Reflection of Mineral by Atelier Tekuto in Tokyo
The team at Atelier Tekuto has designed a home from a dissection of a white volume. Located near the center of Tokyo, the complex architectural dwelling, although intricate in its angular play, has a serene and simple nature to it. The house exterior is stretched over a sea of unique planes in white finish. Utilizing elimination as part of the creative process, Atelier Tekuto pondered on the keywords of ‘minerals’ and ‘reflection’ to focus the dissection as a positive influence to the project. The dwelling’s abstract form capitalizes on the idea that there is not one space alike, therefore strengthening the narrative to the natural minerals.
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Noir by Nuca in Romania
A warm, intimate interior greets you from the glass street scape as you enter Piatra Neamt’s noir restaurant. Located in northeast Romania, Piatra Neamt is a city surrounded by mountains of forrest, which you will soon begin to understand how the landscape’s beauty seeped into the interior space. The design team at Nuca, composed by Robert Marin, Ramona Macarie and Mirela Nitu utilized wood for it’s warmth and relation to the surrounding topography. Rather than just wood tables, wood flooring and wood wall panels, the palette is broken and accentuated through sculpture, lighting and contrasting textures.
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A Black Sea Alcove
The Pipe House is a weekend get-away retreat by Butenko Vasiliy and Sergey Mahno located along the Black sea, just at the edge of the Crimean Mountains of the Ukraine. Planned as an oasis for rest and relaxation, the house has been divided into zones by opaque and translucent screens, allowing the user flexibility in shading the sun, creating privacy, and blocking off areas when entertaining guests. You can see the exposed track guides embedded in the floor as they define the different zones even while the screens remain open. Within each zoned cavity, there is a single light fixture serving that area- these fixtures collectively create a beautiful rhythm along the ceiling. The pure, simple white forms morphing out of the ceiling create a soft, liquid like form adorning the structure above.
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Faberge Salon by Jaime Hayon in Genčve, Switzerland
The interior of the Faberge boutique presents an innovative approach to the High Jewellery experience, with its expression of modern luxury through simplicity and sensuality. The concept and design focuses on superlative craftsmanship, sensually minimal shapes and forms, and exquisite materials, including silk wall drapes, rare woods and Carrara marble. The materials used give the boutique an organic and dynamic feel balanced by a serenity that comes from the tonality of neutral, silvered metallic shades. Light and luminosity that flood the boutique form the central theme of Hayon’s interior design. Simple open spaces are bathed in the reflections of mirrors and in outside light that drifts through the tinted glass of cut-out gem-shaped panels in tall interconnecting doors.
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Flat #1 by Ecole
Ecole, a French architecture and design studio, has designed an apartment interior in Paris. Facing the Eglise Saint-Gervais on one side and the Hôtel de Ville de Paris on the other, this 95 sqm apartment occupies the whole of the the two top floors of an 18th century building. The project comprised a full restructuration of the existing space and the conception of some design elements. The first floor, formerly consisting of a long corridor and four rooms has been largely cut open. Thus, the entrance, the living room and the kitchen form one single continuity. The guest space (a bedroom and a bathroom) has been built on the same floor. A steel staircase links the living room to the owner’sv private space underneath the roof.
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Confiserie Bachmann by HHF Architects
HHF Architects of Basel have completed the interior of a café and chocolate shop with a mirrored counter in Basel, Switzerland. Called Confiserie Bachmann, the interior is predominantly white and features chocolate-coloured furniture. The project involved re-orientating the layout to face a covered walkway alongside the shop.
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Built to Wear by Ball Nogues Studio
Temporary spatial installations within urban cultures are a rapidly evolving phenomenon. Unlike “permanent” buildings, these structures nimbly respond to the accelerated temporality of cities on the move like Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Increasingly they provide the urban spectacles that “signature” buildings aim to deliver. Like never before, cities are adorned with provisional environments and architecturally scaled events. This situation has been further emboldened by the financial meltdown in 2008 as investors look to spend money on big urban spectacles without the financial commitment of making buildings. Within this economic outlook, the disposable plates of architecture are better investments than a collection of fine tableware. However, an important question looms when cleaning up after the meal: can the plate be composted or should it be colored with crayon and reused as a party decoration?
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Palazzina Grassi by Philippe Starck
French designer Philippe Starck has converted a former aristocratic home in Venice into a hotel. Bedrooms feature transparent glass wardrobes and the dining room contains two seven metre-long dinner tables, one made of marble and the other mirrored glass. Called Palazzina Grassi, the project was created for hotel brand Design Hotels.
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Dos Palillos restaurant in Berlin by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Casa Camper belongs to the recent explosion of new design hotels hitting Berlin recently, and now with the introduction of their new fine-dining restaurant Dos Palillos, they’ve distinguished themselves from the rest. The Spanish-Asian fusion restaurant flaunts a pedigreed team, with former elBulli chef Albert Raurich manning the kitchen and Paris-based designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec responsible for the minimal-yet-luxe setting that puts the open kitchen on center stage. Dos Palillos opens on January 5th, 2010, at Casa Camper Berlin, Weinmeisterstr. 1, Berlin.
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Kwint in the Heart of Brussels by SAQ // Studio Arne Quinze
I can remember my mother telling me that in order to fall in love, you must put your energy towards the heart and the stomach. Studio Arne Quinze (SAQ) out of Brussels, Belgium clearly understands the recipe for love. Located in the heart of the city, at the Mont des Arts, lies a small yet big idea restaurant, KWINT. It sits within the recently renovated Congress Palace that was inaugurated during the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. Considerably outdated and under utilized, the space went through an intense renovation process and was renamed SQUARE-Brussels Meeting Centre. With an upgrade to accommodate the latest activities, conferences and experience to locals and visitors, SQUARE embraces the latest by Studio Arne Quinze’s, the KWINT Public Restaurant.
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