There is a symbolic island, a gem with the essence of calmness and serenity in Cyclades, Greece. Its beauty is picturesque and it reminds you of all that is idealic. This heaven is Tinos. On this island we discovered a private house designed by Greek Zege architects which represents all that Tinos stands for. Respecting its architectural surroundings and capturing the day to day beauty and simpl..
Turkish design studio Autoban have completed the interior design for the House Hotel in the Nisantasi neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. The House Hotel Nisantasi, The House Café chains second hotel Project is located in Nisantasi, Istanbul’s most stylish shopping district. The House Hotel, is a 45 room humbly luxurious hotel offering 5 types of accommodation: Classic, Deluxe, Junior, Terrace Del..
Architects: Architecture 53seven Location: Laois, Ireland Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Joseph Burns The nature of the works undertaken to Egan’s Coffee Bar and Roof Terrace were devised to consider the relationship between differing programmatic requirements; on one-hand, a modest coffee bar offering juices to take away and food to take whilst seating, whilst one the other a roof terrace and ..
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..
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..
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..
