Archive for May, 2013
 
 
 
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From shed to sustainable home

This 800-square-foot sustainable home in Sydney started out as a humble industrial shed. If you always see potential in old buildings, it’ll probably whet your appetite for your own remodel, so be careful. Richard Associa...
 
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Need some help?

Are you renovating home and in need for some help? Are the builders working in you house and you don’t know if they are doing a good job? You have no idea on what documents you’ll need to get tax benefits? For any k...
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Underfloor heating

Underfloor heating (Radiant heating more specifically) is a solution more and more used in new homes, so the energy resources, more and more scarce and expensive, can be effectively used. It was an invention of the ancient Roma...
 
Design
 

Parquet floor – wood oxidation

It is important to know that our just brought wooden floor will have a different color after a few years. The wood oxidizes depending on the amount of light it receives and its colour reaches stability after a couple of years a...
 
Architetti
 

Firemen

Michaela Gerd Bergmeister and Wolf are two highly appreciated Viennese architects. This is one of their works in Bolzano, on the Wine Route in Magrè. It’s a firemen stationwhich has been made  close to a rock wall: The ma...

 
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Houses for scrapping

“Since the end of the 2nd world war to the present Italy has had the biggest housing boom in its history – explains Loris Rossi – If in 1945 we recorded 35 million living quarters, now they amount to about 120...