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Though it is more mod­ern and some­what more appeal­ing in a bubbly-​plastic-​Japanese-​yogurt shop kinda way, I feel that this is com­pletely unnec­es­sary. Call me a purist, but the YMCA had a good logo has lasted since 1967 for a rea­son. The Y’s new visual sys­tem reflects our true iden­tity: a car­ing, people-​oriented orga­ni­za­tion that is devoted to the cause of strengthening […]

The Red Dot Design awards are in, click through to see some of the images

With more than 12,000 sub­mis­sions from more than 60 coun­tries, the inter­na­tional “red dot design award” is the largest and most renowned design com­pe­ti­tion in the world. It is divided into the “red dot award: prod­uct design”, the “red dot award: com­mu­ni­ca­tion design” and the “red dot award: design con­cept.” The award-​winning prod­ucts are put before an inter­na­tional pub­lic in the red dot design museum.

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via YankoDe­sign

Archi­tects Szu-​Ping Patri­cia Chen Suchart and Thamarit Suchart cre­ated this res­i­dence, with images by Bill Tim­mer­man.

The main level’s CMU walls define the major pub­lic spaces of the project, which include an out­door court­yard, liv­ing room, din­ing room, kitchen, and koi gar­den. The pub­lic spaces are also flanked by the garage and guest bed­rooms, in turn pro­vid­ing addi­tional pri­vacy from the street and the neigh­bors. The out­door spaces main­tain an open rela­tion­ship to the res­i­dence by means of two 30’ wide expanses of oper­a­ble slid­ing glass doors. The mas­ter suite resides in the Viren­deel truss above. The inte­gra­tion of the court­yard and koi gar­den as an essen­tial part to the daily expe­ri­ence enables the project to fully embrace the out­door spaces of the front and back yards.