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..
Architectural Team: Fletcher Crane Architects / Toby Fletcher, Ian Crane and Sam Stevens Structural Engineer: Elliott Wood/Gary Elliott, George Georgiou Building Environment and Services Engineer: Skelly and Couch/Mark Skelly, Matthew Chantzidakis Quantity Surveyor: Quantem Consulting/Dan Watson Landscape Architects: Whitelaw Turkington/Ian Turkington ‘The Loom’ is the apparatus for weaving stra..
This wavy wall forms the east facade of an information centre designed by BCHO Architects at a Korean concrete factory. Called Hanil Visitors Center and Guest House, the information centre aims to educate visitors about recycling concrete and demonstrates different options through its own construction. Four openings in the eastern wall allow glimpses of how the concrete is produced in the factor..
The Glasshouse is an arts, conference and entertainment centre in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, that has been designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects. The Glasshouse: Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre comprises a 600-seat performing arts theatre, a 600m2 Regional Art Gallery, a studio theatre, conference facilities and a community workshop located in the centre of Port ..
Architects: A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects Location: Pozuelo de Alorcón, Spain Partner in Charge: Rafael Llamazares Contractor: Helio Construcciones Interiors: A-cero Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Luis H. Segovia The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its last works about a big single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5,000 m2 plot. It is a single sto..
Our friends at Abitare published several works by Italian firm Buratti + Battiston, an architect and engineer, respectively. With a strong grasp of aesthetics as their foundation for creating spaces, their Vetreria Airoldi Office + Showroom works with the characteristics of colored glass to form a contemporary working space. The office + showroom is an entire experimentation of glass. On the ext..
Photographer Edmund Sumner has shared with us his photos of this house by Matharoo Associates in Ahmadabad, India, featuring shutters weighted with concrete balls. Called The House with Balls, the building was designed for the owner of an aquarium shop and houses four huge tanks for breeding fish. It also doubles as a weekend retreat. The long narrow main room is lined on both sides by shutters,..
It’s been a long time since we at Yatzer wanted to publish something about all the art fervor that there’s been going on lately in fellow city Istanbul, so close to Greece and in a way so far away. It seems that the time has finally come and we must admit that we couldn’t find a better excuse than the “Yekpare” Urbanscreening Projection Mapping by Deniz Kader and Candaş Şişman. Coinciding with t..
American architects Space International have completed this gallery cantilevered over a row of existing garages at the MAK Centre for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles. Polycarbonate panels with an aluminium frame retract to create an open facade and afford views of the neighbouring 1939 Mackey Apartments designed by the late Rudolph Schindler. The garages below have been renovated into studios fo..
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..
