© Charlie Xia
Architects: Kokaistudios
Location: Shanghai, China
Interior design: Andrea Destefanis, Pietro Peyron, Carmen Lee
Client: Blue Horizon Hospitality Group
Project area: 130 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Charlie Xia
© Jasper Sanidad
Architects: Studio O + A
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Project area: 73,024 sqf
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Jasper Sanidad
© FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Architects: Nuno Sampaio Arquitetos
Location: Matosinhos, Portugal
Project area: 568 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2011
Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
© Giorgio Biazzo
Architects: Chiavola+Sanfilippo Architects
Location: Ragusa, Italy
Project area: 95 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Giorgio Biazzo
© Courtesy of Bernard Dubois + La Ville Rayée
Architects: Bernard Dubois + La Ville Rayée
Location: Paris, France
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Bernard Dubois + La Ville Rayée
© COA
Architects: COA – Architecture and Design
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Project area: 540 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: COA – Architecture and Design
Courtesy of Spacesmith
EDUN is a progressive fashion company launched in Spring 2005 by Ali Hewson and Bono. In May 2010, Spacesmith was retained to design the lifestyle fashion brand’s new 8,600 square foot space to house offices; a showroom; design, production & marketing teams; and a sample room on the corner of Grand and Mercer Streets in Soho. The design intent was to keep the new construction to a minimum while allowing natural daylight to penetrate into the space and to embrace EDUN’s commitment to sustainability. It was fundamental to EDUN that Spacesmith design the space using reclaimed and salvaged materials and furnishings and to work with local vendors, craftsmen and craftswomen.
Architect: Spacesmith
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Project Area: 8,600 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Project Team: Jane Smith, Partner in Charge; Charles Patten, Design Principal; Ambar Margarida, Stefan Danicich
Photographs: Courtesy of Spacesmith
Photos by Philippe Ruault courtesy OMA
The design by OMA for the new McKinsey & Company Hong Kong office caters to the consulting firm’s need for a more intimate space that offers a greater sense of collaboration and community. McKinsey confronted OMA with the following design question: How to rethink their work space in a way that is innovative and enhances the McKinsey experience?
Architects: OMA
Location: Hong Kong, China
Client: McKinsey & Company
Project Year: May 2011
Photographs: Photos by Philippe Ruault courtesy OMA
© Daici Ano
Architects: nendo
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Construction: Loop Planning Studio
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Daici Ano
© Stéphane Lariven
Architects: dum dum design
Location: Arve, France
Project area: 350 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Stéphane Lariven
© Gerardo Altemir
Interior Design: Éva Katona, Péter Szigeti
Stair Design: Biljana Jovanovic
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Construction: Gergő Markó
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Gerardo Altemir
© Milan Radovanović
Architects: EXE STUDIO
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Project Team: Andreja Mitrović, Tijana Lapčević
Collaborators: Marija Lapčević, Aleksandar Mitrović
Project year: 2010
Project area: 69 sqm
Photographs: Milan Radovanović
© Milosz Jaksik
Architects: Medusa Industry
Location: Lubliniec, Poland
Designers: Wojciech Eksner, Lukasz, Zagala, Przemo Lukasik
Co-authors: Tomek Majewski, Daria Cieslak, Grzegorz Pietraszuk, Michal Sokolowski, Konrad Basan, Joanna Sowula
Project year: 2010 – 2011
Photographs: Agnieszka Wawro, Milosz Jaksik
Architects: Wiel Arets Architects
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Client: Amerborgh Monumenten BV
Project team: Bettina Kraus, Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer, Julius Klatte, Dennis Villanueva, Marie Morin
Project area: 1,960 sqm
Project year: 2007 – 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Wiel Arets Architects
© Courtesy of feldmann+schultchen
Architects: feldmann+schultchen
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Design team: André Feldmann, Arne Schultchen, Julia Otten, Mechthil Ubl, Sven Seevers
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of feldmann+schultchen
© Régis Golay, FEDERAL Studio
group8 settled down in its new workspace on May 20 2010. A former industrial hall, near the center of Geneva (Switzerland), hosts these new offices designed in order to make the best use of the 780 sqm and the 9m of height. This white and luminous space contains a hidden treasure: 16 recycled shipping containers. All of which have been traveling across the world for thousands of kilometers over the oceans of the globe. Piled up as giant Legos, the containers were preserved “as found” without any outside cosmetic transformation. This aesthetic keeps the poetry of their former use and differentiates them from the immateriality of the big neutral space they lie in. Realistically, the use of containers represents a gain of about 200 sqm, while making good use of the height within the space.
Architect: group8
Location: 37, chemin Philibert-de-Sauvage,1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Civil Engineer: T-Ingénierie SA
Acoustical Engineer: D’Silence acoustique
Furniture: Dynamobel
Project Area: 780 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Régis Golay, FEDERAL Studio
© Jason Strong
Architects: PS Arkitektur
Location: Munchen Brewery, Stockholm, Sweden
Project team: Mette Larsson-Wedborn (head project architect), Peter Sahlin, Beata Denton, Thérèse Svalling and Erika Janunger
Project area: 1,680 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Jason Strong
© Peter Zaytsev
Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Project Year: 2008-2009
Project Area: 1840 sqm
Photographs: Peter Zaytsev
© Philippe Van Gelooven
Architects: Creneau International
Interior design: Simone Pullens
Account mgmt: Babs Van Hassel
Project mgmt: Wim Janssen
Client: Galante
Location: Bruges, Belgium
Date of completion: 2011
Photographs: Philippe Van Gelooven
© FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Architects: Pedro Pacheco
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Project area: 90 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
DP Architects / Collin Anderson
We recently received a monograph of DP Architects…‘ work. Started in 1967 DP Architects have become internationally acclaimed architecture firm with 1200 employees in 12 offices worldwide. DP Architects have devoted themselves to “improving the quality of the city,”
The collection of Inspiration And Process In Architecture is a new series of illustrated monographs dedicated to key figures in contemporary architecture. This new collection features Zaha Hadid, Giancarlo De Carlo, Bolles+Wilson and Alberto Kalach whose stories are told through…
London Unfurled / Matteo Pericoli
If you haven’t finished all your holiday shopping, and you need something for someone who loves both architecture and London then we might have the right gift for you. We recently received Matteo Pericoli’s London Unfurled…. This accordion-style book folds out
