B&B Italia Outdoor Furniture Fat Collection Available at Soft Square Naples & Sarasota, FL softsquare.com Every outdoor piece of furniture tells a unique story of talent and innovation. An object, a style or a landscape can become a powerful source of inspiration for the designer. Hence the creation of collections that stand apart in terms of design, personality, materials and use. The emblem of quality and comfort. Our products Freedom, comfort and aesthetic research for outdoor living. Created with exclusive materials and avant-garde technologies to characterize gardens and terraces. Discover B&B Italia Outdoor products.

This backyard patio design is inspired by our Para patio slab. Large-scale, ultra-smooth texture and fine lines best describe the all-new Para HD. Manufactured with Techo-Bloc’s patented High Definition technology, an extremely tight surface texture with pores that are virtually invisible. The Para HD provides contemporary styling and design flexibility. Each of its three sizes are packaged and sold separately allowing your projects to reflect your personal creativity. This 60 mm product is available in a 500 mm x 250 mm, 500 mm x 500 mm and 500 mm x 750 mm. It is available in both hyper smooth and polished textures. Check out our website to shop the look! https://www.techo-bloc.com/shop/slabs/para/

Popular Choice of Step Lights：Stair lights are a common and versatile lighting option that provides illumination for stairs, enhances safety by reducing the risk of accidents, improves visual aesthetics, offers energy efficiency with LED technology, and provides convenience with easy installation and maintenance. Their practicality and functionality make them a popular choice for a wide range of indoor spaces. It should be noted that there are different styles of stair lights, including embedded installation and surface installation. Before making a purchase, please confirm your actual needs and installation conditions.

This currently underway whole home, site, ADU, and landscaping project has a fluid design that hints at its mid-century modern heritage. Built in 1959, this well built classic is being updated to meet the client's growing family needs as well as modernize it to utilize the many benefits that modern technology has to offer. The design was created exclusively in-house by ICINC in order to capture the client's fond memories of "The Fabulous Fifties" and to pay homage to the home's roots and origin. Multiple phases of this project have already been completed, and coming soon in Q1 2025 we'll be done with the largest section of the interior of the existing home; the 2nd story Primary Bedroom, Bathroom, Closet, and new Office ensuite. Furthermore, designs and permitting are underway for adding a 1,000 sq. ft. ADU at the pool area along with an entire pool and hillside remodel. We have a projected completion date of 2026.

Crestron-controlled pool lighting, exterior sconces, and outdoor TV at this Cocoplum estate in Coral Gables photographed at dusk. Lighting transitions automatically from afternoon to evening mode - pool, patio, and facade all on the same system.

B&B Italia Outdoor Furniture Erica Dining Chairs and Mirto Dining Table Available at Soft Square Naples & Sarasota, FL softsquare.com Every outdoor piece of furniture tells a unique story of talent and innovation. An object, a style or a landscape can become a powerful source of inspiration for the designer. Hence the creation of collections that stand apart in terms of design, personality, materials and use. The emblem of quality and comfort. Our products Freedom, comfort and aesthetic research for outdoor living. Created with exclusive materials and avant-garde technologies to characterize gardens and terraces. Discover B&B Italia Outdoor products.

B&B Italia Outdoor Furniture Collection Available at Soft Square Naples & Sarasota, FL softsquare.com Every outdoor piece of furniture tells a unique story of talent and innovation. An object, a style or a landscape can become a powerful source of inspiration for the designer. Hence the creation of collections that stand apart in terms of design, personality, materials and use. The emblem of quality and comfort. Our products Freedom, comfort and aesthetic research for outdoor living. Created with exclusive materials and avant-garde technologies to characterize gardens and terraces. Discover B&B Italia Outdoor products.

Crestron-controlled outdoor lighting and distributed audio extend to the pool deck and patio at this Cocoplum estate in Coral Gables. Automated lighting shifts from afternoon to evening mode without a switch - the dock, pool, and covered patio all on the same system.

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What is a garage if not a storage space where items tend to be stowed away and forgotten? This Los Angeles homeowner, however, sought a greater purpose for his underused garage and converted the space into an indoor/outdoor guesthouse and home office. To accomplish this, a wood framed folding glass wall was employed to completely open the space to the outdoors. To fully maximize every square foot of the additional dwelling unit, the folding glass system was configured with FoldFlat® technology, allowing the panels to stack out of and parallel to the opening. The new space offers a bright and airy guesthouse for visitors and a multifunctional space for the homeowner.

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WKD’s design specialty in quality historic preservation ensured that the integrity of this home’s interior and exterior architecture was kept intact. The design mission was to preserve, restore and renovate the home in a manner that celebrated its heritage, while recognizing and accommodating today’s lifestyle and technology. Drawing from the home’s original details, WKD re-designed a friendly entry (including the exterior landscape approach) and kitchen area, integrating it into the existing hearth room. We also created a new stair to the second floor, eliminating the small, steep winding stair. New colors, wallpaper, furnishings and lighting make for a family friendly, welcoming home. The project has been published several times. Click below to read:       October 2014 Northshore Magazine       Spring 2013 Kitchen Trends Magazine       Spring 2013 Bathroom Trends Magazine Photographer: MIchael Lee

WKD’s design specialty in quality historic preservation ensured that the integrity of this home’s interior and exterior architecture was kept intact. The design mission was to preserve, restore and renovate the home in a manner that celebrated its heritage, while recognizing and accommodating today’s lifestyle and technology. Drawing from the home’s original details, WKD re-designed a friendly entry (including the exterior landscape approach) and kitchen area, integrating it into the existing hearth room. We also created a new stair to the second floor, eliminating the small, steep winding stair. New colors, wallpaper, furnishings and lighting make for a family friendly, welcoming home. The project has been published several times. Click below to read:       October 2014 Northshore Magazine       Spring 2013 Kitchen Trends Magazine       Spring 2013 Bathroom Trends Magazine Photographer: MIchael Lee

The exterior of this amazing home features clean lines and angles that accentuate the variety of materials used. The landscaping blends and softens the raised beds and custom paved drive and parking areas. Exterior lighting is used to compliment the form and shape of the home itself and highlight the plantings. For even more dramatic effect, the parking area in the front of the home features three large fire bowls/features.

Klopf Architecture and Outer space Landscape Architects designed a new warm, modern, open, indoor-outdoor home in Los Altos, California. Inspired by mid-century modern homes but looking for something completely new and custom, the owners, a couple with two children, bought an older ranch style home with the intention of replacing it. Created on a grid, the house is designed to be at rest with differentiated spaces for activities; living, playing, cooking, dining and a piano space. The low-sloping gable roof over the great room brings a grand feeling to the space. The clerestory windows at the high sloping roof make the grand space light and airy. Upon entering the house, an open atrium entry in the middle of the house provides light and nature to the great room. The Heath tile wall at the back of the atrium blocks direct view of the rear yard from the entry door for privacy. The bedrooms, bathrooms, play room and the sitting room are under flat wing-like roofs that balance on either side of the low sloping gable roof of the main space. Large sliding glass panels and pocketing glass doors foster openness to the front and back yards. In the front there is a fenced-in play space connected to the play room, creating an indoor-outdoor play space that could change in use over the years. The play room can also be closed off from the great room with a large pocketing door. In the rear, everything opens up to a deck overlooking a pool where the family can come together outdoors. Wood siding travels from exterior to interior, accentuating the indoor-outdoor nature of the house. Where the exterior siding doesn’t come inside, a palette of white oak floors, white walls, walnut cabinetry, and dark window frames ties all the spaces together to create a uniform feeling and flow throughout the house. The custom cabinetry matches the minimal joinery of the rest of the house, a trim-less, minimal appearance. Wood siding was mitered in the corners, including where siding meets the interior drywall. Wall materials were held up off the floor with a minimal reveal. This tight detailing gives a sense of cleanliness to the house. The garage door of the house is completely flush and of the same material as the garage wall, de-emphasizing the garage door and making the street presentation of the house kinder to the neighborhood. The house is akin to a custom, modern-day Eichler home in many ways. Inspired by mid-century modern homes with today’s materials, approaches, standards, and technologies. The goals were to create an indoor-outdoor home that was energy-efficient, light and flexible for young children to grow. This 3,000 square foot, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom new house is located in Los Altos in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Klopf Architecture Project Team: John Klopf, AIA, and Chuang-Ming Liu 
Landscape Architect: Outer space Landscape Architects 
Structural Engineer: ZFA Structural Engineers 
Staging: Da Lusso Design 
Photography ©2018 Mariko Reed 
Location: Los Altos, CA
 Year completed: 2017

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ENGINEERING + SCIENCE: Award of Excellence PROJECT: Chatham University Eden Hall Campus CLIENT: Chatham University ENGINEERS: Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.; Biohabitats; Interface Engineering ARCHITECTURE FIRM: Mithūn CONTRACTORS: SOTA Construction Services, Inc. PHOTOGRAPHER: Annie O’Neill Photography DESCRIPTION: The Eden Hall Campus’ stormwater and wastewater management systems employ a number of proven strategies and technologies in combination and with a unique decentralized approach. A “treat it where it falls” approach utilizes a series of rain gardens around the site to manage small drainage areas while roof runoff is directed to a 50,000 gallon retention tank and is repurposed for site irrigation needs. The wastewater treatment system includes individual building primary treatment tanks and two sub-surface constructed wetland cells. Site design and landscape not only performs a functional purpose for stormwater and wastewater but also provides an aesthetic bridge between the architecture and the site. JURY COMMENTS: This building reminds us of the importance of water, and also basic and natural technologies that are highly effective. The complete built project functions as an efficient machine while never giving the appearance of being a machine. As a first phase of a proposed new campus, the standards are already set impressively high.