Design Firm: Robot 3 Studio Principal Architect: Pan Fei, Wang Zhi Design Consultant: Han Dong Client: Lucky Bar Location: Kexing Road No. 43, Changping District, Beijing, China Type: Restaurant Building Area: 194 sqm Design Stage: 2017.03 Completion: 2017.05 Photographer: Robot 3 Studio Black Stone has existed from the beginning of the Creation. The light r...
As one of the world’s leading institutions in cosmology and space science, Durham University commissioned the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics to cement the university’s leading global position with larger research facilities and to set a benchmark for sustainability on campus. The 2,478-square-meter building includes eighty new offices for researchers, students, sta...
When Tziallas Omeara Architecture Studio was asked to remodel the cottage, the clients requested a contemporary addition to the original weatherboard building and that the renovated home “work well” from an environmental performance perspective. The expansion allowed the architects to add a new kitchen at the heart of the home as well as a new living and dining area, sun...
The general aesthetic of the space is one of stripped back, bare bone functionality that defined the era of the building's construction. Highlighting the harsh aesthetics that prevailed back then translates to pipes and various structural beams being visible throughout, running across the ceilings and creeping up the walls. Another strong element worth noting are the flo...
The Singapore-based architects and designers Marc Webb and Naoko Takenouchi transformed the 2,000-square-meter space into a clean and minimal configuration comprised of different zones that offer working stations in various configurations, from single working booths to larger communal tables and private office cubicles. In stark contrast with its ornate façade decorated ...
Following years of restoration, the hotel’s opening finally arrived in the same year as the building’s 135th anniversary: The Beekman was initially commissioned by Irish immigrant banker Eugene Kelly, and was constructed by the architecture firm of Benjamin Silliman, Jr and James M. Farnsworth as the Temple Court Building. Its site was previously the site of the New York...
Dating back to the mid-19th century, Amsterdam’s tram network is one of the largest in Europe, and connects almost every district and suburb to the city centre. An abandoned tram depot in West Amsterdam, where trams used to be repaired and maintained, has found a new life as Kanarie Club, a multipurpose space that welcomes patrons from early morning to late into the nigh...
On the one hand, the differences between NOMA and its sibling are enough to be refreshing. On the other, 108 surprises almost exactly as much as is needed to avoid disrupting the comfort that its lineage inspires. One of the legacy features of 108 is its chef, Kristian Baumann (Redzepi is not cooking at 108, but the talented, bespectacled NOMA alumnus is). The menu refer...
Developed for The Prive Group by the design firm, Takenouchi Webb, the nearly 700 square meter project took 10 months to complete before it opened in December 2015 and posed a variety of factors for its designers, Marc Webb and Naoko Takenouchi, to consider and implement. These included a reverence to the restaurant's location, a remarkable position which faces the Si...
Mad for Garlic is a Korean restaurant chain offering Italian food and wine. Key elements of the brand image are garlic, a wine cellar and wine. The design concept for this branch of the restaurant chain therefore picks up on the wine cellar look. It restructures the layout and combines traditional with modern brickwork. At the centre of the restaurant is a glass wine rac...
The recently opened Bed One Block Hostel, located in Bangkok, Thailand, stands out on the street with its white facade of patterned perforated steel sheets that allow natural light through to the interior, and at the same time still maintains privacy. The welcoming entrance has a wood door surrounded by windows letting you see inside, which is a strong contrast to the...
Located on the edge of the Los Angeles Fashion District, the cardboard tubes are a tribute to the empty fabric bolts often found in the fashion, costume, and design studios also in the neighborhood. The natural cardboard walls, furniture, and fixtures compliment the tones found in the original concrete floor of the 1929 building and help the already tall space feel ev...
The Oberholz Mountain Hut takes cues from the landscape, fitting into the surrounding natural beauty like a fallen tree. One glance at these photographs will leave you yearning to jump on a plane to Italy to explore the gorgeous wooden restaurant. The cantilevered building sprawls out from the mountain, providing visitors with breathtaking views. Three wings span out ...
The first among them, the Schneider Electric office designed by Aevitas Group is a star-shaped structure optimized for a superior energy performance, targeting a LEED Gold certification. Located on a five-sided site, the building assumes a star-shaped form. It was designed as a perimeter building with a central, enclosed, quadruple-volume atrium flooded with natural l...
Located in the Special Economic Zone of Icchapor in Gujarat’s Surat city, Peacock Technology’s new office is proof that resourceful upcycling can create a welcoming environment for both work and play. DWG rose to the challenge of sticking to a tight budget by using reclaimed materials that proved to be easy to find since the port city of Surat had many demolished wooden ...
Located next the stunning Stukely Lake, the 430-square-meter Bonnallie Services Center embraces views of the lake and mountains beyond. The two-story building is partially embedded into the earth and is angled to maximize views and frame an outdoor amphitheater. Full-height glazing is installed on the second floor for panoramic viewing and opens up to a covered outdoor t...
The building, located in Amsterdam, features a 98-feet high wooden load-bearing structure with wooden columns, beams and walls left exposed in the interior. It meets all the fire regulations and allows occupants to easily reach and reinstall their own installations and pipes depending on the chosen layout. Thanks to a high level of flexibility, Patch22 can be easily tran...
It should come as no surprise that when Apple’s Director of Store Design was in the market for a new house, he wanted a home that would be as modern and streamlined as his employer’s impeccable shopfronts. He, along with the team at Alchemy, tweaked the original designs of the Alchemy weeHouse to create the Sonoma weeHouse, a prefabricated home made up of two elevated op...
The new winery enlarges an existing single-story building, introducing a new volume alongside it to create a compact campus. The main circulation route, visible through the glass connections between the buildings, provides views of the different stages of production and leads to the tasting and meeting rooms. The architects enveloped the existing structure and addition ...
The R & D Cocktail Lab bar combines Eastern and Western influences. It is impossible to look in from the outside which helps to create a mystical atmosphere. Inside, British pub culture fuses with oriental style. This is brought to the fore through the use of wooden latticework, Chinese herbal medicine cabinets and a quote from the “Bencao Gangmu”, the book of healing he...
based on italy’s history of earthquakes which are increasing in frequency, studio margot krasojevic architecture has proposed a hotel designed to reduce and contain its destruction following any seismic activity. accordingly, the building would be located in the western province near the city of naples. margot krasojevic architecture’s proposal has a distinct program ...
kadawittfeldarchitektur has its completed its conversion of the historic former railway head office building in cologne, germany. situated along the banks of the river rhine, the building is an iconic part of the city’s architectural silhouette, located within the vicinity of the main railway station, cathedral and city centre. the building is an iconic part of the ci...
the french pastry brand is renowned for their macarons that come wrapped in an elegant packaging to complement, and their new location includes a patisserie, restaurant and a tea lounge. the three spaces complementing each other envisioned by india mahdavi as ‘a garden of delights’. the interiors celebrate the delicate and luxury nature of the context and pastry compa...
two major types of pharmacies can be found in japan. the first is the drug store, or what can be described as retail pharmacies. this type offers services related to basic medicines as well as parapharmaceutical products. the second type is the dispensing pharmacies, usually related to a nearby clinic or hospital. in this type of pharmacies, the products are prepared in ...
appealing to a romantic notion of shoe shops and cabinets — of cobblers hunched over the frayed soles of shoes — miklós kiss has created a new face for the budapest home of footwear brand wink. releasing shoe designs for the past 30 years, wink’s facelift pays homage to the history of the brand while celebrating its modern identity, committed to quality and design. ‘...
located in a small building adorned with old tiles in gangnam-gu, seoul, the ‘new york braces dental’ by studio starsis is a fresh take on orthodontic office spaces. from the beginning, the design has been influenced by three main features: new york, a second home of the client where he spent his shining twenties and thirties; the retro era with unique images made up of ...
people’s architecture office and people’s industrial design office has completed the ‘sliced house’ project, a highly flexible work environment for xiaozhu, located within beijing, china’s tech center. the startup company, which runs a peer-to-peer housing rental service, required an office interior fit for the fast-pace and unpredictable nature of their website. to matc...
in the summer of 2015, berlin’s neue nationalgalerie closed to the public to prepare for a comprehensive refurbishment. famously designed by mies van der rohe, the museum was completed in 1968 and has since established itself as an icon of modern architecture. in 2012, david chipperfield’s berlin office was appointed to renovate the building for the first time in its his...
The main design feature of the Yakiniku Master Soho Japanese BBQ restaurant is the table. Here, it is not only a necessary piece of furniture, but rather a place where people come together and communicate. The radial form of the tree branches serves as a source of inspiration and typifies the manifold relationships between people. At the same time, the design foresees th...
As the restaurant and brand originates in Valencia, Spain, the wood used to cover the walls are both Mexican and Spanish, and were once orange crates. A large graffiti mural by street artist Seher One covers the walls that hide the semi-open kitchen, and depicts Mexican wrestling. To contribute to the restaurant’s informal concept, the flooring has been created usi...
The interiors of the BigBek office in Yerevan, Armenia, have various areas in the office painted specific colors to highlight them. For this meeting room, they used hot pink on the exterior and interior of the room, creating a bright and bold look for the space that you can’t miss. For the kitchen within the office, bright yellow walls, floor, and ceiling clearly d...
The unassuming shopfront opens up to a compact cafe with a geometric patterns featured throughout. When designing the space, the designers experimented with computational geometry and Delaunay triangulation to develop the interior concept and branding. This resulted in the creation of the tessellated pattern that wraps from the walls around to the ceiling. Pale lim...
the interior scheme seeks to promote local businesses, allowing them to collaborate and become part of the community. flexible event and exhibition space, as well as an independent start-up bakery and café, remain open to the public. there are also small ‘maker’ shops available for those who wish to pilot new products or services. the london borough of waltham forest ...
The moll T7 desk can be integrated into any room. It features a safe electrically motorised height adjustment that is lockable and requires two-handed operation, thus covering the entire range of users and applications – from the seated child to standing adults. The high-capacity drawer with push-toopen function offers enough room for diverse utensils and documents. An o...
The now completed Shenye TaiRan Building is a green-roofed development with a central communal space protected from noise, pollution and excess sunlight. The Shenye TaiRan Building was designed as a continuous volume extruded to different heights, depending on the context, optimal sun exposure and level of protection from the bustling city streets. At its heart is a lar...
Located on Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong waterfront, the Glass Office at 133 Wai Yip Street is boldly clad in glass and stainless steel to promote and symbolize transparency in the workplace. MVRDV recycled the existing framework with modern infill, and the 18,000-square-meter building now serves as a visual symbol and flagship project for a new business development that will br...
