Japanese design firm Case-Real have completed a boutique with two façades in an old tenement building in Oita, Japan. The existing facade was deemed inappropriate for the boutique but could not be modified, so the designers created a second glass shop-front behind it. The two façades are separated by a strip of dark grey pebbled flooring. Photographs are by Hiroshi Mizusaki. Here’s some text fro..
Robert D. Henry Architects have designed the interior of the SHO Shaun Hergatt restaurant, located in New York’s financial district. from contemporist
Suppose Design Office has just shared with us their latest work for the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama, Japan. While Makoto Tanijiri, the principle of Suppose, has designed over 60 residences (several of which we have featured previously on AD) his work also includes commercial and exhibition spaces. Tanijiri and Masaaki Takahashi, an independent writer and editor specializing in various fields ..
DeStefano and Partners have created a new commercial center for Ninbgo, China. Extending the existing canal system, the Yinzhou Fantasy Island master plan fuses the current wetlands and parks with the commercial aspects of the city as a way to balance the ecological with the cultural. The plan will not only include retail areas, but also entertainment, business, leisure and cultural facilities p..
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Project team: Stanley Saitowitz, Alan Tse General Contractor: Brian Spiers Acoustics: Dale Pekrul Project year: 2007 Photographs: Rien van Rijthoven Conduit Restaurant emerged from the found circumstances. The ground floor commercial space in a new residential building had a low ceiling and a tangled maze of plumb..
Steven Holl Architects have been selected as the winning firm for the design of the master plan of the “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” competition by unanimous decision. Bird’s eye view of the winning “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” master plan proposal by Steven Holl Architects This competition was for an office tower complex around the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters located in Shenzhen’s Futian comm..
Brazilian architecture has produced interesting works in the business/retail area, often limited to just interior design. Recent works by Marcio Kogan, Marcelo Alvarango or Tao Arquitetura are good examples of a tradition that, in my personal opinion, has a peak at Mendes da Rocha’s Forma store in Sao Paulo. If you ever go to Sao Paulo to visit local architecture, don´t be afraid of your girlfri..
autor/autor mathias klotz, edgardo minond mandante/client Turner Internationational, Argentina colaboradores/colaborators rafael hevia, francisco reyes, hernán araujo calculist alberto fernstein superficie construida/built surface 2700 m² superficie de terreno/terrain surface n.d. año concurso/proyect year 2006 ubicación/location buenos aires, argentina The Turner Studios project started as a pr..
Nearly 4 years after the competition for a new administration building of the Schwandorf Incineration Plant in Bavaria, Germany was won by Stuttgart-based archimedialab, this unique ensemble of building and landscape has now been officially inaugurated. Here is how archimedialab describe their project: The task to design a new administration building, reorganize the power station compound and cr..
Turkish architects Uğur Köse and Batu Palmer have designed a tapas restaurant inspired by ocean currents in Istanbul, Turkey, Located in a historic building, the renovation involved hiding mechanical elements and pipes behind a wooden shell, shaped to resemble waves. İzz Cafe&Restaurant, being faithful to a historic building and still creating a contemporary space, was created with the leadershi..
