Retail Interior | Alessi Flagship Store,New York, USA | Asymptote Architecture |LOCATION: New York, USASIZE: 2,750 sq. ft.DATE: 2006 The Alessi Flagship Store at 130 Greene Street in SoHo opened to the public in September 2006. Commissioned to create a new identity for the Alessi brand, Asymptote designed not only the store’s interior architecture, but also all of its graphic e…
Hotel Interior | Garonga safari CampThe accommodation at Garonga Safari Camp reflects the surroundings of the bush's textured earthy colours and clean lines have been incorporated with fine linen to ensure pure comfort, a tempting place to lie and meditate for hours.The Tented Rooms are situated overlooking a dry riverbe…
Retail Interior | Derek Lam New York | SANAAThe mere thought of a high-profile architect designing a shop for a well-known fashion designer raises the old question: Will the container dominate the contained—i.e., the clothes? After all, artists often complain about new architecturally splashy museums overwhelming exhibited works. Nevertheless…
Retail Interior | Surefoot New York | Los Angeles Design GroupDesign Principals: Claus Benjamin Freyinger, Andrew HolderProject Team: Noah Rubin, Jesus Aguilar, Molly HunkerType: Tenant Improvement Location: New York, New YorkYear: 2008Status: Realized Client BriefSurefoot's design problem turns on an issue of legibility: They sell a custom fitting process tha…
Gallery Interior | New Galerie BSL | Paris | NéonataOpened in Paris' Marais district this May, Galerie BSL will provide space for confrontation and conversation among one-off and limited edition design-art pieces, ranging from jewellery and fashion to furniture and lighting.Béatrice Saint-Laurent, a former executive at the French Ministry of Culture,…
Corporate Interior | Coca Cola FEMSA Training Center | ROW StudioTo maintain its leadership in the soft drinks market Coca Cola FEMSA invests significant time and resources in training their employees. This ranges from executive level to dealers and distributors who are the basis of the production chain of the company to be responsible for the orders, the proper …
Retail Interior | Jewelery Shop-D Jewelery | Vaillo + Irigaray | Navarra, SpainProject: D Jewelry Designer: Irigaray Vaill + Vaill Antonio Daniel, Juan Huarte Irigaray Project Director: Daniel Galar Irurre Location: Navarra, Spain Building Area: 30m2 Project: March 2006 Construction: December 2007 Lighting: Anton Aman - ALS LIGHTING Prizes: First Prize. Interior FAD'08 ,First …
Educational Interior | Toni Stabile Student Center | Graduate School of Journalism | Columbia University New York | Marble FairbanksThis project is an alternative configuration for the public spaces of the Graduate School of Journalism and an addition to the building that sensitively responds to the McKim, Mead, & White context. Included in the project are spaces for the Journalism Library, the offices of the Columbia Journalism…
Exhibition | Donor Hall Research Study Installation | New York, USA | INABAResearch Study, Installation160 SMNew York, USANew Museumwith C-LabCultural philanthropy is an expansive field that offers many distinct conceptions of what constitutes ‘culture’ and what purposes it serves. Culture can be a form of enlightenment, entertainment, politics, and even a weapon. The dive…
Retail Interior | O2 Dublin Brand Experience | Ireland, Dublin | JPDAThe O2 Dublin Brand Experience, designed by Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture, opened on December 16th following an €80 million redevelopment of Dublin's historic venue formerly known as the Point Theatre. The venue pampers O2 customers within fantastical themed environments including the Blue Roo…
Retail Interior | ACUBE | Aoyama, Tokyo | Issho ArchitectsThe office occupies one floor of a building in Aoyama, Tokyo. The client handles Italian handbags and apparel, and requested a show room space in the office. The proposal was to integrate the design of the conference and show room into a multi-purpose, where deal making and exhibition can co-exist. …
Exhibition | Smart-ologic Corian Living for Dupont | Milan, Italy | Karim RashidThe Smart-ologic Corian Living exhibition gave me the opportunity to develop a modular holistic house - a house that can be produced with minimal concave and convex panels and simple tooling. I believe that the design of Smart-ologic Corian Living is a metaphor for how technology, housing, furnishin…
Retail Interior | CRYSTAL DENIM SAS | Paris, France | Zaha HadidAREA:500 m² CONCEPT:At the heart of the Parisian fashion district, the unique character of this concept brief produces an interesting mix of retail and industry, taking the customer through every step of the process of creating a garment, showcasing the brand’s dexterity and craft with denim fabric.…
Cafe Interior | We Cross Cafe | Central World Plaza, Bangkok | Things MatterWe Cross CaféNovember 2005 | Central World Plaza, Bangkok Temporary Café commissioned by Nokia for Elle Fashion Week 2005, showcasing the work of young interdisciplinary designers.More of this interior at thingsmatter…
Exhibition | 50th Venice Biennale Interior Entrance | ArcheaArchitect's Statement“The Cord” is an installation/entrance for the 50th Venice Biennale art exhibition. Somewhere between sculpture and architecture, the work’s official purpose was to mark the main entrance to the Giardini di Castello and accommodate its attendant facilities, including ticket offi…
Office Interior | Bartle Bogle Hegarty, London By UrbansalonLarge daylit waiting/meeting spaceBBH wanted to design and refurbish their 400 person central London office to reflect their company image and brand values, to test new working practices and to create a new and stimulating working environment.In order to create maximum impact within a strict budget …
Studio Interior | Spotwelders Video Editing | Work Architecture CompanySpotwelders is a video-editing facility. Video-editing is an intense process, requiring rooms with good acoustic and light control. We also discovered that video-editing is a process requiring a large amount of space for lounging. Clients come to the facility and remain for days. Unlike the editing …
Retail Interior | Weekday Malmo | Electric DreamsWeekday is a 1000 sqm fashion store in central Malmo,opened in 2006. Entrance level hosts in-house jeansbrand Cheap Monday and top floor contains own brand.Weekday, second hand garments, and shoes. The top floor also houses a screen-printing studio, a fully equipped industrial laundry for dying jean…
Office Interior | Mauricement jens | DSM Headquarters | Heerlen, NetherlandsDSM Heerlen - 2007"Multifunctional meeting and reception room for the DSM Headquarters in Heerlen.The room is used for meetings and dinners for between four and twenty people and for brief celebratory occasions (seated or standing) for a maximum of 30 people. It therefore has both functional and rep…
Club Interior | The Juliet Supperclub | Bluarch Architecture“The conceptual framework behind the design of Juliet is based on the symbols and the tales of “One Thousand and One Nights” told by the legendary Persian queen Scheherazade,” said Di Oronzo. “The stories would speak of adventurous travels on flying carpets and luminous, soft clouds in the warm des…
Hotel Interior | The Club Hotel | Singapore | Ministry Of Designthe club is conceptualized and branded by award-winning ministry of design, who also designed the hotel and room interiors and façade. Home-grown jane yeo design consultants designed the F&B spaces on the ground floor. Together they paid quirky homage to singapore’s colonial beginnings and the rich …
Retail Interior | ROLLS,Diesel Denim Gallery | Minato-ku, Tokyo | SinatoThe characteristic of the material used for this installation, which is aluminum, is that it is very thin and easily bent by hands, yet harder than cloth or paper. Therefore it possesses both soft and hard qualities. By winding and sometimes extending this single, long strip of aluminum from the ent…
Office Interior | DTAC Headquarters | Bangkok, Thailand | HasselHASSELL designed the new workplace for dtac, one of Thailand’s leading telecommunication providers, to accommodate 3,500 staff occupying 62,000 sqm over 20 floors. The dtac corporate philosophy of ‘play and learn’ is communicated through all their advertising and merchandising, and is also successfu…
Office Interior | RF | Shibuyaku hiro-o, Tokyo | October / Ueda and Nakagawa ArchitectsAn office interior design for a creative corporation (an advertising agency). In order to make a freestanding dynamic & thin partition possible, all parts are constructed by the 30mm-thick steel flush. All furniture except office-chairs is made also in the thickness.year: 2004-2…
Retail Interior | Betula Store | Rome | Carola Vannini ArchitectureThe Betulla store is a wide space where fashion meets architecture. Clothes, colors and materials all melt in order to create a magic flair that reminds of northern lands. Grey concrete and rough wood, cover the walls while contrasting with the floor’s total white. Clothes are hung on an iron struct…