Located close to a motorway just outside the town of Ardooie, the headquarters for Rob Systems was designed by Bruges firm Govaert & Vanhoutte to house a showroom, offices and a production hall. The choice of cladding materials for the various spaces was determined by their different functions. The manufacturing area is completely closed off behind walls of concrete or...
Automotive brand Mazda, which this year relaunched its iconic MX-5 sports car, asked Suppose Design Office to create a new showroom on an awkwardly shaped site in Meguro, south of the Japanese capital. The architects saw the jagged site edge as an opportunity to create a long wall of streamlined glazing – providing plenty of space for displaying the brand's cars to pass...
Haworth Tompkins – which was awarded the UK's most important architecture prize for its redesign of the Liverpool Everyman theatre – was approached by the Donmar Warehouse to create a new facility for rehearsals, education and admin.The not-for-profit contemporary theatre company had acquired a former warehouse on Dryden Street, close to its original theatre in Covent Ga...
Named the Red Mirror building, the three-storey office block was designed by Wise Architecture for the Gangnam district of Seoul. Slender bands of mirror, glass, steel and translucent red polycarbonate plastic form a grid enclosure for the two glazed levels visible above ground and a balustrade for a roof terrace. These strips are arranged in alternating horizontal and...
Oaks Prague developer Arendon Development Company has appointed London architect John Pawson to design a hotel, spa and restaurant for its luxury residential development on a former hunting estate. New York studio Richard Meier will create 25 apartments, while Czech architect Eva Jiřičná will contribute a single-family villa. The projects form part of a €400 million (ap...
The sauna has two wings which gradually fold out toward the Baltic Sea, allowing it to soak up the warmth of the evening sun.Called the Brenner Sauna, the entire structure is encased in locally-sourced pine with floor-to-ceiling glazing on the face of the building to guide viewers to the breathtaking ocean view and to allow the sun to penetrate the interior. Brenner S...
Sustainability is a major focus of the building design, which includes solar panels, water recycling, and green roofs. Gdańsk’s new Central Business District Development will be located along the city’s main axis roads and rail routes and in close proximity to the sea and university campus. The proposed office building makes the most of the surrounding urban density w...
He purchased the 104-acre Blackadore Caye with a partner nearly 10 years ago, and recently teamed up with NYC-based Delos developer Paul Scialla to create the luxury resort, which is slated to open in 2018. The plan is to make this a “restorative island”, which refers to both calming effect it will have on visitors, and how the island itself is being replenished. Blac...
The children had gotten older outgrown the lawn and the parents wanted a backyard office and a tranquil zen location for the couple's plants, so they decided to overhaul the backyard structure which had once been the shed, and turn it into a lush garden art studio, which is ticking all the boxes on our home workspace wishlist! Filled with some of the owners' favorite tre...
Dubbed Refuge du Goûter, this space-age self-sufficient shelter is being built from locally sourced pinewood, and it will be equipped with solar panels and wind turbines. Designed for the French Alpine Club by Thomas Buchi and Hervé Dessimoz from Group-H, the refuge will be the highest building in france when it opens in the near future. Located on one of the most pop...
Morphosis Architects has released their highly-anticipated designs for a 381-metre-tall reflective skyscraper to be built in Vals, Switzerland. The ultra-thin tower will house a luxury hotel, and become the third addition to the 7132 Resort by a Pritzer laureate. The skyscraper is slated for completion in 2019. The ’7132 Tower’ is intended to be an impressive and eye-ca...
Hechingen Studio is a crystal-shaped shipping container office that uses multiple glazed end walls to funnel natural light into the interior. The floor-to-ceiling glass also frames views of the surrounding landscape. An advertising agency commissioned Whitaker to develop the Hechingen Studio design as a low-cost cargotecture workspace near the rural German town of Hechi...
The building, designed by Tabanlioglu Architects, tries to redefine the typology of office architecture and give it a warmer home-like feeling. It was awarded the Best Office & Business Development 2015 award at MIPIM International Property Fair in Cannes, France. The five-story building was built for a pharmaceutical company whose owners, an elderly couple, wanted t...
The 8,000-square-foot bar is made from multiple containers, each featuring its own unique interior design, that are stacked on top one another to create a sublime outdoor experience. Some of the designs make you feel like you've been transported to a whole new world - we highly recommend clicking through the gallery to see pictures of this stellar new project. The bar...
Located in the hamlet of Abshoven in the Dutch province of Limburg, the Brasserie Abshaove cafe now offers lattes and sandwiches instead of liturgy and sermons. Originally belonging to the abbey farm of Val-Dieu, this complex was comprised of a manor house and barn, which eventually grew into a full-fledged monastery in the early 1900s. In 2011, a developer signed an...
Rzero intervention for this Mexican historic building responds to the requirements of three different clients, flexible spaces and a wide visual range of all the area, which wants to give each client a feeling of appropriation of space giving a special importance to the main entrance plaza. The idea behind the project – create without constructing – rules over any forma...
In this project of their own design studio in Shanghai, Lukstudio found a moment of encounter with nature, so rare in a urban context, in a forgotten courtyard. It is an old tree, the chimonanthus tree, known also as “wintersweet”. The architects were immediately charmed and so naturally, their design efforts became focused on restoring the dignity of this abandoned tre...
Sitting in the middle of a prestigious vineyard, the Château La Dominique is on neighbourly terms with some of the most famous appellations in the world: Cheval Blanc, Petrus, Figeac, La Conseillante, l’Evangile... It clearly needed to mark its territory by bringing out and transforming a very special landscape. And so the idea was born of creating an object that would ...
However the newly minted net-zero Glumac Shanghai office could change that mentality in a big way. Developed by Gensler in collaboration with Shimizu, GIGA, and Glumac over the course of a year, the Shanghai office boasts a stunning array of high-tech sustainable features and is China's first LEED v4 Platinum certified building. It's also designed to become the first bui...
Located near Stockholm, the concrete and blackened timber extension was built right on top of the existing wings overlooking the forest and nearby bay. Featuring 27 new rooms, this lean, stylish hotel marries Swedish architecture and traditional Japanese decor. You'll love the interiors -- for photos, feel free to hit the jump. Japanese architect Yoji Kasajima built t...
A Polish bakery with a long tradition dating back to 1927 has recently been updated in a sweet sustainable way. The Doppio Cafe Bistro / Bartkowscy in Toruń now features old baking sheets turned into wall tiles and lamp shades that blend in with minimalist wooden furniture. Realized by Mode:lina architekci together with the owners, this centenarian bakery combines recycl...
Chef and visionaire Douglas McMaster has set out to change the way eateries source, cook and sell their food through his newly opened restaurant Silo. Located in Brighton, it prides itself of being UK’s first zero-waste restaurant and serves seasonal, local, vegetarian food, filters water through osmosis, grinds wheat for making bread, and composts all organic waste. Bai...
An initiative of Raw Nerve and designed by Studio Myerscough, the Deptford Cafe was made from an old train carriage donated by South East Trains about three years ago. The cafe is part of a creative community space called The Deptford Project, which also includes designers' studios, a communal garden and an outdoors silent cinema with fantastic blooming umbrellas made fr...
Partly covered by lush green plants, the curved and flowing walls in the shop were inspired by the churning and mixing involved in the cheese pastry baking process. The Yokohama-based store is the latest location for the PABLO cheese tarts chain, which has a series of stores opening throughout Japan, some of which also designed by RONDO. PABLO’s new Yokohama store com...
Vertical Garden Design’s latest project is a 113 square meter vertical garden in Espaço Espelho d'Água - a new restaurant/gallery/concert venue located next to the river in Belem, Lisbon. The garden wraps around the four walls of a kitchen inserted in the open space of the renovated '40s pavilion. Several windows cut through the lush surface, providing views from one si...
The goal of this project – developed by John Pawson for the Christopher Kane Store in London – was never a signature work of architecture, but an environment with an emotional dimension, where the focus is on the clothes and on the people connected with the clothes. Underlying everything is the idea of atmosphere as the product of the delicately subversive play of contr...
This project aimed to re-organise an existing nightclub, whose leitmotiv was grounded in sparkling, coloured lights inside a dark box. The nightclub is then conceived as a light, sound and movement tuner. Therefore the plan is based in a gradual composition of those three elements. The central part is shaped as an area for dancing and maximum vibration – convulsive, int...
A hotel with an unconventional concept and an inspiring history that is operated to professional standards – this is how the most recent project of AllesWirdGut Architects initiated by magdas, the social business subsidiary of Caritas Austria, can be described. The hotel rooms are available to city travelers, tourists in Vienna and overnight trippers, each with a view o...
Dream hotel is designed as an upscale extension to the popular Dream Hostel in Tampere, Finland. The hostel opened its doors in 2010 and is located in an old industrial building in the center of the city and in close proximity of the Tampere concert hall. The cooperation between Studio Puisto Architects and Dream Hostel started in the fall of 2013 after a workshop of ...
GoodHabitz, an online education hub in Eindhoven, Netherlands, hired Marcel van Heeswijk to design the interior of their new office space. Since the company’s mandate is the transfer of knowledge, van Heeswijk created a pair of stages equipped with workstations, where clients can focus. These stations have sound-dampening partitions, which allow for greater focus and con...
The Switzerland-based healthcare company Octapharma debuted its sweet new Nordic headquarters in the Western Kungsholmen district of Stockholm. The company has been spilling out of its old Stockholm premises, prompting the purchase of the Great Brewery building next door, which Stockholm architecture firm Joliark repurposed into a gorgeous glass-walled company office. T...
From the largest living wall in North America to high rises wrapped in vertical gardens, we have seen quite a few impressive green walls. But LTL Architects has built an 84-foot-long green wall in a New York City office that might just be our favorite. Located in the offices of OpenPlans, LTL’s masterpiece is a near-exact replica of Central Park, complete with ponds, law...
Built entirely from super-versatile cardboard, the Amsterdam office is a large volume office space inside a white box apartment. Made using van Bleiswijk’s "no glue, no screw" technique, the concept illustrates the agency’s philosophy to perfection: “Nothing is about the power of ideas, how a single idea can transform nothing into something. Using a cheap throw-away mat...
Located in a gallery tucked behind a glass storefront in Osaka, the Yorunoma bar was previously used as a meeting and workshop space. The pop-up bar's mysterious atmosphere was accentuated by dim lighting that enhanced the space which was covered in crumpled swathes of translucent tracing paper. Located in the Abeno-Ku ward of Osaka, the grotto-like Yorunoma bar sat i...
The constant change of use, the presence of different architectural styles, and the passing of the years, made from Niop a very different place in outline and operation from the conception of a traditional hacienda in Southeast Mexico. The project developed by AS Arquitectura and R79 seeks to transform this group of buildings that were previously occupied by livestock a...
The Pool Aoyama is a unique nautical-themed concept shop set in a pool originally built in the 1970s. Designed by Nobuo Araki from The Archetype and DJ-turned-fashion-guru Hiroshi Fujiwara, this brilliant space has retained much of its original character and charm. The Pool Aoyama sells nautical clothing and accessories in a restored swimming pool located within a vint...
