The temperatures are really expected to sour high this week in Britain. The weather forecasters are predicting unprecedented heat wave with temperatures reaching above 33 C and parents have been warned to keep children indoors. Meanwhile even elder people have been issued advice about tackling the heat wave and emergency hospital services have been put [...]

This home is a melding of indoors and outdoors. The effect is total cool. There is a two-story courtyard confined within perimeter walls. One can view it as an indoor mini-park. The house is built around the concept of the courtyard. Most rooms have huge sliding doors that showcase the stillness of the courtyard outside, [...]