Botanique, situated in a building from the 1950 decade in downtown Curitiba, southern Brazil, embodies the merger between the plants store Borealis and the Latin-American themed café Negritta – both commercial facilities with their own identity and strong personality. The challenge that Moca Arquitetura faced was to propose a venue that could hold such distinct programs. “We wanted keep both functions integrated with each other and also letting them to live independently”, explains Ana, one of the architects.
The design of the municipality community house ‘Het Klavier’ by M+R
“Noord-Brabant has around 400 community houses. They stand in villages and cities and are of great social importance for the liveability of a community. No community house is the same. They come in all shapes and sizes; not only offer relaxation, but are also meeting places, cultural temples or educational institutes “. For our office the challenge was / is how we can shape the house of the municipality of Loon op Zand. For each task we first look for the identity of the users; the municipalities and their residents or what is the DNA of the municipality of Loon op Zand.
City is one of the greatest inventions of mankind. In this colossal form of production, the status of individuals’ lives is also infinitely magnified.
We are now living in a highly commercialized society. Shopping centers at the most essential areas of the cities have become the landmarks of the contemporary lifestyle. The new generation consumers have a different and reconstructed perception of cities. Homogenous shopping complexes have long been transformed into places offering unique experience through artists, designers or commercial brands.
Make Architects has completed work on its London Wall Place project, a new commercial scheme offering the largest set of public gardens developed in the City of London since the post-war brutalist Barbican estate on behalf of Brookfield Properties and Oxford Properties.
The scheme comprises two office buildings surrounded by extensive public realm including a series of public gardens and reimagined elevated pedestrian walkways to link the neighbouring Barbican with the City of London.
The interior of the bistro PILOTKA was made by studio YUDIN Design
The building has a total area of 100 sq.m. The Ukrainian designers were standing face to face with the task of creating a universal interior, which could be comfortable for the most diverse guests.
Heads of YUDIN Design studio, the twin brothers Aleksandr and Vladimir Yudin decided to stop on the style of pop art, adding it with recognizable details from aviation subjects. We started from the name, Yudin brothers said, “that brings back to the forage-cap typical of the uniform of flight attendants.”
PILOTKA is filled with light and, despite the small volume, it seems quite spacious. There are two halls: the main composed by large windows and an open kitchen which allows guests to observe the process of preparing dishes, and another in the back of the room designed for 12 guests.
New café and pottery studio Les Faiseurs—located at 6564 Saint-Laurent Blvd.—is now open for business. Customers are invited to discover contemporary ceramics in a unique space which combines a boutique showcasing artwork by local ceramists, a pottery studio offering classes and introductory workshops, as well as a café serving beverages in handmade ceramics courtesy of DOMPIERRE.
As early childhood education progresses rapidly in China, Family Box recently opened its 6th branch in Qingdao, China. Crossboundaries’ design for the two-level 4400sqm facility offers the enterprise’s usual functions such as a children swimming pool, classrooms, open play areas and a cafe. Situated at the corner of a shopping mall, Family Box opens to the public with a transition zone, holding functions such as library, shop and try-out classes for potential customers and directs its member to the pool and member-only areas.
Portsoken Pavilion, a sculptural monocoque structure by Make Architects, has been unveiled as part of the City of London Corporation’s transformation of a former gyratory into a high-quality public space.
The former complex roundabout, with its series of pedestrian subways, has been the subject of intense development for over six years to reroute roads, block off unsafe subways and transform the area into the new Aldgate Square—one of the largest public spaces in London’s Square Mile.
The pavilion, which will be run by local social enterprise Kahaila as a café and multifunctional community space, sits proudly in this new landscape, delivering a public amenity as well as improving the connection between the two distinctive listed heritage buildings that sit either side of the new square: the St Botolph without Aldgate church and Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School.
The first of our ‘Timber Forest’ series, nestled in the lower ground of the Soho Bund building in Shanghai, this 150sqm cafe’s main aim was to provide an escape for the buildings’ office dwellers and shop-goers.
Drawing our inspiration from nature, the concept hopes to create a calming place for the customers to gather and dine under the trees to emulate the comforts and tranquillity of an open forest canopy. The irregular timber profiles mimic the branches and hanging vines of trees, transforming the eatery into a place of nature.
Warm light filters between the timber branches as the bulbs hang down mimicking drops of rain falling of leaves.
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