Modern architecture lays as much importance to recycling and sustainable design as it does to lavish interiors and stylish ergonomics. TrailerWrap is the brain child of Prof. Hughes and his Design Outreach Initiative which has seen a team of 50 undergraduate and graduate architects work towards transforming a run down, discarded trailer into a fabulous home. With a minimalist but elegant design, with efficient ergonomics and graceful architecture to mask the original structure you’ll never know that this was once a used trailer!

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TrailerWrap: Trailer Transformed into Ravishing Home

Designed masterfully using plenty of glass and wood along with some very sound architectural features, this beautiful home in SW Seattle is a complete visual spectacle. Designed by Replinger Hossner Architects, the home looks as tranquil and romantic as the city itself, with a minimalist design and a futuristic kitchen that catches your eye at the first glance. The home sports floor to ceiling glass windows with an exquisite view of West Seattle Golf Course, Elliot Bay and the Seattle skyline. It stands imperiously with an exquisite exterior that sports a perfect blend of wood and glass. It houses 3 bedrooms a couple of bathrooms and plenty of delightful space. - via

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Amazing Home in Seattle

Amy Lau was one of 11 designers who transformed a Gramercy Park townhouse as part of Showtime’s Design House project. Their inspiration came from the six original hit series. However, it is Amy Lau’s dramatic dining room makeover which stands out. Hermacabredecor was inspired by Showtime’s Dexter series starring Michael C. Hall as a forensic expert whose specialty happens to be blood splatter analysis. The result is a dining room fit for a serial killer.

The dining room is largely done in white - better to see the fake blood splatters everywhere - on walls and evenembroidered on chair upholstery. Candlesticks shaped like human vertebrae carry blood red candles. The glasses on the table have “blood” filled stems and tell-tale fingerprints.The ceramic tableware was handmade and incorporated blood splatter, veins and capillaries patterns. Dismembered flatware completed the ghoulish atmosphere. Many of the Dexter inspired designs are now for sale. - Via

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Blood Splatter Decor by Amy Lau

The effervescent structure of Ocho Casas can be found in the neighborhood of Santa Margarita in Spain. Designed by Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos, it looks very special because the it can change its appearance with each passing moment and thanks to a beautiful white-walled facade made of panels that opens in brilliant pops of color. Constantly changing into a multitude of colors makes the housing complex a vibrant architecture at its innovative best. - via

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Ocho Casas Housing Complex in Spain

Designed by The Design Laboratory, the “Double Up” bench is a really original and fun design. Amazing shape and adaptability of the sofa/bench in self-skinning polyurethane, element initially closed, that opens in a zoomorphic way in order to show the own structural wealth. Like a flower, Double Up, opens up in order to give infinite aesthetic solutions, and can be adjusted according to your own needs. Finally for those interested in the materials used to create the The Double Up Bench, the structure is metal and polished chrome base colored polyurethane. - Via

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Double Up Bench