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A Common Boston
If you're in the Northeast this upcoming week, you might want to swing by Common Boston, Boston's fourth annual week of celebrating architecture and urban spaces. Focusing all the city's design…
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Waverly Lowell on Greenwood Common
Last week I posted about three new books from William Stout Publishers, one of which is Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Commons by Waverly B. Lowell.
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Tenancy-in-Common
You’ve heard it thousands of times on TV, the radio, and in junk mail—spurious ads delivered with forehead-vein-popping enthusiasm by robot-faced dudes in shoddy suits. Bad credit…
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Villa van Vijven Print
Communal living has never looked better than on this Dutch property, where five families proved democratic design can have spectacular results. Through over-printing and deft use of negative space…
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Caravan Dresser
From the front, this dresser gives just a hint of its true color. The painted portion—–nontoxic and low VOC, natch—–wraps around the entire exterior of the piece.
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Communicators Bowls
No one likes being the first guest to reach for the hors d’oeuvres, but we know we’re not the only ones eying the mixed nuts and deviled eggs the moment we walk through the front door…
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Dutch Design Week
Each year in October Dutch Design Week is organized by Design Platform Eindhoven (DPE). DPE is a professional organization that, supported by the Eindhoven Design community, seeks to develop a …
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Dutch Design Week
From October 17 through October 25 2009, Eindhoven presents the 8th edition of Dutch Design Week, the largest design event in the Netherlands. Around 1500 designers from home and abroad will show…
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Conversations in Design: Crowdsourcing Creativity and Community
The Interior Design Show will be hosting its second annual Conversations in Design Symposium on January 27th 2011 presented by Relative Space and The City of Toronto. Ten international thinkers…
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Villa van Vijven Print
by Adrian JohnsonCommunal living has never looked better than…
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Caravan Dresser
by Kalon StudiosFrom the front, this dresser gives just a hint…
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Communicators Bowls
by Marti GuixéNo one likes being the first guest to reach…
I love the sliding window. It's a great solution for something I'm planning. Did you make it or was it an off-the shelf product?
A worthy concept, with interesting execution. However, I'm surprised by the lack of community "street", which is relegated to the below-grade entrances area. This would not be desirable in an urban setting, and I'm not sure it works here either. Would like a follow-up article on this project, after the residents have had a few years to further adapt their spaces.
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What a great commentary on the way we live and redefining what it means to be home. Thank you!
A most incredible adaptation of condominium living where the owners have the inspiration instead of a developer and the result is something truly exciting. Looking at the color coded plan I can't help but think of Moshe Safde's "Habitat" in Montreal. Shared spaces that intertwine but maintain independence. It would seem in both Habitat and this building the shared experience comes from mutual appreciation of concepts of living and appreciation of the buildings themselves.
This is an absolutly fabulous idea. The sense of a community living under one brilliantly designed roof is wonderful. I would love to live in a house like this. I would enjoy having neighbors that close and sharing the cost of the land while still being able to have a "dream house". Stunning. Thanks for featuring this Dwell.
What is the floor material in this house? I love the (what looks like) a black tile floor??? Does anybody know if its ceramic, slate, or polished concrete?
this is what a progressive society looks like.
what is the flooring material in slides 5, 11, and 12? thanks
Wow, I'm loving it, the design for this house is just awesome, I like the green surrounding, feel so peaceful and quite.
Other than the fact this is in Holland and it's orange, there seem to be few redeeming qualities to this little development. Yes there are five units together, but other than that it seems like it's just plopped down in the middle of nowwhere, some suburb with a view of a lake. The entries to the units are just awful, a concrete P.T. slab is what it looks like just looming inches above your head with some very pedestrian looking lighting...and Super Graphics are the best they can come up with to mark the entries in the 21st Century?? Depending on the area, the entryway looks totally dangerous and probably very uninviting and dangerous at night....Sorry, just because it's in Europe doesn't mean it's good design.....
"the entryway looks totally dangerous and probably very uninviting and dangerous at night...." What are you talking about? This is a private community, not in the city.
I LIKE the sheltered feel of the entry; it didn't strike me as dangerous provided the structure was in a reasonably safe area. However, I can understand why a city dweller might be uncomfortable with its seclusion. I thought the Tetris-like stacking and combining of the different units was a stroke of genius!
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