"We Work from the scale of the airpot down to the detail of a door handle"
Beijing Airport
Beijing, China, 2003-2008
The world’s largest and most advanced airport building - not only technologically, but also in terms of passenger experience, operational efficiency and sustainability – Beijing Airport will be welcoming and uplifting. A symbol of place, its soaring aerodynamic roof and dragon-like form will celebrate the thrill of flight and evoke traditional Chinese colours and symbols.
"We believe that the quality of our surroundings can lift the quality of our lives"
Corniche Bay Resort, Mauritius
La Gaulette , Mauritius, 2006
Corniche Bay is a new style of luxury resort living in Mauritius, against the backdrop of the mythical Le Morne Brabant mountain. The masterplan is for a discreet and environmentally intelligent architecture that blends harmoniously with the lush and extensive landscape. 
Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he gained a Master’s Degree in Architecture.
He is the founder and chairman of Foster + Partners. Founded in London in 1967, it is now a worldwide practice, with project offices in more than twenty countries. Over the past four decades the company has been responsible for a strikingly wide range of work, from urban masterplans, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design. Since its inception, the practice has received 440 awards and citations for excellence and has won more than 70 international and national competitions.
Foster + Partners
Norman Foster
Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Hoppen is a world renowned British designer who has pioneered a simple but opulent style that has permeated interior design at every level, and has resulted in her work being featured in newspapers and magazines across the globe. Her own collection of paint, fabrics, rugs, carpets, and ceramics have made her signature look increasingly accessible.
Kelly Hoppen Interiors
Barbara Barry
As an Artist, she continues to be inspired by the things that exist freely in our daily lives, she see the world very much in terms of light, form, color and texture. She believes that beauty is healing and inspiring.
Brentwood Residence
Oval Collection for Bloomingdales
Laguna Beach California
Barbara Barry Company
Michael S Smith
Laguna House
At 41, Michael Smith has become one of the most well respected and sought after interior decorators in USA. With projects in both the United States and Europe, he has designed houses for Hollywood's top celebrities.
Originally from Newport Beach, California, Smith studied interior design at the Otis college of design in Los Angeles. He also attended a decorative arts program at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. Upon returning to the United States, he worked for Gep Durenberger, a renown antiques dealer in California, then with New York interior designer John Saladino.
Michael S Smith Inc
Organic in form and Ispired by nature
Ross Lovegrove (2005) is an industrial designer, best known for his work on the Sony Walkman and Apple iMac. In this highly visual presentation, he presents his recent work—from furniture to water bottles—which is organic in form and inspired by nature. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:14)"
William Haines
"Design is an option, not a profession"
Photographer Julius Shulman captured the essence of this 1950 A. Quincy Jones house formerly owned by Lisa Mattice.
Lobby at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California. 2006
William Haines was born in Virginia in 1900 and in 1914, opened a nightclub in Hopewell, Virginia. Destined for entertainment and high style, he arrives in Hollywood in 1922 after winning a talent contest. Celebrities such as Joan Crawford were so impressed with his taste in design, they hired him to update their own dark, heavy residences with a lighter fresher and more sophisticated look.In 1935, Haines moved his office to Sunset Plaza, located on Sunset Boulevard. Haines liked unusual artifacts. He used Chinoiserie with great flair and it became one of his design signatures.When Haines moved his office to 446 Canon Drive in Beverly Hills in 1949, there was a definite transition and stylistic shift for Haines from Neo-Classicism into modernism. This style is now known as Hollywood Regency.
"I can Only tell you this - I would rather have taste than either love or money"
William Haines Designs
Betsey Johnson before all in pink
Betsey Johnson's New York apartment before the pink, when the walls were a sunny yellow, thanks to a collaboration with fashion and interior designer and architect Tarik Currimbhoy.
How did it begin?
I went to Mexico three years ago and saw this tiny hotel for sale on the beach in Barra de Potosi, a little fishing village not too far from Acapulco, and decided to buy it. It was a pretty spontaneous decision. It needed to be updated so I started painting and decorating and looking at wallpaper. It was the first time I had ever done anything like that. I wound up bringing 26 chandeliers and a ton of other stuff down from New York in two 54-foot moving trucks. It was a fantastic experience. It opened up anentire new world to me.
What’s the finished look?
Very floral, loud, colorful and a little kitschy. I knew Andy Warhol back in the 1960s and the floral patterns and color intensities I used at the hotel – which, by the way, I have re-named Betseyville – remind me of his work.
You’re known as a funky rock and roll designer – is that the tone of the home merchandise?
I do get typecast as the blast-out kid. I like girly, I like glamorous, and I like gorgeous. But that covers a lot of ground. My home collection is very personal and pretty much based on what I have in my own houses.
We’re seeing a lot of Mid-Century Modern ideas in home Merchandise right now. Is that a style you’re drawn to?
No. I find that stuff a little cold and hard. And I’m not big on ’50s colors. For instance, I have an original Knoll womb chair from that period but never really liked it until I had it recovered in bright pink wool. Now it works. But that’s typical for me. I’ve never been someone who could just buy something out of a store and bring it home. I usually have to send it out to have the fabric or the color changed.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-born architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture. He is considered to be both Swiss and French, having become a citizen of France in his 30's.
He was a pioneer in theoretical studies of modern design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. His career spanned five decades, with his iconic buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, and one structure each in North and South America. He was also an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer, and modern furniture designer
Le Corbusier
Sculpture in to Architecture
Bridge del Alamillo in Sevilla
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
Architect, Artist and Engeneer Santiago Calatrava
Ludwing Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential Twentieth-Century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define austere but elegant spaces. He developed the use of exposed steel structure and glass to enclose and define space, striving for an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of open space.
German Pavillion
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2001 |Mies in Berlin/Mies in America - MoMA/Whitney
20th Century Architecture
The Barcelona Pavillion
Twin Towers Under Costruction
The Seagram Building New York
Mies van der Rohe
Miles Redd
Miles is one of the greatest young designers working today, and is the creative director for Oscar de la Renta Home.
He often go to John Rosselli Antiques in New York City. He says: "You never know what you'll find there—everything from an incredible Portuguese table to an Italian painted chest. I have a pair of Italian mirrors that are sort of rococo in flavor that John painted white himself. Alan Moss Studios
is fantastic for the glamour factor. I bought some René Gruau fashion illustrations there that I love so much."
Raised in Atlanta, Miles Redd moved to New York to study film at New York University. More interested in set design, he began working for antiques dealer John Rosselli after graduation, which would serve as a hands-on education in furniture and the decorative arts. Later hired by decorator Bunny Williams, Redd honed his eye as a shopper and design assistant, combing the 26th Street flea market and frequenting the great antiquarians for beautiful finds. His tiny East Village apartment became a laboratory for his particular brand of cozy glamour: he painted the floor in an emerald green harlequin pattern, stacked books to the ceiling, and hung works of art ranging from his own figure drawings to a 19th century copy of a Velásquez Infanta. This playful mix of high and low, emboldened by color and modern gestures but grounded in practicality, would come to define Redd's style.
After a brief stint studying painting in Lacoste, France, he returned to New York and began decorating friends' apartments. One job led to another and in 1998 Redd opened his own office in Noho. At ease working in a variety of styles and settings, he relies on innovation and imagination to create comfortable, elegant interiors that express a client's personality. Traditional room arrangements find their foil in juxtapositions of surface texture—lacquer and plaster, satin and linen—but without becoming precious. He believes in a pragmatic approach to living well and finds the best collaborations come from a meeting of the minds and a shared sense of humor.
Having completed many New York apartments, Redd has also worked on such diverse projects as a Miami Beach condominium, a ranch in Wyoming and a farmhouse in the South of France. He is currently decorating an Upper East Side townhouse, a couple's country home in Millbrook, New York, and a Philip Schutze house in Atlanta for a young family. Redd also lends his time to organizations like Housing Works and the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. His work has been featured in New York Magazine, Vogue, House Beautiful, Elle Décor, House & Garden, W, and Country Life. In 2003, Redd was named creative director of Oscar de la Renta Home.
New York Social Diary - NYSD House
Manufactered Landscape
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer who takes pictures of landscapes. But not trees, and lakes. He takes pictures of industrial sites and factories.
His work was featured in an amazing documentary called 'Manufactured Landscapes.' It won best Canadian feature film at the Toronto international film fest.
Another Pale Blue Dot
New Facade For Louis Vuitton
gas design group founders gregory polletta and sung jang have created topiade, a play on the notion of what is ‘french’ and what is ‘modern facade’ with the louis vuitton architecture department.
Surface View
Murals customised to suit individual spaces. 
Search out for dramatic collections that will suit your space as well as your sense of adventure!
Surface View
T u n i c k
In order to raise awareness for global warming, Greenpeace and the photographer Spencer Tunick got hundreds of naked people to pose for photos on a melting glacier.
He was on a ladder with a mega phone as he directed the massive crowd of nearly 600 people from all over Europe who were concerned for the environment.
Tunick then photographed them on a rocky outcrop overlooking the glacier, which is the largest in the Alps.
The volunteers also had to pose for photographs by Spencer Tunick on the ice as he took photos of them lying down.
Do you think the pictures by Spencer Tunick will help raised awareness for global warming?
Are these tactics by Spencer Tunick and Greenpeace the best way to stop climate change? - Product Reviews Net Blog
“Receding glaciers are a clear indication of climate change, and Switzerland is especially affected. The installation will symbolize the vulnerability of the disappearing glaciers and the fragility of the human body. The images of the installation are intended to stir up emotions and to emphasize the naked truth: we have to act now.” - Greenpeace
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