Japanese architect Teruhiro Yanagihara of Isolation Unit has completed a hair salon in Osaka. The salon, for Japanese chain LIM, features individual rooms for each of six stylists. Photos are by Takumi Ota. See our earlier story about Isolation Unit’s Climie hair salon for LIM. Here’s some info from Isolation Unit: – The spacious salon with an area of 247 square metres is composed of six scatter..
Client: H&M Architecture, interiors and graphic design: Estudio Mariscal Location: c/ Portal de l’Angel 22, Barcelona, Spain Area: 1.720 m2 Year: 2008 Contractor: Dula Bau Furniture and commercial equipment: Dula Iberica Structural engineering: nb35 Technical architecture and services: MC Arquitectura e Ingenieria Leds (provider): BARCO Leds (installation): SONO Lighting: iGuzzini Renovation: Ar..
British designer Tom Dixon has completed the interior of members’ club and event space Paramount, at the top of Centre Point tower in London. The members’ viewing gallery on floor 33 (top image) consists of a champagne and cocktail bar with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city. The 32nd floor has a bar, lounge and restaurant for members and their guests (above), while level 31 hosts pri..
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a shop and work space for Le Laboratoire in Paris, France. The work space, called LaboBrain, consists of a concave screen for the user to scrawl ideas on while moving around it. A football-like seat allows for rest between frenzied bouts of creative thinking, while plants under a grid in the floor refresh the air. The LaboShop sells objects conceive..
Design Miami 08: here are some photos of the HSBC Private Bank lounge designed by Humberto and Fernando Campana for Design Miami earlier this month. The Brazilian designers intended the lounge to create the atmosphereof a traditional communal dwelling from the Amazonian forest. A video interview with the Campanas (winners of the Designer of the Year award at Design Miami 2008), filmed by Dezeena..
London-based designer and curator Rabih Hage has opened a hotel in a Georgian terraced house in London, UK. The hotel has nine rooms and incorporates partially sanded walls, chipped paint and bare floorboards alongside opulent furnishings chosen by Hage. Murals created from photographs of interiors by artist Massimo Listri cover some of the walls. “The rough texture of the walls now celebrates t..
Belgrade-based design studio 4of7 and London-based practice Superfuisonlab have completed the conversion of a former restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia, into a gym and spa. The former communist building is cantilevered 15 metres above the river. Approximately 390 translucent, triangular, back-lit panels are suspended from the ceiling’s steel structure. More information about the project on the 4of7 ..
client : straco Corporation, C.Clerico architecte : as.architecture-studio architecte d'intérieur et signalétique : as.design-studio superficie : 5500 m² Coût : 2,5 M € date de début d’étude : septembre 2006 date de livraison : permis de construire en cours activité : complexe restaurant-cabaret avec terrasse dans l’ancien bâtiment de la banque HSBC emplacement : 12 on the Bund Shanghai Chine Ci..
Architects: Albert France-Lanord Architects Location:Stockholm, Sweden Collaborators: Frida Öster and Jonatan Blomgren Geology Consultant: Geosigma AB Construction: Albert France-Lanord Architects Client: Bahnhof AB Construction Area: 1,200 sqm Project year: 2008 Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman The project takes place in a former 1200 square meter anti-atomic shelter. An amazing location 30 meter..
concours : lauréat maîtrise d'ouvrage : ministère de la Culture et de la Communication + ministère des Affaires Etrangères + EMOC (Etablissement public de maîtrise d'ouvrage des travaux culturels) maîtrise d'ouvrage déléguée : Ubifrance maîtrise d'ouvrage déléguée : Société Immobilière du Québec SIQ architecte mandataire : Franklin Azzi Architecture design meubles spécifiques : Robert Carr mise ..
