Mid-Century Modern Demo Home by Surefield

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Gorgeous Mid-Century Modern Remodel Nestled in Desirable Seattle Neighborhood.


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DESCRIPTION

The kitchen features a 16 foot island with built in dining area and a wall of glass doors that seamlessly open to outdoor kitchen and dining area. The home features walnut floors and combined with custom-built steel staircases connecting the floating living room. There are three bedrooms on the second floor and 2.5 bathrooms.

 

DETAILS

Year built: 1959
Style: Multi-level
View: Mountain, sound, territorial

Lot size: 8550
Finished space: 3050

Interior features: Bath off master, walk in closet, double pane windows
Flooring: Ceramic tile, hardwood, wall to wall carpet

Appliances: Dishwasher, microwave,range/oven, refrigerator
Energy: Natural gas
Heating system: Forced air, wall
Exterior: Metal/vinyl, wood, wood products
Roof: Flat
Foundation: Poured
Site features: Cable TV, deck, gas available
Lot: Curbs, paved street, sidewalk

Garage type: Attached
Parking spots: 2

School district: Seattle
Elementary school: Seattle
Middle school: Seattle
High school: Seattle

All photos courtesy of Surefield.
For more information please visit: surefield.com/property/aac

50 Storey AYKON Nine Elms to Feature Interiors by Versace Home

Luxury real estate developer DICO UK Property Holdings Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of DAMAC International Limited, has announced the first of its fashion residences in London with a 50-storey, 360 unit project with interior designs by Versace. 

The residents lounge at AYKON Nine Elms offers 360-degree views of London.

The lobby, amenities and interiors for each property will be expertly designed and fitted out by Versace Home.

Amenities will include a state of the art gymnasium, indoor swimming pool and spa, an owners lounge, children’s play area, roof garden and cinema, all designed by Versace Home.

The indoor swimming pool at AYKON Nine Elms with unrivalled views of the city.

Luxury permeates every element of AYKON Nine Elms with Interiors by Versace Home. 

AYKON Nine Elms is located at the heart of the UK capital’s Nine Elms regeneration area adjacent to Battersea, overlooking the River Thames. The tower is due for completion in 2020. AYKON Nine Elms will be the first private residence project of scale in London to be fully designed and conceptualized by a luxury fashion house, with Versace involved in all aspects of interior design.

Versace interior design and styling raises the bar of luxury living in the capital.

AYKON Nine Elms combines a mix of premium penthouses, three-, two-, one-bedroom and Manhattan Studio units with City and River views along the Thames to the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye.

Floor to ceiling windows take advantage of the expansive London views.

Gian Giacomo Ferraris, CEO of Versace said: “Versace is synonymous with fashion and luxury and its participation in the real estate business provides the opportunity to fully experience the Versace lifestyle. In recent years, the private residential projects have become a strategic part of the Versace world. Today, thanks to the collaboration with DICO UK Property Holdings Ltd and DAMAC – a developer who we have worked with for many years and who shares our vision for the highest standards – we bring the ultimate expression of Versace’s lifestyle to the very heart of London.”

AYKON Nine Elms, designed by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF).

London continues to be one of the most sustainable real estate markets in the world, with solid year-on-year price growth circa 6% according to real estate advisory firm, JLL. Analysts expect house price inflation in the region of 5-7% in the coming years.

AYKON Nine Elms is set to be an iconic tower in the heart of London.

“There is a huge appetite from our current global customer base for luxury property investments in London,” said Hussain Sajwani, Chairman of DAMAC. “AYKON Nine Elms presents an unrivalled opportunity for them to access the stable and established London market. AYKON Nine Elms, with Versace-branded living, is a truly unique concept and a fantastic addition to the residential market in this amazing cultural and vibrant city.”

“It also presents prospective buyers with an unrivalled opportunity to own a luxurious central London home, in close proximity to the luxury shopping destinations Knightsbridge and Mayfair, Chelsea and the planned Linear Park.”

All photos courtesy of AYKON. Further information is available at www.aykonproperties.com

Internationally recognised companies are working on the project including one of the world’s prominent architecture firms, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Turner & Townsend and consultants including JLL and WSP.

The BEACH by Snarkitecture

The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation designed by Snarkitecture for the National Building Museum. 

The National Building Museum presents a one-of-a-kind destination for visitors, an interactive architectural installation that brings the quintessential summer experience of going to the beach to downtown Washington, D.C. Spanning across the Museum's Great Hall, the BEACH, created in partnership with Snarkitecture, will cover 10,000 square feet and include an "ocean" of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls.

The BEACH is contained within an enclosure and built out of construction materials such as scaffolding, wooden panels, and perforated mesh, all clad in stark white. Monochromatic beach chairs and umbrellas sprinkle the 50-foot wide "shoreline," and the "ocean" culminates in a mirrored wall that creates a seemingly infinite reflected expanse. Visitors are welcome to "swim" in the ocean, or can spend an afternoon at the "shore's" edge reading a good book, play beach-related activities such as paddleball, grab a refreshing drink at the snack bar, or dangle their feet in the ocean off the pier.

Enjoy our snack concession, operated through a partnership with Union Kitchen, a D.C.-based food incubator.

PROJECT:
Taking cues from the familiar experience of a summer day at the beach, Snarkitecture has abstracted both the natural and cultural elements of the beach to create a reduced, monochromatic environment inside the museum's Great Hall. Standard construction materials like scaffolding, drywall, and mirrors are utilized to create the enclosure that leads to an ocean of 750,000 recyclable plastic balls. 

The Beach welcomes visitors to explore, play and relax in a fully immersive and unique setting.

Photos by Noah Kalina - noahkalina.com

VISIT
401 F Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
202.272.2448

HOURS
Monday-Saturday:
10 am-5 pm
Sunday: 11 am-5 pm

The Building Zone closes at 4 pm.

ADMISSION
Free access to the Great Hall,
historic building tours,
Museum Shop, & cafe.

Exhibition admission:
$8 for adults
$5 for youth, students, & seniors
$3 a person for Building Zone only
Free for Museum members

WATCH | Web designer and photographer Andy Feliciotti's Vlog about "The Beach"

About Snarkitecture
Snarkitecture is a collaborative and experimental practice operating in territories between art and architecture. The name is drawn from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of The Snark, a poem describing an "impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature." 

Snarkitecture investigates the unknown within architecture - the indefinable moments created by manipulating and reinterpreting existing materials, structures and programs to spectacular effect. 

Exploring the boundaries of disciplines, the studio designs permanent, architectural scale projects and functional objects with new and imaginative purposes. Snarkitecture's approach focuses on the viewer's experience and memory, creating moments of wonder and interaction that allow people to engage directly with their surrounding environment. By transforming the familiar into the extraordinary, Snarkitecture makes architecture perform the unexpected. 

Snarkitecture was established by Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham.

For more information please visit Snarkitecture - www.snarkitecture.com

LA Business Council Awards the Vermont as Winner of the Mixed-Use Category at the 45th Annual Architectural Awards

The new 23- and 29- story luxury high-rise complex in the Koreatown district offers 360 degree views to the Hollywood Hills, Downtown, and Southern LA basin. 

Photo courtesy of Jerde

Inspired by the urban modern lifestyle of Los Angeles, the 464-unit Vermont was designed by LA-based The Jerde Partnership with Harley Ellis Devereaux as the Executive Architect. Scaled from a previously entitled condominium scheme considered too massive for the site, The Vermont delivers two minimalist glass point towers creating a new landmark on the LA skyline.

The LEED Silver certified project enhances the street experience along the busy Wilshire corridor, with over 30,000 square feet of retail and dining space, 896 parking spaces, and an 18,000 square-foot publicly accessible urban art centerpiece.

"From an urban design and architecture strategy, the scale, massing, circulation, details, open spaces, everything was purposefully designed to reflect LA's diverse culture and create a place that both the new residents and surrounding neighborhood could benefit from," says Tammy McKerrow, Shareholder & Senior Design Principal at Jerde.

At the  7th level sky lobby, the towers are connected by an elevated social oasis, tucked above the bustling street below. Just off the sky lobby is an outdoor rooftop amenity, featuring an expansive garden, heated pool, sun deck, spa and dog park.

"It's one of the first transit oriented developments to be erected in post-recession Los Angeles - and really makes a statement along the Wilshire Corridor and within the LA Skyline. I couldn't be more proud of the building and the successful collaboration with The Jerde Partnership and JH Snyder Construction," says Albert Sawano, AIA, LEED AP, Project Director and Principal at Harley Ellis Devereaux.

Jerde

The Jerde Partnership is a visionary architecture and urban planning firm that designs unique places that people love to visit and go back to time and again. Nearly one billion people visit Jerde Places every year.

Located around the globe, Jerde Places are iconic, go to destinations that pulse with life through a carefully orchestrated procession of public spaces, shops, parks, restaurants, entertainment, housing and nature. They transform the economic and social landscape of neighborhoods, cities and regions and deliver astounding results across the board – economic success and recognition for developers, businesses and cities and amazing experiences for the people who work, eat, stay, shop, play, wander and live there. 

For more information please visit www.jerde.com

PANTONEVIEW Color Planner Autumn/Winter 2016/2017

Reveal: An Exploration of “Real” and “Unreal” Color

Multi-discipline forecast provides global color direction across womenswear, menswear, activewear, cosmetics, interiors, industry and graphic design.

Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, introduced Reveal, the Autumn/Winter 2016/17 edition of PANTONEVIEW^® Colour Planner. Looking at color as a total language, this multi-platform forecast offers seasonal inspiration, key color direction and suggested color harmonies for women’s and men’s fashion, activewear, cosmetics and lifestyle, as well as industrial and graphic design.

Just as the current direction in lifestyle fashion reflects a genuine polarization, color stories for 2016/17 display a contrast between color that is "real" and "unreal", absent and present and a mixology of what is in between. We are divided between more modest and unpretentious shades and stronger, more saturated tones that make a bold statement. For those in the middle? A third platform of color that connects and bridges our desire to be sober or intoxicated, quiet or loud – or both at the same time.

“We find this idea of absence and presence, obscuring and revealing, very relevant not only when it comes to color, but also in the way we live our everyday lives,” said Laurie Pressman, vice president, Pantone Color Institute.

"On one hand, there is this wish to return to the simple, honest and unassuming, and on the flip side, a continuing presence of maximalist and a deep desire to stand out and be seen."

PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner contains eight trend palettes as well as key seasonal color direction.

• Black—newly appreciated as a prestige color, black is the pulsating force behind the forecast and the perfect canvas on which other colors are revealed.
• White—appearing in cool and warm guises, white is important because of its properties as opposed to its actual color.
• Grays—essential to the palette, grays stretch across a variety of hues, warm and natural, muted and hard.
• Green—this season, greens take two directions: the first is a more yellowish and olive-oil-led direction while the second is cooler, sometimes glassy, but also more mineral, cool and Nordic.
• Yellow—reminding us of light and radiance, yellows are important this season because of their warming presence and their effects on surface and texture.
• Orange—now suffused with spicy hues, shades in the orange family display influences of caramel, cinnamon and saffron.
• Purple—penetrating all levels of design, purples, in a variety of berry colors are now a lifestyle as opposed to a fashion shade and is critical to this season’s palette.
• Blue—becoming more sophisticated, blues move away from the more classic indigo shades to those that are infused with gray or green.
• Brown—from nutmeg and tan to the red infused winey red browns, the browns continue to be very important across all materials and surfaces.
• Red—a safe option for those looking to add bright color, red is a well-received and well-understood pop color that is being combined in new ways.
• Pastels—pastel shades leap from nuanced neutrals to stronger and more assertive color.
• Metallics—metallics remain important; however this season they are as pragmatic as they are decorative, combining with light or texture to enhance, bring movement and textural dimension.

Published bi-annually, 18 to 24 months in advance of the season, the PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner is based on the PANTONE FASHION, HOME + Interiors Color System, the most widely used and recognized color standards system for fashion, textile, home and interior design. The book is produced by a team of leading visionaries from all over the world with expertise in different disciplines, providing comprehensive color-direction across multiple design areas.

Within each of the season’s directional color palettes, a general introduction outlines the colors included and the philosophy behind them. In addition, a specific breakdown of each palette highlights harmonies, suggested color combinations and suitable patterns, fabrics and products according to end use. For added convenience and usability, at the end of each palette section, there is a printed version of each PANTONE Fashion, Home + Interiors color featured in perforated swatch form and 1" x 4" detachable cotton strips. The PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner Autumn/Winter 2016/17 also comes with a DVD containing static images of photos used to illustrate the seasonal themes, a movie version that has music to set the unique mood of each individual palette, a printed color card where the forecasted colors are arranged by color family as well as by trend palette and a poster-sized overview of the season.

For more information please view the PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 Reveal Brochure

Pricing and Availability

The PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner Autumn/Winter 2016/17 is available immediately for $750 from Pantone at www.pantone.com or from PANTONE distributors nationwide. Visit www.pantone.com or call (888) PANTONE for a list of distributors. PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner is published bi-annually by Metropolitan Publishing BV.

About Pantone and the Pantone Color Institute

Pantone LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, is the global color authority and provider of professional color standards for the design industries. Pantone products have encouraged colorful exploration and expressions of creativity from inspiration to implementation for more than 50 years. Through the Pantone Color Institute, Pantone continues to chart future color direction and study how color influences human thought processes, emotions and physical reactions. Pantone furthers its commitment to providing professionals with a greater understanding of color and to help them utilize color more effectively. Always a source for color inspiration, Pantone also offers designer-inspired products and services for consumers. More information is available at www.pantone.com. For the latest news, trends, information and conversations, connect with Pantone on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and the Pantone Blog.

About X-Rite

X-Rite, Incorporated, is the global leader in color science and technology. The company, which now includes color industry leader Pantone, develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative color solutions through measurement systems, software, color standards and services. X-Rite’s expertise in inspiring, selecting, measuring, formulating, communicating and matching color helps users get color right the first time and every time, which translates to better quality and reduced costs. X-Rite serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical. For further information, please visit www.xrite.com.

Take Light with You with New Philips Hue Go

Get the Light That You Want, Everywhere You Want in and Around Your Home

Once again Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, is pushing the boundaries of how light can be used in and around the home to enhance a space, heighten a mood or simply ease day to day life. 

Philips Hue Go is an iF Design award winning, fully portable wireless lamp with all of the clever connectivity features of Philips Hue, meaning that it is now possible to experience the light that you want, wherever you want as you move around your house and garden*. With five new patented dynamic light effects to enrich special moments and interaction with more than 200 third-party apps, this newest addition to Philips Hue delivers total freedom with light.

"We envisage all lights to be connected. Put simply, lighting is now central to the Internet of Things and we see Philips Hue as the go-to lighting brand for the home", says Sridhar Kumaraswamy, Business Leader for Philips' connected home systems. "With Philips Hue Go we are building further on our ecosystem, enabling people to experience light in a new way. People can take the light wherever they want, creating the light that suits their moment, taste or mood. It gives people even more choice for how they wish to bring the fun and impact of connected lighting into their homes."

Move the light

Philips Hue Go is a versatile lamp that completely transforms the way light is used throughout the home; unplug it from the mains and it becomes a portable center piece. 

Lasting for up to three hours in battery mode, Philips Hue Go can be moved from the garden to the living room to the bedroom without the worry of wires; letting you create and enjoy a new ambience each time. It can also be positioned in different ways to adapt to your needs; enhance a living space by positioning it to face a wall washing it with light, add ambience to an intimate dinner by placing it as a center piece on the table or focused on a piece of work by directing the light where you need it. 

Taking good design up another level, Philips Hue Go's thick walled spherical body expresses solidity and material richness, while its translucent design gives the impression of pure light without clutter.

Control your way

With a control button on the product itself, it's easy to change the light when your smart device is not at hand. Choose from seven different light effects ranging from functional warm white light and cool energizing daylight, to one of the five natural dynamic effects - Cozy Candle, Sunday Coffee, Meditation, Enchanted Forest, and Night Adventure. 

Each dynamic effect has its own characteristic flow and mix of colors, delivering 'living' light that enriches a romantic dinner, a relaxing bath or a Zen moment. Through the Philips Hue app, you can select functional white light for everyday tasks and to find optimum settings to help you relax, read, concentrate and energize. You can choose from more than 16 million colors to personalize your lighting to suit any occasion, mood or moment.

Get connected

Just like Philips Hue, Philips Hue Go can discretely alert you to a new email or change in weather via a gentle 'light notification' wherever you are in your home, as well as deliver immersive moments that expand TV viewing into the whole room or take gaming to the next level through third party app integration. 

Philips Hue Go works seamlessly with all Philips Hue and Friends of Hue products, easily integrating into an existing network. However setting up a new network is also very simple, just make sure the Philips Hue bridge is connected to your wireless network, then simply download the Philips Hue app to your smart device and plug in Philips Hue Go.

Philips Hue Go costs €99.95 and is available in Europe from April 2015 and North America from June 2015.

All images courtesy of Philips - www.lighting.philips.com