Haldane Martin has designed a new café for Cape Town: a traditional French crêperie called Swan Café, nestled in the hub of the bustling east city precinct. Elegant, feminine and atmospheric, the café brings to life the charm of Paris in a space that’s completely unique to the Mother City.
The blue swan logo at the core of the graphic identity is also the central interior design concept. Owner Jessica Rushmere has always identified with the swan. A graceful and majestic creature with mythological significance, these attributes play into the brand identity and the interior design, using the swan as an emblem and feminine oval shapes throughout.
Desert form, indigenous materials, natural light and mountain views inspire this home. Layered walls of rammed-earth, metal, concrete and glass create a playful collection of organic forms within a natural desert setting while visually articulating the various functions within.
MiCasa Vol.C is a single open space that completes the existing furniture store complex in São Paulo. The complex consists of the original store, Vol.A, the annex designed by studio mk27 in 2007, Vol.B, and now the new space called Vol.C.
The demand for a flexible program led to the creation of an internal space that allowed for several possible uses: shop, exhibition space or temporary residence for invited artists, on a caravan that fits inside the space. The resulting space is a 15x15m floor plan with a 7,5m ceiling height. An Isamu Noguchi’s pendant lamp punctuates the double symmetry of the space and explores its vertical dimension.
This is a very small but finely tuned garden extension. The client used the existing space as a home of office but wanted a little more space with a stronger connection to their beautiful garden. They also wanted to have a walk-in shower which felt like a shower in the garden.
Situated on a corner lot of 1620 square meters with flat topography, the contemporary-style restaurant is organized from 3 blocks: a service block, a public access block and a block with public toilets. In the basement was positioned the parking.
The service sector has independent entry and contains the kitchen, the grilling sector, the pantry, the depot, the employee restrooms, and the employee dining room and office. This sector has a conventional reinforced concrete structure with apparent bricklaying.
Along the very commercial Via Torino, this bar for streetfood-lovers, stands out for the variety of proposals ranging from ice cream, fruit, coffee shop to single-serve pastry, from varied pizzas to tasty sandwiches that can be created at will. All these delicacies are displayed in the saw-effect natural wood benches and iron blades. To the black wall glazed or covered with black ceramic tiles by Mutina, graphic panels accompany the choice of products. On the floor, a Lombard block effect stoneware. To illuminate the space two complete recessed tracks with Corner adjustable spotlights by Ares Italia, and suspensions similar to iron lampshades by Karmann Italia. To enliven the walls we wanted to play with Wall & Decò wallpaper showing two different graffiti on exposed concrete walls. A glass and iron window divides the kitchen from the room, where a long high wooden table is supported by birch logs. Outside a shelter supports the logo in illuminated box letters.
Galini Sleeping Pod Launches as the Perfect Sustainable Getaway at Walden Monterey on California’s Central Coast.
Designed by Laith Sayigh and developed by Signature Investments Group, the 300-square-foot self-sustaining structures are the preamble for a residential enclave set on 609 acres and overlooking California’s central coast.
Today Laith Sayigh of the design studio DFA and entrepreneur Nickolas Jekogian III of Signature Investments Group, both in New York City, released the design of the Galini Sleeping Pod, a 3D-printed temporary living apparatus envisioned to introduce what more permanent living quarters within Walden Monterey’s idyllic ‘life in the woods’ setting will be like. DFA has worked alongside the Tennessee-based company Branch Technologies to develop the 3D printed structure.
Situated on a narrow lot in an older Toronto neighbourhood, the Skygarden House provides outdoor living spaces on multiple levels to address the owners’ desire for a better connection to the home’s natural surroundings. The owners used to spend their weekends at a home in the country, located next to a stream and surrounded by trees. For their new urban home, they wanted to emulate this bucolic experience and satisfy their deep connection to nature.
To think about different spaces in which to do different activities in different moments of the day is a mechanical mental form inherited by modern industrial culture.
Architecture has to get past and to unhinge this rigid manner to conceive life spaces.
This is the main effort for the renovation of a flat, contained inside an early-seventies block of apartments, despite its small size!
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