Corporate Office Interior Design | Aramco Overseas Company Den Haag, Netherlands By Group AThe Aramco Overseas Company head office has recently moved into their new accommodation in The Hague. The new office, housed in an existing building from the eighties, needed to be fully refurbished. Following a selection in March 2009, GROUP A was chosen to carry out this refurbishment.The design c…
Retail Interior Design By Leong Leong For 3.1 Phillip Lim - Los AngelesBy introducing a thick curving wall within the existing 5000 s.f. building envelope, one large main space unfolds into four smaller nooks. Mirrors along the walls enhance the spatiality of the store and create visual continuity between adjacent spaces. The curving geometry and thickness of the wall …
Retail Interior Design | Charles Fish Jewellery,Canary Wharf, London Designed By Nigel CoatesFish2005Charles Fish have been selling fine jewellery in the East End of London for 150 years. It follows that their new shop at Canary Wharf should mix history and modernity. This project makes a jewellery box out of the shop itself. Retrieved wardrobes and cupboards are half sunk into the walls, w…
Restaurant Interior Design | Wallop Restaurants,Glyndebourne,UK Designed By Nigel CoatesGlyndebourne, 2009 The interior of the new Wallop restaurants has been designed by Nigel Coates and his design team. By using serpentine banquettes, towering waiter stations and a series of interconnecting levels, his design defines many distinct areas. Coates has also imbued the project with a sens…
Cafe Interior Design | Cafe Bourgeois Collins Street Docklands ,Victoria,Australia By Minifie NixonAn idealised other dimensional space is flattened to the wall of the cafe. Cafe Bourgeois is located in the suddenly urban docklands area, located adjacent to the front door of the new Myers building. The cafe identity and architecture are entwined, the spatial gymnastics implied by the wallpaper mi…
Furniture Showroom Design | Happy Ever After By Tord Boontje for MorosoHappy Ever After was filled with ideas about nature and technology coming together. The materials like the wool and silk fabrics are cut in such way that they create an organic atmosphere in the space: a space where things are hidden, waiting to be discovered. Another important inspiration for me is…
Furniture Showroom Design | The Little Wild Garden of Love By Studio Tord Boontje For MorosoYou enter a dark place which represents night or, better still, a rainy night, where we find some Moroso pieces which are familiar to us: little Albert, O-Nest, Supernatural, Osorom, Shiitake… The entrance is at once spectacular and dramatic. It is the place where everything begins to spring to life…
Restaurant Interior Design | Lumiere, Cuisine Restaurant By WKDAThe proposed design is for one of Hong Kong’s most luxurious and high end restaurant at the IFC mall. In response to the long circulation, the design proposed a series of dynamic sculptural responses to encourage and direct circulation at certain critical junctions. The swooping motions of the woode…
Salon Interior Design | Mizu Salon, Mandarin Oriental Hotel,Boston | Niall McLaughlin ArchitectsMizu Salon is in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Boston, facing onto the Arcade and Gardens beyond.The key design issue is the comfort and wellbeing of each customer. This is an environment that is calm and uplifting. A customer should leave the salon feeling nurtured.Soft spaces are created through st…
Museum Interior Design | Science Museum, Discovery World, Pier Wisconsin By La DallmanLocated in the Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin hand’s on Science Museum, this project is a permanent, interpretive exhibit of the Great Lakes watershed, the region’s greatest natural resource. The program weaves together historic, scientific, and topographic data conveying information such as weat…
Corporate Interior Design | Unilever PLC By Kohn Pedersen Fox AssociatesLocation:London, UKClient:Unilever PLC Area:386,000 ft2 / 36,000 m2Awards:AIA National Chapter Honor Award for Architecture (2008), MIPIM Awards - Refurbished Office Buildings (2008), ULI Award for Excellence: Europe (2008)The transformation of historic Unilever House involved preservation, conserv…
Office Interior Design,Shinagawa, Tokyo | Beacon Communications | Klein Dytham architectureAll materials and colours are chosen based on each theme. The ribbon construction on each floor are the following: wood for the family’s floor, steel for men’s floor and pink snake skin for women’s floor. As a result, this office has become Beacon’s own advertisement as well as an appealing showroom…
Temporary Library Interior | Gruppoa12Exhibition "Strategies Against Architecture II", Fondazione Teseco, Pisa 2001 An industrial container is customized to contain a transportable library. The roof is removed, the interior is painted pink. A new raised level, built out of steel I-beams and metal grating is inserted inside the container…
Museum Interior Design | Votorantim,São Paulo By Metro ArquitetosLocated in a historical building in São Paulo central district, in the Ramos de Azevedo Square, we designed a space to show the history of the Votorantim group, focusing on the metals sector.The objective of the design is to provide a sensitive experience and not just a support fot informmation: the…
Corporate Interior Design | Qantas First Lounge, Sydney | Woods BagotLed by the vision of internationally renowned Australian designer Marc Newson in collaboration with his associate architect Sebastien Segers and Woods Bagot, the new flagship Qantas First Lounge in Sydney sets an international benchmark in lounge design with the highest levels of comfort, service an…
Apartment Interior Design | White Apartment |Timişoara | Romania By Parasite StudioFrom the first design sketches we tried to get distance from the interventions that have become „standard procedures” in the local scene of designing within old buildings. The owner, a jazz passionate, wished for an elegant and flexible apartment of high standard, with vast multifunctional areas wit…
Retail Interior Design | Cynthia Leight Opticians By Space International | Los Angeles, CaliforniaDesign for a small eyewear boutique situated in the ground floor of a parking structure. The design takes advantage of this unique situation by creating a horizontal backdrop of product display which runs parallel to the pedestrian activity of Robertson Boulevard. Intricate display elements construc…
Apartment Interior Design | Nogales 9, Mexico | GLR ArquitectosBuilt Area :3,806 sq. ft.Interior design project for a luxury apartment. Located on the 9th floor of the Los Nogales building. In this project an interesting collection arts and antiques demanded a thoughtful use of lighting as well as the creation of adequate areas of appreciation. The program requ…
Public Building Interior Design | Curno Library and Auditorium | Curno - Bergamo, Italy | ArcheaLOCATION: Curno - Bergamo PROJECT: Biblioteca e auditorium CLIENT: Comune di Curno STRUCTURES: Studio Myallonnier SYSTEMS: Studio Armondi PLAN: 1996 REALISATION: 1999-2009 COST: € 2.000.000,00 BUILT AREA: 1.960 mq VOLUME: 8.200 mc CONTRACTOR: Viola Costruzioni The site for the building of a new publ…
Retail Interior Design | Microaudio Shop,A Coruña, Spain By Juan MorandeiraA hearing aid store itself is structured as auditory system, but without falling into the typical postmodern mimicry. One zone, more public, visible from the street, characterized by open spaces, predominantly white and whose parts are separated by walls with different perforations. The decor with p…
Office Interior Design | Maxan Office,A Coruña, Spain | a.f. architects Abeijón-fernandezProject: Offices MaxanDesigner: a.f. architects Abeijón-fernandezArchitect José Vela AbeijónArchitect Miguel Fernandez RacingLocation: A Coruña, SpainBuilding Size: 632.46m2Photo: © Santos-DiezThe commissioning of the new offices of Maxana providing us the possibility of linking the working spaces w…
Retail Interior Design | Carlos Miele Flagship Store Paris | Asymptote ArchitectureLOCATION: Paris, FranceSIZE: 230 sq.mDATE: 2003 Carlos Miele’s new flagship store, designed by the New York-based firm Asymptote Architecture, opened last year at 380 rue Saint-Honoré. The design of the 230-square-meter, two-story store takes its inspiration from a combination of influences includin…
Retail Interior Design | Carlos Miele Flagship Store New York City By Asymptote ArchitectureLOCATION: New York, USASIZE: 5,400 sq. ft.DATE: 2003 Asymptote’s design for fashion designer Carlos Miele’s flagship store in New York City celebrates the designer’s Brazilian culture, one that champions modern design while being steeped in traditional cultural rituals and aesthetics. These aspects …
Monki 2 | Showroom Interior By Electric DreamsThe City of Oil and Steel, our second interior concept for Monki, is a mysterious post apocalyptic city, a warm, dark, and biohazardous place; filled with dismantled skyscraper parts, strange vegetation, neon, asphalt, and intensely powerful machinery. The City of Oil and Steel is a metropolis that …
Minorityrev Hirao Boutique | Fukuoka, Japan By Case Real"A boutique that pursues a memory" - A project to convert a thirty-year-old-zipper factory building into a West Japan maximum level boutique in a residential area about two train stations away from downtown Fukuoka City. The inside, on the first floor I moderately arranged the space by retaining rou…