FORM / Kouichi Kimura Architects designed a minimal residence for a young couple located in Shiga, Japan. The client desired an open and varied space connected with the outward world while closed inward to protect privacy from neighborhood. Reason why the windows of the home are positioned to afford views of the nearby hills but […]
The new Kolumba Art Museum designed by Peter Zumthor transfers the sum of the existing fragments into one complete building. The Kolumba Art Museum in Cologne’s city center, holds a secret garden, stone ruins, a uniquely dense archaeological site that are the most impressive symbol of the city�s almost complete destruction during the Second World […]
Aesop‘s new store in Armadale, Australia, has been designed by Ryan Russell. The store is a small space that offers enormous potential thanks to the use of light, color and texture. Like the Aesop Shop in Sydney, one of the largest walls of the shop is used to display Aesop‘s products. Originally Posted On Coolboom
Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato projected this small construction with a simple program located on an island of the North coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The old existing one-story house becomes a new building with 2 floors. The 3×5 meters white box is supported on one side by an existing retaining wall and on the […]
After opening the first Aesop London Store in 2008, Aesop decided to open a new one in the cosmopolitan district of Notting Hill. Located in an old jewel-size store, they decided to change little, respecting its classically understated elegance, inherent warmth and hearteningly abundant light. Originally Posted On Coolboom
MoRE Arquitectos projected this 460 square meter house located outside Madrid on a sloping lot with South access. The program of the house is divided in three different spaces: private area, household servants and guest rooms. The project is created around the fold of a plane and the creation of spaces. A horizontal plane, white, […]
Puresang designed a full operating bar in the headquarters of Grey Goose in Brussels. The design became a very exciting play of blue mirrors, cut in triangles and mounted in 3d against the wall to create more depth and tactility in the rather small space. Grey Goose asked for a high-roller drinking environment that could […]
Located in the mountains of southern Portugal, this project is the restoration and conversion of a traditional stone Quinta by Adam Richards Architects. It involves the radical re-ordering of the building’s internal spaces to meet the client’s needs. The house has been comprehensively rebuild and extended, with exterior stonework sensitively restored, and married to a […]
Flake House is a two-piece, transportable log cabin designed by French architects OLGGA , that will be exhibited at the Festival Estuaire 2009 in Nantes, France. The house, a nomadic, road-gauged dwelling, has been conceived to clad the places wherever it lands, as to transpose them in an unusual vision. The interior finish is smooth […]
Front Studio projected the renovation of this corner retail space in New York for the luxury men’s shoe store, Leffot, that began with an unusual idea for displaying shoes: a dining table. In the center of the space sits a hand crafted ash dining table. Hanging above the table is a chandelier delicately constructed as […]
