Another week gone, Spent some time listening to the rain and the wind this weekend, so what better way to spend a Saturday morning looking about the world to see what is happening in the design and photography areas, and there are some beautiful images and some stunning designwork to look at for this week. Enjoy.

Not too sure if this is livable, but I am drawn to buildings with big curves in them, more from the build side ( how do they do it) rather than the actual final look. It's almost like you could pick this up and move it somewhere else.

What a great photo, who wouldn't want to be there right now?

Tall ships, say no more

Garages appeared alot on my visits through the design sites I visit, and this one in particular really had an appeal to me. It's fast becoming a real trend overseas to have your vehicles parked in your house, I guess its a result of the world becoming more materialistic and wanting to see your toys.

And what better way than to incorporate your garage into your very fine lounge

Love the use of glass here, it really makes the space seem so much larger

It seems to open the space right up and invite the bush into your house, as a bit of a counter I suppose to having your cars in your lounge

I have to say it's a very very tidy garage though

Heres a house with a garge in it that Planet Design did a couple of years ago. It was an industrial wharehouse before I started on it.

I loved this kitchen, so easy to use

The garage downstairs, and I do miss the sound of the rain on that longrun roof.

I lived here for three months without a handrail, very nearly killed myself a few times.

Great photography

Ok who wouldn't want to be here. This was just to warm you all up.

Or here????

I have seen a lot of interiors now where the colour palate is kept very plain, and I do keep mentioning it, 2 colours here and yet it looks so sophisticated

Again basic simple and clean, and beautiful

My very first Blog had images from this guy who tramps around in the snow with snow shoes on ( what else), but his work is stunning

You can see the scale when you see the people in the bottom left hand corner

Now, I did like this house, clean liines, sits well in the corner of the property, and maximises the land use around it.

More asian images, I am still stunned by the craftmanship that people put into their places hundreds of years ago, just staggering really.

A quiet weekend this weekend, so some quality time searching the net for inspirational ideas. I cant believe that the year is travelling by so quickly, Christmas is just around the corner and another year will be past. Butu lets not dwell on that, here's this week images. The first sequence is of Bhudah in our interiors. I dont know what this iconic figurine does to a space or indeed how it makes you feel, but it does have an effect on the spaces you can see here. I like the quiet, and the orderly that it brings. I'm not into spritualism but I do know that this little figurine does have an effect of people. the remainder of the images are again a collection of beautiful and amazing interiors, photos, and inspiration images to make you stop and think. I went to the national goegraphic exibition last week and to tell you the truth I was hoping to be inspired by the photography, but this year it did not live up to expectations, depending more on the graphic nature of mans inhumanity to man than of beauty, so here's this weeks snap shot of the world, enjoy. Oh by the way over 2900 views last week so I must be doing somehting right in bringing this to you....enjoy.

This is a table........it seats 8 people and is constructed of laminated ply and glass. We could have built this in NZ, but sadly we have lost our creators of this sort of work to the economic times. SAD!

Louise Vuitton store in London, just opened. I have made a promise to myself to visit this store when I am there to see how well it has lasted, but Wow!!

Thatch used in a modern way, would have loved to have been in the room when this idea was presented. Apparently this material can last over 100 years so as long as the life time of a modern building.

Just a great shot

I'm not too sure if I like this, but it is clever use of space.

You have read about my love of simple design making things more than what they seem and here at Planet Design we do adhere to this, the image above is so simple with very few elements but it is classic in its simplicity, and I do believe that we should all strive to this.

This image deserves a Bhudah in it.

And then there's the other end of the spectrum, light and lots of colour, it workls just as well

And sometimes it doesn't. I started off liking this.......but the more I loked I thought well I couldn't do that everyday, some may like it but I think its a bit over the top, however it does provide a free light show everyday at no cost...

banksie has doen a lot in the cross over from Grafitti to Art and no more so when you see things likes this, a great shot to jsut transform what would otherwise jsut have been a wall.

Now we are talking, I could live here, imaging how nice it msut be to wake up every morning to a place like this, elegant, plain, simple but crying out luxury..... great place

Now this I LIKE....the trees growing through the floor , the large window with massive trees growing in the background, the well defined space, divided by the softness of the trees. Imagine this image without the trees, it's very linear and well formed, now add the texture of the trees and put in some lighting and there you have a space that msut be a real pleasure to live and work in.

Black and white. I am doing some research on black and white in interiors, and occassionaly I find images that make me stop and dig deeper into them, this is one of the first, and I think its worthy of being listed.

If you dont want to use colour then dont, what an entrance.

This is the kinemax, France, what a great building and what a great build, Christchurch could do with buildings like this, we have the opportunity to do this now.

An underwater room please, just for a bit of fun, I was wondering how they keep this warm, but I'm guessing the water temperature is probably about 25 degrees so no problems.

Well that's this week images done, hope you enjoyed them, I know I did.

This weeks images from around the globe. Enjoy please.

Burning man festival from space. I would love to go to this event.

But then again I might rather stay here instead.

Could we live like this, or is this just whimsy?

This used to be an old bay Villa but has been transformed into a totally modern house to live in.

For some reason I liked this, I couldn't live there but none the less it is a pretty cool place

Same place lovely timber work.

Not a lot of architecture going on here, but a great shot and a lovely car

Evenings by the pool must be something to look forward to....

Hows this? fantastic lighting

Nice and simple again......................

Lovely space to live in

This is cool.........

I might be wrong but I believe that is Mr. T Woods house

I could definately spend some time here

OK and here too....

The jury is out on this one but still worth a look.

Now holiday bunks and ski huts did not look like this when I when I had holidays or went skiing 

Simple again plain single use of colour to highlight an area and well......very nice

No other images of this place wonder what it looks like inside, because outside it looks pretty interesting

Now this is craftmanship enough said

The sunken kitchen is a great idea I thought, certaiunly keeps the eye level view clean and clear of clutter.