Villa Widlund in Öland, Sweden by Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects
This house built by Claesson Koivisto Rune is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland. The white concrete box is “corsetted” in the middle, creating slightly sheared wall and roof angles. This gives the house both its direction and character, while also marking the difference between the rear private two-storey bedroom part and the communal double ceiling-height front part.
Precast concrete is perhaps not the most common choice for a private house at this scale, but was ideal for achieving the ultimate precision in manufacturing tolerance and colour/finish.
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Camper Shoe Store in Lyon by Studio Makkink Bey
Studio Makkink & Bey were inspired by basic walking movements for the design of a new concept store for Camper in Lyon. Movements forward, upward and downward are shaped in staircase pedestals, stools or stepladders and outlined in bright red lines on the stairs, walls and floors. The stairs represent the conjunction of separate places. While performing as a place to meet, sit on or pass through, they expand places and establish rhythm, depth and infinity of spaces. This is the studios first cooperation with Camper as part of the Together Project.
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Graffiti Cafe by Studio MODE
Graffiti Cafe designed by Studio MODE is located in Bulgaria. The main peculiarity is the work done on the ceiling and columns that adorn the restaurant. Columns became over exaggerated as Mode dressed them with and array of thin unfinished wood panels which reach up to the ceiling to create a connecting pattern. Filaments of wood add relief and a great touch at this decor.
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Café Foam by Note Design Studio
Note Design Studio recently completed their latest project in Stockholm, Sweden; ‘Café Foam’. Its a cafe bar with bright and playful colors. They dare the contrasts of color that brings freshness and cheerfulness.
Note Design Studio says;
Café Foam is a place that you either love or hate, but that nobody is indifferent to. We were fascinated by the bull and bullfighter’s mutual movements and the sharp angles of their battle. Their struggle along with the materials and colours of the bullfighting arena where the inspiration when designing the new Café Foam.
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The Small House by Unemori Architects
Unemori Architects were commissioned to build this home in a 112 square foot plot. Unemori decided to place the “Small House” in the center of the property, which permits plenty of light and wind to encircle the tower.
“The small house which the married couple and their child live stands at the densely populated area in Tokyo. Though the neighboring houses is very close, I aimed to design the house which exceed the physical narrowness living at the city.
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7th Street Residence by Pulltab Design
This beautiful apartment located in new york and built by interior designers ’Pulltab Design‘ is a haven of peace and zen in the middle of the crowd.
The owners of this duplex apartment, located on a beautiful tree lined street in the East Village, retained Pulltab Design to create a unique living environment for a young family of four. As a starting point, the clients requested that their 2,400 square foot apartment be selectively renovated and that the new design revolve around not only creative architectural additions but also the thoughtful selection of free standing furniture and lighting. In the schematic design phase, initial conversations revolved around modern masters such as Geoffrey Bawa, Carlo Scarpa and Richard Neutra.
Based on these conversations, it became apparent that the new design should strive to create a warm and open living environment with unique handcrafted detailing. Materials such as stained concrete, American black walnut, bronze and steel were selected along with modernist finishes, including hand applied active patinas, true pigment paints and high gloss lacquer surfaces.
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Chevron House, West London by Andy Martin Architects
Chevron House, West London designed by Andy Martin Architects is inspired by the architecture of the existing elegantly proportioned spaces, the design sets out to exaggerate, by scaling the space by removing walls, and attaching new space to create a large Edwardian warehouse on each of the three levels. The ground floor, the public level is essentially one space which is divided only by the use of colour and material. On the second and third levels, the private floors, bedrooms merge into bathrooms and visa versa.
The rear of the property has new extensions off both the living and kitchen reaching into the garden to absorb the light from the south. The client’s brief to use colour extensively was applied in such that the walls and ceilings are left light in colour (off white) and that only elements or interventions (joinery etc) would be strongly coloured giving the house a lighter atmosphere with greater sense of perspective. Read More…
Dandelion Ceiling by Regine Ramseier
Regine Ramseier, a German artist, had the great idea to created a ‘Dandelion Ceiling.’ 2000 dandelion flowers were treated and sprayed with a gentle adhesive to fix them. The dandelions were then transported by car to a little white room where they were hung.
‘”Apartment H,’ Constanta, Romania by Re-act Now Studio
Apartment H designed by Re-act Now Studio is located within a block of apartments in Constanta on the Black Sea coast. Their first intention was to create an open space wwith a distinct beach-side feel.. The interior has a predominantly white glass partition that separates the living room , the bathroom and bedroom. Colored film has been stuck onto the glass to add a funky touch of coulour in the apartment.
Brandbase Pallets by Most Architecture
Dutch firm Most Architecture have created this temporary office from wooden pallets for an Amsterdam advertising company.
A temporary furnishment for the new office location combined with the explicit wish to furnish the space with an authentic, recycable material, gave creative director Marvin Pupping and MOST Architecture the idea to use Euro-pallets for this particular design. The pallet structure; an open, autonomous landscape that gradually changes its character, facilitates all parts of the office.
The pallet structure is designed in such a way that besides being merely a workplace, the entire element invites you to stand, sit or lay down on the pallets. This open office concept was created to suit the creative advertising agency, with an additional, informal atmosphere.
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Penthouse in Berlin by LecaroliMited Architects
Lecarolimited was commissioned to remodel the penthouse of a German apartment building, spread over two floors. The mirrors of different shapes and sizes create geometric patterns across the partitioning walls of the penthouse apartment, surrounding the kitchen, fireplace and seating areas.
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Kitchen With Folding Facade by dmvA Architecten
The challenge dmvA Architecten was to turn the kitchen in an existing art nouveau extension of a 19th-century townhouse into a multi purpose family space that can be transformed easily into a film-screening or a meeting room.
The panels simply close to hide the kitchen , making functional way for a truly multi functional area. The worktop cantilevers out from the rear wall and hovers like a magic tick ready to be used as a work surface, dining table or desk.
Office 04 by I29 Interior Architects
i29 interior architects designed their new offices for about 80 people. With Tribal DDB their main objective was to create an environment where creative interaction is supported, and to achieve as much workplaces as possible in a new structure with flexible desks and a large open space. All of this while maintaining a work environment that stimulates long office hours and concentrated work. As Tribal DDB is part of an international network a clear identity was required, which also fits the parent company DDB. The design had to reflect an identity that is friendly and playful but also professional and serious. The contradictions within these questions, asked for choices that allow great flexibility in the design.
Situated in a building where some structural parts could not be changed it was a challenge to integrate these elements in the design and become an addition to the whole. i29 searched for solutions to various problems which could be addressed by one grand gesture. At first a material which could be an alternative to the ceiling system, but also to cover and integrate structural parts like a big round staircase. Besides that, acoustics became a very important item, as the open spaces for stimulating creative interaction and optimal usage of space was required. Read More…
‘Nakahouse’ House by XTEN Architecture
This construction is impressive in its simplicity, its proportions and its exposure in relation to the surrounding landscape. Nakahouse is an abstract remodel of a 1960′s hillside home located high in the Hollywood Hills, just below the Hollywood sign.The interior was entirely reconfigured by XTEN Architecture, terraces and floor-to-ceiling windows connect with the panoramic view from the steep hillside location.
The exterior walls are smooth black plaster, designed to render the building as a singular sculptural object set within the lush natural setting. A series of abstract indoor-outdoor spaces with framed views to nature are rendered in white surfaces of various materials and finishes; lacquered cabinetry, matte white quartz, epoxy resin floors and decks.
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Tex-Tonic House I by Paul McAneary Architects Ltd
Tex-Tonic House 1 is a penthouse recently completed by Paul McAneary Architects Ltd in Victoria, London, UK .The clients brief in this invited competition was to design two apartments on the top floor of the existing Cental London post office and Phillips de Pury art action house in Victoria, London.
The client expressed a wish for large volume ‘loft’ spaces and his desire for a contemporary design and functionality. Paul McAneary Architects’ response won the competition with a proposal for expressed natural tectonics through numerous new details, and even developing a new material type – of cast timber bronze. Read More…
‘Panteón Nube’ in Murcia, Spain by Studio Clavel Arquitectos
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The Panteón Nube located in Murcia, Spain and built by studio Clavel Arquitectos is a modern tomb, which features an asymmetrical design and ambient and an ambient light provided by the onyx stone. The tomb’s entrance can only be opened by turning its four doors in a certain way.
Clavel Arquitectos say:
‘In this project we worked with two images.The first one was the medieval unfoldable boards, which used to work as removable façades or altarpieces, and now get remade in the zigzag façade. Death inspires human beings with something between mystery and fear. To die means a transition between this world and others that nobody knows. The tomb is where this transition takes place. In this project we worked with two images.
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Rock it Suda, Six Houses by Hoon Moon
Breaking the boundaries of simple architecture, Hoon Moon, Korean architect gave birth to Rock It Suda, a guesthouse with six bedrooms, each characterized by a specific theme: From Barbie to Ferrari, from Spain to the caves to finish with traditional Korean style. The six different ways to capture the landscape inspired Moon, who decided to give birth to the Same Spatial Concentration of Expansion and Compression reasoning on issues completely dissociated from the context such as Spain, Barbie, Stealth, Ferrari, Caves and Traditional Korean Style.
The hotel is located on the outskirts of Jeongseon in South Korea, on the banks of a river and has magnificent views over the mountains surrounding it.
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Mountain Dwelling by Bjarke Ingels Group
The surprisingly complex ‘The Mountain’, 33 000m2, is green in the first degree. The apartments are from 80m2 up to 150m2, each has a garden and terrace. The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has used the volume occupied by the parking lot to elevate the apartments. The program, however, is 2/3 parking and 1/3 living.
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