Developers Bruntwood SciTech invited SpaceInvader to consider best usage for a lower ground space within its newly re-developed ‘Glasshouse’ building at world-leading life science and innovation campus, Alderley Park. Glasshouse represents the redevelopment of a former toxicology lab, comprising 16 separate buildings, arranged around a central courtyard garden, into a single, new 150,000 sq ft commercial office building, specifically designed for digital and tech businesses.
Photographer: Andrew Smith at SG Photography Consultants:
Cubic Works – Shan Khambata – Director / Gareth Robinson – Senior Project Manager / Thomas O’Brien – Site Manager Suppliers:
Feature carpet insets – EGE Mark of Time range
Suites & meeting room focus workspace carpets – Tarkett Linon range
Rubber flooring throughout – Nora Interface Norament range
Teapoint feature terrazzo flooring – Amtico Spacia Range
Brushed stainless steel for joinery – Formica
Timber Laminate for joinery – Natural Mandal Maple
Green solid surface kitchen counter tops – Hi-Macs Maui
The Corian back-lit wall from CDUK – Mario Ramano Walls Honey
At the corner of Donker Curtiusstraat and Van Hallstraat in Amsterdam, Studioninedots has created the surprising transformation of a prominent, 1964 office building. In the new DC Van Hall, we introduce studio housing for graduates and students, which together with creative workplaces and small-scale entrepreneurs bring new life to the surrounding Staatsliedenbuurt neighbourhood.
Compared to previous photography studios that featured a blank-space setting to adapt to every-changing market trends, photographers nowadays tend to have a workspace that highlights personality.
Recently, design practice Shire Space Research conceived a workspace for photography studio Damon. Instead of following trends, this space conveys the studio’s unique character. The major challenge and breakthrough of the design is the creation of spatial scenes and atmosphere.
Bureau de Change have completed a creative studio for Black Kite, an independent visual effects and design studio in East London, curating a series of intersecting and carved-out cylinders. These configure a sequence of spaces with varying degrees of privacy; informed by the heritage of the site’s industrial past.
The client’s brief called for a specific working environment; production and visual effects suites that are isolated from external sources of light and sound. Bureau de Change responded to these conditions by devising a spatial strategy conceptualised from the site’s industrial past as an Engineers and Iron Foundry.
The design studio Masquespacio reinterprets for Roca Tile the classic Greco-Latin elements in Infinite Majesty, a surprising, evocative and oneiric booth.
Roca Tile will be present in this new edition of CERSAIE –the international exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings-, with Infinite Majesty, a majestic and surrealistic space that oversteps perspectives and standards with chromatic and material combinations.
Roca Tile’s location has changed to Hall 36, Stand A38-B43, along with other large international brands in the sector. Roca’s presence in this edition of Cersaie invites us to pause and listen to the walls in the space, and get lost in the curves and lines of its perfect geometry.
DipoMuria commercial center in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, hosts a photo studio, restaurant, café, and retail shop and is modelled after an urban village typology. On one hand this makes the design fit better into the low rise and small-scale residential neighborhood and on the other hand also gives the possibility to play with the volumes and provide more experienceable sequences of in-between spaces to explore and hang out. The volumes are grouped around a central courtyard, the heart of the ensemble which is connected to the outside but also to terraces on the second floor. The courtyard features a slide for kids to play but is also usable as backdrop for action and group photo shootings. The village-like massing is split horizontally through change in materiality and color having a more grounded plinth level containing all the outer stairs, materialized by rough plaster and a smoother and reflecting upper level in form of polycarbonate façade cladding.
6:19 Studio is a tattoo studio located in Kyiv’s historic neighborhood of Podil. The space spans an area of 111 m2 on the ground floor of a residential building. The founder of the studio is a Ukrainian artist Ulyana Nesheva. Ulyana has dedicated her life to art, so the interior of her first studio was to become a reflection of her style and artistic vision.
With two young kids at home, it became clear that our modest 1940’s bungalow was too small for our growing family and architecture practice. We needed more space and had plenty of it in our backyard. We decided to build an ADU on our property to house our architecture office and a guest suite. At the time, we never imagined how valuable this kind of workspace would become during a global pandemic.
Budget was a major player from the beginning. We had finite funds and a big vision. We worked closely with the contractors from the start to ensure we could meet our target budget.
For a studio, space is the source of motivation and inspiration. However, in today’s society, the office environment is generally dull and unpleasant, and lacks flexibility in spatial considerations. Under the pandemic, a new hybrid working model is derived. In some cases, employees will work at home through video conference, resulting in idle space costs; while some employees cannot concentrate and work at home due to the noisy environment, moreover, covid-19 also reduces the need for business trips and meetings, and so some employees even stay in the studio for longer time, making the studio to be an extension of ‘home’. Different propositions were therefore derived when designing the studio for Sim–Plex : How to make effective use of the part of the studio when it is idle? How to improve the inspiration environment and atmosphere for the long duration time of staying by employees due to the pandemic? How to showcase the variety of design details and functionality when clients come to visit?
SANTO DOMINGO: FAMA is a forward-thinking music company. A boutique record label with an emphasis on artist development from the ground up. Their main focus being the fostering of creative minds and talents across multiple genres and markets. One of the key pieces of their strategy involves a state-of-the-art recording complex available for creative retreats, songwriting camps, and all recording and mixing needs. To support this plan, they acquired a three-story luxury home in Santo Domingo’s historic, bohemian Colonial District. They then reached out to WSDG Latin for an acoustic and aesthetic studio design to meet their requirements.
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