Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard, a major new shopping district and public space in King’s Cross, London, was unveiled today ahead of its public opening on Friday 26 October 2018.
Long-time resident of King’s Cross, the studio has reinvented two heritage rail buildings from the 1850s as a new shopping district with close to 60 units, fully opening up the site to the public for the first time.
Project Team: Jordan Bailiff, Einar Blixhavn, Erich Breuer, Darragh Casey, Jennifer Chen, Dani Rossello Diez, Ben Dudek, Andrew Edwards, Alex Flood, Daniel Haigh, Phil Hall-Patch, Steven Howson, Sonila Kadillari, Michael Kloihofer, Nilufer Kocabas, Ivan Linares Quero, Elli Liverakou, Freddie Lomas, Jose Marquez, Mira Naran, Ian Ng, Hannah Parker, Monika Patel, Luke Plumbley, Jeff Powers, Thomas Randall-Page, Emmanouil Rentopolous, Angel Tenorio, Takashi Tsurumaki, Pablo Zamorano
A new Bergen design hotel for the modern-minded traveller.
A 1930s parking garage. A 1920s bike shop. An empty space between them. Possibly not the dream starting point for an architect tasked with creating the most forward-thinking hotel in the city, but the Swedish firm Claesson Koivisto Rune is not one to shy away from a challenge.
Today, those heritage façades front a 249-bedroom design hotel right in the centre of Bergen. This is Zander K, the most energetic and contemporary member of the De Bergenske family of five Bergen hotels.
Goddard Littlefair has completed the restoration of Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik, re-injecting golden age glamour into one of Europe’s most beautiful hotels to appeal to today’s cosmopolitan, sophisticated traveller. Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik, situated just above Dubrovnik old town, was originally built in the 1890s and went on to serve the great Mediterranean cruise liners docking in the city in the early 20th century. Then called ‘The Grand Hotel Imperial’, with a French Riviera feel and the glamorous cachet of an international clientele, the hotel was a roaring success for many decades, but, during the Yugoslav war, it was shelled and then used to house refugees. The hotel was subsequently brought back to active life in 2005.
‘When we were first commissioned’, commented Martin Goddard, Director and Co-founder of Goddard Littlefair, ‘the hotel was already very well established and incredibly popular, with a wonderful location overlooking the old fort and the Adriatic, right on the edges of Dubrovnik’s historic old centre. Whilst it had been majorly refurbished in 2005, costly building works meant that the interiors weren’t the main priority at that time and were primed therefore for a completely new treatment.’
“Sankeys PENTHOUSE” is a music bar in Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.
Harajuku is known as the center of Japan’s highest cultural trends and fashion styles from teenage to adults. In such a place, the bar is designed based on the concept to provide a place that visitor can meet new cultures and communities with enjoying music, cocktails, and food.
Assisting one of the leading wine and liquor distributor in Indonesia, we designed a retail and casual dining experience in Plaza Indonesia. One of the main objectives for retail space is to create an inviting space that anyone will feel welcomed and not intimidated. Bright ambiance for clear product information (pricing) that any visitor can check without staff’s assistance, easy access to various products, seamless flow of space; all of these are taken into consideration to enhance product sales. Having casual sitting area also enhance most guests to try product right away with variety of Spanish tapas in premises.
Wine Happens is a new project by the team behind Moscow’s popular Beer Happens bar Timur Abuzyarov and Roman Vorotnikov. The new establishment is located near Patriarch’s Ponds, in an upscale neighbourhood full of bars and restaurants.
V12 Architects was commissioned to radically alter the existing space under tight time constraints – design and construction had to be completed within two months – and to transform it into a new restaurant with a signature menu and a wine list. The goal was to create an intimate atmosphere for a relaxing dinner accompanied by a glass of wine.
Ted Ostiense is the result of a well established partnership with the entrepreneur Stefano Aprile. Following the first Ted which is located in Prati neighborhood in Rome, the new space in Ostiense area is more oriented to the nightlife. The interior has a different spacial layout and new custom design but keeps a sense of continuity between the first restaurant.
The main theme is the layering of different materials and constructive systems which all tie in harmoniously. The purpose was to enhance the historicity of the site avoiding a vintage effect.
Bringing modernity to the five-star hotel culture: new architecture comes to life in Rome combining history and creativity with auteur design. This was the goal of Studio Marco Piva when designing The Pantheon Iconic Rome Hotel, which has recently opened to the public following 11 months of works.
The new hotel is part of Unica Collection, which chose to collaborate with the “The Autograph Collection” brand – the Marriott group’s exclusive portfolio of upscale hotels – to put this facility on international circuits, after bringing the building back to its original function. In fact, initially it was the hotel Bologna in via Santa Chiara, before becoming seat of the Senate of the Republic offices.
The Auditorio Nacional is recognized as the most important venue for the entertainment industry in Mexico, stands out among the three best forums in the world in its kind and is a reference and a must for national and foreign artists.
The building, designed by the architect Teodoro Gonzalez de León, it reflects the strength, expression and monumentality characteristic of his work. The area of intervention located under a grand staircase is a space with an iconic character due to its curved shape. Three resounding gestures of pure and simple geometry make up the space; the arch-shaped ceiling, the striated concrete bar with rational expression and finally the brass counter-bar.
The Kunsthaus Zürich, designed by the Swiss architect Karl Moser, was built between 1904 and 1910 and is situated on Heimplatz, a square in Zurich’s city centre. The existing museum is to be expanded with a new building on the opposite side of the square, designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. The new extension will display a collection of classic modernism, the Bührle Collection, temporary exhibitions and a contemporary art collection starting from the 1960s. Together with the Schauspielhaus (theatre) on the eastern side of the square, the museum buildings will form a ‘gateway to the arts’, an urban entry to the education mile leading to the university buildings to the north.
Client: Einfache Gesellschaft Kunsthaus Erweiterung – EGKE
Partners: David Chipperfield, Christoph Felger (Design lead), Harald Müller
Project Architects: Hans Krause (Competition), Barbara Koller (2009 – 2017), Jan Parth (Site design supervision)
Project Team: Markus Bauer, Wolfgang Baumeister, Leander Bulst, Kristen Finke, Pavel Frank, Ludwig Jahn, Guido Kappius, Ahmad Moutad, Jan Philip Neuer, Mariska Rohde, Diana Schaffrannek, Eva-Maria Stadelmann, Marc Warrington, Robert Westphal
Competition Team: Ivan Dimitrov, Kristen Finke, Annette Flohrschütz, Pavel Frank, Gesche Gerber, Dalia Liksaite, Peter von Matuschka, Sebastian von Oppen, Mariska Rohde, Franziska Rusch, Lilli Scherner, Antonia Schlegel, Lani Tran Duc, Marc Warrington
Executive Architect: b + p baurealisation ag, Zurich
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