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The Glass Fortress / Archismith Architects

July 9, 2019 Martita Vial 0

The building serves as the sale gallery for a condominium project in Bangkok. Due to its proximity to a competitor’s sale gallery, one of the requirements from the Client was that the building must disconnect itself from the competitor. Leaving a generous gap was not an option for functional reasons so the design team decided to angle the building’s orientation away from the main road to create distinction.

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Grey tones pervade interiors of Zhengzhou’s JHW store

July 7, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
JHW store by Atelier Tao+C

Plaster, concrete and shiny steel merge to form the greyscale interiors of this menswear store in Zhengzhou, China, which has been designed by Atelier Tao+C. Set inside what Atelier Tao+C describe as a “banal” shopping centre, the JHW store has been designed to be an “austere, monochrome” space. To achieve an all-grey aesthetic, the studio

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Amazon Spheres / NBBJ

July 1, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Most technology companies occupy leafy campuses on the outskirts of urban areas, but Amazon has grown up in the center of Seattle and drawn much of its innovative energy from its big-city location. The giant online retailer’s new headquarters doubles down on its commitment to urban engagement, creating a neighborhood of buildings, plazas, and public open spaces that connects seamlessly with Seattle’s existing metropolitan fabric. The most iconic element is the trio of glass spheres housing a multi-level botanical garden filled with 40,000 plants taken from high-altitude cloud forests from five continents.

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Cycles La tangente Workshop and Store / Atelier Ronan Prineau

June 30, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Magasin et atelier – Cycles Prineau
The Cycle store occupies a strategic position between the city center and the peripheral infrastructures. The store’s implementation unveils the site’s “genius loci” and its kinetic flows. Along the railway a low, long and massive volume is located, echoing locomotives.

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Jinji Shangshuli Showroom / Mix Architecture

June 28, 2019 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

Jinji Shangshuli is a high-quality urban residential project located in the east of Nanjing’s city fabrics in adjacent to South Jiefang Road with a total floor area of 35,000 m2 and construction area over 110,000 m2. Due to the readjustment of sales strategy, the former sales showroom’s construction was suspended after the overall framework was finished. After being redesigned, the commissioner of the project hoped to use the showroom as a future exhibition space of modern artworks and a place to hold art salon in order to improve the overall quality and style of the residential project while providing the city with an art exhibition space that is open to the public.

Hermès takes over MVRDV’s Crystal Houses in Amsterdam

June 28, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Hermès Amsterdam store

A glass-fronted townhouse designed by MVRDV now serves as a store for luxury fashion brand Hèrmes, with warm-tone interiors by French design agency RDAI. Dutch architecture firm MVRDV completed the townhouse’s partially see-through facade back in 2016, using hundreds of specially-engineered glass bricks and a transparent high-strength glue. Named Crystal Houses, the building is nestled amongst

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Meeting Space / FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol

June 27, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

This veteran Madrid-based Publishing Company, in its search for a space that brings closeness to the public, finds a 200 m2 office space with 7 balconies on the street in the southern limit of the Salamanca District, at the junction of Conde de Aranda and Lagasca streets, a few meters away from the Alcalá street and El Retiro park. 

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Standard Dose Store / SR Projects

June 27, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Standard Dose, a burgeoning CBD brand, has recently opened a store in New York’s NoMad neighborhood. Designed by SR PROJECTS in collaboration with TUNA, the space features a meditation space, tea bar, beauty counter and sink, and grab-and-go products.

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Space of No Use Showroom / Kosaku Matsumoto

June 26, 2019 Martita Vial 0

The renovation of a small retail space previously used as a barber in Shirokane, Minato Ward did not occur with any particular request from the owner: except that the location will be used as an apparel showroom several times a year. In addition, the existing walls and ceiling of the space was made in plasterboard, with linoleum floor covering. In order to discover more from this banal space that has no particular feature or use, I decided to proceed and redesign the space while staying on site.