Herzog & de Meuron designed 40 Bond, a luxury residential project… Let’s forget about the expensive residences and comment on the incredible aluminum gate at street level. With a graffiti-inspired form that twists and turns, the gate measures 55 meters high by 355 meters long… I just love it! Great design for everyone. Originally Posted On Coolboom
Semiramis, Karin Rashid‘s first hotel project, is an intimate hotel that focuses on positive energy, heightened experiences, culture, art and design. It is a place for new contemporary experiences, to enjoy, work and relax in a truly memorable way. Semiramis is located in the affluent and leafy suburb of Kifissia, is in the heart of evolving Athens, surrounded by high-end boutiques, […]
Google has installed in Zurich, Switzerland, an office that could pass for an amusement park where you can play pool, pinball, slide through the toboggan to the cafeteria, get a massage, etc. Originally Posted On Coolboom
Located on eight acres of virgin beach coast on the Gulf of Thailand, the X2 Resort Kui Buri is meant to harmonize with its surroundings of undisturbed greenery and calm fishing villages. There are twenty-three villas with private terrace, garden and pool. Villa walls are made of locally-quarried rock and stone, and are prolonged to appear, from […]
This is Matali Crasset‘s first interior design project for a private individual. She transformed an ancient hotel into a large holiday house for a family. She tried to synthesize the family to make them progress in their search for contemporary living environment. Originally Posted On Coolboom
Matali Crasset designed this restaurant, a transitory place for Printemps, a department store in Paris, France. Created mainly from plants and braided chestnut tree it offers a clam yet intense atmosphere which forms a definite contrast to its frantic surrounding. While strolling around, rays of light shine on passers-by and chef Alain Passard’s “cuisine naturelle” suggest that […]
The Hi Hotel is the first complete design environment created by Matali Crasset. The city hotel is located on the Mediterranean in Nice, Southern France. The hotel invites us to discover, to try out and to live the contemporary. Hi Hôtel represents a proposition for a different kind of hotel life, a proposition that could not have been enunciated clearer. […]
The 120th Anniversary Eiffel Tower Observation Deck designed by Serero Architectes will expand the usable floor area, of the third floor of the tower, from 280 square meter to 580 square meter. Originally Posted On Coolboom
The Hotel Particulier in the heart of historical Montmartre, Paris, is an exceptional mansion sheltering five suites all offering luxurious services, with contemporary design in a unique environment. Re-imagined by Morgane Rousseau and Frédéric Comtet and with the contribution of Mathieu Paillard the mansion has become a hotel of exception. Each room, from 45 to 80 square […]
Last month they finally inaugurated CaixaForum Madrid. The building, an old Central Electric located in the heart of Madrid near the green wall of Patrick Blanc, has been designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The intervention will increase the new social and cultural center from 2.000 to 8.000 square meters spread over seven levels. At first I […]
