B20 / PK Arkitektar

Architects: PK Arkitektar ehf Location: Garðabær, Iceland Design team: pálmar kristmundsson Consultants: Tæknivangur Engineers / Lumex Constructed area: 450 sqm Project year: 2004 Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman The brief required the construction of a single family house on a site within a saturated residential quarter in the outskirts of Reykjavik. The area is located on the Arnarnes peninsula of Gardabaer a town of 8,000 inhabitants some 10 km f

La Baita Lodge / Gubbins Arquitectos, Polidura + Talhouk Arquitectos

Architects: Gubbins Arquitectos , Polidura + Talhouk Arquitectos – Pedro Gubbins, Victor Gubbins, Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk Location: Parque Nacional Conguillio, IX Region, Chile Contractor: Hector Gutierrez Site Area: 30 ha. Constructed Area: 500 sqm Project year: 2006 Construction year: 2006-2008 Photographs: Pedro Gubbins, Gonzalo Puga, Polidura + Talhouk Arq At the Chilean South, 700 kilometers from Santiago, and 110 kil

Windermere’s Hotels Du Lac 2009 Grand Tour

One of England’s most glorious locations, The South Lakes, is wooing those declining to take their usual “Grand Tour” of Europe this year, by highlighting the superb facilities on offer at some of its own ‘hotels du Lac’. The lac in focus is Windermere, the biggest in the country and the liquid hub of the Southern Lake District, set amidst stunning fells, supporting picturesque water craft of all shapes and sizes and encapsulated in millions of photographs each year. Ten ‘hotels du lake’ – o

Chen House / C-Laboratory

Architects: C-Laboratory Location: Sanjhih, Taipei County, Taiwan Project and Construction team: Marco Casagrande, Frank Chen, Shi-Ding Chen, Nikita Wu, Shu-Gi Bai Local Knowledge: Missis Lee Site Area: 3,890 sqm Building foot print: 138 sqm Interior space: 62.5 sqm Materials: mahogany, concrete Completed: 2008 Photographs: C-Lab The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun -mountains of North-Taiwan. It is designed as a ve

The Japanese Face Slimmer, a Great Halloween Costume Idea

Listen up, Moonfaces. If you, like me, always have to, as Tyra would say, "know your angles" in photographs (i.e. never ever give full-frontal mug), and your face tends to resemble a jelly donut when you have a hangover, are retaining water, didn't get enough sleep, didn't have time to put on make-up, or have packed on a couple pounds, there is a Japanese beauty product for you. It's called the Face Slimmer and looks like the bastard offspring of an alien life-form who came to Earth and rape

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