The suite’s cherry wood panel walls contrast with the modern clean white and glass partitions and polished concrete floors. The ceilings in the main studio were opened up to emphasize the loftiness of the space and to expose the concrete beams above. The office features an open collaborative plan with minimal private offices.
A small studio space for 2 architects, a landscape architect and a meeting area. The form of the building was composed to maximize views in relation to required program.
The geometric spatiality results from strong diagonals, composing furniture that accentuates the tension points. Lighting has also a strong presence in the space emphasizing the design lines and contributing for the different atmospheres: one more electric dynamic for the working areas and another more Zen and relaxed for the spa.
Using the Grace building as fundamental inspiration, STK Midtown emphasizes high ceilings, an open façade and a soaring main dining room.
This lobby like area was created to provide a ‘break’ for the customer from the busy mall where this store is located into the world of Rodd & Gunn – a relaxed and private place in which to shop.
Reflective of the natural surroundings, the design team tried to make good use of the natural light offered by the office. The building also offered the wonderful aesthetic qualities with its exposed brick and fir ceilings.
A glass facade makes the most of the location and provides a beacon for hungry evening diners, as well as making the most of a space that had plenty of design challenges: low ceilings, long and skinny floor plan, and a low budget.
This expressive island hotel holds details inspired by local architecture, while the finishes are luxurious and invite to a world of indulgence. If there is a place where memories of an almost impossible beauty become the foundation for inspiration, then this place is perfectly defined by its motto: “Live in your world. Play in ours.”
The functional scheme prosecutes the elimination of corridors and places infrautilizados, offering a flexible system that rests(relies) on the existing walls of load as containers of space. For it we organized it round a polyvalent room, which we name ” ARENA ROOM “.
The space, in its raw form, was long, hollow, and had high ceilings. Casas built out the shop and used it’s length to his advantage. The architect deisnged a long hallway, where the walls are angled and lined with a high gloss white plastic, black mirror, and vertical slats of raw wood. Wine bottles are held in the wall by cut-out holes, just big enough for the bottle shaft.
All the walls are finished with concrete and painted with graffiti. The Alcohol stall is made from tall oak book stands and decorated with black hydraulic pipes. The counter in that department is made from wooden logs, strapped by sackcloth belts.
It’s a wine lover’s library: this shop in central Bucharest is designed to present wines as books, framing their labels against a post-industrial aesthetic of exposed wood and concrete.
The interior features high beamed ceilings and a striking, large basement-to-roof skylight that allows daylight to illumiate the centrally located glass case that houses rotating mannequins. A led-illuminated rainbow staircase reflects Uniqlo’s colourful diversity and serves as a focal point.
Chimichanga in Billericay, is a two-floored restaurant rendered in bold red and green – with shiny glass tiles, patterned floors of reclaimed wood, and walls of cracked antique mirrors. Ceilings inspired by temples and colourful lighting fixtures complete the geometric look, alongside a lime-green wall overlaid with blocks of wood.
As we enter the floors there are small lobbies as a prologue to what takes place inside. Informal meeting spaces and phone booths to receive suppliers without having to go through the whole office. Next, an open space with infinite possibilities. Each brand has its own personality, colors on columns, ceilings and furnishings.
A mix of architectural elements – think windows, staircases and balconies – are suspended from the ceiling and walls, creating divisions in space.
To protect the space, no fittings were drilled to attach to the floors, ceilings or walls; all merchandising systems are free-standing and can be relocated as needed. The pieces are made of white, powder-coated metal and sandblasted Lexan panels, which transmit light.
Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, has created a new retail concept for Li Ning’s flagship stores in Beijing and Shanghai. Li Ning is one of China’s largest developers and distributors of sports apparel, footwear, equipment and accessories.
The Cumarú Restaurant, located on Nueva Costanera Avenue in Vitacura commune, Santiago de Chile, was born as an assignment regarding materiality. The owners of this restaurant got a big quantity of cumarú timber, which is a wonderful and noble material.
The new store features a hallway of products between two storefronts of the space, inviting passersby to be enticed by the materiality and modular regularity of the design that seeks to highlight the placement of the products.
