Here’s a fourth house by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects: House of Depth in Shiga, Japan. FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects also designed the House of Diffusion, House of Inclusion and House of Vision in our previous stories. This house is built on a deep plot, with open space in front sheltered from neighbouring houses on one side by a high wall. Photographs by Takumi Ota. Here’s some text from FOR..
Architect/Interior Designer: Slade Architecture Location: Shanghai, China Client: Mattel Architect of Record (company name): AD Incorporated (China) Ltd (Danial McCahon) Store Concept Development and Creative Direction:BIG/ Ogilvy & Mather Activities (Fashion Runway and Barbie Design Center Activities):Chute Gerdeman Retail Consultant:Vertical Retail Consulting (Formerly KSA Shanghai) Restaurant..
Austrian architects PSA have completed an interior project for a law firm in Vienna. The project involved extending the firm’s existing office and providing new circulation. The main feature is a corridor lined by walls made of 543 individually CNC-milled parts. Photographs by Hertha Hurnaus. Here’s some more information from PSA: – PSA: EXTENSION OF A LAWYERS FIRM IN VIENNA The proposal respond..
Architect: Massimo Mariani Location: Livorno, Italy Project Team: Elda Bellone, Roseda Gentile, Alessandro Mariani Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Alessandro Ciampi The project concerns the redesign of a building at Donoratico (in Livorno) located next the head office of the bank “Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Castagneto Carducci” (also designed by architect Mariani in 2002). The building is o..
Designer: Glowacka Rennie Location: London, UK In May 2008 Glowacka Rennie won an invited competition for the design of the Women's Amenities off the Grand Entrance hall at the V&A. from spaceinvading
Design studio 1:2:3 and student Kristoffer Sundin have developed an interior and graphic identity for the Rio cinema in Stockholm, Sweden. The concept echoes the original design of the 1940’s cinema while accommodating the venue’s events programme of seminars, theatre, art installations and musical performances. Modular furniture can be rearranged and the pendant lights can be gathered together ..
Designer Marcel Wanders has completed the interior of fashion store Villa Moda in Bahrain. The heavily patterned interior includes mannequins with mirrors in place of heads. More information in our previous story; see also Jaime Hayon’s design for Villa Moda in Dudbai. Win a copy of new monograph Marcel Wanders - Behind the Ceiling in our competition. Here’s some more information from Marcel Wan..
Canadian firm Saucier + Perrotte Architects redesigned an old warehouse into a spa that provides a thermal therapy. The design conept is derived from contact between hot and cold. It destills the idea of 'cool glacial forms and the warmness of volcanic rocks', which duality is articulated through forms and various materials used in the building. These forms and angles, give a perceptual differen..
The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel Dallas, Texas. Located in the heart of one of America뭩 most dynamic cities, The Joule is one of Dallas뭩 most stylish and contemporary hotels. Adam D. Tihany conceived the 129-room boutique hotel, rooftop pool, and public spaces with effortless elegance, putting The Joule in a unique class of its own. Jules Verne뭩 Journey to the Center of the Earth is the insp..
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Project team: Gilles Saucier, André Perrotte, Jean-Philippe Beauchamp, Anna Bendix, Trevor Davies, Yves De Fontenay Structural Engineer: Stavibel Mechanical & Electrical engineer: Leroux,Beaudoin, Hurens et associés Contractor: Société Desjardins-Larouche Client: Gestion Rivière du Diable Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm Pr..
