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TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
The time for a kitchen to be seen only as a service area is over. Nowadays, a kitchen is a prominent part of a residence and is increasingly set as a main feature of a house, which is why the design and elements should be well thought-out. One of the elements in the kitchen that becomes a major consideration is the backsplash.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
Maxiply explores the environmental benefits of specifying plywood.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
During this time, it is essential to have a proper home office but one of the main issues in designing a home office is inadequate lighting. Lighting in a workspace is important not only to enhance productivity but also to create an ambiance to boost your mood. Ideally, there should be multiple lighting sources with different functions to create a proper home office instead of relying on downlights and desk lamps only. Let’s check the types of lighting below.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
Biophilic interior design is an approach that aims to bring natural characteristics into the built environment and space.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
Principal and interior and workplace specialist at Warren and Mahoney, Scott Compton, muses: Is this the start of the workplace as we should want it to be?
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
Professor Andrew Barrie discusses design-and-build using computer numerical control (CNC) machinery in a range of innovative, small-scale, timber-technology projects by students in his lab at the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
For those not familiar with the building, it is a white-clad rectangular block, about the proportion of three shoe boxes stacked one on another and with large, free-form-shaped windows cut in the sides.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
Violent Legalities is an exhibition of research coordinated by the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning’s Dr Karamia Müller that explores trends in the spaces that violence occurs and maps them out.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
A compact dining room can be a solution for a small house. With a compact dining room design, you can maximise the existing space and make it more effective and functional. Then how can you make a small dining room comfortable? Here are five tips to design a compact dining room.
TIPS & IDEAS
4 YEARS AGO
Modern homes might not be as squeaky clean and as fragrant as they are today if there wasn’t an invention that can be found in most households these days: flush toilet.