The brief for the Coppersmith Hotel was simple: deliver a contemporary hotel and hospitality destination while preserving an historic landmark in South Melbourne, Australia. The landmark was the old Cricket Club Hotel, first licensed in 1870. Reborn as the Coppersmith, it is now a boutique hotel with 15 guestrooms, a gastronomic bar and dining room and a rooftop retreat...
This 80-seat destination restaurant occupies a set of forgotten arches in the catacombs below Glasgow’s Central Station and is so named after Alston St, the main thoroughfare of Glasgow’s mysterious, forgotten Grahamston Village that stood at the crossroads of the main north-south and east-west axes of Glasgow, and which was built over in the 1800s to create the station....
a review of the well-known symbol of the London Underground. This strong trait gives the opening words to the creation of a space that interprets the innovative urban concept of underground by exploring chaotic flow lines conveyed in metro stations. The feeling of entering into a metropolitan area in which everybody is going for embarking on a travel, is strong from the ...
The primary objective of the design was to provide a variety of environments to accommodate different personal work styles and flexibility for the space to evolve and transition over time. As a company founded in local cafes and bars around the city, it was important to infuse these types of environments throughout the space as a nod to the company’s roots but also to se...
Following the initial concept of “shoes that walk freely through the air” (Paris, San Francisco, Moscow and Osaka stores) and the subsequent concept of “warehouse-like white space occupied by neatly lined-up footwear” (New York and Madrid stores), the latest design is based on rolled paper-like structures to display the footwear. Taking what was originally a 2mm-thick re...
Make is a place where businesses can come to fully immerse themselves in the culture around them. Located in San Diego, CA, Make is a 135,000 sq. ft. workspace converted from a floral trade warehouse. We built the experience from the ground up including strategy, naming, identity and architecture. We wanted to establish a place where creative companies could thrive. T...
Monaci Delle Terre Nere is a boutique country hotel set amidst a Sicilian Estate in the foothills of Mount Etna. This Sicilian retreat is deliberately small and discreet, providing an unpretentious hideaway tucked away from hurly burly of life. With wonderful views of the Mediterranean, this historic boutique hideaway property provides 15 rooms set in and around the m...
A peaceful inner garden and a serene Aman Spa and swimming pool complete the rarefied sanctuary. The hotel, occupying levels 33-38 of The Otemachi Tower, offers scenic views of the Imperial Palace Gardens and surrounding Tokyo landmarks, as well as easy access to all points of interest in the city including the renowned Ginza shopping district. Concept & Design The...
The Kings Road flagship store is designed by Piero Lissoni and has been conceived to stage the two main identities of the Group, Lema Casa and Lema Contract. These two manufacturing realities represent two separate but interconnected pillars of the Lema brand, united by a common thread: the culture of know-how, tradition and innovation that has always defined the essence...
The firm repurposed the store’s original style into a modern, functional atmosphere. The concept behind the restaurant is the result of three integrated ideas. 1.The traditional “open kitchen”: In guatemala, it’s tradition that the dining experience relates directly to the outside environment. Whether it’s under a pergola, an interior with large windows, or an open pa...
The relationship between the urban landscapes. The building is located on 104 Hannam Blvd., which connects the Tunnel 2 and Hannam Bridge. As one of the streets with the most traffic congestion, it has defined the characteristic of the site. Even though the project is a small building, defining the urban landscape was the question and it became the starting point for ...
FREAKS has been ordered the interior design of Charles'Home headquarter and showroom on the ground floor of a very nice typical flamish facade apartment building located Rue de la Montagne, downtown Brussels, nearing the Galeries Royales of Saint-Hubert. The client's main concern was to welcome the visitors in a comfy space split in two : one in the shape of set as a ...
The existing grey brick and concrete walls were retained as a rough canvas for the shop. A mezzanine lined with blackboard painted MDF was inserted to accommodate office space for 10 people. The first floor retail and workshop space focused on retaining a cycle hub feel with the creation of a bar serving coffee and beer and a communal table that wraps around to become th...
With its rough and raw material appearance, this warehouse in New Delhi might look unfinished at first glance, yet it has been completed and fully operational since May 2014 – and is a beautifully thought through piece of architecture to boot. New buildings in Delhi’s extreme climatic conditions, which include a severely dust-laden micro-environment, are known for bei...
The town of Ostfildern, the owners of the building, wished to establish a space in which café meets culture. The café redesign should thus enable its use for small concerts by a nearby music school or cabaret shows. The new tenants on the other hand wished to realise their concept for high-end bistro food, reflected in a sophisticated interior design. The new interior...
To the southeast a great amount of daylight enters through tilted glazing. To block direct sun if desired and to enable the modulation of light and climatic conditions exterior screens are deployed. To the northwest a system of frames is installed which enable bronze sculptures to be suspended in front of the glass and in direct sight of the working artist. In that spot ...
HISTORY The hostel found its home in the former tabling office of ‘Dagblad Vooruit’ (socialist newspaper) in the Sint-‐Pietersnieuwstraat 128 in Ghent (Belgium). These premises dating from 1930 with their striking frosted glass eclectic front designed by architect Brunfaut, most certainly stir many people’s imagination. Because of that, it has been protected as a monum...
Publicis Groupe has worked in Russia since 1990 and is represented by media groups Starcom MediaVest Group Russia (agency Starcom and MediaVest), ZenithOptimedia Group Russia (and the agency Zenith Optimedia), mediabrandig and consulting platform VivaKi; creative agencies Leo Burnett, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, as well as an internal department Re: Sources Russia. Bus...
For his new Mediterranean-inflected restaurant, the ambitious owner chose an imposing space on McGill, in an old warehouse that had more recently served as an artist’s studio. He selected blazysgérard to take on the challenge of crafting a strong identity for the space. The concept is based on a reinterpretation of the characteristic architecture of Greece and neighb...
The new beverage market is located along the busy north ring in the industrial area of Brunico. The new building is designed as a beverage wholesale shop and is located directly adjacent to the existing headquarters and warehouse of the company Harpf. The new beverage market is designed as a wood construction for several reasons: the new beverage market was built on s...
Behind Block is restaurateur Kim Heiniö, who in the past years has opened multiple restaurants all over Helsinki. Block by Dylan is the fifth restaurant in the Dylan -family, and yet it is unique and different from the others because of its central location and elaborate interior. The restaurant space has been designed by designer duo Suvi-Maria Silvola & Laura Seppän...
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has added a wooden building with a pointy metal roof to a seaside hotel complex he completed five years ago in Nagasaki, south-west Japan. The third project on Dezeen this week by Kengo Kuma and Associates, the Royal Terrace building was designed as an extension of the Garden Terrace Nagasaki hotel, which opened in 2009.It includes new gu...
The firm is actually one of its kind which designs fonts for the Indian languages and caters to clients like Apple, Google, Sony, etc. for their Indian language needs. And for a creative, inspiring, and beautiful space, they turned to the design team at YellowSub Studio. Working with a blank slate, YellowSub Studio was able to turn the space into a warm, colorful, open o...
Multi-brand shops specialising in a quality edit of contemporary design can be hard to find, which is why Spotti is one of the city's best-kept secrets. Opened in 1986 by brothers Claudio and Mauro Spotti, the shop hangs quietly on the fringes of Milan's central shopping district and features a considered selection of new furniture, lighting and carpet designs jumble...
Situated on the west face of the neoclassical building, looking out onto Lancaster Place and Waterloo Bridge, the new day-to-night venue has been named after Sir James Pennethorne — the highly-reputed architect of the 19th century who was responsible for Somerset House’s 'New Wing' (which now houses the café/bar) as well as other landmarks in London. As was the case with...
Completed in October 2014 by Barcelona-based design studio Lagranja, the restaurant’s interior is a playful tribute to Catalan culture, reflecting the restaurant’s motto of ‘‘fine fun food’’ seen in the giant papier-mâché masks called ‘capgrossos’ (typical of local festivals) that hang from the ceilings and the entire bar which has been covered with domino tiles (an inhe...
The building's seveix &Foam will be the placn rooms, bar and foyer will be packed with exhibitions, film screenings, events, a restaurant and a new fashion and design concept store by Frame Magazine designed by Dutch interiors studio i29. The City of Amsterdam recently instructed Foam to manage the cultural program at the Felix Meritis Residence, the European Centre fo...
As the overseer of a grand-scale renovation of the city of Paris at the time, which included the demolition of densely-built neighbourhoods and the drawing of new, grand avenues across the city, Haussmann created an architectural style now characteristic of the French capital, and a symbol of the country’s prosperity during the Industrial Era. In a building that dates fr...
The building, dubbed The Black Barn, replaces an older barn built on the same plot, and is part of the farmstead of a Slovenian businessman who likes to spend some of his time in the countryside. The client commissioned Arhitektura DOO to create a building that would complement his nearby existing residence by combining agricultural uses (such as the storage of honey and...
The project consists of the addition of a 400 square meter office space inside what was originally a steel factory, now partially used as a manufacturing unit for small metal parts and storage. In order to separate the office space from the vast factory area, the designers created ‘a building within a building’, a wooden structure on the mezzanine floor that has a geomet...
Completed in September 2013 as an expansion of the popular Less Is More (LIM) hair salon, the new nail salon was designed by Tokyo-based designer Yusuke Seki, and playfully incorporates elements drawn from the venue’s provided services and name (kolmio means triangle in Finnish). With the starting point for the colour palette being the tones of human skin and nails, othe...
Situated directly in the centre of the metropolis’ multi-ethnic mixing bowl, Koreatown, a hip, up and coming destination in The City of Angels is almost like an entirely different city unto itself, bursting with energy 24-7 with its almost impenetrable density of restaurants, markets, strip malls, night clubs, cocktail bars and residences. Conceived as a starting point ...
The project will be in today involves the construction of : • 2,350 square meters of commercial area on the side of Via Torino developed plans and Earth +1 • 950 square meters of residential developed towards the Lupetta Street / Square St. Alessandro • 90 Box buried • 2,100 square meters of office space for public use on the upper floors on the side of Via Torino ...
It will be designed to accommodate the council, the Council and the offices of the regional administration of Piedmont. Designed by Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas and presented to the Piedmont Regional Council during a public hearing held in Turin on 22 November 2007, and the work carried out includes 42 floors, including 41 civilian use and the last, the most ...
The building will be the headquarters of the SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic). Construction started in 2010 and is scheduled to be completed in 2013. It will also be the tallest building in whole of the Caucasus. Designed by Heerim Architects from South Korea, the two-tower project will rise from an elongated, canopy-like podium and snake its way skyw...
The project is meant to suit different commercial needs and concentrates two important multipurpose structures in one area: a 160m high tower with offices connected to a 140m long congress centre. In the tower, characterised by a linear and essential design, we find multipurpose areas, a business centre and offices designed according to the most innovative criteria of en...
