STUDIOUNODESIGN designed this Amerian Bar where art, functionality and economic convenience blend perfectly together. Project description: The project stems from an idea of the two owners Paolo & Enzo. In order to recover as much raw material possible left over from a less recent establishment, now in a dilapidated state, the two owners made a low budget investment. Their goal is to offer customers, along with impeccable service, a place that transgresses traditional manners without losi
AGi Architects designed this family house made up of three intertwined beach houses. The owners -two brothers and their sister each with their own families- want to continue enjoying the same exceptional environment in which they grew up, but with complete independency and privacy from each other. For these reasons, the design of these three small houses calls for a duplicated program, which maintains privacy, while benefiting from outdoor areas and sea views, by the use of several terraces. P
An interview with the architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani at EPFL, Switzerland. He is professor for the History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and has his own architectural practice in Milan (Studio di Architettura) as well as another one in Zurich (Baukontor Architekten) with two associate partners. Via Studio Banana TV
Jean de Lessard designed and clarifies the dim, chaotic space of a bar that has been in existence for more than 20 years. Very economically, the designer successfully weds exuberance and intimacy, clean lines and friendliness. Project description: To update a space that was both cramped and cold, the senior designer, Jean de Lessard, chose a combination of permeable architectural elements and lively colors in sixties style. Beside the main entrance, de Lessard composed a corner lounge to serv
Studio Belenko designed this original shoe store with a new concept showroom. Project description: Shoes bar is a concept showroom for Luciano Carvari (Ukrainian shoes brand, which produce and sell it’s own shoes and assecories). It has a monocolor scheme underlined by black steel details and expressive huge pendant lamps. The shop has a bar attributes such as long barshelfs, tables and ottomans. The furniture made of MDF (covers) and unpainted sheet steel (legs and frames) has been manu
Square One designed the interior of a top floor apartment resulting on one big open living space, four rooms and two bathrooms. Projecto description: In most of the interior refitting cases of a top floor apartment, the starting point is a compartmentalized space, and the result – an open space. However, in this case, the starting point was a penthouse with interior elevator, divided only by glass panels and curtains, obtaining two distinct apartments with shared exterior access to the stairca
Miel Arquitectos redesigned the interior of a rural house in Mallorca. Project description: Can Fogarada is an exercise of dialog between the layers of time that have been settling throughout 300 years and that have managed to form this rural Mallorquin house. The presence of new inhabitants its announced through a technical carpet that reorganizes the space and reinterprets his materiality without hurting it. In this first stage of the Works at the ground floor of Can Fogarada, the kitchen –
Ashton Porter Architects designed a studio located in a typical Victorian suburban garden in London. Project description: The main studio facade that addresses the garden floats above a glass panel and forms a screen to separate the work space of the studio from the domestic garden. The typical green suburban garden is replaced by a folded timber landscape characterised by a pop up landscape of activities including a heated paddling pool, a sand pit and a fire pit. The materials of the studio
Pepe Gascón Arquitectura designed the remodeling of the most central and relevant public space in Puigcerdà, originally very much deteriorated, with an excessive amount of traffic that diminished the civic and integrating potential of the space. Project description: Traffic is eliminated, concentrating road and service communication on one side, freeing up a large central space. Two large linear flowerbeds protect the pacified area from the bustle of traffic working as filters between the two
Central de Arquitectura designed this house, located in the western side of Mexico City, using two rectangular prisms placed one over the other making an L shape. Project description: The plot of land is located in the western side of Mexico City in Bosques of the Lomas, looking to the northeast towards the street: Paseo of the Tulipanes being 17.99 meter long with the official number 16. It is 875.00 square meter of surface and a zoning of H2/40%/350. The project is compost of two rectangular
The Collage House with explanations by its author, Bosch Capdeferro, ASCER Interiorismo award 2011 and emerging architect special mention of the European Union prize for contemporary Architecture Mies Van der Rohe award 2011. Via Studio Banana TV
Sau Taller d’Arquitectura designed the Train Store in Ribes de Freser, conceived in order to solve the climatic problems of the station and to shelter the railtrack trains from the vandalism. With this aim this big and diaphanous volume was realized. A three dimension metallic dry construction structure thought to be built without affecting the normal timetable of the train route. The roof is designed to be a solar energy collector covering all its south faced slopes with photovoltaic pa
