The design creates a vibrant and porous podium by staggering up various retail boxes in dynamic and organic forms in response to the bustling surroundings, delivering a new sustainable and iconic design for the city. Architectural form drew inspiration from nature and imitates a beautiful Calla Lily. The curtain wall wraps around the tower and resembles the elegant ...
The Itoman Gyomin Shokudo, located in Itoman, Okinawa was conceived with the aim of supporting and promoting the local tradition and culture through its cuisine. The restaurant is covered in Ryukyu limestone and was constructed as part of a “masonry workshop” organized by the project collaborators. The fishermen in Itoman often constructed their own fishery grounds by ...
Inspired by glaciers, the architects envisioned a block of ice tumbling down a mountainside and crashing into the snowy landscape. The building was designed for the Kežmarská Chata (Kežmarská Hut) international competition, and it contains a restaurant, a sleeping area and ski storage for visitors Atelier 8000‘s cubic retreat is made from laminated timber beams. Due t...
French fashion house Dior's flagship store in Tokyo by Japanese studio SANAA has had its interior overhauled by American architect Peter Marino. Designed by Pritzker Prize laureates SANAA in 2004, the Dior store is located on Tokyo's Omotesando avenue – also home to Herzog & de Meuron's 2003 Prada flagship, Toyo Ito's 2004 Tod's store and MVRDV's 2007 Gyre building am...
The Da Vinci complex in Alphen aan de Rijn, combining a large retail area in the centre with a shell of residences around and on top of it, rises like a wave of reeds from its green surroundings. The complete façade curving around the building is clad with custom designed vertical elements in extruded aluminium with a bronze anodized finish. The shape and dimension of...
named ‘quai quest’, the 10,000 square meter building includes numerous offices, a hotel and various retail outlets.built on the site of a former gasworks, the project seeks to align itself with the city’s historical past. an internal courtyard at ground level is directly connected to the café and dining facilities, while additional communal spaces all have access to the ...
Per a statement from Neutelings Riedijk Architects: The new highrise building consists of five connected premium residential towers on top of a three stories high public plinth building with shopping, health spa and restaurant facilities. The building is located at the new main boulevard adjacent to the future Hermitage Moscow museum and was commissioned by the LSR G...
Situated on the corner of a busy Miami street, the shop is part of a new building by Aranda\Lasch that houses four luxury retailers, including French fashion brand Lanvin and Swiss luxury watchmaker Omega. The architecture studio – which recently designed looping Railing chairs made of metal pipes for Design Miami – referenced patterns and shapes typical on the Art De...
The Singapore Subordinate Courts have announced the winning design for a new courts complex after an open competition process that started in September last year. The design, by London-based Serie Architects in collaboration with local Singaporean firm Multiply Architects, includes two new towers and the renovation of the existing Octagon courts building. Serie and Multi...
Located on Jinghan Avenue in the bustling Qiaokou District, the commercial and business heart of Wuhan, China with light rail and mass transit railway accessibility, Heartland 66, designed by Aedas, is a mixed-use development which comprises a world-class shopping mall, Grade-A office tower and serviced apartments. The design adopts a concept of ‘infinity loop’ as a...
Aim at fashion outfit Strive for original style /OUALLIN clothing office space design Project name: OU ALLIN clothing - Tianan Cyber Park Office/Showroom Interior design: Shenzhen Bernard Space Design Chief designer: Zhang Zhiwen Design team: Zhu Liangwen, Yang Weiyu, Sheng Pingfeng Decoration designer: Zhang Zhiwen Area: 800㎡ Completion time: 2017,05 Mai...
Project Name: Ascott Orchard Singapore Design Company: CL3 Architects Limited Category: Hotel Location: Singapore Site Area: 4261.80m² Completion: January 2017 Photographer: Nirut Benjabanpot The Ascott Orchard is a new, premium serviced residence tower on Cairnhill Road, just a few yards from Orchard Road, the fashionable retail hub of Singapore. The design c...
Gelecek Automotive is one of the biggest dealers of Mercedes-Benz in Turkey. This project contains 500sqm VIP workspaces of the grand showroom which is located in Istanbul, Turkey. Despite the Mercedes-Benz Showroom standards and certain design rules, VIP Workspaces are free from the instructions and can be designed independently. Since it serves the automotive indu...
This collaboration between Teresa Sapey and the hotel chain will be the third to date, revealing the harmony between the spirit of the brand and the studio designs. The chosen site, which will see the refurbishment of the ancient spices depot of the Dutch East India Company, is located near the pier and sits opposite the De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas. The project nar...
The Location, The Building In a natural bay, nestled within the Tramontana mountain range lies the picturesque Port de Soller. For many years, Soller’s main trade was based on its famous oranges, which were shipped directly from the port to Marseille. Once a tunnel was built through the mountain to improve access to the Port, Soller experienced a dramatic transform...
The project is based on two simple, dimensional and geometric elements, designed to best meet the functional characteristics required by a commercial space: the intention was to completely transform office spaces designed for Coima. Alessandro Scandurra says: ‘Today, functional standards have changed, as have the value that a company’s building can express. The main...
How to integrate technological innovation with commerce and create a technological innovation ecosystem is the most important proposition of designers. The central planning of the building space is the guest area of the conference, but due to the original defects of the building, this place that people should feel open and comfortable is suppressed. In order to meet ...
MVRDV’s ambition is to implement a focal point to the area, with a new building that opens in all directions and is at the heart of the Knödelplatz square. The facade of the building is transparent and does not separate inside from outside and instead of isolating its inner activities, it is in constant dialogue with its surroundings. A transparent reincarnation of indus...
Ann Yu, the Director of DOMANI, orchestrated the architecture and interior design of the Club House and brought to it a stripped-back minimal sensibility with timeless appeal based on one core concept - time. In fact, DOMANI describes "time" as being not just a concept but a character in the construction. For this reason, everything was designed to weather well and to ac...
Conceived by long time collaborators Jason Catifeoglou, Andreas Thrasyvoulou and Steph Thrasyvoulou, the venue is housed in a cluster of Victorian buildings that has been thoroughly renovated to reflect the exquisite craftsmanship and understated grandeur of its architectural heritage through a contemporary lens of urban sophistication. By eschewing the superfluous param...
Designed as a discreet, low-rising ensemble of volumes of subtly textured eggshell concrete that echoes the area's limestone coastline, the house harmoniously complements the turquoise waters and lush shrubbery. Espousing a modernist sensibility of cubic volumes and minimalist aesthetic, the blocks that make up the residence cluster around a central terrace with the p...
Contrary to appearances, this filmic setting is located on Earth, specifically, on a volcanic island 120 kilometres east of the Korean Peninsula. Featuring a dense landscape of mountain peaks, caves and waterfalls encircled by rocky shorelines—a setting not unlike the remote island in Jurassic Park—it makes for the ideal backdrop for Healing Stay KOSMOS, a luxury resort ...
Offering gastronomic delights and spectacular views, the restaurant sees an alpine aesthetic of timber exuberance artfully combined with a modernist sensibility of minimalist elegance. Reached by the Nebelhorn Cable Car that has been transporting visitors up the mountain since 1930, at the time the longest cable car ride in the world, the new restaurant replaces an ou...
Designed by Brazilian and Uruguayan studio MAPA Architects, the cabins combine the radical modernism of Philip Johnson’s Glass House with the use of local, natural materials such as wood and stone that allow the architecture to harmoniously blend into the natural landscape while offering guests an abode of comfort and sophistication. The hotel, which will soon open it...
Located in downtown Toronto on the corner of Yonge and Delisle, the project is envisioned as a standout architectural icon that combines a striking hive-like design with energy-efficient performance. The proposed building intends to achieve Tier 2 of the Toronto Green Standard.Inspired by plant growth, the sculptural, 16-sided One Delisle features eight-story modules st...
Designed in collaboration with Heller Manus, the mixed-use urban project is located in the city’s Transbay Area near Market Street and the financial district. The development will feature environmentally friendly design that includes adaptive reuse and LEED-seeking structures and systems.Despite its modern design, the Oceanwide Center will be skillfully woven into the ex...
Located in the Costa Rican beach town of Nosara, the existing hotel was expanded and redesigned under the direction of Studio Saxe, a San Jose-based architecture firm renowned for its beautiful boutique hotel designs. Together with the owners, the architects sensitively restored and revitalized the originally run-down wooden house while imbuing it with bioclimatic design...
The development occupies four land plots which are connected by a central green axis. Grade-A office, eco-office and SOHO towers, exhibition venues and hotels are planned on the three plots towards the north; while other towers, clubhouse and market place are concentrated on the southern-most plot which is close to nearby residential districts and schools. Greener...
’Kulturhus i Skellefteå’ is planned to be a 19-storey structure reaching a height of 76 metres. It will house the ‘Västerbottensteatern’ (the county theatre of Västerbotten), the Anna Nordlander Museum, Skellefteå’s Konsthall (art gallery), the city library and a new 16-floor four-star hotel. The 24,940 sqm BTA building will be timber framed with a glass envelope an...
Unilever Starts Construction Of Global Foods Innovation Centre In Wageningen, The Netherlands Today, one year after the centralisation of Unilever’s Foods R&D expertise from Heilbronn (Germany), Poznan (Poland) and Vlaardingen (the Netherlands) in the Foods ecosystem in Wageningen (the Netherlands) was announced, Unilever has started the construction of its new world-wid...
Atelier Boronski working with Urdaneta Zeberio and Lian Satrustegui of IMO Design were awarded 1st Prize in the national design competition for this government project. It comprises 4,000 sq m of Instrumentation Laboratories, Forecasting Studios, an underground Wind-tunnel and a Weather-balloon launch room, as well as Meeting rooms, Staff Accommodation and Reception a...
Located in southern iranian state sistan va baluchestan, hajizadeh’s center is inspired by the desert and resembles the sand dunes. as the complex is located in a poor iranian district, the architects wanted to maintain the building traditions of the region, yet create a shelter for the locals. merging with the environment, the C.F.Z office and cultural complex compri...
A new kind of high-rise for Dubai UNStudio, in collaboration with Werner Sobek,was invited by the wasl Development Group to design a new kind of high-rise for the city of Dubai that would act as a benchmark for both the region and for the wasl Development Group itself. The project is locatedin an exceptional central position in Dubai’s network - along Sheikh Zayed R...
One Dalton contains a 215-room hotel on its lower twenty-one floors and 174 residential condominiums on the forty floors above: collectively, the Four Seasons Hotel and Residences. Shaped as a “soft triangle” in plan and sheathed in low-reflectance high-performance insulating glass, the tower rises from a granite-and-glass podium containing the condominium lobby and the ...
Complex of three hotels in Illychevsk city, Ukraine. The Building 1 is under construction and will be completed by 2016.
The choice of materials by RLP for the elegant facades in the area of the former brickworks was obvious as well as exciting: the design showed the variety of design possibilities with the "first precasted product of humanity" (Roland Rainer). The pillar order in accordance with the urban planning disposition results in a striking building complex - a landmark in the...
