In Japan, if you want to have a drink and meal, the best atmosphere is generally in an “izakaya”. Among most of them, the U-shaped izakaya can most highlight its characteristics: the chef or the boss is at the core of the layout, and the diners sit in the U-shaped bar table surrounding the center. Chef shows the freshness of the food and cooking skills in the centre, while diners dine and drink, ordering and getting the food with only one hand away, this is the closest communication between diners and diners, and between chef and diners. In recent years, there have also been Japanese dramas that use this type of U-shaped izakaya as the theme.
Poetry Wine (Pinyin translation: Shijiu), the name of this restaurant, means picking up the taste of the old days. When we think about the old taste, we may recall the taste of home where we spent our childhood, with chimney, leaky roof, sunlight, leaves, silhouette.
Sitting in a quiet area of the bustling Solana, Poetry Wine offers Beijing dishes with a modern twist, hides the taste of old Beijing in the delicacies made by the cooks, picking up all the forgotten curiosity, and awakening all rusty senses.
In the heart of Los Jerónimos neighborhood, declared a World Heritage Site, a few meters away from the Prado Museum and the Retiro Park, you will find this 180sqm penthouse.
The building, built in 1905, has been segregated over the years into smaller apartments than the original ones, except for the top floor, which maintains the original housing scheme. The different patios that pierce the volume, mold and bathe the perimeter of the apartment with an intense light.
Superplay, a hot and innovative gaming company, has redesigned and revamped their office space with the help of Samuelov Studio. This two-floor office is located in the Levinstein Tower in Tel Aviv, and has undergone massive changes in order to transform into a fun and innovative space.
The perfume showroom by SDA Designs is conceptualised as a fusion of modern and classical design elements meant to evoke a sense of rootedness in the past by adding hints of contemporary features to traditional design sensibilities.
The client is into the perfume business and wanted to tap into the UAE market by opening a retail store in Dubai. His intent was to have a retail store that was dramatic in terms of design and depicted the brand image. The client’s business deals in trading of wood scented perfumes and customised perfumery range which is displayed across their retail outlets.
Accessing through a narrow corridor that is 1.20 m wide and 20 m long, we end up in a central space made up of iron porticoes and a roof covered in cellulose paste, this office project is articulated, which seeks to integrate both the different spaces and their functions, as well as the people who inhabit them.
The third apartment in the series of renovations by CoDA, designed by architect Marcílio Mendes Ferreira, is located on block 210 south, in Brasília. The block is considered one of the best preserved in the capital and even received the architecture council of the Federal District seal for its historical value in 2020.
“I enter a building, see a room, and – in a fraction of a second – have this feeling about it.” – Peter Zumthor
The goal was simple: to draw our own Home!
This home would need to have the capacity to welcome us, answer our spatial needs, our functional requirements and be a lab of research, work and study. A living space, of familiarity and share. This space, Home, that welcomes us during the day, should promote an environment of its own, ours, and be the definer of our language, stimulating and sensitive, able to communicate with us and, which through, we communicate with each other. To express itself in a singular way, continuous and tangible, inciting our eyes to walk through it and interpreting it as a materialized poem, slowly declaiming its verses. The immersion in this, our, atmosphere, was the conducting wire for the thought and connection of this place, ours.
The turquoise pool and the flora fluttering in the urban spirit turn this penthouse in Tel Aviv into a lovely corner overlooking a gray urban landscape, which sings out to the bustling city.
The apartment was designed for a couple with 3 girls and a dog who wanted a house with a pool along with a large outdoor kitchen, a living area, and a jacuzzi for perfect accommodation. Within the home, the privacy of each room alongside discreet and personal bathrooms were a priority.
Architect Raz Melamed took on the task and entered the project when the building was under construction. In collaboration with the building architect, structural changes were made to the columns and walls, including the unique aluminum design and the preparation of the infrastructure for it.
The Corona pandemic forced many of us to recalibrate, and for this young family of four the result was a relocation to Israel. Their new Tel-Aviv apartment was designed as a calm, minimalist, and joyful sanctuary, to ease the transition and make it a home.
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