The most important factor in designing office and modern bank interiors is that they project the appropriate image for your company and, in turn, set you apart from the competition in the eyes of your clients and the public. The Commercial Bank Interior in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Designed in modern and minimalist touch with various color combination. While this design option provides a great opportunity for team building and sharing of ideas, a private space must be provided somewhere within the office for confidential or sensitive conversations. Modern office furniture is an important part of any office environment. (more…)
While the Blairs squabble with the neighbours over their expansion plans, it is possible to broaden the horizons of your home with the minimum of fuss. And, as Graham Norwood writes, there’s a tidy profit to be had
Don’t tell Tony and Cherie Blair about interior designer Elizabeth Hiney. Britain’s First Couple last week secured planning permission to build a roof terrace on their house in London’s Connaught Square. But it wasn’t without complications. Neighbours were unhappy at a potential loss of privacy, possible noise and smells from the Blairs’ outdoor dining, and whether the terrace would fit in with the skyline of adjoining properties. Meanwhile, Elizabeth has created a dramatic 385 square foot roof terrace at her Cheshire home, with the minimum of fuss and without planners – or neighbours – getting involved. (more…)
It may have been an overexposure to early Frank Lloyd Wright, or perhaps too much time spent in boats, but when I was young, and until very recently, I was horrified by furniture. I always thought that a perfect domestic architecture would be heavy on the built-ins. Shelves, benches, various seats and berths—these were the things necessary to finish a space, to tune it for living, to show at least that the designer was not entirely ignorant of how and by whom a house would be used. Also to anchor it. An uncle of mine lived for many years in a very cool Anglo-built adobe in Taos, New Mexico. At the center of the main space was a large circular pit, dug out of the ground and contoured for sitting: a brutal sunken living room, it seemed so much more profound than the loose, impermanent wooden furniture orbiting all around it, sliding this way and that, imported things ready to take up any position, or be replaced. (more…)
PHOENIX — In the West, where the deer and the antelope used to play, the spirit of “leave us alone” government used to prevail. But governments of Western states are becoming more like those elsewhere, alas.
Consider the minor — but symptomatic — matter of the government-abetted aggression by “interior designers” against mere “decorators,” or against interior designers whom other interior designers wish to demote to the status of decorators. Some designers think decorators should be a lesser breed without the law on its side. (more…)
KM Properties has tied-up with leading financial institutions in the country to offer attractive and affordable home ownership packages in its El Matador Tower.
The limited offer, for only 60 units, allows individuals and families to book an apartment by paying just 5 percent of the total value. On confirmation of the booking the owners will pay 45 percent of the cost at the rate of 5 percent installment every 3 months and the balance 50 percent on completion of the project.
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