s an increasingly important hub of hi-tech in both China and the Far East, Chengdu’s residents reap the fruits of the economic boom in multiple forms, and life in the city has reached a sophistication level that’s becoming on a par with the offerings of top establishments in Shanghai and Beijing. These days, many new retail and hospitality concepts that have initially launched in the latter two ..
Façade as a functional banner The transformation of a former car show room on the outskirts of a housing estate into a site of the MY DVA group, focusing on the production of office, school and metal furniture, represents another finished structure of the young architecture firm CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban Designers from Brno. The single-storey building of a poor aesthetic quality turned..
The plot is located in the urban edge of the small town of Calamonte, on a land platform that visually dominates the surrounding farmland. From this location, which gives it a special value in the city-field- landscape relationship, leave the main formal and conceptual decisions that inspire the project. Furthermore, the presence of the building far from the road access routes, also causes the b..
As retaW’s first street level store, retaW store Harajuku functions as a showcase for the fragrance brand. The space is comprised of three elements (sections) with distinctive functions: “By Product,” “By Fragrance” and “Backspace.” Architects: The Archetype Location: Tokyo, Japan Architect in Charge: Nobuo Araki Area: 26.35 m2 Project Year: 2016 Photographs: SHIMIZU KEN Manufacturers: Flos, Lix..
Fashion week, whether it’s in London, Paris or Milan, is a dizzyingly high-speed spectacle of shows, clothes, and names. Once a look has been photographed, throw it in the trash – it’s done. This year, Prada looked back as far as 200 BCE to find an answer to the rapid cycles of seasonal trends. ‘Graphic Rooms’ are the latest stage in evolution for the Italian fashion house’s modular design proje..
Anston Architectural make bespoke concrete products for designers of exterior space. They leased a retail space in the eclectic, industrious and now desirable inner Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford and then approached Dan Gayfer Design to design an interior that showcased their premium product.Architects: Dan Gayfer DesignLocation: Abbotsford VIC 3067, AustraliaArchitect in Charge: Dan GayferArea:..
Situated on a bank of the Chao Phraya River in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, The Wine Ayutthaya is a new leisure place for wine drinkers. The building was constructed to become a new tourist attraction in hopes of stimulating the economy of local communities surrounding this world heritage site, which was the capital city of Thailand 400 years ago. The building is a product of architectural..
Extended facilitiesThe campus-like development with its different, individually de- signed buildings has been extended by the two new B10 and B16 buildings. The stereometric composition of the area is comple- mented by the B10 office building with its purposeful as well as practical design. With its open front elevation facing the centre of the development, the building forms part of a loosely a..
Freitag has made its entrance in Milan’s retail scene with a new and understated outpost in the fast-emerging shopping zone of Porta Nuova. The Zurich-based lifestyle brand, best known for its bags made from recycled truck tarp and lately also for its innovative F-ABRIC apparel collection, has picked a location inside a 19th century industrial building with brick walls, vaulted ceilings and ston..
DO.DO의 디자이너 Kei Harada는 도자기의 전통을 기리기 위한 특별한 프로젝트를 수행하였다. 총 2층의 건물은 온전히 도자기만을 위한 곳으로, 아름다운 블루와 화이트 도자기 조각을 불규칙하게 잘라 표현한 외부의 계단이 독특하다. 벽은 단단한 도자기 판으로 만들고, 이는 천장까지 이어진다. 카운터와 디스플레이 선반조차 모두 역사를 염두해 두고 만들어졌으며, 철저히 건물 전체는 지난 400년 동안 Hasami 마을에서 번영했던 도자기 산업을 기리고 있다. It is through honoring the heritage of porcelain that designer Kei Harada of DO.DO has managed to provide a unique space for his client, Ō..
