It is also Heatherwick Studio's first conservation project, as well as its first design for a production facility, something Heatherwick is passionate about. Finally, Laverstoke Mill is the first project of either type - refurbishment or distillery - ever to receive the prestigious Outstanding BREEAM rating for environmental assessment. When the leading gin brand bega...
The building site was designed in coordination with Zeidler Partnership Architects to complement the contemporary sculptural expression of the building. The design includes a diverse layer of elements including building canopies, tree bosques, cascading reflecting fountains and extensive lighting which respond to its cultural and climatic setting, allowing for pedestrian...
Its legacy and skillset is precious and something the family-owned business is determined to maintain, however this doesn't stop it from having its sights set firmly on the future. Dinesen's brand new showroom in Copenhagen, designed by local studio OeO, is a case in point. Respecting Dinesen's tradition, but with a clear nod to company's future, the showroom has been...
So this commission in the Hamptons-esque Georgian Bay region is a boon for the small, experimental design practice Partisans, which is making a name for itself among high-flying weekenders. To complement a prefab midcentury cabin on this private island, part of a group aptly named Sans Souci (literally 'no worries' in French), Partisan partners Pooya Baktash, Alexande...
'Outdoors ones, yes, but not big, indoor ones.' This, however, is about to change, as the striking new Markthal, designed by Maas and his partners Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries, has just opened its doors to Rotterdam's food-loving visitors. The new building ambitiously brings together a food market and housing in one clean, curvy stroke. Its unmistakable arch...
Ever since the high-tech architects sneaked functionalism off the business park and factory floor and transformed it into high-end design for apartments and galleries, the genre has been left wanting, preferring pragmatic and cost-effective banality over triumphal celebration. But the Silos 13 plant is different. Commissioned by the French company Semapa, which is in...
The new building of the water management company Hidrobal is located in the industrial park of Calvia, in a corner plot next to industrial buildings and warehouses. The new headquarters will house offices and customer service areas of the company. The building is intended to recognize the place and establish a dialogue with its surroundings despite the fact that the i...
Scaffolding, fire escapes, and security gates unintentionally contribute to the urban character of Manhattan. These urban necessities are ubiquitous and forgettable. However, without these items, the visual context of the street would be very different. When these utilitarian components are brought into focus, there is an expression of patterns and raw material that have...
Hence the idea of working with various seating options and different heights to achieve this. We have respected the existing architecture, painting the whole envelope in a warm color to work from a neutral box, and where the spatial distribution has remained in its original condition, and only modifying the distribution of the decorative elements. used the finest mat...
The boutique has an area of about 400 square meters on three levels and offers an exhibition of women's fashion, accessories, and men's fashion. The guidelines of the concept were taken from the Paris boutique designed by Riccardo Tisci, developing that theme for the first flagship store of the Maison in Asia. Piuarch expanded that spatial concept introducing the n...
The multifaceted site – a former textile factory and half domestic residence – has been updated with two new cocktail lounge bars, a casual ground floor canteen, a new raised dining area overlooking an open kitchen and a new ‘Little Room’ for private dining and meetings. The desire behind this project was to inject warmth, intrigue and quirky love back into Village E...
The four-level flexible office space holds most of the usual workplace amenities, such as individual offices, conference rooms and rest areas. It manages to register visual and physical permeability with glass partitions and captures engaging views across the space. It establishes a spatial coherence and promotes social cohesion by providing communal facilities – an angu...
‘If the Internet can win the price war, bricks and mortar have to win the excitement factor,’ opines Simon Mitchell, co-founder of London-based Sybarite Architects, which has designed many stores for Marni. ‘Retailers now have to make their stores brand experiences, as customers increasingly buy goods online.’ Meanwhile, Matthew Brown, the managing director of creative r...
We all know them, those buildings which give the impression of having been randomly scattered and carelessly constructed in a place where they don’t really belong. Architecture which doesn’t necessarily have to be unattractive but just doesn't fit, creating a feeling of embarrassment, indifference or even oppressiveness. These buildings appear suddenly when you are out f...
, with its 2060 square meters, will be flexible and reconfigurable alternately office space and commercial space, emphasizing the relationship between the external and internal spaces, in particular, by exploiting the 'adjacent to the north of the park.
It is located in Al Raha, Abu Dhabi (emirate), United Arab Emirates. The distinctive building was voted the “Best Futuristic Design” by The Building Exchange (BEX) Conference held in Spain. The shape of this building is achieved through the use of structural diagrid, a diagonal grid of steel.[3] The building features the following elevators: 12 passenger elevators ...
In order to guarantee full accessibility to the external environment, over a hundred volunteers including Repsol employees, their family and friends helped to identify architectural barriers in the surrounding areas of the new Campus. Repsol will make the necessary arrangement for these barriers to be remedied in a pioneering initiative that has never been carried out by...
The Agbar tower is a 35-story and 142 m high “small skyscraper”, located in Plaza de las Glorias. It fits exactly in the acute angle formed by Diagonal Ave. and Badajoz St. The shape of the building emulates a fountain having a constant and perfectly stable pressure. This is a very suitable image for the headquarters of a water company, reinforced by the idea that the bu...
FELTRINELLI PER PORTAVOLTA Along with the headquarters of the Fondazione - an internationally renowned center for study and research - the plan includes two additional buildings that will be mostly devoted to offices. The peculiarity of the chosen area lies in its location, sitting along the route of the Spanish Walls: these ancient walls, dating back to the Fifteenth...
This square building with a hollow centre appears to balance over a cluster of hills, creating offices and a central plaza for a business incubator unit in a rural Portuguese technology park . Located close to the historic town of Óbidos in a rural region north of Lisbon, the facility for the Óbidos Technological Park was designed by Carcavelos-based architect Jorge Mea...
London Design Festival 2014: architect Amanda Levete has opened a pop-up restaurant in London's Soho where tins of fish and seafood are displayed in a "a museum-type vitrine" before being dished up to customers to eat straight out of the can (+ slideshow). According to Levete, the project was inspired by a visit to a restaurant in Lisbon with several members of her stud...
My Boon is a personal lifestyle retail destination in Seoul’s Gangnam-gu neighborhood. It is a social space that encourages visitors to interact with the objects of the space turning the typical consumer experience into a social experience. The 6,700-square-foot retail space is at ground level bordered by narrow residential streets and a major thoroughfare. My Boon o...
The double storied building is a showcase of the architect’s cumulative theories of design and incorporates most of the salient features of his architecture such as, strict geometric order, symmetry, clarity in structural systems and services, use of contemporary materials and technology, emphasis on natural lighting and ventilation, less use of glass, user friendly ar...
Pagliacci Pizza’s newest restaurant is located on Main Street in Bellevue. The building, formerly a 1950’s medical office building, was transformed into a café and pizza production kitchen. The design preserves much of the brick façade, yet inserted a new storefront system to bring light into the interior and allow the building to glow at night. Built in planters, sun lo...
Thanks to the special facade system, which consists of alternating reflective steel panels and glass panels, the building seems to dematerialize, blending with the surrounding environment. The reflective steel panels are characterized by different depths depending on their position, assuring always different visual effects depending on the side from which the building is...
The general layout was planned with two corridors for different flows of people: one for visitors located near the nucleus and the other for employees closer to the façade. The intermediate elements between the two corridors comprise a series of spaces contained between wood and glass screens, accommodating small groups of private offices. The interior screen or façade a...
Flipboard Cafe, carved from a lost site in the city, is a tiny multi-level nook that serves fine space with a side of excellent coffee and healthy food. The cafe is nestled in the intersection of an emergency exit from Bennetts Lane Jazz Club below, the thoroughfare to Brolly Studios behind, and a two decade old unused shop-front window. The space had once been a tran...
Conceived as a "box within a box", the Vertigo Pavilion was designed by German architect Tim Simon with Portuguese architect João Quintela, following the success of a previous collaboration for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. The brief called for a flexible structure that could offer a variety of uses inside the Vertigo Climbing Center, which occupies an old warehous...
An assortment of mint-toned marble display plinths and golden garment rails are scattered across a poured-concrete floor in fashion designer Phillip Lim's New York store, by Campaign. Campaign designed the 3.1 Phillip Lim flagship store on Great Jones Street in Manhattan’s NoHo district. It is the fourth interior the British design studio has created for the clothing br...
XML architects has completed a bright white interior for a shop that sells only vitamin drinks and water in Amsterdam's Red Light District (+ slideshow). Amsterdam-based studio XML was asked to design the interior for Whitestore, a pharmaceutical-concept shop selling vitamin drinks and water to frequenters of the city’s Red Light District. XML designed an interior "s...
Rough concrete columns are juxtaposed with bright blue aluminium panels at the soon-to-open Issey Miyake flagship store in London by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka (+ slideshow + interview). The six large panes of glass that front Issey Miyake's latest London retail offering face onto Brook Street, between the city's major shopping thoroughfares of Regent Street and...
Japanese studio Suppose Design Office has converted a seafront warehouse into a specialist cycling centre with a hotel that allows guests to check-in while still on their bikes (+ sideshow). Hotel Cycle forms part of Onomichi U2, a complex dedicated to cycling culture created by Suppose Design Office in a renovated warehouse in Onomichi – a coastal city in Hiroshima Pre...
Norm Architects has built a cluster of minimalist "houses" in a former warehouse on Copenhagen's Paper Island to create a showroom for Danish design brand &tradition. The Village on Paper Island provides a showroom and offices for &tradition and was designed by Copenhagen-based Norm Architects, who have been creating trade fair stands, pop-up shops and installations for...
Aberrant Architecture worked with students from Canterbury School of Architecture to design an installation named Despite Efficiency for the university's Herbert Read Gallery. Conceived as a "celebration of time wasting at work", the installation mimicked an open-plan office with an unnaturally low ceiling of styrofoam tiles held in a metal grid, supported by thin whi...
The new headquarters for China Central Television, OMA’s largest project to date, combines the entire process of TV-making – administration, production, broadcasting – into a single loop of interconnected activity. Rising from a common platform accommodating production facilities, two towers – one dedicated to broadcasting, one to services, research, and education – lean...
Am Rietpark D is an office building near Zurich, Switzerland. While it's innovative building services make it a state of the art green building, it's also a landmark building with its colorful facade, designed in cooperation with the swiss artist Kerim Seiler and Mirlo Urbano Architects.
