The interior of soda.BERLIN, a bookshop for visual culture in the heart of Berlin, was the brainchild of Designliga, the Munich-based bureau for visual communication and interior design. After soda.MÜNCHEN, Sebastian Steinacker opened the second branch of soda at Berlin’s Rosenthaler Platz in early January 2015, offering a range of books and magazines from all areas of f...
The studio’s work on the project, which is situated in an existing 1980s office building, included completely reconfiguring the space and replacing the main staircase to create a new entrance and reception area, as well as designing bespoke elements including a bar, seating booths, and shelving. The aim for the interior was to create a work-focused yet relaxed and wel...
the design of the contemporary bar has resulted in a subtle homage to its interesting past, the sinuous counter surrounded with bertoia bar stools, curves around the center space and is a reference to the preexisting bar- also red. the organic nature of the interiors is highlighted by the sculptural staircase, taking visitors up to the restaurant and kitchen where in the...
The town of Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania was home to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which churned out steel for buildings, ships, and weapons for close to 150 years. The company went bankrupt in 2001 after decades of decline, selling its six plants two years later. This move led to construction of a casino and SteelStacks, an arts and entertainment district overlo...
When the company decided to move the center of its operations to a site surrounded by paddy fields in Toyota City, client and architect seized the opportunity to rethink the ways in which an office can draw out the innate skills of each employee. The goal was not to build a room full of desks where tasks would be dutifully ticked off a list, but instead to create an “ind...
The unfortunate fact of the matter, however, is that most people feel more tension than joy when they walk into a bank. So when Tokyo-based French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux set about designing a branch office for Sugamo Shinkin in Ekoda, her primary goal was to create an environment so welcoming customers would want to linger there – if even for an extra minute or tw...
Recently created by Shizuoka's municipal government, the park presents the Nippondaira plateau as an open-air museum of natural landscape art; as part of the project, the hotel was fully rebuilt for the first time since its opening in 1964. Mitani Landscape Studio’s Hiko Mitani directed landscape design for the hotel rennovation. Taking advantage of the spacious lawn in...
The U.S. General Service Administration's Design Excellence Program celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Since 1994 the program has streamlined the selection of quality architects and led to notable office buildings, courthouses and other facilities. One building that predates the program is the McCoy Federal Building in Jackson, Mississippi. The architects answere...
Architecture is an important element in the latter, from the façade to the layout and the displays. Christian Unverzagt and his firm, M1/DTW, carried out the design; the architect answered a few questions about the project. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? The project was the result of a commission by two brothers, both pharma...
What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? AS+GG won an international competition to design the tower in April 2009. Please provide an overview of the project. The 50-story, 240-meter tower features an innovative exterior wall, designed specifically for FKI. The building’s unique skin helps reduce internal heating and cooling loads a...
However, the inspiration of the design developed from the idea of creating a construction on top of the moving dunes. The lightweight building with its textile roofing expresses a harmonious contrast to the natural environment. Location The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China borders Russia and Mongolia. It is China’s third largest province with only 24 million...
The gardens share the theme of the hotel, which is “refined Japanese style.” In the world of Japanese cuisine there’s a practice called “kaishiki” that celebrates the seasons by decorating plates of food with flowers and leaves. I developed the concept of a “kaishiki garden” to embody that particularly Japanese sensitivity and care in the landscape. From the carefully-se...
CZS answered a few questions about the project. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? We were asked to produce a concept for a 450-room hotel for the National Convention Center in Hanoi. This building is within the National Convention Center campus and therefore required approval from the Minister of Construction. We were require...
Charitable organisation the Ethical Property Company asked London studio Architecture 00 to develop a facility that could house various charities on a disused industrial site in Vauxhall. The building also provides amenities including meeting rooms and a cafe – a resource that anyone can make use of. Recognising the aesthetic and spatial qualities of the existing 20th-...
Broom's 25-piece range is his largest to date and includes a chair that sits on a hoop suspended from the ceiling and lights made from marble and brass. Called The Department Store, his exhibition is arranged over two floors in the disused shops, which have been combined to create a series of spaces dressed with grey mannequins, display plinths and curtains. "I've ...
Split over two levels, the 240-square-metre Fiii Fun House has a cafe and play zone on the ground floor, and a space for private events upstairs. Íris Cantante installed three "fun houses" within the children's area of the cafe, which is located in the Las Cañitas area of the Argentinian capital. "The wood houses divide and control the open space, generating differ...
Buenos Aires-based BBC Arquitectos designed the shop for fashion brand Le Utthe, and it replaces a derelict 1930s house in one of the city's developing retail districts. The site's proximity to the port of Ensenada informed the industrial aesthetic applied throughout the interior, which is embodied by the weathered steel surfaces of the shipping containers. "We alw...
Local architects Cumulus Studio inserted 12 guest suites into The Pumphouse, a three-storey concrete building located 250-metres offshore. The structure was originally constructed to house the water turbines used when Tasmania embarked on a hydro-electric power experiment in the 1940s, but was later abandoned and has been sat unused for over 20 years.At the other end ...
The Woodspeen Restaurant and Cookery School, run by Michelin-starred chef John Campbell, sits on the site of the former Five Bells pub in the Berkshire village of Woodspeen. Softroom inserted long panels of glazing into the brick facade and roof of the old thatched-roof building to give views into an adjoining half-acre plot, which has been planted to create a kitchen...
Print design duo Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto and interiors designer Jason MacLean teamed up to convert a former Bermondsey hair salon into the second patisserie for owner Melanie Southerden. The pair also collaborated on her first bakery, located in Peckham, south-east London. Eley Kishimoto covered the walls and floors of the Southerden Patisserie and Café in a te...
Greek firm Kois Associated Architects imagined a forest of geometric trees when designing this shop and workspace for Athens-based jewellery designer Ileana Makri. Smoke from a dry-ice machine is pumped into the shop window, designed to give the appearance of early morning mist. Rings, bracelets and necklaces made from precious metals and stones are displayed in gl...
Designed by London studio Bureau de Change, the Made.com showroom is used to present the products available to order via the company's website, with no on-site sales. The challenge was to develop a space that "adds value" to the digital retail experience, which prompted designers Billy Mavropoulos and Katerina Dionysopoulou to introduce video projection alongside the ...
The Forest House restaurant was designed by Seoul office JYA-rchitects for a plot in the Cheongcheon-dong neighbourhood. Local planning regulations dictated that the building should have a flat frontage and a ground floor that steps back from the street, so the building was conceived as a simple cubic form with space for an outdoor dining area downstairs.The dining ar...
The Oslo- and New York-based firm will rework the kitchen, facilities and garden of the restaurant, which for the last 20 years has been serving modern French-American cuisine from a century-old stone cottage in the heart of Napa Valley. The historic building will be left unchanged, but Snøhetta will expand the kitchen by 25 per cent, adding a structure with a fritted...
According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the company has presented plans at Menlo Park City Hall to grow its presence in the California city with a pair of new office blocks. Also located along Bayfront Expressway, they will sit immediately west of the green-roofed building it moved into at the end of March. Mimicking Gehry's first design, known as MPK 20, th...
Likewise, the proposal is setback generating a large entrance plaza to the project not only, but as a gesture of respect and contribution to the immediate environment. The project for UNASUR has not only analyzed the proposal within its limits; It is a socially inclusive proposal that generates open spaces for the community; a library, theater and recreational areas. ...
The Hotel, designed by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, principals of New York based Asymptote Architecture, consists of two twelve story hotel towers, one set within the race circuit and another placed in the Marina itself, linked together by a monocoque steel and glass bridge and Grid Shell structure that both cross above and over the Yas Marina Circuit F1 race track...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
Pastel-coloured wedges pattern the light wooden walls of this cafe in a former prison by Australian office Biasol: Design Studio (+ slideshow). Biasol: Design Studio designed the cafe for residents of a housing and shopping complex in the recently converted Pentridge Prison – now Pentridge Village – situated five miles outside Melbourne. Making reference to the building...
The products on sale in this monochrome design shop by Dutch interiors studio i29 are concealed behind a fragmented sequence of signage panels that create an optical illusion (+ slideshow). i29 created the Amsterdam shop, named Frame Store, for the retail arm of Dutch design publication Frame Magazine. The store sells a combination of art and design objects, magazines a...
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...
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...
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...
