Minimalis Interior Design

View the back holding something surprising - outside lover fun for the enthusiast and the same architecture. The front and rear gardens are connected by a tunnel under the home side, offering access to the basement and undercover car parking. Displaying floor to ceiling glass and a large terrace overlooking the secluded, leafy backyard with swimming pool, unusual house brings you the best of both worlds - inside and out. Located in Bussum, Amsterdam, this simple house design may look like you live an average of the front, but let us assure you, it is something but. Companies Group A Dutch architecture creates a beautiful contrast around the 19th century villa in this contemporary, tilted-roof, elbow-walls. The interior design is very much about nature. A minimalist, simple decor remain focused on the window and look outside.

Some of the defects of wood removed, some replaced, and some joints are also added and regenerated. Houses have become very comfortable and beautiful place to live in.. The kitchen is made of chestnut and a beautiful staircase and hand-made bathroom furniture made of walnut. The interior has been updated to more contemporary wood materials. Park Farm suffered a potentially fatal case of rot, because the wood rot and other matters related to age. As the owner of the claim, renovating old buildings is never easy but the results are very useful. Restoration of this historic farm house from the Elizabethan period was made in 2004-2005. The building has become a modern living space suitable for the 21st century.

So, for Maison NW, the architect’s own personality – own desires, passions, even pathological deficiencies – lies at the core of the project.The approach uses the body to define the shapes of space.

An architecture of the senses

This architectural concept is defined through a linguistic approach: words that qualify our behaviors. The implementation of a system permits the progressive transition from sense to shape, from conception to perception, to concrete representation. It projects symbolism into reality, and reveals the framework in their physical, sensible, and perceptive dimensions. Thus, it becomes possible not only to qualify shapes, colors, and materials, but also to work on a sound-based, visual, kinesthetic, and tactile transcription of words, and chosen notions.Consequently, the environment is conceived through sensibility to create specific atmospheres. It creates a “wall-free” architecture within which light, sound and matter, according to their inherent qualities define the limits of the space.



Various scales of the project modify behaviors and relationships

The project is based on three scales designed to match needs for intimacy, autonomy and/or sharing. Through similar actions, it will be possible to adopt behaviors, attitudes, various postures and to initiate numerous relationships.The scales are :
1. A global or overall scale, corresponding to the physical environment of the located space, here a big volume. It is the space for freedom, a place of spontaneous actions, it is the “scale of possibilities”. Function-free, occupation-free, with no designation whatsoever.
2. A scale per area, corresponding to everyday environment, associated to vital and social actions, and which characterizes “places to share common sensations”. A graduation towards ‘the’ specific.
3. A scale per element, referring to personal environment, linked to personal actions, thus generating privileged spaces. It is “the scale of individual equilibrium”. A graduation towards ‘the’ particular.



Global and Conceptual Approach

Each space is a framework that has attention to many details. Here, the furniture participates in the architectural setting. It is not the expression of a style, but the very foundation of the architectural project. The items integrate both functions, postures, constitutive elements of the created ambiance (light, sound,…)…, to the point of re-creating the walls of the house.The space integrates actions linked to work and domestic life. In addition, the domestic functions must disappear when the space is turned into a workshop thus giving way to creativity. Nevertheless the house must regain its original functions when needed.



“The furniture room” provides the functions that appear and disappear.
Whether a closet or living room space, the furniture room (closed or seen from outside) re-creates the walls of the global or total space, integrating light, matter, dynamic shapes,… When opened or seen from inside, it reveals the various functions of the house and produces intimacy, and/or isolation spaces.



The rounded angle at the base of the doors of the furniture allows for a continual reading of space from one door to another to the very span of the space. The envelope of spaces reads like a ribbon. The widths, inclines and variable colors of the doors creates a dynamic, an imbalance which eventually breaks the monotony of repetition.



The space is constructed around bands or spans, drawn by the heavy downfall of beams which support the house. Flexible, mobile and bright partitions act as ambiance dividers. Wound up, they give rhythm to the global/total space and can also be drawn as light curtains. Once down, they re-qualify the intangible and colorful environments, revealing an architecture enhanced by sensible transitions.

Annex House, Located in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood, this home renovation and addition achieves a subtle balance between a historical cottage and contemporary living—with an emphasis on livability and natural light. The area is doubled through the addition of a volume to the back of the red brick cottage, providing a subtle contrast with its dark brick skin and its large window openings. The design—which harmonizes historical renovation and new construction—was the result of working with both the local historical board and the client to find the correct balance.



The interior sequence opens up the full volume of the cottage as an expanded living area, while the kitchen, skylit stair and large openings to the sky find their place in the new addition, with an intimate connection to the garden at the back of the property. (Photos by Tom Arban)











Home Office Interior Design Project, This project is superkül’s most autobiographical project, containing both our home and work environments. The renovation of this main street building reflects the firm’s values: an interest in infill, enthusiasm for dealing with social community issues by example, the revitalization of the city, the creation of additional density on Toronto’s main streets, and a strategic approach to urban sustainability.



The site was originally occupied by a two-storey building with a shop on the ground floor and an apartment above, in an emerging and under-valued neighbourhood in Toronto’s west end. Conversion to Home/Office involved its wholesale renovation and the addition of a third floor, creating a studio office on the ground and basement floors and an apartment on the second and third. The massing and height of the building take their cues from adjacent fabric, as do window proportions and heights. Materials evoke those of its commercial and residential neighbours, tying it into the streetscape within a modernist palette and architectural vocabulary.



The building is divided almost equally between home and office space but is designed to be flexible, with small changes to the circulation and the partitioning easily resulting in a different proportion of uses. (Photos by Ben Rahn / A-Frame Inc.)

Hilton has opened the world’s first undersea restaurant at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa Rangali Island. The restaurant sits over 16 feet down in the Indian ocean and has 270-degree water views. The restaurant, Ithaa, uses curved acrylic to give diners the sensation of being surrounded by water. The restaurant can only seat 14 at a time and is reached by descending a spiral staircase. THe food is described as contemporary Maldive cuisine equal to restaurants in large cities but with schools of fish swimming over your head it might be easy to ignore the meal.







Today, The Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa Rangali Island, and to celebrate the anniversary the restaurant is offering guests the chance to not only eat under the sea but sleep under it as well. The 12-seat restaurant will be converted to a private bedroom suite for two, complete with private champagne dinner and breakfast in bed.



Ithaa sits five meters below the surface of the Indian Ocean, encased in plexiglass and reached by descending a spiral staircase. The restaurant offers breathtaking views and ‘fusion Maldivian cuisine’ (local cooking with a western twist), and rumor has it that over lunch the place is so bright that guests and staff have to wear sunglasses (they even keep spares on hand and offer a sunglasses cleaning service). Sounds wonderful, although I imagine seeing the sun rise while eating breakfast in bed is even better.

The renovation of the Confiserie Bachmann flagship coffee and chocolate house in Basel, designed by HHF architects is now completed and open to public. Confiserie Bachmann is Basels most traditional and most famous chocolate manufacturer, specializing in high-quality sweets. Although the space is small, the renovation creates a spacious, yet intimate atmosphere with the use of reflection and color, HHF architects.



Renovation of the Confiserie Bachmann flagship coffee house and chocolate shop. Confiserie Bachmann is Basels most traditional and most famous chocolate manufacturer, specializing in high-quality sweets.



With this renovation, the local, but in Switzerland well-known brand has received a bright, elegant, and contemporary expression that adopts the characteristic qualities of the previous chocolate shop despite the visible changes. The renovation optimizes its location by reorienting itself anew to not only the street, but also around its corner to the covered passageway with outdoor cafe-eating. An inviting cafear flooded with light, as well as the arrangement of the glass sales cabinet, the counter, the furnishings, and the bright colors, create a new openness to the street and the covered passageway.



Although the space is small, the renovation creates a spacious, yet intimate atmosphere with the use of reflection and color. Atypical of chocolate shops, the white color of the shop creates a light and spacious feel that is balanced by chocolate-colored furniture. Additionally, the offsetting mirror system embedded into the main wall reflects diagonally to create perceptive depth and complexity.

The 6,700 square foot cedar shingled house balances communal areas with private space for hosts and guests alike. Taking cues from a Palladian villa, the U-shape plan centers on a double-height salon overlooking a courtyard and lush landscaping. One wing houses the sprawling master suite. The other wing encompasses the breakfast room and service areas, followed by the sunroom, which functions as a quasi pool house. Capped by hipped roofs, both ends of the U are articulated to look like freestanding pavilions. “It breaks up the bulk,” Boyle says. “The architecture combines traditional materials with modern detailing like slim-framed windows.”



Although the easygoing layout supports big gatherings effortlessly cocktail parties, candlelit dinners for 16 – the exterior looks restrained, even demure. Draped with cascading ivy, the windowless front facade features a slanted portico sheltering a 16 foot tall aluminumplate door coated in black automotive lacquer and bisected by a vertical glass slit. “it’s a bit forbidding,” Boyle admits. “But it’s private, like the hedges surrounding nearby estates. “The door opens to a long corridor sloped imperceptibly up. “Very Corbusian,” Noriega-Ortiz notes. It’s also invigorated by a James Turrell-inspired play of daylight through high windows.



The hall leads straight to the salon. As if the enormous tilt-and-turn windows and sliding glass doors weren’t enough to unite indoors and out, the same 2 foot square Jerusalem limestone paves both salon and courtyard. “It’s the color of Hamptons sand, “explains Noriega Ortiz, who actually used a handful as a color sample. Tiles inside are warmed by radiant heating as well as by a shag rug the color of sea salt. “Steve and Steve fought me on the, “Noriega Ortiz says. “They preferred to leave the gorgeous stone bare. But my argument was: What’s sexier a person naked or wering a bikini? Sometimes you must hide to reveal.”



The shag anchors an artful mix of furnishings upholstered in white faux leather ornately carved Portuguese style vintage wooden chairs, boxy custom sofas and club chairs. “The monochromatic scheme lets you appreciate the furniture more sculpturally. “Boyle says. indeed, the decor is almost entirely white, from this room’s marble topped Eero Saarinen side table, acrylic light towers, and throw pillows covered in Mongoilan lamb to the master bedroom’s monumental headboard. The designers even powder coated every screw and faucet in the house. (Although the sunroom’s plaster fireplace surround is indisputably tinted black, the’s only to hide soot.)



Ethereality and serenity were no small considerations for owners inundated at their jobs with the minutiae of interiors. “They’re flooded with product on a daily basis, so this is reprieve. But it’s a white house that’s well used, not treated with preciousness,” Noriega Ortiz says. No worries if a gurest spills red wine in the dining room. The two tables are topped in wash and wear faux leather, and that same vinyl covers the seating – the portuguese style chairs again, mixed with acrylic legged sofas. In the kitchen, counters of creamy quartz composite and cabinets blad in white acrylic withstand messy cooking.



Less hard wearing than the limestone flooring in public areas, light stained rift cut oak planks appear in the sparsely furnished master bedroom – a retreat reached via a hallway that starts in the den, then continues between two bathrooms, slipped behind frosted flass sliding doors. Long sight lines are a Palladian trick, Noriega Ortiz notes: “We love axes!” Boyle adds, “The hall connects to other parts of the house while allowing privacy.” Guests have privacy. too Joined by a catwalk over the salon, two pairs of upstairs guest rooms offer en suite baths and high walled roof terraces “Great for nude sunbathing.” jokes Noriega Ortiz, a frequent guest. And perhaps the only spots where the color scheme changes from white to, er, buff.