Wednesday, March 23, 2011

AutoCAD Library: AutoCAD blocks for download vol.2

Here are some more websites where you can find AutoCAD blocks:

Thanks to Alessandro:

Hi all,
I was doing my studio project and I found in internet a few good website where you can get a free blocks for Cad. Maybe that help you to save some time.

http://www.archweb.it/dwg/dwg.htm
(this is an italian website, to download the blocks you don't need to register)

http://www.freedwg.eu/index.htm
(free and easy download, english)

http://www.cadforum.cz/catalog_en/?fo=DWG&cat=11
(to get the blocks you have to register)

Thanks to Federica for the translation (regarding the first website):

FYI

Bagno / Bagni = Bathroom/s

Cucina / Cucine = Kitchen/s

Abitazioni = Dwellings

Arredo = furnitures

Commercio = retail

Edifici = Buildings

Bar - Ristoranti = Bar - Restaurants

See also: AutoCAD Library: AutoCAD blocks for download vol.1


Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Enlighter - Lighting Design and Light Art Magazine

ENLIGHTER


Enlighter Magazine provides a high-quality and objective information service for the Lighting Design community. It is a regularly updated online magazine that publishes work by the leading lighting designers and artists as well as emerging new talents in the field.
Enlighter Magazine is a leading and the most up-to-date Lighting Design media. Projects are published here many weeks before you will read about them on other information sources.

via Enlighter Magazine.

Handbook of Interior Lighting Design

Handbook of Interior Lighting Design to be downloaded here via 4shared. You don't need to have an account in order to download file.


Monday, March 21, 2011

The Style Files

The Style Files is another great blog about interior design and more!




The Style Files is Danielle de Lange’s daily weblog about design and (life) style. The Style Files is dedicated to search the globe for inspirational finds. Observations and ideas related to design, interiors, art and other life enhancing subjects are posted daily. This is a place to absorb new ideas, find new products & designs and to get inspired!

Based in The Netherlands, The Style Files gives worldwide coverage from a European viewpoint, with an emphasis on Dutch and the –not so standard- design.
via The Style Files.

Rough Luxe Hotel, London

Rough-Luxe is a new way of looking at luxury as a moment in time and not only part of an object of consumption. Luxury is an enriching personal experience and not only an ownership of an expensive object.

Therefore, the Rough-Luxe definition of Luxury is: time for reflexion, personal encounters with people, nature, architecture and environment as well as food and social and cultural experiences linked to geographic locations. It is also, the intellectual solicitation, listening to ones own feelings as well as comparing objects and time and thinking of their hierarchy.

Rough-Luxe is about the experience, the surrounding, the intrinsic value of objects, art, culture and the people surrounding us as well as the ‘‘consumable’’ items, that you come across in a Rough-Luxe hotel or affiliated business or event.
 Philosophy of Rough Luxe.




Rough Luxe Hotel



ROUGH LUXE HOTEL IN LONDON

This is Rough Luxe. Half rough, half luxury. A little bit of luxury in a rough part of London. A little bit of rough in a luxurious London.
 via hotel website.












Designer: Rabih Hage







ROUGH LUXE HOTEL
1 Birkenhead Street 
London, WC1H 8BA

+44 (0)20 7837 5338
stay@roughluxe.co.uk







More pics here.


Monday, March 7, 2011

Belgo Centraal, London

Belgo Centraal is totally unique in its design, especially its industrial lift, which transports guests over one of the busiest kitchens in London, where dishes from a menu of high quality are produced. Situated in the hub of Covent Garden, Belgo Centraal has been a hit since it opened in 1998 and a destination for tourists and Londoners alike ever since. Well known for its high quality Belgian food and drink, accompanied by unbeatable service and a stimulating environment, it has won a Best London Restaurant Award and was also runner up in the Best Family Restaurant Award 2000.
Source Restaurant Guide.





Designed by Ron Arad in an industrial style, one entered across a gantry and was transported to the basement dining area in a large lift, as if descending into a mine.




BELGO CENTRAAL 
50 Earlham Street 
Covent Garden, London 
WC2H 9LJ


More pictures here.



Colour: Colour Lovers


COLOUR LOVERS - another great website with colour palettes. Here you can't really generate any colours, but you can browse millions of colours, colour palettes and patterns. You can create your own palettes, you can rate others and you can add different palettes as your favourities.

Search for colour
Explore palettes

There is also section TRENDS, where you can find latest trends (and palettes) in Fashion and Interior Design!! Browse thousands pictures of interiors! Isn't it cool? :-)

Home trends

Colorful Ideas & Inspirations - BLOG

"Our team of writers brings you daily trend coverage, new products, inspiration, information and fun ideas. With an archive of more than 1,428 articles, you're sure to find something you love."


Colour lovers home blog.


 Colour Lovers includes also channels like: Business, Craft, Fashion, Print, Web and Weddings!! Lots of inspirations! :-)

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