Interior design ideas

As it has become known New York City’s famous Plaza Hotel is opening after three-year renovation.
Restoration of a 19-storeyed building, in which Marilyn Monroe was photographed and which lodgers were participants of group “Beatles”, has managed to its present owners in $400 million
Owners wished to transfer room-numbers of hotel in to private property; however, this idea has encountered resistance of trade unions and mayor of New York. Negotiations have led to that the majority of room-numbers will all the same remain to hotel, and nearby 200 of them will be sold into private possession.
Plaza Hotel has been opened in the beginning of the last century. It is known on many Hollywood films which were shooted in its walls.
 

Cities of oil kings are continuing to reach for the sky. Here the amazing imagination highest buildings will be created. But the latest news from Saudi Arabia has shaken the world, having forced everyone to speak about a new record. As it has become known, in Jidda construction of the new giant, which will take away a palm tree of superiority at already under being built skyscraper Burj Dubai will begin and it will become the highest building in the world.
City landscapes of the Near East, owing to a continuous stream of petrodollars, promptly get the ultramodern kind reflecting all building achievements of XXI century. Only just the tower Burj Dubai has been recognized the highest building in the world, as the new project which promises to break all conceivable and inconceivable records has begun.
Last week in Abu-Dhabi the chapter of the British firm Hyder Consulting, leading development of Burj Dubai, has declared the order for designing of a new tower which should become twice higher than Burj. Building company Kindom Holding offers to construct skyscraper Mile High Tower (1600 meters high).
Let’s remind, that tower Burj Dubai, which will be completed by the end of 2008, has at present reached 605 meters in height, and upon termination of construction it will tower above the ground on 818 meters. Thus, Burj has already overtaken the previous champion - a skyscraper in Taipei (508 meters). The new tower will also leave far behind both buildings.
 

In the nearest future the young solvent tourists, tired of boring pomposity and classics, can stop in new, equipped on the latest word of technics the hotels, constructed by the well-known leader in the world hotel market Marriott International Inc. As company’s management has informed, Marriott together with company Ian Schrager is going to open a new network of premium-class hotels for youth worldwide.
The first hotel-boutique under absolutely new brand Edition will appear in 2010. While precisely it is not known, where the hotel will be situated, but it has become known that the style of the hotel will be typical for all hotels of a new network. New hotels will have no more than 200 room-numbers, and their design will be so that it will attract young and modern people, who wish not only to have, but who also want to receive unusual impressions. Famous architects and designers will be engaged in registration of hotels.
Hotels of a new network will be located in large cities of the world - in Paris, Madrid, Miami, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In total it is planned to build about hundred hotels.
Company Ian Schrager - the leader in fashionable class hotels - will be responsible for process of designing and marketing of Edition hotels.
Corporation Marriott, headed by members of one family, already owns 18-th brands, including Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard, Ramada and Renaissance. All hotels offer qualitative service of a high level, however, today the company wants to conquest of hearts of young and solvent generation.
 

Company International Hotel Investments, controlled by Dubai government, has entered into the agreement on purchase of London hotel Metropole on quay of Thames, and also the several next buildings, which are being possessed by the British crown.
The sum of the transaction has made 130 million pounds sterling (more than $255 million). As it has become known, apartment houses will be constructed there, and the hotel will be reconstructed.
International Hotel Investments, in which portfolio construction and management of 15 hotels enter, has been chosen among several applicants for purchase of the specified site. According to Charles Gardner, the chapter of company Crown Estate, operating royal property, criterion of selection was a project of reconstruction of a historical building of the hotel, constructed in 19 century.
In result of reorganization in a building, the total area will make more than 37 thousand square meters and the hotel will offer 283 room-numbers and elite apartments.
Arabian investors buy up the real estate in large cities of the Europe and America more actively; in particular, it concerns New York and London. In January, 2008 belonging authorities of Qatar Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment has bought London’s Chelsea Barracks for 959 million pounds sterling (nearby $2 billion).
 

In New York the two-storied penthouse with three bedrooms in the house of construction of 1961 is on sale. The apartment was projected at Frank Sinatra’s participation and after that he lived there with young wife.
Later the apartment has been sold and nothing has been changed there: walls are covered with cracks, floors have remained prehistoric, and the interior reminds those ages.
However, previous owners wanted to unite an inhabited bottom part of a penthouse with top, where Sinatra practiced singing, and also arranged parties.
Nevertheless, nothing has been changed and the apartment remained with the same style. Now “star” apartment is on sale for $6 million. As it has become known, the high price is caused in many respects by that linoleum till now stores Frank Sinatra’s prints and that despite of numerous cracks the walls do not fall.

It is desirable that the area of the kitchen would be not less than 10-12 square meters. It may be conditionally divided into two zones. In the first part it is possible to place such kitchen equipment as refrigerator, a sink, a desktop etc. The other zone of kitchen may be devoted to the dining room with all necessary furniture and a small bar. Windows of this room should be focused on the northern, northwest or east party.
Bathroom. It is remarkable, if the house will be connected to local or independent water and sewer networks. The area of bathroom should be so that it would allow placing washing machine and a water-heating column.
Depth of rooms in the house should not exceed 6,5 m with a view of maintenance of sufficient natural light exposure of premises. The form of rooms is considered optimum length at a parity and width 2:3. The least admissible width of aintraroom ladder should make 0,9 m at the greatest bias 1:1,25. By the way, a metal spiral staircase is also a quite good variant.
The hall can be transformed into one of the most elegant premises, for example into the hall which is connected practically with all rooms of the house. The general area of the hall should not be less than 6-7 square meters at the minimal width of 1,4 meter.
Summer premises (the glazed verandahs or terraces with the open apertures, galleries, loggias, and balconies) can occupy 15-20 % of a total area of the house. Their depth, as a rule, is not less than 1,2 meters.
Now it is necessary to be defined, how many floors will be in your house. In this case of one-storied house it is possible to manage simple designs and the easy base.
Construction of two-storied houses with penthouses is on 15-30 % cheaper than three-storied houses. They are twice more economic on the area of building, expenses, they require less furnaces and pipes and are much more economic in operation.
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Four facades should be drawn on the plan: main, or obverse (from road or street), lateral (on the right and to the left of the main facade), domestic (from a court yard). Cuts should be carried out on architecturally-construction plans.
They may be of following kinds:
architectural - reflect an interior of premises without constructive elements;
constructive - show elements of a building (walls, overlapping, a roof and others).
Besides, the project of the house includes plans: the base; allocations of beams of overlapping; arrangements of bearing designs of a roof. There are two stages of manufacturing of the design documentation: the outline sketch and the design-budget documentation (that is the equipment design). The Outline sketch gives representation about a lay-out of the house, the basic constructive decisions, furnish of premises and their engineering equipment.
Norm of the area
Premises of the house are subdivided into two basic groups: inhabited (sitting room, bedrooms, children????????s room, dining room, study, library, a room for visitors, etc.) and subsidiary (wardrobe, bathroom, a sauna, boiler, etc.).
Let’s consider separate parts of the house and the requirement to them.
The cellar is intended for seasonal storage of vegetables, pickles and other products. Access to it is carried out through the hatch, placed on the free area of a floor, on a ladder-step-ladder. In a cellar or on a ground floor it is possible to arrange pantries, economic premises, a boiler-house, garage, or anything you like. The height of basements from a floor up to a ceiling varies from 1,8 up to 2,4 m.
Sitting room
The comfort of the house is defined by the attitude of quantity of members of family to number of rooms. An optimum variant is when each member of family has the separate room.

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General view and lay-out
Before to start construction, it is necessary to define, whether you can adjust independently complex industrial, legal and financial attitudes with executors?
There is a set of high quality companies, not only accepting orders for performance architecturally-construction plans and arranging meetings with architects of projects, but also offering to consultation at the choice of the contractor for realization and also recommendations on internal furnish of the future house. In fact only the skilled architect can embody idea of the house of your dream in a stone or a tree. It is necessary to remember that the real professional will never offer the customer the only one variant.
At designing the house it is necessary to adhere to the certain rules. First of all it is necessary to choose scale - usually 1:50 or 1:100 for work above the drawing. Then plan axial, conditional lines, which are passing through the base and walls. Longitudinal axes on the drawing should be located left of a building and marked with letters of the alphabet, and cross-section - below and they should be marked with Arabian figures from left to right. A side of an external wall of 100-200 mm from an axis (depending on thickness of a wall) should be arranged from below on distance, and axes of internal walls - on their middle. These lines are very important, as at a marking of the house they are being transferred on the site. After that trace on the drawing of a wall so that thickness of each of them corresponded to the chosen scale. After that it is necessary to plan premises, dividing their partitions. It is very important to consider the parties of light. For example, southwest and western illumination is recommended for sitting room and northern - for the kitchen.
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When the first years of dazzling glory have passed, it is not so important to make greater money on them. Selling something from personal things, and under much higher price, than was at its purchase, may be a good idea in this case. Brazilian long-legged “bird” and simultaneously the richest top-model in world Gisele Bundchen, for example, was satiated with the magnificent penthouse on Manhattan and has declared about its sale for 10 900 000 dollars.
The smart apartment is in micro district of Manhattan West Village and has the area of 163 square meters. The apartment has also the additional area on a roof and it is possible to get there by means of the lift, for using which the personal key is handed over to the owner of an apartment. There, on cozy arranged roof, there is a professional set for a grill; so, it is possible to arrange excellent picnics on fresh air not leaving the house.
The penthouse has also a huge master’s bedroom with a greater wall case and an applied bath, a sauna and a jacuzzi, a bedroom for visitors (also from a jacuzzi), two bathrooms trimmed by a marble, kitchen and a spacious terrace. In total the penthouse has five rooms. The apartment is supplied with reliable safety system.
It is necessary to add, that from windows of Gisele Bundchen dwelling it is possible to admire simply tremendous view on the River Hudson. And the panorama of New York is really exciting.
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When seven-star hotels become numerous, they involuntarily start to lose their individuality and value. However, one more seven-star hotel of super premium class will be constructed in the United Arab Emirates! The only facts rescues from delight before the Arabian luxury: this masterpiece will be already the second seven-star hotel in the country.????
It is necessary to give due to architects from Sybarite Architects - the interior of the future hotels for billionaires amazes. The interior of the hotel is so unusual that it seems like as if newcomers from far planets have not coped with management at passage of an atmosphere of the Earth and their plane has failed into the Ocean. The building will look as huge splash in a wave on 300 m distance from coast.
Prodigal Arabs wish to spend 350 million dollars on construction of new seven-star palace. Almost nothing is known about room-numbers???????? interior. But one, the most improbable detail has been already become known: on top levels of a 28-storeyed building a real jungle with tropical plants and exotic animals will be arranged.
On a background of such exotic usual details helicopter platforms, a mooring for yachts and underwater restaurant seem so usual. It is possible to be precisely assured: even the second seven-star hotel will have its regular lodgers.
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