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Listed Building? Call in a Graffiti Artist!
Click on images to enlarge As developers and contractors know, a listed historic building in an area for redevelopment can be a headache. Even more so if it needs renovation. Here’s how planners in...
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A Clock Tower Becomes a Beautiful 3-Floor Dwelling
Today we stumbled upon this link from digsdigs.com An old clock tower has been turned into a 3-storey penthouse, making the 14′ clock faces into integral features. Pretty cool, eh? Be inspired, and if...
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“Gatsby” to Inspire Art Deco Style in the Home?
Click on images to enlarge The eagerly anticipated movie The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will soon be on general release. It’s based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel of the same name, a...
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Space-Saving Apartment Design – It’s the Future
Click on images to enlarge Here is an example of how a narrow space can be creatively used. Architects Betillon and Dorval Bory designed this refurbished Paris appartment. As you see, it’s long and...
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Give Your Home Some French ‘Chic’?
From time to time, we like to give you something to get you dreaming and planning. Today, the inspiration is la belle France. Click on images to enlarge A French jewellery and clothes designer in...
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Architectural Fun Pic Here!
Once upon a time, there were three styles of Classical column: Doric , Ionic and Corinthian Now, it seems, there’s a new one: Oildrumic ! Image: cheezburger.com I have no idea where this is. How did...
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Refurbishment that Blends Old and New
Click on images to enlarge It’s an age-old question: if you’re planning a refurbishment, do you keep the old style or do you modernise? One answer could be to incorporate the best of both! At Lymm,...
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Architectural Gems to Inspire the Dreamer in You
When times are tough and budgets are tight, at least we can still dream! Here are are few building designs that we hope you’ll enjoy. Click images to enlarge This is a rubble stone, lime mortar,...
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Inspired Architecture: the ‘Hobbit Pub’
Click to enlarge A heads-up to all you Tolkein-lovers. A Lord of the Rings themed pub has been created in the tourist village of – wait for it – Hobbiton, in New Zealand. The Green Dragon’s...
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Architecture with Built-In Graffiti? Oh Yes!
Click image to enlarge If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em? What can you do if you’re designing a building and don’t want vandals spraying it with graffiti? An architect in Melbourne, Australia, decided to...
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One Short Drop for Man…
Well,well, what have we here? And whatever it is, it doesn’t look too good. Are they going to finish the rendering, or leave the stonework as it is, in keeping with neighbouring buildings? And what...
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Something Fishy Going On Here?
Click to enlarge The one that got away, maybe? It got rather a long way away, by the look of it. Is this what they mean by HERRINGbone brickwork – on a large SCALE? One of our staff reckons this is...
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Creative Designs for a Bachelor Home
Click on images to enlarge How to make a home feel male – without beer cans everywhere? Well, these pictures show what can be done! Interior & furniture designer G. Papos undertook to convert a...
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What You Need to Know about Loft Conversions
Click on images to enlarge The loft space in your house can, with a bit of imagination and planning, be made into a thing of beauty – adding value and character to your home. These pictures may give...
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An Attractive Home 12 Feet Wide? It’s All in the Design
Click on images to enlarge Have you got a plot that you think is too narrow for a viable build? Think again! These pictures are of a home in an old district of Barcelona, Spain. The plot was only 3.7m...
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Reinforced Cardboard for Temporary Structures? Here’s One Brilliant Example.
Click on images to enlarge Remember the 2011 earthquake in New Zealand, which severely damaged New Zealand’s second-largest city, Christchurch? Many buildings collapsed or had to be demolished. The one...
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Fancy an Underground, Turf-Roofed Home?
Click on images to enlarge This futuristic dwelling in Pembrokeshire, Wales, actually dates back to 1998. A family commissioned architects Future Systems to design an eco-friendly small dwelling to be...
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Creative Homes Made From Industrial Premises
Click on images to enlarge Who says old industrial premises are ugly? Architects are catching on to the unique creative possibilities that they offer when turned into dwellings. The first example is at...
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Building on a Slope?
Help! What’s going on? A disaster in the foundations? Or maybe the floors inside the building are level and just the exterior lopsided, for effect? And then you look at the corner of the adjoining...
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How About a Loft Conversion?
Click on images to enlarge A loft conversion – what comes to your mind? Well, it seems to depend which side of the Atlantic you’re on. In the UK, it means turning the limited space under your roof into...
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