Architect Luciano Kruk has designed Casa MR, a holiday home located on the Buenos Aires coastline in Costa Esmeralda, Argentina.
Architects: Luciano Kruk
Collaborators: Arch Belén Ferrand, Ekaterina Künzel, Federico Eichenberg, Pablo Magdalena, Andrés Conde Blanco
Photography by Daniela Mac Adden
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Model diesels are generally 2 stroke engines that intake a fuel air mixture, compress that mixture on the upstroke and when the temperature of compressed mixture reaches the ignition temperature of the constituent with the lowest auto ignition temperature, combustion occurs which usually is the Either.
This critical component is not the easiest to obtain and in some countries is actually a controller substance. This book shows how to make your own mix of model diesel fuel.
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Read the rest of Madeover Maine Bus is a Groovy Guest Home on Wheels
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Read the rest of Apartment 1211: Designer Micro Home Makes Incredible Use of Little Space in São Paulo
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Read the rest of Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects Create a Snug and Playful Pod-Shaped Home
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Read the rest of Modscape’s Prefab Cottesloe House is a Gorgeous Daylit Home for a Family of Four in Australia
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QuickARC Scale Spec Homes enable builders and developers to avoid the cost of constructing real spec homes, and deploy these scaled spec homes in their sales…
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A multi material sizing tool, trimmer and mat cutter all in one. The new Simplex Elite Mat Cutter is a complete artist’s studio tool for sizing mat board, foam board, cutting glass and acrylic plexi and can trim paper and photographs. The Simplex Elite Mat cutter is a base board mounted mat cutter with 40″ (101cm) capacity. It features a hinging guide rail with production stops, parallel mat guide in aluminum channels, and 27″ (98.6cm) squaring arm with stop. Cutting heads and accessories include bevel and straight cutting heads, 8 ply bevel cutter, glass cutter, acrylic plexi cutter, paper trimmer, and a copy of Logan’s newly updated Complete Guide to Home Picture Framing. Also includes a free set up and instruction DVD. Uses Logan 270 or 271 blades and Logan 786 glass wheels.
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While conjuring up comfort in the home seems like a basic principle, it’s a far more complex process for architect & remodeling guru Sarah Susanka, who believes that comfort can significantly influence the sustainability of your personal abode. With her mantra of “build better, not bigger,” Susanka promotes quality over quantity when remodeling a home. Through transforming your living space into a more beautiful and comfortable environment, Susanka says that any home’s occupants will automatically take better care of their space in a more sustainable way. We sat down with Susanka to get the low-down on how to do more with less when revamping your space.
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Len Cotsovolos together with LC²Design Services have completed the interior design of a private vacation home located in Big Sky, Montana.
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Interior Designer, Len Cotsovolos, unveils his latest contemporary architectural design at the Yellowstone Club- a private residential ski resort community in Big Sky, Montana, where he designed a custom 11,000 square foot vacation retreat that epitomizes comfort. “To understand this home, you must start from the inside,” explains Cotsovolos, “the home was designed from the inside out, while trying to bring the outside in”.
Although this property shares the mountainside with classic American vernacular log cabin estates, Cotsovolos, with LC² Design Services has styled this dream home to express modern mountain luxury…with just the right amount of Vegas “bling”. Nestled among the tall pines of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 10,500 feet, this custom home reflects characteristics of Modernist architecture, which typically features glass walls, post-and-beam construction, exposed steel, and open floor plans; however, Cotsovolos also introduced unique finishes, opulent furnishings, and other details, which he sourced worldwide to create a warm, dark and mysterious home that is internationally inspired.
Cotsovolos’ interior design concept is focused around Earth’s elements in nature, and the geology of the region. The colors, textures, woods, and other nuances were pulled directly from nature, allowing the home to perfectly blend into its surroundings, as if it had grown in its place among the trees. The monumentality of the landscape is balanced in the interior by the proportions of the millwork, oversized furnishing, and scale of the spaces. To further blur the distinction between the interiors and exteriors, and to celebrate the breathtaking views, the home boasts full-height, floor to ceiling uninterrupted windows, which allow the exterior to merge into the interiors regardless of the season. As the colors of nature outside change with the seasons, the colors of the interiors of the home also subtly change to maintain the Zen monochromatic palette year round.
Cotsovolos tirelessly space-planned the flow and sequence of spaces, allowing his interior detailing to dictate the shape and position of the architecture. Each view corridor and elevation was carefully studied by the designer and his team to ensure that the breathtaking views were always celebrated, and the sequence of rooms flowed logically and elegantly. “The focal directions of the end users and their sightlines were taken into careful consideration when deciding where to place the interior furnishings, and where the windows and partition walls were positioned in the floor plans”, said Cotsovolos.
His contrasting use of petrified woods, fossilized crystals, and polished minerals, set against rough-hewn timbers, Turkish silk shag rugs, fine Italian furniture, and Belgian linens, is creatively juxtaposed by the luxurious animal furs, sumptuous calfskin leathers and sparkling custom-chandeliers. The contrast of the rough, rustic, natural elements against the sleek, polished and refined finishes balances the interior composition to create a sexy, sleek and sophisticated atmosphere, which is warm, cozy and inviting- a masterfully unexpected paradox in Big Sky.
Design: Len Cotsovolos, LC²Design
Photography: Roger Wade
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