Article source: David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores
The design for Marília Fit aims to grant healthy meals, from breakfast to dinner, in a cozy, and refreshing space, making people feel better. The walls are filled by a structure of rectagular wooden boxes, in diferente sizes and permeabilities, which are responsible to compose the interior of the store, in a clear reference to the public market and all it’s smells and flavours. The same concept is verified on the facade in yellow aluminum. The chosen color highlights the store, strengthening the relation with the sun, the summer, and the related joy inherent to it. The yellow allied with the green from the back wall, as well as the blue from the couch and red from the chairs denotes a solid relation to nature. The italian earthen toned floor gives the feeling of cozyness and relaxation. The lighting, designed by the architect, plays with arrays of light in various directions. Another highlight are the Gerbar brass fans, which are very effective with minimum echoing. The dark gray and black chosen for some walls endorse the more vivid colors as well as the wood. Marília Fit is a space created as an invitation for a high class experience at eating and welfare.
Hi-Running is an arcade in the centre ofXiangmihu, a small high-end residential district in Shenzhen, China. It is targeted to be community-shopping centre than conventional extravagant shopping mall, to accommodate small and local shops that sells daily needs products. The arcade presents coziness and ordinary interior space for the community.
People agree that the urbanization nowadays is largely a byproduct of industrialization. In the past, you cannot imagine that how to call a city without any factories.
The situation changed by last few years, traditional cities started a wave of ‘Industrialization’: Keeping away from the pollution and the roar of the machine, people cheers by the gradually dropped out factories. The capacity of those factories left, construction stayed, so the following problem came , how to make a better way that can change those huge areas instead of the demolition, this is also a history remained problem that our society is facing to.
The Park is a six-story hybrid structure, which merges a 441-space parking garage with 27,000-square-feet of street-level retail. Located in the booming Warehouse District of downtown New Orleans, The Park captures the aesthetic rigor of the existing 19th century warehouses, while rethinking this overly conventional building typology and its construction methods. At 205,000-square-feet, The Park blends in and adapts to an evolving hub of urban activity, while tastefully preserving the style of the surrounding historic neighborhood.
Located in downtown Chelan, Rocky Pond Winery is designed to bring a heightened sense of awareness to the winery’s story and their wines. The 2,000-square-foot tasting room serves as a sophisticated venue in which to relax and celebrate the experience of wine, while staying true to the humble, agricultural surroundings of the area.
Located in the heart of Tirana, in the same urban district as the historical residence of Albanian Communist Party leader Enver Hoxha, the Blloku Cube is the new multifunctional center signed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, now under construction.
The building stands right on the junction between the streets of Pjeter Bogdani and Vaso Pasha, in the heart of the Blloku, one of the most prestigious districts in Tirana which, in the post-communist era, has gone from being a military zone of restricted access to a nerve center of city life, thanks to the proliferation of facilities, shops, bars and restaurants lining its characteristic and regularly shaped blocks. It is on these two streets that the main entrances of the building are positioned, to serve the retail center and the offices.
CRISP was born from the owner’s strong will to open a barbershop unlike all others. In the emerging neighborhood of Pointe Saint-Charles, his ambitions were to create a unique experience in a minimalistic environment that put the spotlight on the barbers (and their stations), without compromising on the spaces functionality.
What happens when German engineering meets Italian design and Chinese excellence? Can one transform the sensory and hi-touch experience of a knife into a whole flagship store concept?
The ZWILLING flagship store in Shanghai includes a shop presenting the full ZWILLING range, a cooking school, a classic elegant bar and the restaurant ‘The Twins’. Discover, learn and enjoy. The interior design is conceived as a visual and dynamic journey that appeals to all senses and allows a full experience of ZWILLING’s brand identity. The interior design unites Eastern and Western traditions while simultaneously remaining in the style of timeless iconic materiality – pure forms combined with luxury materials such as leather, velvet, wood and brass.
Morphosis marked the recent opening of the new 820,000-square-foot research and development (R&D) facility for The Kolon Group, the leading textile manufacturing company in South Korea. The design features flexible laboratory facilities, administrative offices, and active social spaces that encourage greater interaction and exchange across the company departments, with a visually striking façade that demonstrates Kolon’s commitment to innovation, technology, and sustainability.
Led by CEO and Chairman Lee Woong-Yeul, Kolon (which takes its name from its original product, KOrean nyLON) is a diverse corporation that covers R&D, primary material manufacturing, and product construction. The company produces textiles, chemicals, and sustainable technologies as well as original athletic and ready-to-wear clothing lines across its 38 divisions. Kolon’s all-encompassing scope allowed the company to draw from its own resources to construct the new facility, christened the Kolon One & Only Tower, and assume a unique position as both client and contractor. Fifteen percent, or approximately 123,000 square feet, is devoted to active social spaces, supporting Chairman Lee’s vision of creating collaborative and interdisciplinary spaces that prioritize employees’ well-being. Fifty-five percent of the building is laboratory space, with the remainder designed for offices.
Following the success of their first stationary boutique, the Baltic Club owners opened a second location in Montreal, this time on Mount-Royal Avenue in the Plateau borough. Despite its great location in the heart of the city, the selected space has one important constraint: its narrow width of 9’6” made it quite a challenge for dynamic circulation and product display. The objective was to design a functional space that truly portrayed the playful world found in the company’s varied products.
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