The Beach House, Park Hyatt
Wilson Associates
22 Mar 2013
Located on the prestigious natural island of Saadiyat in the United Arab Emirates, along a five-mile stretch of environmentally-protected white sandy beachfront, the “Beach House” features homemade Mediterranean cuisine at its finest. Sitting at the end of the hotel property on the beachfront, guests arrive to a destination dining venue that epitomizes the idea of “barefoot
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ISLA DE FUEGO
mario bolivar study of Architecture and design
19 Mar 2013
Isla de fuego is a property located in Isla Dorada, a private gated community, in Cancun Mexican Caribbean. The house was built 10 years ago in a Mediterranean style and was acquired by a young couple a year ago. The new owners are a Mexican couple who wanted to turn the house over a more contemporary style. The house stood on an acre of land overlooking the Bojorquez lagoon, and is a 16,000 sq
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Small Batch Coffee Company
Chalk Architecture Ltd.
19 Mar 2013
It's all about the coffee. The basement of the site is focused on the process and experience of making coffee just the way you want it. Exclusively featuring La Marzocco coffee machines, there is a training lab, coffee machine repair workshop and secret vault. The industriousness of the coffee trade comes through very strongly with raw, robust materials expressing a no-nonsense
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National Bank of Canada
Ruscio Studio Inc.
18 Mar 2013
Financial institutions once occupied prestigious and opulent buildings and locations in every city and town. They oozed intimidation, grandeur and wealth. Then, with cities sprawling, bank branches became nameless and faceless boxes. It seemed we’d soon had limited physical bank locations, using only banking machines and online banking. Now we are starting to see banks wanting to talk
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747 3rd Avenue
MOJO STUMER + ASSOCIATES
18 Mar 2013
No matter if you’re designing a home or office space, everyone wants that first impression to have a ‘wow’ factor; after all as the saying goes, “you never have a second chance to make a first impression.” When referring to an office space, an entrance and lobby can be a direct reflection of your particular business, thus directly affecting its
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Luxottica
MOJO STUMER + ASSOCIATES
18 Mar 2013
When you are working with a company with retail stores all over the world, it is imperative to have a strong office to back it up. The Luxottica Group is known as a leader in premium fashion, luxury and sports eyewear. This exciting project is an interior space of 30,000 sq ft of the existing building, as well as, an entire renovation of the façade. The interior
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Saadiyat Beach Resort, St Regis Hotel
neolight design
15 Mar 2013
The project carries on the tradition of luxury and elegance that epitomizes the iconic St Regis brand. The lighting reinforces this luxurious style and adds a contemporary flare to reflect the surroundings of this island retreat. The specialist lighting design was implemented across all areas to harmonise and complement the architecture and interior design. From the exterior (designed to be
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Casa Cor Bar
BCMF Arquitetos
15 Mar 2013
The brief for the Casa Cor Bar required us to explore the formal possibilities of applying a very simple and inexpensive construction system: the light steel frame. Industrialized resistant high quality materials (stainless steel plate, mirror finishing on the outside and matte on the inside) clad this custom designed object built in just 3 weeks, to be portable and usable in various ways. The
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House Potgieter
Thomas Gouws Architects + Interiors
15 Mar 2013
The project involved the complete interior renovation of an existing house situated on Muckleneuck Hill, overlooking the city centre of Pretoria, the Capital of the Republic of South Africa. With the modern art loving owners in mind, the design was based on opening up the existing rooms of the house and purifying it into an airy, functional art gallery-like living space. Several internal walls
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Nobu restaurant
Studio PCH LLC
15 Mar 2013
The new home of celebrity chef and restaurateur Nobu Mastuhisa's restaurant in Malibu, California hovers just over the shoreline with an aura of quiet permanence in a palette rich with teak timbers, meticulous wood detailing and rugged concrete. Designed for Nobu by French Architects Severine Tatangelo and Alexia Convers of Studio PCH LLC (Malibu) with local architect of record Montalba
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Gadens Lawyers
HASSELL Limited
15 Mar 2013
The new Gadens Lawyers workplace is testimony to their progression in the last ten years and reflective of contemporary workplace thinking. The move from their previous fitout, completed by HASSELL nine years ago, is an evolution of the Gadens brand, from an up-and-coming top tier firm to an established yet accessible practice. With inherent client knowledge, the design brief was able to
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Modern Chinese Garden
KLID(Kris Lin Interior Design)
15 Mar 2013
This project is a real-estate sales centre located in the flourishing urban area crowded with people, moving cars and lots of noise. The purpose of the design was to isolate the noisy traffic outside and achieve a quiet and elegant indoors atmosphere. It is hoped to melt the Chinese garden concept into the interior space, so that people feel like they are walking into the garden. KLID used
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The Liquid Space
KLID(Kris Lin Interior Design)
15 Mar 2013
The initial design concept is based on water used to express the indoor space. The water exists in liquid form in nature showing a feeling of flowing, on the floor, walls, even in the ceilings, forming a feeling of extension, which looks like liquid covers the whole space. KLID chose oak to show the liquid form, and connected the liquid forms of second floor and the first floor together, from
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Curve
KLID(Kris Lin Interior Design)
15 Mar 2013
The overall design concept is based on the curve as one of the main axis of the design. The design of the Curve is applied into the arc walls and the lighting belt in the ceilings, a three-dimensional effect is formed by the curves applied on the facades, a large U-type space is formed by the chairs and backrest in some part of the dining hall, which not only create a form, but also define the
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Penleigh and Essendon Senior School
McBride Charles Ryan
15 Mar 2013
The Infinity Centre is a new senior school for the Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School in Keilor East, Melbourne, Australia. PEGS approach to teaching and learning combines structured pedagogy with individual freedom, and fosters socialisation and interaction. The Infinity Centre reflects this approach through the key concepts underpinning its design: the dynamic between structure and
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W Paris Opera
Rockwell Group
14 Mar 2013
Rockwell Group Europe teamed up with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to design the W Paris-Opéra, W Hotels’ debut in France. The hotel occupies an elegant 1870s Haussmann-era building located across the street from the famous Opéra Garnier. Taking inspiration from New York’s energy, where the W brand began in 1998, and Paris, the “City of Light,”
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Move-In
Elenberg Fraser
14 Mar 2013
The design of the showroom comes from the idea of the brick and the medium of the wall, in particular the point where the wall fails and becomes the ‘unwall’. This material-based investigation was inspired by the work of James Wines, the founder of SITE Architecture who brought the literal into the most prosaic architectural forms. The ‘unwall’ is not only not a wall, but
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Luna
Elenberg Fraser
14 Mar 2013
It has inspired a dedicated fan web-site, generations of fancy-dress costumes and countless YouTube tribute videos, and now a building. That’s right, Luna, Elenberg Fraser’s new four storey residential project on Barkly Street, St Kilda, is based on Princess Leia’s infamous ‘dancing girl’ gold bikini, featured in Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. While
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33M Lobby
Elenberg Fraser
14 Mar 2013
Elenberg Fraser’s new residential project, perfectly positioned at the edge of Melbourne’s CBD, creates a vertical village that follows a story of ascendance and transcendance, inspired by the ancient myths of the angel Metatron (or Enoch, or Elijah) and Pandora’s Box. This project’s massing is crucial to its design. Broken into a series of six white, concrete towers of
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Ceviche
here design
14 Mar 2013
The brief was to design the brand identity for a new Peruvian restaurant, Ceviche, based in Soho. The owner and founder, Martin Morales, is Peruvian himself and wanted the identity to feel rich and authentic with a nod towards Lima, the country's capital. The project included design for restaurant signage, menus, printed ephemera, interior design features and website. We were simultaneously
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