Parisian trio FREAKS freearchitects has overhauled the busy parlour's two floors to rearrange a jewellery shop and studios for tattoo and piercing artists. The TribalAct parlour has been reordered to accommodate a busy roster of visiting international tattoo artists and to make the space more efficient, with a reception on the ground floor and dedicated space for the ...
As part of the redesign we added prominence to the façade with a custom awning, designed a new entry with laser-cut partitions, portiere drapery and a bespoke mosaic floor, updated the colors scheme and framed the windows with laser-cut screens in a traditional Andalusian style design. The restaurant now blends sophistication with approachability, with the interior p...
From the designers In this project we tried to build our “cabin”, a shelter to make us feel comfortable to develop our work as architects. With this aim we tried to arrange a typical ground floor of the XVIII century’s center of Ferrol. A narrow and elongated plot (5×16 m.), with few sunlight hours. Therefore, we created an “upside down keel board”, a white long st...
We realized that the local humble flora and fauna of the region inspired our ancestors. They were not about jaguars and eagles, for the contrary, they were inspired by the little cocoons, thorns and seeds. From there, we explored similar sources of inspiration to create the arts and crafts. With that in mind, we created the architectural concept for the project. Thro...
The installation was conceived as a cross-section through the primary planes of the building - walls, ceiling, and floor - and is represented in two "wrapping" architectural expressions that are an organizational device for all the programmatic requirements of a hotel room. An element of skeletal construction echoes the structural framework of the room and wraps vertical...
The Liang Dian Design Centre on Dongsishitiao is home to the new SPARK Beijing office; occupying 500 square meters on the second floor of a three story office building form the late 1980’s. An annex glass box had been added to second floor of the existing building allowing for the exterior brick façade to be experienced as an interior space. “We looked at the prese...
These tiny pebble-shaped seaside cabins by Korean studio Yoon Space Design are designed to be easily transported from beach to beach (+ slideshow). Yoon Space Design has installed eight of the white ovoid pods on a sandy beach in Yangyang-gun, a county in the Gangwon-do province of South Korea. Each of the tiny portable seaside retreats has a floor area of two square me...
Tokyo office Ryo Matsui Architects designed the Bridal Salon to provide a wedding consultation area for Hotel Nikko Kumamoto, a wedding venue in Kumamoto Prefecture, a region on Japan's south-west coast. The ivory-coloured walls lend a church-like appearance to the space, which has a reception desk at one end and a series of consultation booths to either side of the a...
Architecture studio Snohetta has created a ceiling of intersecting domes inside Aesop's first outpost in Norway â the Australian skincare brand's 100th boutique (+ slideshow). The small space on Oslo's Prinsensgate has been by overhauled Snohetta, which has offices in Oslo and New York, to house the newly opened Aesop store. "In this intimate 66-square-metre space, ...
An orange plastic tunnel forms a curvy seating area along the facade of this London office block – the first UK project from José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the architects of next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). Located in a former carpet factory in Shoreditch, Second Home is a collaborative workspace for various small companies, featuring transparent acry...
London designer Lee Broom used his latest marble homeware and lighting pieces to furnish this subterranean Soho restaurant, which pays tribute to the area's insalubrious history (+ slideshow). For the interior of the Old Tom & English restaurant and cocktail bar, which opens today in central London, Lee Broom aimed to recreate the atmosphere of attending a "raucous" din...
A three-lane running track weaves around this office for a football app company, by architects TKEZ, leading to goals for penalty shootouts during work breaks (+ slideshow).The team at Munich-based TKEZ designed the 1,400-square-metre office for Onefootball inside a former factory building in Berlin's Prenzlauerberg area. "Our studio was approached by the Berlin-based...
London architect Farshid Moussavi has overhauled three storeys of an existing Georgian building in the city's West End to create the first physical retail space for Victoria Beckham's eponymous fashion label (+ slideshow). Designed by Farshid Moussavi Architects, the shop occupies a space inside number 36 Dover Street, just up the road from Comme des Garcons' Dover Stre...
Books are arranged by colour rather than by title on the upper shelves of this bookshop in Rio de Janeiro designed by São Paulo firm Studio Arthur Casas (+ slideshow). Studio Arthur Casas designed the flagship store for Brazilian retailer Saraiva as a large double-height space, flanked by a mezzanine of bookshelves. The client chose to fill these shelves with books arra...
Japanese firm Torafu Architects used contrasting floor finishes to define the three distinct spaces of Snow Picnic, an experimental ice-cream shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). Snow Picnic takes a scientific approach to ice-cream making, using liquid nitrogen to freeze each ice cream to order, so Torafu Architects designed a three-tiered set for the brand's consumable chemica...
Plants are interspersed amongst the raw industrial spaces of this lifestyle store in Osaka by Japanese firm Suppose Design Office, which combines shopping, dining and gardening (+ slideshow). Suppose Design Office converted an old fashion boutique to create the new flagship store for Biotop, a lifestyle brand that sells clothing and operates a nursery for urban gardenin...
Creative consultants Rapt Studio wanted to include a range of working environments at the offices for Eventbrite, after the company secured a permanent base on the sixth and seventh floors of 155 5th Street. Rapt Studio began the design process by surveying the company's employees to find out about their needs, and asking them to collect ideas using social network Pin...
Located at the center of Hanoi, Cheering Restaurant is renovated from a long-closed project which still remains steel frame structure and reusable covering materials such as: glass, steel, bar steel, sheet-metal roof. The life on sidewalk, where many daily activities of Hanoi people, especially cuisine happen from daytime to nighttime, inspired the designers to create...
News: an appeals court has blocked the SANAA-designed renovation of iconic former department store La Samaritaine in Paris, which includes a wavy glass facade that critics have compared to a shower curtain.The court ruling effectively revokes part of the planning permission for the £368 million redevelopment planned by Japanese architect duo SANAA, causing building work ...
Located 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the Icehotel is built from over 30,000 tonnes of "snice" – a mixture of snow and ice taken from the nearby Tornu River. A further 1,000 tonnes of ice is used to create furniture and fittings inside, where spaces include a bar, a reception, luxury suites, a main hall and a church. A new feature designed specifically...
Helsinki-based Studio Puisto used hanging basket seats, strips of timber and potted plants for the interior of this 20-room hotel in Tampere, Finland (+ slideshow).Located within a converted industrial building, the Dream Hotel was designed by Studio Puisto to accompany the pre-existing Dream Hostel in the same building, offering an additional 20 boutique suites with en ...
Interieur 2014: Belgian creative agency Dift has enlisted furniture brands including Artifort and Ikea to turn the rooms of a school set for demolition into temporary hotel suites during Biennale Interieur 2014 (+ slideshow). Dift's Eyes/Nights Only project for the Kortrijk design event is located in one of the oldest parts of the city's Broelschool, which was formerly ...
British designer Tom Dixon's interiors outfit Design Research Studio used a 1920s cruise liner as a visual reference for interiors at the Mondrian London hotel, which opens today in the Sea Containers House building (+ slideshow). Design Research Studio created the interiors for the 359-room hotel, which occupies the south wing of Sea Containers House located between th...
Sky Factory Luminous SkyCeilings™, virtual skylights, faithfully reproduce the subtle visual stimuli of real sky. These award-winning skylights use Sky Factory’s Open Skies Image Technology™ to dramatically transform interiors into more expansive, natural feeling spaces. As unique biophilic design elements, SkyCeilings enliven the innate human connection to natur...
The designer’s description The offices of Google have a worldwide reputation of their joyful and scenery-like appearance. The main concept of the interior design is essentially the same in every country; a visual representation of a typical keyword. In some cases abstract concepts, rather than a specific topic, are represented, such as multi-cultural diversity or just...
SOESTHETIC GROUP have designed the Ukrainian offices for Playtech, a online gaming software company. The designer’s description The office is located in the new business centre Gulliver. A major feature is the panoramic view along the entire perimeter of the building.To incorporate this we were trying to make the interior with maximum light, transparent and cosy at th...
located in the uppermost residential district of northwest zhengzhou, the ‘hanhai dongfeng town center’ by amphibianArc constitutes a radical interpretation of shopping mall, setting a precedent in the region for contemporary metropolitan development. the 350,000 sqm building covers nine levels of retail and family entertainment, an elevated fountain plaza, an indoor can...
Phutthai Sawan Temple was built in 1353 AD by the first monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom. It becomes the view of the restaurant and the riverfront suites at Sala. The main entry of Sala is next to a Sala Tree on U-thong Road. It is a single iron door on a long brick facade, leading us to the low wooden ceiling reception and the double volume art gallery. Within this space, t...
Swaths of crumpled tracing paper cocooned the interior of this pop-up bar in a Japanese gallery to transform the space into a cozy cave (+ slideshow).Local studio Naoya Matsumoto Design created the small Yorunoma bar behind a typical glass shopfront in the Abeno-Ku ward of Osaka. The pop-up venue, which ran until August, was part of a summer programme at Abenoma – a g...
Spending every day at a desk increases exposure to a range of health issues, from heart disease to cancer, diabetes and obesity say researchers from Sweden, Australia and the UK. The End of Sitting is conceived as a space where sitting is just one of the options available. Dutch studio RAAAF (Rietveld Architecture Art Affordances) and artist Barbara Visser first start...
Inside Festival 2014: Yuki Fukumoto of Japanese architects FHAMS discusses the unusual rooms at Tama Hotel in Phnom Penh, which won the Hotel category at this year's Inside Festival.FHAMS' Tama Hotel hotel occupies the top floor of the 22-story Phnom Penh Tower in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Guests can choose from a variety of different room sizes, the smallest of which are c...
The vast open-plan interior of this São Paulo bookshop by Studio MK27 was designed to encourage shoppers to stay and read the books they've purchased or to simply hang out with friends (+ movie). The Livraria Cultura, which translates as Culture Bookshop, occupies a 2,500-metre multi-level space in the Iguatemi São Paulo shopping centre and was designed by Studio MK27 f...
Japanese clothing brand Cabane de Zucca commissioned Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects to redesign their retail space within luxury Tokyo department store Shibura Parco, to accommodate the addition of a new range. Zucca Dayz is a new offshoot of Cabane de Zucca designed by Rikaki Nagashima, which aims to target a younger market and the brand's next generation of clie...
Zaha Hadid has designed a building shaped like a field of sand dunes to house the headquarters of Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah. The 7,000-square-metre building will be constructed in Sharjah, in the north of the United Arab Emirates, and will house the administrative and public activities of the company, which specialises in waste management. Entirely ...
Swiss studio Bureau A has concealed a wooden cabin inside an artificial rock and transported it to a remote site in the Swiss Alps. Bureau A, a studio led by architects Leopold Banchini and Daniel Zamarbide, designed the mountain shelter to pay tribute to the central character in the novel Derborence by Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. In the story, a shepherd nam...
Industrial pipework runs over the ceiling of this juice-bar by London office Jump Studios, which features a ceramic herringbone floor and a marble counter. Jump Studios was behind the design of the space called The Juice Well, a cold-pressed juice bar in Soho, London. The cafe is set behind a shop front featuring a panel of patterned green glass on the ground floor of a...
