Alexander Kudimov and Daria Butahina of Russian studio Ruetemple were asked to transform a 35-square-metre garage adjoining the owner's house into a studio space for his daughter, who is interested in drawing and architecture. The duo – whose previous projects include a play and study area in another Russian home featuring a mezzanine hammock and an adaptable seating ...
Influenced by Cafe 27's organic menu, the team aimed to rework the existing structure into a "healthy" building lined with greenery and natural materials. "The design was inspired by the client's choice of food for the cafe," architect Lukasz Kos told Dezeen. "All of the food is prepared on site in the cafe pastry kitchen, from healthy organic ingredients." "We wan...
The company has amended earlier plans submitted for the One Lansdowne Road building, which was originally designed as a 55-floor skyscraper that would house offices, flats and a hotel. Guildhouse has now proposed a design that features two tower blocks, containing 35 and 65 storeys, that will be bridged at the 14th floor by a 25-metre-long glass-bottomed swimming pool...
Called The Bryant, the 33-storey building, which will contain apartments and a hotel, is rising across the street from Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. Rectilinear in form, the high-rise building will have a gridded facade clad in precast concrete terrazzo panels, speckled with marble and sandstone chips. "I think you can make architecture out of very simple thing...
AAU Anastas was commissioned to design the Toulkarem Courthouse by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), a body that aims to support peace-building, humanitarian and development projects. The architecture firm, which has offices in Palestine and Paris, designed two rectilinear buildings to house the courts on a triangular plot in the centre of the to...
Sohei Arao and his team at Sides Core hoped to reflect the unpredictable nature of mountaineering with the Equip salon, by installing elements that allow the owner to configure and personalise the space at a moment's notice. "The owner, an avid mountain climber, told us that part of the appeal with climbing a mountain is that you never really know what will happen unt...
The old building had already been refurbished in the early 1990s, so minimal repairs were required. This allowed Fala Atelier to create a suitable space with the addition of just a few elements. "The whole project was a struggle between the lack of time, budget and means available," explained architect Filipe Magalhães. "We wanted to run away from a complex project an...
Situated in the city's Art Deco District, the updated property will feature 100 hotel rooms and 75 apartments, many of them offering expansive views of the beach and Atlantic Ocean. It will also include South Beach's largest swimming pool, measuring 250 feet in length (76 metres). Encompassing three acres (1.2 hectares), the oceanfront property currently serves as ...
The multidisciplinary studio – which has offices in China and Poland – converted the office of an insurance company to create the Anchoret store, which stocks fashion by designers including Yohji Yamamoto and Faye Toogood. Speys hoped to create a dialogue between the interior space and the items on show, and worked closely with the store owners to choose materials and...
Arper – founded in 1989 in Italy – debuted its Manhattan store on 19 November in Soho, at 476 Broadway, near showrooms for Luceplan, Foscarini, Ingo Maurer and other leading design brands. Encompassing 4,000 square feet (372 square metres), the loft-style space features a range of Arper's products for the home, office and commercial sectors. The new showroom, which...
the luxury complex includes 151 villas, conference center, spa, pagodas and accompanying amenities. the architecture relies heavily on the traditional chinese forms that historically shaped the landscape. walls of stone and roofs of wood forming a series of structures that elegantly blend the contemporary with the vernacular. the various buildings that make up the resort...
aiming to instill a new, distinctive and trendy location in the city, the veggie bar takes shape as an ‘urban jungle’ and a space which follows a consistent interior concept. the grid on the ceilings and walls, form a plain canvas for the sudden pops of color seen in the plants and painted fruit used for decoration. despite the modern interior approach in which the ...
Located in Kanazawa, the shop is the second retail space for century-old Japanese confectioner Shibafune-Koide, and is situated within a building once used for manufacturing. While the first store serves a wide range of sweet products, this new branch will only sell Monaka – a Japanese candy made of jam filling sandwiched between two thin crisp wafers. "From the be...
The structure, called Frame Work, includes a concrete base with the upper four floors framed in glue-laminated beams, and diagonally laid tongue-and-groove floors and ceilings. The concrete base includes a garage, retail space, and a lobby for the upper floors. For the architects, the heaviness of the base in contrast with the lightness of the structure above celebrat...
the event motivated its participants to create self-built infrastructures and to tune them with nature. for the occasion, portuguese architect and artist nuno pimenta built the bar over an old pre-existing stone tank. pimenta wanted the bar to be as light and transparent as possible, while simultaneously visible and festive. the old stone water tank was the perfect lo...
located in a former town-home, ueasangkhomset wanted to link both the past and future uses of the building. a covered walkway was placed in the structure’s unused backyard space, and a new inner courtyard was created. green is heavily used in the interior because it’s the client’s favorite color, and name of the company, but also to represent the natural elements brought...
Called Eye Eye, the store is located on the ground level of a century-old brick building in Capitol Hill, a popular neighbourhood in Seattle. Encompassing 1,000 square feet (93 square metres), the double-height volume contains a retail area, exam room, office, restroom and storage. The narrow shell formerly housed a children's clothing shop. When the project began,...
The Bocci79 space is described by the brand as "a cabinet of curiosities, a place for testing new techniques and technologies and a laboratory of fabrication for future artefacts". The 44-room building, which was renovated by architects Grüntuch-Ernst, is situated in Kantstrasse in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. Built in 1897, the structure was used as a courtho...
the city has already approved plans for foster and partners‘ designed apple store to be located on pioneer square at the north michigan avenue shopping district which will consist of a 2-story, 20,000 square-foot store complete with unbeatable views of the river. from the street level, a slender roof-line 14′ high covers an area of 91′ x 71′ surrounded by glass wall...
strategically positioned at the intersection of two important axes, the scheme sees the renovation and extension of an existing building in the city’s oud-berchem neighborhood. the project brief called for a local police facility that that, over time, could potentially become a residential building. julien de smedt’s firm completed the project after they were selected as...
first starting in 2014, the first of its kind called ‘bukatsudo’ serves as a multi-purpose, and shared community hub. interior designed by the team at hiroyuki tanaka architecture, the project was spearheaded and developed by ReBITA Inc. diversely furnished to keep with the industrial aesthetic of the building, the space has been organized with the use of few partiti...
The new façades, completed last year, are part of a larger plan that has transformed the former World Financial Center's (WFC) food court and shops into a space catered to high-end shoppers and "foodies," more in line with today's trends of shopping and eating. Cesar Pelli designed the original WFC in the late 1980s and his firm is responsible for the overhaul for new ow...
the oceanside project, which was announced on designboom in october last year, will see weinfeld’s studio working as both architect and interior designer, converting the existing 309-room structure into a luxury complex containing approximately 75 residences and 100 hotel rooms. coinciding with the reveal, new york-based developers HFZ capital group announced that bra...
Its layered sweeping facade was designed to maximize passive solar shading, provide privacy and optimize light penetration to the interior. Arno Matis Architecture used a responsive design strategy in order to manage the oddly-shaped site and create a building that will work with, not against external forces. Combining concrete, metal and glass, the building evokes so...
Jacques Ferrier Architecture designed the hotel for Promeo as a calm, peaceful setting that counterpoints the intensity of mass tourism. Located in an area that is still relatively underdeveloped, with residential housing dominating the landscape of Cap d’Agde in France, the development focuses on providing a quality experience that relies heavily on creating a sense ...
The 15 members of Assemble set up the Granby Workshop as a social enterprise through their nomination for Turner Prize 2015. Hand-made products in the range include block-printed fabrics, ceramic tiles, furniture made from deliberately-burnt timber, marbled lampshades and cabinet handles. The selection reflects pieces that were stripped out of Victorian terraced homes...
The designer’s description Ten years ago David Lanning was serving one flavor of coffee from a circa 1760 building in Charlestown, RI. Today Dave’s Coffee has grown significantly, now offering multiple coffee brewing methods and a variety of baked goods. Their locally roasted bagged coffee and coffee syrups are sold at retailers nationwide. The challenge was to cre...
located in the gerber shopping center, the café invites shoppers to enjoy organic and local products in a cosy setting. the space’s distinctive feature is a solid oak table that is over 5m long and 1.15m wide. on the back wall is an equally grand 5m high bookcase where various pano goods are displayed for sale. approximately 92 seats can be found in the openly organiz...
Inside, a large hand-crafted chandelier modelled on traditional designs by Viennese glassworker Lobmeyr hangs above Thonet chairs on the ground floor, and 188 rooms and suites feature gunmetal grey walls, Anglepoise lamps, white marble table tops, dark parquetry and round, leather rimmed Jacques Adnet-style mirrors by Gubi. There are three dining options; the stately ...
Designed by architect Arpad Baksa, with interiors by Grade, this is a boutique scheme with just four units - an elegant mix of three- and four-bedroom apartments ranging in size from 2,044 - 4,263 sq ft. The interiors are spacious and loft-style, drawing on iconic New York residential imagery. The refined corner building's exteriors were especially created to draw on...
located along a main thoroughfare, the brief called for a prominent display that can be easily seen by passing traffic. the building’s program includes: showroom, sales office, reception area, car maintenance garage, and spaces for 100 vehicles. the ‘nakornchaisri honda’ is divided into two main structures, and is spread over a total land area of 10,000m2. placed clos...
Here the House unveils a unique concept inspired by a theme so dear to Gabrielle Chanel: the masculine-feminine. In a beautiful building of traditional Roman architecture, two entrances in its facade enable a glimpse at the world of fashion on one side, and on the other the world of fragrance and beauty. Inside, the white floors and ceilings broken up with oak, ter...
The Company has established themselves as one of the leading Architects for Luxury Residential, Hotel and Serviced Apartment developments in Asia. With each project, KplusK aim to create highly personalized environments, combining ergonomic and technological concerns, without compromising the pursuit of a dynamic, heterogeneous, sensual viscosity. KplusK were instrument...
BuckleyGrayYeoman has refurbished the outdated 1,200 sq ft. Fred Perry Cologne store to create a contemporary shopping experience which maximizes the impact of the retail space. This project continues the design language BuckleyGrayYeoman has successfully rolled out at stores in London, Munich and Bangkok. The plan arrangement has been reorganised to create two distinct...
In the early 20th century, The Knickerbocker was more than a traditional hotel, but a sojourn for ambitious journeyman and their families to prosper and begin a life in the metropolis. Fondly known as the “42nd Street Country Club”, the Knickerbocker was a long-term residence for some of the most prolific performers and businessmen of the era. The reconceived Knickerbock...
The main aim was to create new space and atmosphere of interior, modern, stylish and fresh. This motto was realised in reception, meeting rooms, coffee points, lounge zones and other not-working spaces. Additional purpose was to do big meeting zone for different requirements. For this several meeting rooms are transforming into one big meeting space. Special meeting room...
