Architects: Paul Kaloustian Location: Gemayze, Beirut, Lebanon Client: Joe Mourani Project Area: 140 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Paul Kaloustian Located in the iconic night life district of Beirut, the MYU bar/restaurant inhabits an old small liquor factory. The design concept is based on creating 2 separate spaces of bar and restaurant defined by 2 vaults different in scale. These vaults which..
These Stockholm offices for fashion brand Cheap Monday by Swedish designers Uglycute feature a conference room inside a pyramid. The floors and pyramid are covered in grey carpet, bright yellow ventilation tubes crisscross the space and stackable chipboard shelving provides storage. A showroom and reception area upstairs have been stripped back to reveal different textures and tiles. Here’s some..
Project: Spirito – Martini Location: Brussels, Belgium Designer: Puresang team Client: Franseco Ravo / entrepeneur Completion date: December 2009 A blessed club in Brussels text by Marcia Argyriades for Yatzer We at Yatzer have always been fond of radical interior re-designing, especially when the space at which we are looking at previously operated as a church. Spirito – Martini is a former Ang..
Polish studio moomoo architects have introduced mirrored columns, slanted walls and a clothes shop to the interior of this hair salon in Warsaw, Poland. The reflective columns serve as mirrors for stylists and shoppers, and open up to provide extra storage. The slanted walls have sections removed to create workspaces with integrated sinks and shelves to display hair products. The salon has rails..
Thailand’s X2 (pronounced “cross-to”) resorts are about soul, freedom and simplicity. These credos add up to an earthy philosophy that beautifully continues at X2 Koh Samui, on the Hua Thannon beach on the southeastern coast of Koh Samui island. The newly built resort’s 27 villas rest on a largely undeveloped beach surrounded by old tree growth; the buildings’ sleek, horizontally oriented design..
Architecture photographer Michael Schnell shared with us his interior photos of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by Austrian architects Delugan Meissl. The project was completed in 2008, after being awarded with the 1st prize in a 2-stage competition back in 2005. The exhibition space we see on these photos in contained by a monolothic volume supported by a steel structure, whi..
Architects: Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos Location: Barcelona, Spain Project Director: Iñaki Ábalos Collaborators: Víctor Garzón, Renata Sentkiewicz, Alfonso Miguel, Ismael Martín, Elena Cuerda, Haizea Aguirre Client: Fundació Antoni Tàpies Structure: BOMA (Agustí Obiol, Javier Asensio) Services: AB2, FLUIDSA, PREFIRE Contractor: SAPIC Technical Architect: CASOBI (Eduard Casanovas) Lighting: ..
Middenin de Jordaan in Amsterdam zijn de onderste twee lagen van dit monument uit 1748 getransformeerd tot een woonhuis en is het oude gebouw voorzien van een nieuwe fundering. Alle ruimten staan in open verbinding met elkaar (alleen het toilet is een aparte, afsluitbare ruimte geworden), maar door de indeling in dit relatief diepe grachtenpand en de vele niveauverschillen heeft iedere woonfunct..
Architect: Hyunjoon Yoo Architects Location: Samsung Headquarter Basement, 2 Taepyoung-ro, Joong-gu, Seoul, Korea Client: Kangbuk Samsung Hospital Collaborators: Kookbo Design Co. Ltd, Samsung Everland Co. Ltd Size: 5,697 sqm Design Year: 2009 Completion Year: 2010 Photographs: Seunghoon Yum Hospital unlike Hospital Typical hospitals are located in a huge size building and their rooms are small...
The design aimed to expose the height of the space by colouring all the infrastructure of the ceiling. With polished concrete surfaces untreated wood, classic and custom furniture, the space has an industrial yet warm and inviting interior. from contemporist
