The architects’s description Heavybit Industries is a new members-only workspace…The Heavybit program curates, fosters and promotes innovation, solution-finding, and business develpment in this relatively new branch of computing through invited presentations, public events, education, advising, and inter-developer collaboration. The client brief requested that th...
The four Cortiço brothers inherited the Cortiço & Netos business from their grandfather and have opened a new store in Lisbon's historic Mouraria district. They built a series of tall wooden shelves to display his 30-year-old stockpile, which encompasses discontinued lines from the 1960s up to products from the present day. The brothers have also expanded the portf...
Form Us With Love wanted to make the Pen Store more engaging for visitors, so integrated a gallery and an atelier within the retail space on Hornsgatan – created to look like a supplier warehouse. "We would like to change the perspective and show what you actually can do with Pen Store's great products rather then just show the pens," said the studio, which has also d...
Japanese designer Yusuke Seki has completed a second shop for modern kimono brand Otsuka Gofukuten, juxtaposing the garment with concrete surfaces and layers of green-tinged glass (+ slideshow). Yusuke Seki first designed a shop in Kyoto for Otsuka Gofukuten – a clothing brand that takes its name from an alternative word for kimono. This second store is located in a sh...
The top floor of this former Soviet telecommunications building in the centre of Moscow has been converted by studio Archiproba into an open plan office for a technology company (+ slideshow). Moscow telegraph renovation by Tamara Muradova Called DI Telegraph, the new flexible space occupies the upper floor of the 1927 Central Telegraph building designed by Soviet ...
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...
Prada enlisted Gamper to design its latest store front displays, creating environments for presenting both women's and men's clothing to passers-by. The installations, named Corners, used panels of wood veneer to form enclosed angled spaces in which the mannequins are placed and are being replicated in Prada stores around the world. "Corners is an evolutionary wind...
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.
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...
Here, we performed various designs based on the clear plan composition having the element of excursion / flexibility, the lighting plan with rationality / diversity, and the operation of the light which changes every moment. That is because I wished to find out rich space composition which is equal also to a city, and its complexity in the interior space of the limited s...
Briefing: Design the brand and interior for Nozomi Sushi Bar, a restaurant specialized in traditional sushi. Solution: The project in which Masquespacio began to work in January 2014 starts with a previous study of Japanese culture and the origin of sushi. A study in which was involved the whole team of the Spanish creative consultancy to understand and represent the ...
From the architect Moon Juice Market is an organic cold pressed juicery founded by it’s owner/operator Amanda Chantal Bacon. Pressing, bottling and selling all there products on site in a modest 400 square feet. The store may be small in size, but it delivers an abundance of organic vegetable juice blends, nut milk smoothies and organic snacks and treats....
British architect David Chipperfield has completed his first project for Swiss accessories brand Bally – the interior of a flagship boutique on London's New Bond Street (+ slideshow). David Chipperfield Architects based elements of the 400-square-metre store on an interior that Modernist architect Marcel Breuer designed in the 1920s for the brand, which was founded in 1...
Nendo has used different tones of pink and purple to create the illusion of 3D display stands at an exhibition on Japanese design that the studio curated in Singapore. Japanese design studio Nendo selected the content and designed the setting for the exhibition, titled Hidden - Unveiling Japanese Design, at Singapore's National Design Centre. In the centre's atrium, ...
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...
Located in the existing Financial Development Area, the Essence Financial Building is connected to an extensive public transport network, with proximity to Futian Metro Station and Shopping Park Metro Station. It is a new typology of office building for Shenzhen, one that meets the conventions of responding to context and users’ needs by breaking away from conventions in...
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...
Existing cubicle walls that cut up the space and sheltered natural light were demolished to give way to an open plan with a loft like feel. Simple, frameless glass volume enclosures were used for staff offices to allow daylight to permeate through the space along with the white washed floor to maximize brightness. Custom stainless steel framed desks were built al...
Landscape approach This gives a better view from the E411 motorway and the N4. Its orientation is slightly off-kilter in terms of cardinal points (15°) although this guarantees an excellent amount of sunshine. Pedestrian and automobile pathways enter from opposite ends of the grounds but come together again south of the building where the glazed entrance hall welcomes...
A sneaker boutique for little ones featuring a unique display arrangement that invites kids to play with a subtly integrated cascading disk run while browsing through the shoes on display. Architecture firm ROK - Rippmann Oesterle Knauss* has completed the Suppakids* Sneaker Boutique in Stuttgart, Germany. The Sneaker store is home to a fine collection of kids footwea...
Hotel building dating back from early 70’s and that has been operating 100% ever since its opening day. A first intervention in the main Access as well as in the Hall was needed. This first intervention represents the first step of a long road of different reforms that will end up remodelling the whole hotel. This first intervention is vital since, on the one hand, it ...
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...
Atelier JMCA, a Parisian architecture & design studio, have designed a creative solution for a restaurant in Paris. The designers were challenged by the restaurant’s confined space, and had to be meticulous and inventive. One of their solutions was a long cantilevered prism, that acts as a table and a counter/bar.
“The idea to use glasses as the central expressive feature of this space was not born at once,” said designer Maria Yasko. “We considered stars and apples, which are central to the company’s signature style.” “The first agency was established in Chicago in 1935, and we have aspired for some style reference to that period. When we brought glasses scaled up several time...
Design studio Manifiesto Futura created the naming, identity and interior design for Canalla, a Mexican taco restaurant in San Pedro, Mexico. From the designers Canalla is a Mexican taco joint where a walking ranger would stop by. It was an opportunity of working with our traditional and most famous fast food – the taco – and get rid of the Mexican cliché. The color ...
The large complex, built in the 1970s, currently comprises a shopping center, offices, a public library, a hotel and an underground car park, all of which will be retrofitted so as to reintroduce the human scale to an environment largely characterized by wide boulevards and monolithic structures. in addition to the new façade, the accessibility and programmatic ident...
Located at the Adidas Group's World of Sports Campus in Herzogenaurach, Germany, the building – named Adidas Meet & Eat – is part of a masterplan to transform the sports brand's headquarters into a visitor attraction. COBE designed the 11,000-square-metre building to include a public conference centre, a restaurant for employees and a showroom. Tree-filled winter g...
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...
Constance Guisset summarised the brief provided by Accor as "just like home" and "free as a bird". The studio's concept used commonplace furniture, domestic materials and multi-functional spaces to make guests feel comfortable. Built-in furniture made of triply wood include shelving, desks and sofas was intended for flexible use around the reception space. A selecti...
Inside Festival 2014: architect Joyce Wang explains how she used styles from throughout Hong Kong's history to design the restaurant that was named World Interior of the Year 2014 in this exclusive video interview. "Hong Kong's past is a patchwork of imperial Chinese and colonial British influences," says Wang. "It was important for us that the restaurant had a very Hon...
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...
Top Towers: Formal complexity and constructive simplicity This project in São Paulo, Brazil, demanded the design of two office towers in a terrain of relatively difficult occupation, because of its narrow and elongated shape. Its location, however, is extremely privileged, situated in the confluence of some of the city’s most important avenues, Paulista Ave., Vergueiro A...
DECON designs High End Top Quality All Weather Wicker Rattan Furniture are aimed in giving much more than anyone would expect, DECON has always been inspired into bringing a much more exciting range of Wicker Rattan furniture products and designs that fit perfectly into individual homes, hotels, restaurants, resorts, beaches , cafes, gardens, offices and private Villas… ...
Situated at the top of 333 Chabanel in Montreal, the new SSENSE office takes an entire floor of a former textile factory and transforms the space into a modern office space, studio and warehouse. Both creative and avant-garde in their use of digital retail, Ssense was looking for something that could be edgy, contemporary, and luxurious. We have designed a space that ...
