Miami Beach Dream Home Project: Meet the Architect and Designer

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These are editions 4, 5, and 6 of AHT’s own Robin Bogle’s “Miami Beach Dream Home Project”. The idea behind the project is to document the design and AV integration of a custom integrated home. If you missed the other three editions you can watch them by clicking the Miami Beach Dream Home link on the right side under categories …

Uli+Friends: Architectural Illumination Planning

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Uli Petzold’s koan-like credo is “Lighting is not lighting.” He explains: “If a space is evenly lit you give equal importance to everything. But some features deserve more emphasis than others.” “Not lighting,” means eliminating over-lighting, channeling daylight, adding smart fixtures, balancing them and reflecting them. Petzold runs the aesthetic illumination planning business “Uli+friends” in Miami, Florida, with a team …

Luxury Home: Landscape Audio Systems

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Backyards are a place for family, friends, and guests to come together. It’s now common to have a full kitchen, barbecue, television displays, and a top-notch audio system to assist in the ambiance thus transforming the backyard into a resort like oasis. The above photo is a recent AHT project that was integrated several months ago. When dealing with such …

Miami Beach Dream Home Project: “The Players” Part 1 and 2

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These are the second and third videos produced by Ron Callis and Firefly Design Group about AHT Residential’s Robin Bogle’s “Miami Beach Dream Home Project”. The first video was an introduction to the project, and these videos stay on that same path, but give a little more depth of the key players involved and the idea behind it. All posts …

Sunny Isles Trump Towers: Smart Amenities Panel and Upgrades

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Last week, I had a chance to catch up with Eric Dickson, one of AHT Residential’s project managers. As of late, Eric has been busy at the Trump Towers in beautiful Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Eric is over seeing the integration of the Crestron smart amenities panels that are in each unit at Trump Tower III. If you are unfamiliar with …

Rogier van der Heide: Why Light Needs Darkness

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There has been graceful fight occurring for the past 4.5 billion years, the estimated age of the Earth. It’s a fight between light and darkness. Only since Thomas Edison invented and mass produced the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb in the late 1800’s that this balance between light and darkness has begun to shift. Now instead of only receiving light …