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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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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Stills Flagship Store by Doepel Strijkers
A flagship store has been realized for the label Stills in the Cornelis Schuijtstraat in Amsterdam. The caged Stills Store by Doepel Strijkers Architects features minimal grid elements that play to the role of the interior’s architectural fabric. Dressed mannequins appear to be climbing the wooden frame and changing rooms are concealed behind two mirrored doors. The white grid branches into every corner of the two-storey store operates as the flagship for fashion brand Stills.
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Starbucks Coffee Decorated with 2,000 Wooden Sticks
This Starbucks based in Fukuoka, Japan, is decorated with 2,000 wooden sticks, woven into the walls and ceilings.
The building is made of 2,000 stick-like parts in the sizes of 1.3m – 4m length and 6cm section. Total length of the sticks reached as far as 4.4km. We had experimented the weaving of sticks for the project of Chidori and GC Prostho Museum Research Center, and this time we tried the diagonal weaving in order to bring in a sense of direction and fluidity. Three sticks are joined at one point in Chidori and GC, while in Starbucks four steps come to one point because of the diagonal – a more complicated joint.
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…
Sofia Pavillon by Riccardo Giovanetti
Italian designer Riccardo Giovanetti has recently designed an innovative pavilion for the Russian door company Sofia.
The project arises from the desire to create a direct relationship between the architectural form of the exhibition space with the form of the company’s logo.
Architecturally the pavilion was conceived with a single element, repeated to create a hanging structure and a circular exhibition space, which allows light and air to pass through.
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‘”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.
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…
Home 06 in Amsterdam by i29
i29 have completed a new project in Amsterdam, featuring one interior wall covered in plants. Called Home 06, the single-storey residence was designed for a Japanese client.
This residence at the Singel, Amsterdam (NL) exists from one open space where several functions have been put into freestanding objects. The kitchen and wardrobe are placed near the entrance and combined into one single volume. The bath- and bedroom is hided into a volume which is placed at back of the house. From the open living area you look alongside the volume towards the vertical garden and the entrance stairs to the roof terrace. Read More…
Kizuki + Lim, Beauty Salon by Teruhiro Yanagihara
Kizuki + Lim, beauty Salon designed by Japanese designer Teruhiro Yanagihara is located within a hotel in central Singapore. Designed for Japanese hair-dressing chain LIM (Less Is More), the interior space is divided up into three different zones – reception, cutting and shampooing areas – by the faceted structure.
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1978 Airstream Renovated by Hofmann Architecture
Matthew Hofmann, founder of Hofmann Architecture, put his skills to work in remodeling a 1978 25-foot Airstream. The 158 sq. ft. trailer is now his office/home, and a great way to enjoy the outdoors. Green thinking heavily influenced this project. The trailer is now a beautiful home sporting bamboo, aluminum and recycled glass tiles.
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Shu Shop in Valletta, Malta by Chris Briffa Architects
The site designed Chris Briffa Architects for a new shoe shop in Valletta presented a very limited volume (a 7x3m room at street level with an underlying basement) with a considerable challenge; the client’s brief demanded a display of 75 pairs of shoes and to store another 600. From the early sketches a vertical design approach was adopted, where space was conceived purely as access and consequently fragmented into one giant staircase combining display, seating, storage and all services into one element. We imagined clients walking up, down and around the stairs, picking their favourite shoe, sitting next to it and trying it on. The experience of being surrounded by the products, together with the constantly changing vistas while exploring the shop enhances both the shopper and the shopped in a surreal, stepped space.
M Coffee by Hooman Balazadeh
Hooman Balazadeh has design the interior of the M Coffee based in Tehran, Iran. The concept was to present a significant solid mass that connects the entrance of the hall to the serving counter and also illustrates the roof and the walls as a continuous element. To avoid multiplicity of materials only two basic materials were selected to create the spatial quality and flow of relaxing light in the space. The form was generated through morphing two curves over each other that creates variety of different perspective views and diverse experiences in each spot.
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