague), it is impressive to see four projects done by the big boys standing side by side forming a very coherent city centre. The red on the image above shows the footprint given over to Richard Meier, Michael Graves and OMA/Rem Koolhaas. OMA has completed two projects, the collaged Soutterrain Tram Tunnel moving up past the Grotemarkt and the Lucent Dance Theater which was one of Koolhaas’ earliest projects completed in 1987.

Standing proudly on the corner is Meier’s pure white Stadhuis van Den Haag, finished in 1995. This is offset by the largest of the four, Grave’s Castalia. This houses the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports completed in 1999. A beautiful postmodern testament to traditional Dutch architecture.