Architecture & Web Art

Spring is the perfect time of year to add some floral accents to your home. After a long and dreary winter, most people are ready to welcome spring with bright colors and floral patterns. Whether you prefer a formal look, a casual and colorful decorating style, or something completely fanciful and fun, flowers can really add to the overall look of your home. Here are a few ideas you can use to help get your home decorated for spring.

Floral Themed Wall Art

Wall art has long been one of the more popular home decorating items. Because a room’s walls are generally visible from almost every angle, any decorative touches that are added there receive a lot of attention. Flower wall sculptures are a great addition to your spring decorating theme. Available in a wide variety of styles, materials, colors and sizes, these decorative wall pieces range from beautifully realistic to interestingly abstract. Metal wall art pieces can be especially effective as part of a contemporary decorating style. However, rustic pieces of metal wall art can also add a beautiful touch to country and traditional decorating styles.

Austrian architectural practice LOVE architecture & urbanism has completed the refurbishment project – the new Gerngross! located in Austria/Vienna Styria.

1. Restructuring the Existing Centre

The layout of the store was not intuitive. Walkways were complex and confusing, and it was difficult to navigate. To improve this, the layout of the indoor levels (G, 1st, 2nd, and 5th) has been entirely re-designed and smaller retail spaces have been added. The key to designing the individual levels was to think “empty” in order to enable the future implementation of an improved orientation system. The preconditions for this complex undertaking were:

- For each rental space, a newer space of equal size but higher quality had to be provided.
- Each tenant had to be relocated twice during the construction time.
- The ongoing daily shopping activity should be only minimally disturbed.

From kitchen appliances to layout and materials used, every single item within your kitchen makes up the completed and total image which your guests judge you on. It may seem harsh but it’s just the way it is and you can’t even begin to prepare your space until you have a visual in your mind. So what kind of theme does one go with? There are so many to choose from but virtually anything is acceptable so long as it’s done tastefully and it also comes across as clever – this is even more important if you’re doing something really unique.

Modern living is a general theme but never ceases to impress if done with a little inspiration. Everything in this kitchen is digital and brand new though, so don’t attempt to go this route if you’d need to make use of payment plans in order to acquire the latest gadgets. Here you want shining silver finishes and digital timers set against polished black tile. Your kitchen will need to remain absolutely spotless at all times, naturally, and a polished pinewood floor is desirable over linoleum.

Description from the designers:

Hobo Lantern is a portable luminary inspired by the urban nightlife of Zona Tortona during Design Week. Hobo comes to life with an energy-efficient LED light source glowing through its delicate pattern of translucent fibres. Hobo Lantern will be available on molostore.com on April 12, 2011 – the first day of Design Week in Milan!

Visit the molo design website – here

No matter what decorating theme you use for your kitchen, metal art can add the perfect touch of cutting edge style. Because there’s such a wide variety of metal art pieces from which to choose, you’ll have no problem finding one or two pieces that add just the decorative effect you are looking for. Whether you’ve designed your kitchen with sleek contemporary details or prefer a more rustic country theme, kitchen wall art made from metal can be the perfect decorating accessory for your kitchen. Here are a few decorating ideas you can use to incorporate metal art into your kitchen theme.