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Brandon Barré is a photographer from Toronto, also interested in interior design. Here are a few beautiful interior ideas from his site, all very colorful, but in a tasteful and stylish way. From living room to bathrooms, from single rooms to interconnected ones, this collection brings together amazing and inspiring designs, which we hope will [...]

We recently had a nice suggestion on our Facebook page. A follower ( Ivana Malikovic ) – which we would like to share our thanks to- left us a comment, informing us of this interesting table. A wooden furniture element, a simple bench at a first glance, pretty useful inside the house as well as [...]

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but a Subway sandwich shop made of shipping containers is helping workers at the World Trade Center building site get their noontime grub on more efficiently. The shop will rise along with the building’s construction to its eventual 108-story height, making it easier for construction [...]

Here is a great idea for unconventional and romantic lighting in the bathroom: a tub that illuminates the whole room without any help from its owners. From Lucedentro, this bathtub features a mosaic of seemingly usual shapes that manage to create a unique atmosphere once the lights go off. Due to photoluminescent ceramic tiles, this [...]

From architect Marcio Kogan, in collaboration with a few others talented artists, comes this amazing design, a project called Gama Issa House and located in São Paulo, Brasil. Here is an excerpt of Marcio’s journal, of how the idea for creating this home took off in the first place: ” I think of a single [...]

Attached here are photos from a recent visit to Campo Baeza’s recently completed “MA” in Granada, Spain. It is adjacent to his 2001 building, inaccessible to the public, the Caja Granada (damn).

There are some beautiful photos on his website if mine don’t suffice.

What is interesting is that the proportions of the elliptical courtyard are borrowed from the courtyard of the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra, of which I posted a photo of in my previous post.

A “strong vertical piece” sits close to the freeway that leads into Granada. At the top of this is a restaurant worth having a meal at.  What is fantastic about this space is that it is a completely unsupported by columns, and the building above acts as a giant beam spanning between the two service cores at either end of the structure.