Category: Interior Design
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Warsaw Apartment
REPUBLIKA ARCHITEKTURY has designed a 180 m2 apartment located on the top floor in a high end building not far from the city center of Warsaw, Poland. From the apartment one can enjoy the best views in town as it overlooks the Vistula River and the National Stadium on one side and the Old Town…
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House GEPO by OYO
Architecture firm OYO (Open Y Office) has created a single-family house where the concept of less is the result and not the goal. Conceived as a place without boundaries, the use of steel throughout the structure gives the experience of an open plan. The garden is the living room, the small lake is the bathroom,…
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Marble Walls by Zaha Hadid
The following collection are a series of six large marble panels based on designs by Zaha Hadid. Developed for Citco, the marble and stone sculptures play with neutral tones and three-dimensional, chiaroscuro effete. The source of inspiration is based on the geology of the stone itself. Lace, 400 x 300 cm, Nero Marquina Matrix, 400…
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Pop-Up Hotel
Dutch firm pink cloud has proposed a solution to the existing vacant office space located in high urban areas as a result of the recession. Using a kit of parts, the infrastructure of old towers can be transformed into a series Pop-Up hotels providing tourist with a diverse set of accommodations across the urban metropolitan.…
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Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto
Located in the heart of Toronto is Shangri-La, a luxury hotel based on the legendary land featured in James Hilton‘s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon. The 202 spacious guest rooms are among the largest in Canada, starting at 490 square feet. Incorporated work areas and bedrooms are designed to enhance the sleep experience with generous bathrooms…
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Pan Am / YMCA Recreation Facility
Toronto-based firm, MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA), is part of a large integrated team responsible for the recreation centre and training facility that will form part of Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games Athlete’s Village. The program includes a sports medicine clinic, fitness centre, pool, and ancillary athletic and wellness facilities. The building design balances the…
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The Luxurious Life of The Great Gatsby
Set in the Jazz Age of love and ambition, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby comes back to life in a truly opulent showcase of period authenticity and lavish lifestyle. Designed by Baz Luhrmann’s wife, Catherine Martin, the production called for 42 individual sets, taking her team just 14 weeks to build, aping and…
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BLACK.SEE by J. Mayer H.
EIGEN + ART Lab in Berlin, Germany, is showcasing the works by Jürgen Mayer H. BLACK.SEE is an installation of free standing black sculptures with accompanying wall paintings that are also dark and mysterious. The three-dimensional components are made out of panels which have been milled out into lattice-like, irregular forms that seem rudimentary and…
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How Do You Work?
Dubbeldam architecture + design create a modular space through reclaimed and recycled shipping palettes.
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blackLAB Colours the Details
blackLAB architects use their personal surroundings as inspiration for their working space. The feature wall showcases an endless supply of prismacolor pencils that are readily available to the designers. While the table projects their working habits with their children.
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Igloo combines Work and Play
Igloo Design brings together the worlds of work and play within their container space. A wallpaper background of books creates a grid-like pattern within the room to comment on our digital culture and need for constant information. Alain Courchesne and Anna Abbruzzo of Igloo Design
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Samare Studio Displays Their Process
Samare Studio displays their thought process up on the walls. From images, to markets, snow shoes to set squares, nothing is left on the cutting room floor. Mania Bedikian of Samare Studio
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Joel Loblaw brings the Outside – Inside
Interior landscaping by Joel Loblaw Inc., brings the outside – inside with an artistic installation of painted logs and strategically places branches. Emily Hall of Joel Loblaw Inc.
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Nendo’s Stonegarden for Caesarstone
Stone garden designed by Nendo for Caesarstone. This exclusive collaboration was created for the 2013 Toronto Interior Design Show by Oki Sato. The collection of ‘table-like’ surfaces are clustered together to form a floating landscape resembling a traditional Japanese stone garden. The tables contain a single rod located in the middle of the finished material…
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Oki Sato of Nendo at IDS 2013
Oki Sato is the head designer for Japanese design firm Nendo. Born in Toronto, Oki graduated with a master’s in architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2002. That same year, Oki and some of his classmates formed Nendo and established the company’s Tokyo office. A second office in Milan was established in 2005, and…
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52nd International Genoa Boat Show
Featuring total luxury on the seas. James Cameron goes deep and captures some new creatures from the depths of the sea.
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Transforming Showroom
During the day it showcases the company’s latest and greatest products in home environment setups.
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Containing Education
Eight shipping containers are stacked and cut along a 45-degree angle to create a fishbone pattern generating an arrow-like volume that is lifted three meters above the landscape.
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Facades and Facilities
The project consists of the renovation of the building existing 10,402m² surface area, the redesign of the facade taking into account the overall structure, the repair of the technical premises, and the optimizing of office surface space.
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Cafe Cuba
The design takes influence from the old city streets of Havana, Cuba, drawing from the rich cultural history and night life.
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Living the Life
The cafe is the main social space of the store, where customers are invited to recharge with fresh juices and healthy snacks.
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Phoenix Brewery
The structure has been renovated to maintain its original facade while allowing for more office accommodations and natural light to penetrate the space.
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Limiting Conditions
To create an architectural language that expresses an undulating sense of peripheral density, the team set rules for the exterior spaces.
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Perfect Curve
The experiential environment explores the flowing forms found in Antoni Guadí’s Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona, Spain, in which the Spanish Art Nouveau architect’s goal was to find nature’s purest, most perfect curve.
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Crystal Palace
The immersive installation invites visitors to experience the infinitely reflected crystalline interior, the dynamic visual display constantly changing.
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Childhood Center
The development draws from the urban setting to mark the two different buildings with specific signage to indicate the interior programs.
Richelle Sibolboro 