House SNR / TheHeder Partnership

The house, designed by TheHeder Partnership, is situated on a typical suburban plot and is framed between two edge gables. The house is based on a contemporary study of the archetype the gable house which is widely spread in SA, Australia and other countries. This type is usually a single story house connected to the ground with two side gables and a central entrance with a thatched pitch roof. This house takes these “classic” elements and adapts them to our times — via ArchDaily

Revealed: how Vodafone dealers bend the rules posing as customers

A Vodafone dealer’s staff have been caught posing as customers to cancel the customers’ original accounts in order to sign them up for new contracts with higher commissions.

The staff members of Communications Direct Pty Ltd have also breached privacy by forwarding detailed customer call records outside the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com

YN-13 / Morris Sato Studio

YN-13 House, designed by Morris Sato Studio, is organized on its site as three independent volumes enclosing a courtyard-like space with a swimming pool at its center. The biased cut of the main house’s pitched roof and its protruding corners underscore primary views of the landscape and ocean. Conceived as a buoyant mass and inspired by historic Japanese residential structures in Kyoto and Kanazawa, the house’s unique siding design of western red cedar vertical battens and clapboard merge with the standing seams of the stainless steel roofing to visually unify the wall and roof surfaces — via ArchDaily

The truth about TV ratings, online viewing and sci-fi shows

When sci-fi TV shows gets canceled (on any network), many fans talk about how the ratings system is broken and doesn’t count sci-fi viewers correctly. After all, sci-fi fans are tech savvy and don’t watch live TV shows on TV … they DVR them, they buy them on iTunes and they illegally download them from BitTorrent. If the archaic Nielsen system only took these viewers into account, many sci-fi TV shows would have massive ratings and last many more seasons — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Lovell House / Richard Neutra

The Lovell House was designed for the active, health conscious Lovell family in the hills of Los Angeles. The house is an early example of the International Style in the United States that evokes principles that were developed by Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. The house consists of a series of overlapping planes that do not stick to Wright’s proportionality; rather they are a hybrid of Wright’s planar devices combined with Le Corbusier’s stark, streamlined aesthetic — via ArchDaily