Mohamed Fares from Alchemy Design Studio designed this residence in Katameya Heights, Cairo, Egypt, that stands out amongst its fellow homes in more ways than one, as the architecture and interior design are made unique by their altered nature.
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Oscar Niemeyer’s Refurbishment
This is Oscar Niemeyer’s Refurbishment, a masterpiece brought to life by the talented creators Felipe Hess and Renata Pedrosa.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
This year we are going to take an extra long break, starting today until January 10.
Wish you all a wonderful Christmas together with your family and friends, delicious meals and lots of presents.
And Happy New Year 2011!!!
Dear other architects,
This is a unique open letter from Charles Holland, director at FAT Architecture, where he asks other architects to please stop entering design competitions.
Here are 3 of the 10 reasons why they should stop entering design competitions:
1. It’s massively wasteful of your time and resources. Can you think of another comparable industry, or, more pertinently, profession, that spends so much time and money on bidding for work? Do doctors undertake a number of unpaid, speculative operations in order to convince people that they really need a hip replacement? No.
2. It gives away your main asset – your ideas – for free. After that, the rest is routine.
3. You are highly unlikely to win. This is just a fact. Some are better at them than others but no one wins them all and most lose often.
And the hilarious (and inspiring) conclusion:
So, if you’re thinking of entering a competition, don’t! Take your office down the pub instead. It will be more fun and cost a lot less. You might even meet someone down there who wants to give you a job.
Read the entire open letter.
Via ArchDaily
Vienna House of Music Competition
ArchMedium is organizing a new architecture competition for all architecture and related careers students to design a new building, the Vienna House of Music knowing the importance of Vienna’s past and future.
Back to Normal
I am really sorry for the lack of posts…
We went on vacation expecting wifi connection to continue updating CoolBoom.net but unfortunately the wifi didn’t work properly. Hope you can forgive us 
And the winner is…
I am sure you are as excited as we to know the name of the lucky winner. Lets announce it like the Oscars…
And the $50 Amazon Gift Card goes to… Natalie Ayers from Canada!
Congratulations to the winner and thanks to all of you for your participation.
Have a great weekend!
Amazon Gift Card Give Away
May 14 is around the corner! So for those of you who haven’t send us an email jet, remember that we are giving away one $ 50 Amazon Gift Card.
The competition is now closed.
Happy 1,000th Post + Give Away
It has been almost three and a half years since we started and we are really proud to announce that this is our 1,000 post published on CoolBoom.
To celebrate we want give you the opportunity to win a $ 50 Amazon Gift Card. You just have to email your name, age, gender, occupation and country before May 14.
The competition is now closed.
The information you provide won’t be shared with anyone else, we just want to know our readers a little better.
CoolBoom in the Top 100 Interior Design Blogs
CoolBoom is proud to announce that we are included in Graphic Design Degrees’ Top 100 Interior Design Blogs.
You can check the other 99 top blogs here.
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