Designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato has completed the interior of a boutique in Tokyo by adding a display level above head height made of expanded metal. Called DURAS Daiba, the shop has a stepped platform in the centre allowing shoppers to reach the merchandise spread out on the mesh surface. Mirrors round the edge of the upper space visually expand the shop. Photographs are by Takumi Ota. Here’s s..
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has completed the interior of a gallery in Paris featuring a strip of white Corian wrapped around the space. Called Galerie BSL, the Corian ribbon sweeps through the narrowmonochrome interior, providing surfaces on which objects can bedisplayed. The gallery opened last month and will exhibit one-off pieces including jewellery pieces and fashion. Photograph..
Japanese architect Makoto Yamaguchi has created a hair salon in the basement of a Tokyo building, showcasing the patchwork of alterations made by previous occupants of the space. Called Kilico, the project involved patching the floor to make it flat and coating the various textures of the walls with white paint. White furniture, lighting and mirrors were then added. Photographs are by Ken’ichi S..
Broadcasting Place is a mixed use development close to Leeds city centre. Conceived as a public/private partnership for property group Downing and Leeds Metropolitan University, it provides approximately 110,000 square feet of new offices and teaching spaces together with 240 student residences in a landmark building rising to 23 storeys. A new Baptist Church completes the scheme on its northern..
Alain Lemay and Viateur Michaud got together in 1979 to found LEMAYMICHAUD Architecture Design, a firm that, to date, has served hundreds of clients across Canada and elsewhere in the world. One of Quebec’s largest architecture and design firms, LEMAYMICHAUD has 63 employees in two offices situated in Quebec City and Montreal. First Quebec City … In 1989, LEMAYMICHAUD acquired an abandoned build..
Architects: Sergey Skuratov Architects Location: Moscow, Russia Project Team: Skuratov S.A., Romanov A., Kuznetsova E. Client & Partners: Biznes Stroy Ltd \ Tehnologija Ltd of MR-group Structural Engineering: Tehnologija Ltd of TSN group of companies Site Area: 7,987 sqm Project Area: 40,000 sqm Project Year: 2005-2008 Photographs: Courtesy of Sergey Skuratov Architects The business center is co..
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the world’s first Ferrari theme park and largest attraction of its kind, has announced that it will open its doors to the public on October 28, 2010, three weeks ahead of the second Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will pay tribute to the passion, excellence, performance, and technical innovation that Ferrari has established over th..
Architects: Malcotti Roussey Architectes Location: Salins-les-Bains, France Structure Engineering: Cetel Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Nicolas Waltefaugle This project is located in the space that was left free in the ancient saline, a place that was partially destroyed. It is situated in Salins-les-Bains near the museum, which is being restored (see the museum fact sheet). In March 2007, a fi..
San Francisco architects IwamotoScott have completed a design study for a tower (above, right) straddling a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The proposal was commissioned by New York’s Downtown Alliance as part of the Greenwich South project, a study into how to transform a 41 acre-site south of the World Trade Center site. “The Downtown Alliance commissioned the larger project that thi..
For Forrest Fulton Architecture’s competition proposal, the Alabama-based firm designed a 900,000 sqf biomorphic spatial surface that connects the adjacent city and the landscape. The architecture focuses on creating an urbanistic landscape that morphs the common urban element of Yerevan, the superblock, to the site, a truncated hill along the natural amphitheater of the Yerevan. This new model ..