Imagine a café, a reading room, a bookstore and a coffee roasting company all located in a refurbished former milk bar. The idea to create a place that would meet various needs of book lovers and coffee enthusiasts was a consequence of bringing together owners’ professional passion (for books) and memories of exotic (African) childhood. The space is divided into three zones that clearly illustrate this multifunctional concept.
A stunning bar Winovnik was opened at the center of Dnepr, which is ready to offer the best wine in this city. We have done everything to make all the ideas real, the space, where all attention belongs to wine! At the main hall you can taste 30 kinds of wine and try chef dishes and at the adjacent space you have an opportunity to buy a bottle of wine that you like. Creating a design of the café we were focused on neutral tones and a feeling of lightness. A monochrome of the brick has it’s continuation in calm colors of furniture. Luxury green curtains complement the main color palette and divide space into functional zones.
The Red Cross Volunteer House is an extension of the national headquarters of Red Cross in Denmark in Copenhagen. The triangular building has a 850-m2 roof that acts as a large public staircase extending from the street level to the second floor of the building. The extension, which has a floorspace of 750 m2, is placed partially below ground and serves as the main entrance to both the headquarters and the volunteer centre. The Red Cross Volunteer House was designed with the ambition of creating a new meeting place for the 34,000 Red Cross volunteers as well as a new public space – an urban living room that gives something back to the city. That ambition has been realized.
Client: Danish Red Cross – The new building was made possible only with a grant of DKK 30.7 million from the private foundation A. P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formål.
Located in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District, the former UIC Building dominated the city skyline as Singapore’s tallest building for many years following its completion in 1973 and formed part of an important collection of towers located along Shenton Way.
Recently the area has undergone a rejuvenation and transformation and V on Shenton – the new UIC building – forms part of this redevelopment. The mixed-use programming of V on Shenton presents a unique situation in this area of the city.
Credits: Ben van Berkel, Astrid Piber with Nuno Almeida and Ariane Stracke, Cristina Bolis; Derrick Diporedjo, Enrique Lopez, Gustav Fagerström, Hal Wuertz, Jaap Baselmans, Jaap-Willem Kleijwegt, Jae Young Lee, Jay Williams, Jeong Eun Choi, Juliane Maier, Martin Zangerl, Patrick Kohl, René Rijkers, Rob Henderson, Stefano Rocchetti, Sander Versluis, Tiia Vahula, Wing Tang
Located in the cosmopolitan district of Batel, in downtown Curitiba, Orna Café was idealized by sister bloggers looking forward to diversify their industry. As they decided to open a coffee shop, they gathered sponsors and supply partners, which were a limiting factor that influenced in the construction of the final architectural environment proposal. Finally, the partner architects from Moca Arquitetura, Ana Sikorski and Kátia Azevedo, conceived a design based on elements found in Curitiba’s acknowledged architecture, combined with a contemporary footprint.
A new timber clad cafe building alongside the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia.
The design is a simple response to it’s setting.
The building is entirely clad in Australian Grey Ironbark timber which will progressively grey off to blend with the ancient local Peppermint trees which give their name to the suburb.
The building is long and low with a fully transparent and openable central seating area.
The design is reflective of it’s location and an exercise in understatement.
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
The project is located on the ground floor of Chengdu Shangri-La Hotel with a street frontage. There are two categories with a single kitchen, one is for the Japanese-style barbecue Robatayaki, the other is for Kaiseki which is a traditional Japanese meal brought in courses. Referring two different traditional typology of Japanese houses, civilian’s house and tea-room of Samurai, we extracted characteristic elements and expanded them multiple-layered, so to create an enduring space without being consumed.
Fretard design has created a vegan and vegetarian oasis in the heart of Chapel St,Melbourne with Little Green. A space that exudes well-being in everything from the colour palette to the natural materials, Little Green’s nurturing environment makes you feel like you’re making a healthier choice just by walking through the door.
Benjamin Frétard has made the most of natural light, semi-transparent glass, under-bench LEDs, and open community-feel seating to create a sense of spaciousness in the small, 40sqm café.
Time More cafe is the best original hand-washed coffee appliance brand in China and offers high-quality hand-washed coffee. This is an original hand-made coffee maker and boutique coffee experience shop located in Shanghai.
We understand this store as a world about “time.” Coffee beans are alive, making, grinding, extracting, and every step of a cup of coffee requires patience and concentration. It is also a quiet world. Time is quietly flowing here. The components of this world are mainly wood, the life that condenses into time. A metal curved display frame is drawn across the right wall. The space is always developed in a binary way, moving and static, just and soft, inside and outside, positive and negative. This gives the entire space a certain tension.