Harris Hobbs House with Beautiful Exterior and Entrance

House entry could tell a lot about the house itself. Beautiful house exterior and entrance could make coming home one of the best things during the day. Townsend + Associates Architects managed to design great and conceptual house entrance in the Australia. It helps to capture garden views and light and made of modest materials and built elements. The sculptural “z form” roof of the entrance acknowledges existing adjacent built forms. It is articulated over steel beams running parallel with the house and the plywood soffit provides a warm honey glow. Because owners of the house are landscape decorators, such entrance combined with garden make overall house exterior looks very warm and beautiful. [Townsend + Associates Architects]

Photos by Ben Wrigley.

Modern House of Bukit Tunggal

K2LD is a great architecture company in Melbourne that have some very good design projects in their portfolio. House of Bukit Tunggal is one of their latest projects. It also is really awesome example of modern house design but not minimalistic like many other. Straight lines, clean colors and different brick sizes create an uniq look of exterior. Big spaces and using same colors with adding more bright ones inside like outside making the interior both light, airy and colorful. Big windows and milky wall colors just make the feeling of airy more stronger.

House Of Bukit Tunggal

House Of Bukit Tunggal Interior

New Lotus Evora Priced from $149,990 in Australia

Lotus has confirmed Australian pricing for its all-new Evora sports car a few months ahead of the coupe's market launch scheduled for the third quarter of 2009. The entry level two-seater version of the Evora will be priced at $149,990 AU (recommended price before statutory and delivery charges) which is about $119,000 US or €85,000. Bizarrely, there seems to be some kind of a new law in Australia that prohibits official websites from publishing new car prices -we're not kidding- so unfortunately we can't compare the Evora's price to other sports cars sold Down Under.

Along with the Evora 2+0, Lotus will also sell a 2+2 seater version of the coupe that will be priced from $156,990 (again, recommended price before statutory and delivery charges). Rear seats aside, this version adds a host of luxury appointments both standard and optional including Alpine audio system, reversing camera and cruise control.

Both models are powered by a Toyota sourced 3.5-liter V6 engine producing an output of 206kW (that's 276 in good ol' horsepower) and 342Nm of torque. The naturally aspirated V6 is matted to a 6-speed manual gearbox while Lotus also offers a sportier, close-ratio transmission. For those that insist on buying a sports car for all the wrong reasons, an automatic version is in the company's future plans.

With the stick shift, the Evora goes from standstill to 100km/h (62mph) in just over five seconds while returning an average fuel consumption of 8.7l/100km (combined highway/urban cycle).

GM Says Holden is Safe from Bankruptcy Proceedings, will be an Important Part of 'New GM'

It appears that -at least for the time being- Holden has escaped unscathed from the bankruptcy of its parent company, General Motors. As stated by the American automaker, Holden will continue normal operations in Australia and New Zealand as the company is not directly affected by GM's bankruptcy process in the US. "We don't anticipate this decision will have any direct impact on Holden's workforce, dealers, or suppliers," said Holden Chairman and Managing Director, Mark Reuss.

"Holden is a subsidiary of GM but we are a corporate entity in our own right – an independent company under Australian law. Beyond that, GM has indicated that Holden will be an important part of the New GM," Reuss said.

According to Holden's chief, the automaker will continue to maintain its focus on the planned product programs and activities. "That means technology improvements to our best selling Commodore range, launching the all-new Holden Cruze this month, and the introduction of our locally-built fuel efficient, four cylinder small car next year," he added.