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I Dare You To Throw A Stone. Glass Houses & Furniture by Carlo Santambrogio and Ennio Arosio.

Santambrogiomilano, the brainchild of architect and ideator Carlo Santambrogio, is an entrepreneurial reality which realizes projects in glass with an exclusive character, unique pieces that can integrate themselves in all environments of daily life.

The Netherland's 123DV Modern Villas entered Polish architecture firm Mode:Lina's competition in which they were asked to design an ECO house. The challenge was to design a standard residential home in a standard location that performs sustainably and 123DV Modern Villas came up with the Hidden House.

The project explained in their own words:
"In a time when words like sustainable, ecological and green are almost an obligation, they are often only used as a label. That is why one of our latest projects proved to be challenging, but also very exciting: we were asked to design an ECO House. Thanks to our friends from Mode:Lina we were involved in a Polish design competition.

The assignment was clear and simple: design a house for a standard family, on a standard location, but with a highly sustainable performance.

We had faced this topic before in previous projects, but it had not yet been used as core of the design. For this competition we were asked to be bold, to push to the boundaries of sustainability.

It took us several brainstorm sessions to find the right strategy, but at the end we all agreed on one thing: our answer to the question should be architectural. Since we are not engineers, biologists or scientists, we had to look at it from an architectural point of view: does the house contribute to the quality of daily life?

As architects, we deal with space, organization, shapes, light, materials… So we took a basic shape (rectangle), used an age-old natural and ecological recourse (geothermal heat) and combined the two.

The house is a rectangle of 28 by 9 by 4.3 meters that for two thirds has been plugged into the ground under an angle of 21 degrees! With one gesture, we created both a strong visual statement and a high performance energy standard.

Simple, strong and efficient, but not without consequence. We also had to deal with the psychological impact of living in a sloped house, underneath the ground and with little natural light.

The task wasn’t easy, but in the end I think we managed to transform the problems into opportunities and create a unique and special ECO house." - 123DV

About 123DV:
123DV designs and realizes modern villas. Their goal is to create a sense of home in a modern villa. They translate your story, tailored to your needs, into the modern form, with attention to detail.

123DV Modern Villas focuses on both architecture and interior. From product design to realization. Their disciplines include architecture and interior design - from kitchens to furniture.

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5 Floors, Glass Elevator, Private Pier. Modern Lake House For Sale At A Cool $43,000,000.

Referred to as "The Lake House" by its present owners, this five story, four bedroom, four bathroom, 8,694 sq foot home overlooks Lake Tahoe on a lot measuring just under a half an acre in Incline Village, Crystal Bay, NV.

Established in 1995, Australia's Out From The Blue (OFTB) is one of the foremost landscape architecture and pool construction companies in the world. They seamlessly integrate contemporary landscape design with quality concrete pool construction, resulting in residential backyards the likes of which you'd never want to leave.

Many of their pools contain at least one transparent wall, which is fast becoming a trend amongst modern swimming pools (see the Casa Devoto pool). Now one of inner Melbourne’s leading residential landscape architecture studios, our team is expanding its practice both interstate and internationally.

Below are a four of my favorite landscape and pool designs from OFTB:

Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:

Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:

Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:

Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:

and a few more examples of their incredible work:

Their team of landscape architects, horticulturists and in-house pool builders who work closely on each project to create highly individual, imaginative and exciting landscape outcomes:

Director: Gary Kilworth
Construction Manager: Josh Considine
Senior Landscape Architect: Lewis Marash
Landscape Architect: Lily Sabo
General Manager: Ezio Ficorilli
Accounts Manager: Jodie Kilworth
Office Manager: Bernie Ficorilli
Construction Supervisor: Craig Bailey