Envisioned for densely populated cities around the world, the futuristic proposal features a conical shape with a facade built of materials designed to harness solar energy. Large round openings that punctuate the facade reveal an abundance of greenery growing inside the building. The Vertical Oasis Building was conceived as mixed-use development comprising retail, of...
For Silo’s second outpost in London, local interior design studio Nina+Co teamed up with McMaster to craft an interior that reinforces the restaurant’s sustainable ethos with locally sourced natural materials and innovative design aimed at minimizing environmental impact. Launched in Australia in 2011, Silo was heralded as the world’s first zero-waste restaurant. Its ...
The family run business began 30 years ago, allowing tourists to observe the natural beauty of the flowers. Over the years, tourism decline and rival competition affected profitablity, leading owners to the decision of refreshing their business and people’s interest in orchids, through a complete redesign. Studio Miti began the project by studying the characteristic...
Named The Populist Brewery, the 2,000-square-metre building was turned into a craft brewery and a large restaurant, The Populist aims to recall the disobedient atmosphere lead and created by the crowds against political issues. All of them weave a unique concept across the space within a political and social Turkish reality. Protest is reflected in a tangible and imp...
The new development will include residential, commercial space, offices, four cinema screens, and a roof-top cafe. One tower will contain the commercial components of the program and sit facing the Western Express Highway, shielding the separate residential tower from the busyness of the highway. Jesus Jimenez, director at White Red Architects, said in a statement: “...
The architects will restore and build upon an existing former commercial distribution structure that once served as a vital node between Hudson River-based mercantile traffic and New York City. The structure is marked on its ground level by a 670-foot-long tunnel that was once used by trains that directly connected nearby docks with the commercial facilities, New Yor...
In stage two of the competition, ZHA was one of five big-name finalist teams, which included BIG, SOM, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and Henning Larsen Architects HK. As OPPO continues to expand, the new headquarters reflects their “commitment to connectivity through design”. ZHA's 185,000 square-meter scheme comprises of four interconnected towers standing at 200 ...
The Lamington Markets building would comprise two residential towers atop a retail complex that includes a market hall and cinemas. It would be constructed partly on land that has been left vacant after the construction of Brisbane’s underground busway. A development application for the project has been lodged with Brisbane City Council. An architect’s statement attac...
Fusing flavours of 1960s design with the bustling urban context of Carlton, Melbourne’s newest boutique hotel, Zagame’s House is playfully unique and comprehensive. Owned by seasoned hoteliers and brothers Victor and Robert Zagame, and designed by Lukas Partners Interior Architecture, the ninety-seven-room hotel, located in the heart of ‘Little Italy’ draws on the brothe...
Dubbed Tree House, reaches at 140-meters and 37 storeys tall and will be the tallest hybrid structure of Holland with its concrete core mixed with timber. Developed by Provast, the project focusses on creating a lively, inspiring, open and sustainable environment for residents and visitors in the city centre. The project will be built next to the Central Station desc...
The design creates a cave-like interior and cozy atmosphere. Named Voids Cafe, the small interior space provides a fluid space to allow its clients to move freely around the servis table. The designers described the cafe as "voids are treated as form in this micro cafe" and they said: "the empty space in a coffee cup or "matcha" bowl was the form-giving inspiration f...
Dubbed as Adelaide Central Market Arcade, the design scheme will be built in the City of Adelaide and will be developed by Australian developer ICD Property, Singapore-based joint venture partner Nanshan Group and Australian real estate company Sinclair Brook. Bagot's new development will be a mixed-use project that will connect the arcade to the market and serve as a...
Named H Dining, the small coffee bar & restaurant was transformed from a typical 1960/70s suburban Bangkok house into a new dining place with the aim of keeping a domestic feeling without resorting to cliches of suburbia. Located at the center of Bangkok, H Dining takes its name from both the owner’s previous cafe, "Hand and Heart" and its accommodation in an existin...
Called %Arabica Coffee, the 50-square-metre shop is located in Jianguoxi Street in Shanghai. Opening up itself to the street, the store is entirely transparent to provide the interior atmosphere to its customers. Being the French concession provides the street with a narrative history in the old time, and the Wutong trees on the roadsides help it build a quiet enviro...
Situated in a forest in Chiang Mai, the mini cafe has been designed as a closed building that features wooden seating and tables, trees inside. Named Boonma Cafe, the 300-square-metre space emerges as the renovation program of a café originally located on a hill land surrounded by many trees. Reaching 6-meter height, the building has relatively a limited access distan...
The project is a conversion of two historic buildings that unites their Bauhaus-inspired original architecture from the 1920s with contemporary facilities and furnishings. The designers created a space that was inspired by a vision of bringing artists and craftsman together. SAGRADA was careful to respect the vernacular of the building and maintain the style that was ...
As one of the world’s largest and most visited covered fresh produce markets with 8.5 million annual visitors, the firm’s $400 million plan will integrate a mixed-use program seamlessly within the existing site while leaving the market itself unchanged. “As part of a broader vision to attract the best and brightest people, the city intends to transform the market pre...
Working closely with the bar’s art director, the Studio has conjured up an intimately immersive environment by filtering the building’s century-old industrial heritage through a lens of mid-century nostalgia and contemporary finesse. The result is a unique bar that combines the uncanny ambience of an age-old wine cellar with the allure of an exclusive speakeasy. Opene...
The hotel, projected to be finished in 2024, will house 382 rooms, 40,000 square feet of workspace, a sky bar, meeting and event spaces, a spa and a restaurant on the ground floor. On the 11th floor, a public green space will be available as well, with an unobstructed rooftop view of St. Paul’s Cathedral. From there, the green wall, consisting of 400,000 plants, will wra...
Set in a converted 19th-century brewery and its adjacent technical space added to the structure in the 1970s, the project overlooks a 9th-century chapel and neighboring Gothic church – reflecting the town’s many architectural layers and histories. Merging two spaces with distinct heritages and adopting individual approaches – and understandings – of renovation for each, ...
The new restaurant’s design includes a white concrete wall that curls upwards from the square and leads to a rooftop gathering place and garden. Sweeping curves of windows can be opened to connect the ground floor interior of the restaurant with the square. The large windows flood the restaurant with natural light, while small spotlights embedded between the ...
inspired by speakeasies that were prevalent in 1920s new york due to the era of alcohol prohibition, the recently opened bar invites well-acquainted patrons in from the street through what is disguised as a fast-food stand, into an exclusive and clandestine club.designed around the key concept of ‘surprise’ and reflecting the illicit nature of the original speakeasies, ...
Alonso de Garay of Taller ADG designed the Italian restaurant to accompany an existing coffee shop that was also renovated for the project. Concrete features in both to tie them together, including board-marked walls that match polished concrete floors and the exposed ceiling. In the restaurant called Sartoria a curved, board-marked concrete design wraps up over the d...
Wangjiatuan village is located in Zhangcun town, Huancui District, Weihai city, Shandong province. It's about a 30-minute drive from the city center. The village belongs to the scenic area of Likou mountain, which is one of the passes into the mountain. Its geographical location is convenient and important. The village is located in an east-west valley, North-south high,...
The New Zealand Institute of Architects Incorporated (NZIA) has announced 17 winners of its annual awards, four of which have been awarded special prizes. It has also revealed this year's recipient of its highest honour, the NZIA Gold Medal. Jeremy Salmond, co-founder of Auckland-based Salmond Reed Architects, received the accolade in recognition of his work in conser...
Dubbed the Green Isle after its abundance of greenery, the project emphasizes reduced carbon emissions with its lush landscaping, use of locally sourced and recycled materials and emphasis on natural lighting and ventilation. The architect also used modular metal components to make it easier for the client to replace, disassemble, transport and reassemble parts as neede...
Located between the Serpentine Galleries, with views across the Serpentine Lake and out towards the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, the coffee house provides an immersive architectural resting, refreshment, and contemplation point. The design of the coffee house’s roof is inspired by a stingray’s flight through water. The open, semi-transparent glass pavilion also evo...
Half Acre is designed by the local chef, who took on the industrial plot in the south of the Australian city for the restaurant project. The site comprises a new brick building with a glass-pitched extension and an adaptively reused one, which together form a sprawling property."When you walk through the front door, you don't really know what to expect," Wright-Smith ...
The modern design of the Song Chinese Cuisine restaurant reinterprets an ancient Chinese legend with materials such as stainless steel bricks and glass. The dining area is dominated by a large art installation titled “Crane Wing”, which is made of numerous finely wrought feathers. In conjunction with the lighting of the restaurant it turns into a marvellously shimmering ...
The interior design of Chuan’s Kitchen II restaurant is defined by the wall and floor materials used. The most important building material is a waste product resulting from the firing of regional black earthenware. These arched elements are fitted together in such a way that they create the impression of a chain mesh. The tiles, whose gloss radiates energy at dusk, are b...
Fascinating interplay To integrate landscape convincingly into architecture is a true challenge and plays a pivotal role in regions with breathtaking nature scenes as can be found in Iceland. Located at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, The Retreat has been built directly into an 800-year-old lava flow. The overall concept encompasses a subterranean spa, a geothermal lagoon, ...
While traditional homes commonly use a vertical grid to distinguish one home from another, the architects decided to transform the plot to a horizontal zoning grid with different leveling to distinguish each area. The ceilings follow suit by slanting upwards following the levels. The architects utilized natural tones and materials for the interior, and wanted to creat...
A stepping stone path leads through a mist-covered landscape with mossy rocks and sand, to a wooden ‘ship deck’. The mist-covered landscape represents the water surface that surrounds a ship. The deck provides a place for seating and for service. A small and open hut with a black roof and mirrored sides, provides a place for staff to prepare food and drinks. Blocks of ...
Inspired by the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the designers wanted to create a journey of imagination for the customers and draw attention to the cafe. They did this by incorporating a bright yellow cheese slice, that entices customers to travel through the slice into the cafe. The cheese slice design also provides a place for people to sit outside. Inspired ...
Act of Wine is a natural wine store, housing both natural and biodynamic/organic wines from both Australia and internationally with a focus on small, sustainable producers. The ethos behind the outlet is the selection of wines, craft beers and spirits that have had minimal intervention and are a reflection of both origin and terroir. The design by ZWEI is a reflection of...
Architectural and design studio Hello Wood helped to create an organic yet mathematical structure that sits at the heart of the space, working in coordination with the restaurant’s designer to meet the brief of creating a sophisticated yet easier side to fine dining. As the sister restaurant of popular Michelin-star establishment Borkonyha, the idea behind Textúra was...
