About our West Seattle Residential Locksmith Services

West Seattle Locksmith will be able to assist you in any emergency situation 24 hours a day, with our Local and mobile residential Seattle locksmith service. No reason to panic when you locked the keys inside your house, just call us to (206) 971-6992 , and we will be there in 15-45 min after receiving your call. Breaking a window is never the answer to a security issue, it only creates...

Cordoba House : An architectural wonder in the lap of nature

Cordoba House Designed by Emilio Ambasz. Based in Cordoba, Spain, what could be better designed than this beauty Cordoba House in the comfortable lap of mother nature! Designed by Emilio Ambasz, this wonderful house has been created in the Arabic-Andalusian architectural style and situated on a promontory that juts out into a beautiful lake. It has been developed at the far end of the road...

Vertical Necropolis exploits scarce city land to provide place of respite for the deceased

Scarcity of land in an overpopulated city like Delhi makes ground space all the more dearer, which has triggered architect Annkit Kummar to come up with the brilliant Vertical Necropolis concept. In the coming few years the burial spaces will be all consumed and hence using vertical space will be a fine idea. This will exploit scarce city land in a sensible way without compromising on social...

Gansevoort Marine Transfer Station blends innovative engineering with architectural designing

Dumping grounds mostly come tagged with an ugly look, the reason why these are positioned on the outskirts of city area. Nicole Robertson and Richard Garber from GRO Architects have come up with the Gansevoort Marine Transfer Station and Environmental Center that will handle the ever increasing quantities of recyclable materials, which includes glass, plastic and metal. This will make the city...

OMA to construct Interlace residential complex in Singapore

Departing from the standard isolated, vertical apartment towers, the Interlace by Ole Scheeren of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) Scheeren is a large-scale residential complex in Singapore that gives a whole new meaning to communal spaces, while maintaining lush green surroundings. Stacking the 31 apartment blocks one on top of the other in a hexagonal arrangement, the complex accommodates...

Chennai ; Peaking Demand for Residential Apartments

Central and South Chennai are the most active real estate markets in the city because of Information Technology and manufacturing have become the two main drivers of property markets across Chennai. Large- scale developments are taking place in both these areas. The areas most in demand are along IT and manufacturing corridors leading to the commercial...

France Housing Market Surviving, Despite Analysts Warning of Coming Slowdown

You would never know it from recent pronouncements by various analysts and research houses, but residential real estate in France is holding its own despite a traumatic financial condition throughout Europe. Analysts warn of a coming slowdown in home prices and lending because of the unresolved Eurozone debt crisis. The National Institute for Statistical and Economic Studies (INSEE) reports a...

United Kingdom property rental market flourishing, research suggests

The residential property rental market in the UK is flourishing with an additional 58,000 properties being marketed to rent in 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, new research reveals.By contrast the number of properties for sale dropped by approximately 12,000 in 2011, the research from Experian also shows.The volume of properties put up for rent increased every quarter in 2011...

World Trade Centre Residence in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, World Trade Centre Residence was designed by TRO Jung Brannen. The design includes several notable amenities such as a landscaped rooftop and terrace, temperature-controlled pool with poolside café, business suites and a fitness centre, as well as several levels of private balconies and garden rooms. Many of the residences are two-storey duplex units with...

Zaragoza Airport in Zaragoza, Spain

Designed by Vidal y Asociados arquitectos, Zaragoza Airport  is located in Zaragoza, Spain. The building is composed of 11 modules, set in an alternative pattern in such a way that it resembles water movement, appropriate to the airports original purpose. The design stands out for its functionality and responds to three basic principles: flexibility, articulation and openness. The modular...

Savill Building, Windsor Great Park in United Kingdom

Savill Building, Windsor Great Park that located in United Kingdom, was designed by Glenn Howells Architects. The main feature of the building is its larch gridshell roof, which is clad with green oak. Both the larch and the oak are from The Crown Estate’s own sustainable sources from within the Windsor Estate. It was designed in conjunction with Buro Happold and Robert Haskins Waters Engineers...

Project of the Year: Art Stable, Seattle

The 2011 residential architect Design Awards jury lauded this Seattle live/work loft project as a prototype for the future. “It’s an agenda for the next decade,” said one judge. “You could see it happening in a variety of neighborhoods and cities.”Designed by Tom Kundig, FAIA, of Olson Kundig Architects, the seven-story building features ground-level retail space, second-floor parking, and five...

LivingHome Lineup Now Includes the LEED Platinum C6 Single-Family Home

The stars are aligning to improve New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward—starchitect William McDonough and movie star Brad Pitt, that is. Yet what McDonough and Pitt are offering is more interesting than their partnership: a newly introduced module for a Cradle-to-Cradle-inspired, LEED –Platinum prefabricated home.Launched last month as an extension of the higher-end, single-family line of LivingHome...

Rotterdam, Netherlands-based ArchitectenConsort in designing a green housing development in southern Sweden.

In its sustainable development work, the Rotterdam, Netherlands, firm ArchitectenConsort concerns itself not only with energy use and water consumption, but also with the subtler matter of what makes a dwelling or neighborhood last. The durability of materials and details is part of the answer, says senior architect Edgar Bosman, but so are the ways in which people interact with the buildings,...

Award 2012: Hawk House

Site The southernmost property on the Hawk, a point at the far tip of Cape Sable Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Program A 1,200-square-foot single-family residence in a bird sanctuary, which had to be designed to tread lightly on the land. Solution This single-family house has two distinct formal and spatial components. A 70-foot-long horizontal bar stands 8 feet tall and sits astride raised piers,...

Summer House in Sweden

Stockholm-based architect Mats Fahlander was an apt candidate to design a summer cottage for this shorefront site on Sweden’s rugged western coast. He and the owner, lifelong friends, played here as children, on property that had been in the owner’s family since the 1940s. “I grew up spending summers on an island very close to this,” says Fahlander, whose intimate understanding of the local...