When our client contacted us to design the interior of a traditional oriental hookah bar in Sofia, we sought inspiration in the “One thousand and one nights” stories, and the intricate geometric patterns adorning classical Islamic architecture. Housed in a 200sqm rectangular area which opens to a garden in the south, we created a space that celebrates the centuries-long tradition of hookah smoking with a bold and modern twist.
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Muzeiko, located in Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia, is the first children’s museum to be built in post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Representing the culmination of Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership’s decades of experience with museum and exhibition design, it is also the culmination of the firm’s collaboration with its client, the America for Bulgaria Foundation.
Project: Muzeiko: children’s museum and science discovery center
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Photography: Roland Halbe
Client: America for Bulgaria Foundation
Design Principal: Lee H. Skolnick, FAIA
Project Architect: Larry Sassi, AIA
Project Manager: Scott Briggs, AIA
LHSA+DP Project Team:Architecture: Lee H. Skolnick, FAIA, Design Principal; Paul S. Alter, AIA, Managing Principal; Scott Briggs, AIA; Larry Sassi, AIA; Ted Klingensmith.
Exhibit Design/Interpretive Team: Lee H. Skolnick, Design Principal; Jo Ann Secor, Director of Museum Services; Scott Briggs, Christina Ferwerda, Yun Chu Chou, Curt Meissner, Jethro Rebollar, Tugce Zaloglu.
Graphic Design Team: Christina Lyons, Dan Ownbey, Alyssa Liegel, Daphne Smith
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The apartment is situated on the first floor of an old building in the Sofia city centre. The main aim of the interior project was to maximise the intake of natural light inside the rooms and to create comfortable contemporary living conditions. The vestibule was enlarged at the expense of a small utilities room, while the former kitchen was transformed into a wardrobe room.
Located in an environment that lacked strong marks, the Metro Station 20 should be a signal, a structural element of the landscape, it must be at its scale. We have designed a structure that is both generous and sensual, with a glass volume curves embracing the ground and reaching the underground platform level by penetrating light and vegetation. The structure consists of 27 metal arches on a plot of 4,00 m, of variable height and width, starting from the rail level. The height varies between 19 and 24 m and the width between 17,80 m et 30 m. They are connected by a secondary structure of metal tubes that support the triangular glass panels. This structure also supports the road that enters into the glass volume and will form a bridge of 105 m length suspended from the metal structure. In its central part, this bridge will be slightly curved to give greater height above the access platform.
About the Design:
\”Here I am Architect\” is a home office of a young architect who is in the beginning of his career. The concept of the space is inspired by the idea of sketching – where a few lines create a whole world.
They were neighbors. They fell in love. As their love grew, so did their need for a larger apartment. So they decided to unite heir two places into one. The idea was to bring together not only the living space, but also their lifestyles.
OVA Studio entered this open competition for the design of station 20 of Sofia new underground system.
Our design option proposed to escape from the tunnel like feeling of many underground stations by providing a vortex mesh vault that acted as both a structural element but also as signalization and information display. one of the challenges was to bring light from the street down to the concourse and ultimately to the platform levels.
Atrium House is situated in Malinovadolina area of Sofia city. The plot is richly forest with trees,the most valuable are several conifers. Leading in design is the clients’ and architect’s wish to preserve maximum trees. Two fir trees and a pine tree, located in the middle of the property became the center of the house- an atrium, around witch the planning is designed.
Completed in 2010, Hermes Park is one of the largest trade centers in the Balkans. Situated in Sofia, Bulgaria, this commercial development occupies a terrain of 42,000 sqm on Tsarigradsko Chausse Blvd, with approximately 242,000 sqm.
Hermes Park contains a shopping mall with a gross actual area of 99,000 sqm, an office area of 70,000 sqm and parking area of approximately 73,000 sqm. A multi-panel metal facade, by Hunter Douglas, clads the building.
We designed a bedroom and a bathroom separated from each other with a fireplace and a glass wall. The main objective of the spaces is to provide a complete relaxation of the senses – in the bedroom the color of the imagination and spirituality – the purple; Yellow is used for the bathroom. In this way the bathroom is like an oasis in the desert.
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