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Looking from the dining room into the kitchen, an expressive Heraculeum pendant light defines the dining area with built-in cabinet and wine cooler. The kitchen features a large central island and plenty of windows for light and cabinets for storage.

Lake Drive Residence, Shorewood, WI

Dragonfly Tile & Stone Works, Inc.

Traditional bath with white handmade ceramic subway tile and white and black basketweave floor. Tile design and installation by Dragonfly Tile & Stone Works, Inc.

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Trespa International

South Essex College Student Accommodation in Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Inspiration for a modern exterior home remodel in Essex

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Student Accommodation in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Modern exterior home idea in West Midlands

Arcadia on the River

Miller Architecture

Student Housing Community in Duplexes linked together for Fraternities and Sororities International Design Awards Honorable Mention for Professional Design 2018 American Institute of Building Design Best in Show 2018 American Institute of Building Design Grand ARDA American Residential Design Award for Multi-Family of the Year 2018 American Institute of Building Design Grand ARDA American Residential Design Award for Design Details 2018 NAHB Best in American Living Awards Gold Award for Detail of the Year 2018 NAHB Best in American Living Awards Gold Award for Student Housing 2019 Student Housing Business National Innovator Award for Best Student Housing Design over 400 Beds AIA Chapter Housing Citation

Exterior View at Rear Yard

ODS Architecture

Atherton has many large substantial homes - our clients purchased an existing home on a one acre flag-shaped lot and asked us to design a new dream home for them. The result is a new 7,000 square foot four-building complex consisting of the main house, six-car garage with two car lifts, pool house with a full one bedroom residence inside, and a separate home office /work out gym studio building. A fifty-foot swimming pool was also created with fully landscaped yards. Given the rectangular shape of the lot, it was decided to angle the house to incoming visitors slightly so as to more dramatically present itself. The house became a classic u-shaped home but Feng Shui design principals were employed directing the placement of the pool house to better contain the energy flow on the site. The main house entry door is then aligned with a special Japanese red maple at the end of a long visual axis at the rear of the site. These angles and alignments set up everything else about the house design and layout, and views from various rooms allow you to see into virtually every space tracking movements of others in the home. The residence is simply divided into two wings of public use, kitchen and family room, and the other wing of bedrooms, connected by the living and dining great room. Function drove the exterior form of windows and solid walls with a line of clerestory windows which bring light into the middle of the large home. Extensive sun shadow studies with 3D tree modeling led to the unorthodox placement of the pool to the north of the home, but tree shadow tracking showed this to be the sunniest area during the entire year. Sustainable measures included a full 7.1kW solar photovoltaic array technically making the house off the grid, and arranged so that no panels are visible from the property. A large 16,000 gallon rainwater catchment system consisting of tanks buried below grade was installed. The home is California GreenPoint rated and also features sealed roof soffits and a sealed crawlspace without the usual venting. A whole house computer automation system with server room was installed as well. Heating and cooling utilize hot water radiant heated concrete and wood floors supplemented by heat pump generated heating and cooling. A compound of buildings created to form balanced relationships between each other, this home is about circulation, light and a balance of form and function. Photo by Philip Liang Photography.