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This is a guest post from Delicious Storm, one of the masterminds at Allied Operations, and I’m certain you will love their work, we at Archtopia surely do.

Allied Operations, a group of design professionals based in New York, is selected as one of the Bathing Beauties.

Their beach hut model “Magic is in the Air” will be featured in Bathing Beauties’ exhibition at the Scarborough Art Gallery in the UK, 13 March – 20 Sept 2010

For more information about exhibition, check out Scarborough Art Gallery

Organization: Allied Operations
Design team: Sangmok Kim, Si-Yeon Min
Location: Lincolnshire coast, UK
Program: Beach Hut
Site area: scale less sqm
Building area: 110sqm
Total floor area: 110 sqm

Project description and concept:

‘Magic Is In the Air’

Reinhard Dienes an internationally acclaimed award-winning furniture designer , is debuting with an exclusive collection of cardboard furniture on Fashion4Home. The furniture pieces are lightweight, sturdy and 100% recyclable as well as playful. The amazing design completes the overall picture and makes it an optical highlight to every room. Whether the Bookshelf and the sideboard is available in various colors to matches with your style.

This stylish environmentally friendly furniture is a perfect choice for your home office furniture and a beautiful addition to your home interior. One more thing that I like at these pieces of cardboard furniture is that they don’t look like are made out of cardboard. The great design can fool you into thinking this is real furniture made out of wood… Well, actually is a matter of perspective, but anyway, if you are a convinced ecologist, you will love this designs.

It’s been a while since we talked about Lamps and Lighting here at Archtopia. But this founding has caught our attention because of the interesting concept behind it. Very often the final look of the whole room depends of the chosen lamp. Le Soleil is a suspension lamp designed by Vincent Garcia Jimenez for Foscarini can ideally fit to any contemporary modern interior design. This lamp is made of polycarbonates and thanks to that it creates an unique luminous effect. The shade has an interesting beautiful design and its shape provides a good lighting to a room.

The beams of the light in these lamps are projected upwards with the illumination, which is directed downwards.

This suspension lamp is available in red, white and aquamarine colors. If you want to enrich your modern interior design by one of these cool colored lamps then you could find more information about them on Foscarini site.

The russian team a. asadov architectural studio developed a complex grass hill for their proposal of the Taipei Pop Music Center. Various sections are based around craters and volcanoes. The center consists of 3 main sections an outdoor performance space, main hall and a green roof park. the hills are specially designed with sound protection for the surrounding areas.

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For the DIY kinda’ guys, here’s a software from Autodesk, it’s free and it’s best suited for drawing floor plans and seeing them in a 3d View right away. Autodesk Project Dragonfly

I’ve stumbled the other day on this little piece of wonder. It’s basically everything you need to design your own floor plans with little or almost no knowledge about architecture or design. You can play with it’s features and see what you can make out of it. I find this useful for the over demanding clients that know what they want, but can’t really express it in words =P.

With this software almost everyone can design their own home. The software functions pretty much like a architecture program, and for the architects or the designers familiarized with the Autodesk’s products, this should be no hassle.