Built-in Design For Apartment In Thessaloniki, by .27 Architects
The renovation of this apartment is the work of the Greek company .27 Architects. It is made with custom built-in furniture, for several recesses and extrusions, facilitating storage, entertainment and living.
March 17, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Delphine - Comments: 0
Hotel Missoni, Edinburgh
Hotel Missoni Edinburgh is the city’s most exciting new hotel development designed by famous Italian fashion house Missoni.With their characteristic Missoni décor, boasting ’70s inspired furniture, vivid contrasts of black and white, geometrical patterns and multicoloured stripes, the luxury guestrooms at the Hotel Missoni Edinburgh offer an elegant yet welcoming setting for your stay in the Old Town.
4 0 WiNKS London Boutique Hotel by David Carter
Situated in vibrant and trendy East London, David Carter’s home is a historic and elegant four storey Queen Anne townhouse built in 1717. With two used guest bedrooms, 4 0 W i N K S is being launched to help give photographers, stylists, art directors, designers, buyers, models and anyone in the creative and fashion industries somewhere fun and different to stay when they are in London for work or pleasure.
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Maison NW by Nathalie Wolberg
Maison NW located in Saint-Ouen, near Paris is a work studio but also a private colorful home. The huge workshop spreads over an area of 1,937 square feet and has three levels.
Architect Nathalie Wolberg is the owner of this place which is said to carry “her own personality, own desires, passions. The project is based on three scales designed to match needs for intimacy, autonomy and/or sharing. Through similar actions, it will be possible to adopt behaviors, attitudes, various postures and to initiate numerous relationships.
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March 4, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Vertically Moving Floor by Hydrfloors
Do not loose the area devoted to your swimming pool. With a brilliant use of design and technology, Hydrofloors vertically movable floors can be raised to different levels or completely, to turn the surface of the pool into a usable floor. More social events can now take place onto your swimming pool!
Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York
The void… a scientific concept brought into fiction through art. “Contemplating the Void” is an amazing exhibition gathering 200 creative projects from both emerging and world-renowned artists, in celebration of 50 years of the NY Guggenheim museum. Ways how the central void of the building was filled without restrictions to realism and practicality are explored with the original works of Anish Kapoor, designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, and architects such as Álvaro Siza Vieira Arquitecto and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group).
“Rainbow Church” by Tokujin Yoshioka
At the exhibition of Tokujin Yoshioka, which opens from May 1st, he will present his dream project “Rainbow Church”, a large scale straw installation for the first time in Aisa, and many more.
The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when Tokujin wan in early 20s.
Tokujin visited the Chapelle du Rosaire located in Venice. He was impressed to see the world of Matisse being expressed by the sunlight of the Provence.
Since then, he had been dreaming of designing an architecture were people can feel the light with all senses.
Approximately 8-meter-high stained glass made with 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colours as the light shines on it.
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Nafi, Hair Salon in Basel by ZMIK Studio
ZMIK Design Studio has refurbished a hair salon in Basel by wallpapering the entrance with photocopies from Vogue magazine.The space is subdivided into two zones, which are being separated by a sharp border.
The ceiling and the walls of the entry zone are seamlessly covered with photocopies on packaging paper made from Vogue magazines from the 1920ies until today.
February 15, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 2
Niketown Flagship Stores by Wonderwall
Niketown Flagship Stores is located in the Harajuku section of Tokyo, an influential epicentre where style and culture blend .The store is designed by the renowned interior design firm, Wonderwall. The spacious interiors are sparsely merchandised to showcase the detailed architectural finishes and multimedia elements that tell of the history and technological innovations of Nike.
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February 10, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Anansi, Playground Building, Utrecht by Mulders vandenBerk Architecten
Mulders vandenBerk Architecten of Amsterdam have completed a playground building in a park in Utrecht, Netherlands. The façade is made of Corian engraved with images of fairytales from around the world. The graphic design has been placed on the façade to stimulate the senses and the imagination.
New Faberge Salon, Geneva by Jaime Hayon
Jaime Hayon’s latest projects was the design of the new Faberge Salon in Geneva, Switzerland. The muted colors and luxurious finishes are ideal for a high-end jewelry store but offer great inspiration for our own homes.
The interior of the Faberge boutique presents an innovative approach to the High Jewellery experience. The concept and design focuses on superlative craftsmanship, sensually minimal shapes and forms, and exquisite materials, including silk wall drapes, rare woods and Carrara marble. The materials used give the boutique an organic and dynamic feel balanced by a serenity that comes from the tonality of neutral, silvered metallic shades. Light and luminosity flood the boutique form the central theme of Hayon’s interior design. Simple open spaces are bathed in the reflections of mirrors and outside light that drifts through the tinted glass of cut-out gem-shaped panels in tall interconnecting doors.
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January 26, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 2
Split-Level House, Pennsylvania by Qb Design
Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this Split_Level House has been constructed by Qb Design.
Curved brick corners negotiate the irregular street grid, while the cadence of typical row houses and a palette of brick volumes and stone bases are translated into a new vocabulary. I might have to do a drive-by, since it’s so close to me.
January 12, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 1
Glass Home Concept by Santambrogiomilao Group
Designed by the Santambrogiomilao Group, this concept home is made entirely from glass including the exterior, furniture and accessories. The glass house is quite stunning in its aesthetics but who would want to have a permanent the view of world at 360 degrees without a care for privacy.
The glass home is a collaboration between founder Carlo Santambrogio and designer Ennio Arosio featuring a series of iconic furniture pieces, beds, sofas and bookcases, along with architectural elements such as staircases and kitchens.
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The Tote, Mumbai, India by Serie Architects
In the middle of one of Mumbai’s most beautiful open spaces, an old shell has been given a new interior. UK architects Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta of Serie Architects have redesigned ‘The Tote’, a banquet hall, restaurant and bar. The colonial facade of the Tote building gives way to what looks like a bleached, enchanted forest. In the banqueting and indoor restaurant areas, white metal pillars branch out like trees as they reach the ceiling, creating the effect of walking down a forest path.
Strategically placed skylights in abstract shapes, mimicking sunlight breaking through dense foliage, heighten that feeling. By contrast, the 40ft long bar upstairs is all dark chocolate wood. The faceted wood panels on the walls give the impression of looking through a kaleidoscope, or at paper that was folded to make an origami figure and then opened out. The original cubbyhole-like windows, through which bets were placed, have been retained.
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December 28, 2009 - Category: Architecture, Facade, Interior, Latest, Restaurant - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 2
James May’s LEGO House Demolished
In a tragic turn of events, the supercool House of LEGOs constructed for the James May BBC television challenge was torn, hammered and shattered into nothing more than a pile of 3.3 million LEGO bricks, along with the dreams of many a young (and old) LEGO lover.
House H, Tokyo by Sou Fujimoto Architects
House H is the latest project by Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo.
Fujimoto seized the opportunity to extend his research into the potential of primitive forms to create complex responses to contemporary needs. It’s new experiment was to find a balance between volumes, spaces and light.
Dealing innovatively with Japan’s strict plot ratio regulations, Fujimoto has avoided the conventions of creating a courtyard or of setting a house as an isolated object within the site boundary. Instead it is a hybrid; a series of boxes in boxes that define domestic realm, enclosure and interior.
I ♥ Yu, Naoshima Bathhouse by Shinro Ohtake
The Naoshima Bath house was opened on July 26, 2009 under the name of “I♥湯 (I love you).” Conceived by the artist Shinro Ohtake, this charming name softens the hearts of the customers before using the bathroom.
The project is particularly interesting because it blurs the distinction between art and practical daily life (the bathhouse can be used by locals, who pay just 300 yen rather than the standard 500 yen entrance fee to use it), between private corporations and public works, and between inside and outside.
The bottoms of the baths are lined with stones and collages of found images and shunga erotic prints that come in and out of view with the movement of the water.
Camper Store in london by Tokujin Yoshioka
The opening of the new Camper store designed by Tokujin Yoshioka on London’s Regent Street took place during the London Design Festival.
The concept for the new store, is derived from the installation which he presented in New York in 2007, where approximately 30,000 sheets of tissues were covered in the entire space, reminiscent of a snow scape. the red flower blossoms emphasizes the corporate colour and will also include Tokujin’s bouquet chair.
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October 20, 2009 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
