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Beautiful Designer Matches (done by our Interior Designer).
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Italian architecture and interior design is as famous for its style as it is for its price tag, but alas, for Italys homeowners who require the services of an architect or property designer, it is a profession that has literally priced itself out of its own market.
Until recently, those looking renovate their homes or offices had only two options; do it themselves or hire an interior designer, at huge cost. Now they have a third; CoContest, an innovative crowdsourcing platform for interior design that puts customers in direct contact with interior designers all over the world.
By applying a public tender mechanism to the private user experience, CoContest allows the end-user to set the price and the deadline and invite members of an international community of interior designers to compete with proposals for ideas to renovate their spaces.
Since its launch in 2011 the platform has hosted hundreds of these contests, and attracted around 20,000 designers from over 100 countries.
The business was started in Rome by the Schiano di Pepe brothers; architect Filippo, and law graduate Federico, who says: After working as an interior designer and architect in Europe for a few years, my brother recognised the problems and inefficiencies of a market where young, skilled designers work hard but fail to build a professional life simply because there are fewer customers willing to hire an interior designer.
And it was Filippo who came up with the idea of offering homeowners the chance of launching their own interior design competition by adapting the system typically used by large companies and local administrations to find the best project for museums and other large public and private sector buildings.
What created the opportunity for the start-up was the decline of the Italian domestic market for interior design. People simply couldnt afford their fees.
This had a massive impact on the Italian architectural profession, which represents around 10% of the global profession, as unemployment rates among newly graduated designers began to soar.
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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) December 04, 2014
Affirming its status among the elite in its field, Woodbury Universitys undergraduate Interior Architecture program has been ranked second best in the West, according to the DesignIntelligence 2015 ratings of Americas Best Architecture & Design Schools 2015 (http://www.di.net/articles/americas-best-interior-design-schools-2015/).
For more than a decade, DesignIntelligence has published the definitive school ranking as determined by practitioners who employ design professionals. In the 2015 ratings, Woodbury is ranked in second place, with the University of Oregons program taking the top spot in the West and California College of the Arts placing third.
Americas Best Architecture & Design Schools is conducted annually by DesignIntelligence on behalf of the Design Futures Council. The research ranks undergraduate and graduate programs from the perspective of leading practitioners. The 15th annual survey was conducted in mid-2014. The professional practice survey queried participants on the question, In your firms hiring experience in the past five years, which of the following schools are best preparing students for success in the profession? In addition, firms were queried about additional issues, such as how programs rate in teaching various skills.
The DesignIntelligence rankings value the professional attributes around which weve structured our curriculum, which is why this recognition means so much to our students, faculty and staff, said Christoph Korner, Department Chair, Interior Architecture, in the School of Architecture. We seek to expose our undergraduates to disciplines outside the strict confines of traditional architectural degree programs, an approach that is simultaneously aspirational and practical. And given that DesignIntelligence effectively takes the pulse of the profession itself, this years rating is all the more gratifying.
Selected professional practice leaders with direct experience hiring and supervising the performance of recent architecture and design graduates are invited to participate in the research. Survey participants, who are drawn from the Greenway Group database of leading firms throughout the United States, must verify they are currently responsible for hiring or supervising design professionals in each of the design fields for which they respond: architecture, industrial design, interior design, and landscape architecture. For the four professions surveyed, a total of 1,426 professional practice organizations participated in the research. The full reportincluding Architecture programs ranked 11-20 and related rankings for interior design, landscape architecture, and industrial design programsis now available in print and PDF editions.
The DesignIntelligence rating is the second major accolade for Woodburys Interior Architecture program this academic year. In September, Annie Chu, IIDA, AIA, a respected architect, interior designer and member of the Interior Architecture faculty, received the International Interior Design Associations Leadership Award of Excellence from IIDAs Southern California chapter.
About Woodbury University Founded in 1884, Woodbury University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Southern California. Woodbury offers bachelor's degrees from the School of Architecture, School of Business, School of Media, Culture & Design, and College of Transdisciplinarity, along with a Master of Arts (MA) in Media for Social Justice, Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Interior Architecture (MIA), Master of Science in Architecture (MSArch), and Master of Leadership. The San Diego campus offers Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees, as well as an MSArch degree with concentrations in Real Estate Development and Landscape + Urbanism. Woodbury ranks 15th among the nations 25 Colleges That Add the Most Value, according to Money Magazine. Visit http://www.woodbury.edu for more information.
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We're used to seeing her all glammed up on the red carpet at swanky events.
But The Simple life star Nicole Richie looks unusually pale and underdone in her latest selfie.
The fashion designer shared a snap of her and her interior designer pal Ryan Korban with her Instagram followers on Wednesday afternoon.
The reality star, has her hair scraped back in a bun, and shows off her natural beauty in the snap.
And Nicole's fans were quick to compliment the former reality star.
"love her self-confidence sans makeup!," wrote one.
"How does she look so bangin with no make up....but like...banginer than with make up," (sic) wrote another.
The reality star recently came under fire when she posted a photo of her back from behind on Instagram - with some users saying she looked far too thin.
But Nicole's fans were quick to defend her.
"I don't know why people bother commenting negative things on here. If you don't like how she looks, stop following her. Your negative comments do nothing but make you look incompetent, arrogant and jealous," wrote one user.
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO (KCTV) -
A family of five lost their house, Christmas presents and decorations when a fire destroyed their Excelsior Springs home.
Now, a local diner is hoping to help by collecting donations for the family.
The fire destroyed the family's home in the 300 block of Haynes on Tuesday afternoon. A 5-year-old boy named Lucky noticed the smoke and alerted his dad who was sleeping at the time.
"Luckily Lucky woke me up. He saw some smoke in the kitchen. He said, 'dad, dad I see some smoke,'" his dad, Joe Clark, said. "He lives up to his name continuously. He's just a little jewel. Both my boys, we've been blessed with two beautiful children."
Clark, his fianc Lura Pate, their sons 6-year-old Odin and 5-year-old Lucky and the boys' grandmother, Renna, all lived inside the home.
Firefighters believe old electrical wiring in the attic started the fire.
Firefighters rushed to save the majority of the boys' Christmas presents. Several presents and Christmas decorations were destroyed.
"I couldn't thank them enough. I don't even have the words to describe that feeling when I saw those boxes of gifts sitting perfectly fine outside on the lawn," Pate said.
The bedrooms inside the home were badly damaged by smoke and water. The upstairs bedroom and attic were also destroyed.
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GOLDENDALE, Wash. A Goldendale man and his two children were found dead Wednesday after their home was destroyed in an early morning fire that investigators blame on faulty electrical wiring.
The bodies of Thomas G. Blakely, 34, and his two children, Kyra Julia Blakely, 7, and Thomas Evan Blakely, 5, were found in their home in the 600 block of North Mill Street, according to the Klickitat County Coroners Office.
Kyra was a second-grader at Goldendale Primary School, where her brother attended kindergarten, said Kay Hill, Goldendale School District business manager. She said counselors were asked to work with the students Wednesday.
Flames had fully engulfed the home when the fire was called in about 2:30 a.m., police said.
The fire, which is considered accidental, apparently started in wiring in the basement of the home before burning into the main level of the house, said Glenn Johnson, vice president of Q.Global, a forensic fire investigation company based in Burbank, Wash. Q.Global was called in at the request of the Goldendale Police Department.
Johnson said there were no working smoke detectors in the house.
Fire Chief Noah Halm said the incident was the first fatal fire in a decade. He said the firefighters will go through a critical-incident debriefing, where they will discuss what happened and how they are coping with it.
This report has been updated to correct Fire Chief Noah Halms first name.
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A man received life threatening injuries in a fire in a home behind the Taste of India restaurant on Sprague Avenue in Spokane Valley lastmonth.
The Spokane Valley Fire Department responded to the fire at 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, said Fire Marshal Kevin Miller. The man was able to get himself out of the house, but not before breathing in a lot ofsmoke.
Somehow he woke up, Miller said of the mans escape from the burning home. We found him in the frontyard.
The mans condition was upgraded within a couple days
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A man received life threatening injuries in a fire in a home behind the Taste of India restaurant on Sprague Avenue in Spokane Valley lastmonth.
The Spokane Valley Fire Department responded to the fire at 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, said Fire Marshal Kevin Miller. The man was able to get himself out of the house, but not before breathing in a lot ofsmoke.
Somehow he woke up, Miller said of the mans escape from the burning home. We found him in the frontyard.
The mans condition was upgraded within a couple days of the fire, Miller said. Faulty electrical wiring was determined to be the cause of theblaze.
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