Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort
Bensley Deslgn Studios
25 Mar 2013
The Intercontinental Resort of Danang, Vietnam is a 177 room luxury beach resort that sits amongst some 2000 hectares of primary forest and boasts a 500 metre long private white sand bay. Built as a romantic hillside fishing village this resort is already considered the best in Vietnam. In the past 25 years Bensley Design Studios has designed some 160 resorts in 27 countries
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Shenzhen St.Regis Hotel
CCD/CHENG CHUNG DESIGN (HK) LTD
22 Mar 2013
Located on the 95th Floor, the reception offers the guest a spectacular view of Shenzhen and northern Hong Kong. The interior design draws from the dramatic architectural enclosure and its use of structural steel beams and vast expanses of glass, along with inspiration from the post-modern era. Using elegant and welcoming fabrics and custom carpet, the designers have formed clustered
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Sanya Conrad Hotel
CCD/CHENG CHUNG DESIGN (HK) LTD
22 Mar 2013
The hotel’s design concept is modelled after the Mediterranean-style resorts, combining open spaces in its interior spatial order with palatial gardens outside to ensure that there is constant harmony both inside and out in terms of nature, views, scenery and fresh ocean breezes. In the public areas, the design is a combination of simple line formation, natural stones and dark wood, with
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Lijiang Pullman Hotel
CCD/CHENG CHUNG DESIGN (HK) LTD
22 Mar 2013
In creating the entire interior design, the main theme transcends through an a mixture between the modern and the mysterious Naxi Dongba culture, joining the delicate and the wild. There is a romantic flavour of the French Style, while insisting on the motto of “Beauty first, then Function best”. CCD's interior design flows from the special features of the hotel’s architecture,
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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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CLAYWORKS CLAY PLASTERS
Clayworks Ltd
19 Mar 2013
Clayworks Unfired Clay Plasters are interior surface finishes that consist of 27 naturally pigmented colours and a range of extraordinary textures ranging from a smooth finish that looks like traditional plaster, through to a textured, rustic finish which mimics a more adobe or Tuscan surface. They can be used to create unique interior brands and artistic finishes and have been designed to be as
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CROWN TOWERS EASTERN ENTRY FACADE
Electrolight
19 Mar 2013
The Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne is one of the largest integrated resorts in the southern hemisphere with its casino, hotels, functions rooms, restaurants, shopping and entertainment facilities. In 2010, the Eastern Entry underwent a major redevelopment refreshing, refining and revitalising the “Crown” experience. Electrolight was commissioned to design specialist
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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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Bottles
Cumbria Crystal
15 Mar 2013
Cumbria Crystal, one of few remaining producers of hand-blown and hand-cut full lead English crystal, launched Bottles in January 2013, a chic collection of full lead cut crystal bottles produced by skilled craftsmen in the Lake District. Launched following the success of Cumbria Crystal's Six Stemware and Six Gift collections, Bottles is a mix of 6 contemporary glass designs matched to make one
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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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