Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Adaptive Reuse,Architecture Award,Brick Block,BUILDING SYSTEMS,Editor's Picks,Exotic Idea,Friendly / social,Green Project,HIP,Interior Award,INTERIORs SPACE,Lounge / Bar / Restaurant / Night Clubs,MATERIALS USED,Metal Sheet,Modern Industrial Style,Open,Prefabricated elements,Restaurant / Coffee shop / Cafe,SOLUTION,Steel,SUSTAINABILITY,TravelMarch 17, 2013
Charles Smith Wines Tasting Room and World Headquarters , by Olson Kundig Architects (Walla Walla, Wash.): Olson Kundig took a 1917 Johnson Auto Electric building and outfitted it with a tasting room, offices, and retail store, including flexible spaces, such as a large unit that the firm calls the “armadillo.”…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Adaptive Reuse,Architecture Award,Brick Block,DAYLIGHTING,Elegance / Artistic,Executive / VIP / High class,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,Friendly / social,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,Interior Award,INTERIORs SPACE,Modern Classic Style,Open,Shop / Store / Showroom,Store / Shop / Showroom / Retail,Travel,USABILITYFebruary 11, 2013
San Francisco-based practice Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has restored a Grade II-listed building in London’s Covent Garden for retail giant Apple. Apple Store Covent Garden is the brand’s largest store in Europe and was the biggest in the world until the Grand Central Station store in New York opened in December 2011…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Attractive,Dynamic,Exotic Idea,Firm / Solid / Strong,Fun / Playful,HIP,Modern Industrial Style,Open,Store / Shop / Showroom / Retail,TravelJanuary 9, 2013
Swedish watch brand TRIWA opens up a pop-up shop in Poznań Plaza mall in Poland with a very innovative design made by Polish studio Mode:lina Architekci. The “Tube Tank” is made of cardboard tubes and ratchet straps…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,ATMOSPHERE,Clear,DAYLIGHTING,Excited,Featured,FUNCTIONAL,glass facade,Harmony With The Context,INTERIORs SPACE,Library,Library Interior,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,Modern Industrial Style,NATURAL VENTILATION,Open,Refreshing,Translucent,Travel,VOIDDecember 28, 2012
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV have just completed a new 9,300 square metre library in Spijkenisse, a small city close to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under a glass ceiling, the building features a striking volume of shelves, a true “book mountain”. The book platforms are connected via wide stairs and together form a continuous route to the peak, which features a café…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Attractive,Elegance / Artistic,Exotic Idea,Friendly / social,Fun / Playful,HIP,Interior Award,Market / Super market / Canteen,Modern Minimalism Style,Open,Ornaments & Details,SimplicityDecember 5, 2012
The interior design of the restaurant “A Cantina” in Galicia (Spain) reminds of a forest, with several long, wooden bars that look like trees growing from the chairs and tables up to the ceiling. The architects of Estudio Nomada won the International Restaurant & Bar Design Award 2012 for their creation…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Active,Cafe / Coffee Shop,Dynamic,Featured,Friendly / social,Interior Award,Modern Industrial Style,Open,Ornaments & Details,Simplicity,TravelNovember 20, 2012
A new addition to the Zizzi Leeds family has arrived. Now open in The Light Shopping Centre, the restaurant highlights a few of the things that have made Leeds famous. There are colourful Knitted wool stools that have been inspired by the city where the material originated, made by Fresh Talent Collective member Claire-Anne O’Brien…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Attractive,Chic,Dynamic,Excited,Exotic Idea,Firm / Solid / Strong,Fun / Playful,HIP,Interior Award,Modern Industrial Style,Open,Ornaments & Details,Prefabricated elements,Store / Shop / Showroom / Retail,TravelOctober 17, 2012
World first Herman Miller shop-in-shop concept store has just opened in XTRA. Designed by Singapore architecture design firm P.A.C, a membrane of 3651 pieces of wooden triangular is individually pieced together to form canopies that guide visitors through the various settings within the store, depicting living, dining and home office setting…
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