What you can learn in best open plan designs

What You Can Learn From The Best Open Plan Designs

Another chance to see some of the best open-plan schemes to get you on track for your New Year design resolutions. From ideas on where to fit doorways and how to zone areas to clever tips for creating a usable space.

Game Apartment in Taipei, Taiwan

Game Apartment

What is home? In addition to being a safe haven, it is a place that accommodates and extends all kinds of possibility and happiness. Besides meeting requirements of basic “living” function.

Active energy building in Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Active energy building in Vaduz

A Building like an Organism: the active energy building, developed by falkeis.architects, emerged as the winning project from an internationally invited architectural competition for an apartment building in Vaduz / Liechtenstein. Six years later the building is complete.

Villa Vingt in Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Canada

Villa Vingt in Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Canada

Designed by Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects Villa Vingt is anchored on a sloping site next to the ski resort Le Relais. The upper ground offers a magnificent view of the Laurentian hills and Lac-Beauport’s residential area.

Croma-Pharma Leobendorf Offices, Austria

Croma-Pharma Leobendorf Offices, Austria

In Leobendorf, architects querkraft design a flexible and open office building, a new pharmaceutical company headquarters. Specially developed modular furniture creates different office and working zones as well as communication and resting areas.

Brook Bay Residence, Mercer Island Home

Brook Bay Residence, Mercer Island

Nestled into a Mercer Island hillside, across Lake Washington from Seattle, this intimate two-story residence emphasizes craft, materiality, and connection to the outdoors. The clients’ desire for privacy from neighbors is achieved through the home’s protective, L-shaped design.

Telegraf 7 Building in Vienna Offices

Telegraf 7 Building

The former historical telegraph office was rebuilt to a contemporary office building by BEHF Architects. The idea of connecting the building’s historical substance with modern components is already achieved in the entrance area of Telegraf 7.

Yen London Restaurant, 190 Strand

Yen London Restaurant, 190 Strand

London-based architecture practice Sybarite designed a new Japanese restaurant, Yen in London. The restaurant design includes Japanese materiality, design cues and construction techniques.

How to use half walls to divide open plan

How to use Half Walls to Divide an Open Plan Design

Want to separate areas without losing the expansive feel? These mini walls are a clever way to make a floor plan work. Is your preference open-plan… but not quite? If it’s a ‘yes’ to the spacious feel, extra light, and views through to the outside, then the half-wall can come in.

Jouney Café, Downtown Montreal Lebanese bakery

Jouney Café, Downtown Montreal interior

Jouney café in downtown Montreal is a Lebanese café/bakery concept created by Patrick Abdelahad. The long narrow restaurant can seat 40 in an array of different seating options. Banquette seating lines the 16-foot-tall brick walls, while an I-beam spans the sloping floor to accommodate a large communal table.

130 William in NYC Luxury Condominium

130 William in NYC

Lightstone collaborates with world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye on his first condominium Tower in New York City. 130 William features 244 residences and rises 66 stories to make a bold addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline

GOM House in Montpellier, France property design

GOM House in Montpellier, France

The villa was built in the 90s however (ma!ca) architecture redesigned the entire house. Originally the kitchen was very dark due to a steel wall which shut out natural light. however the redesigned house has become much lighter and really pleasant.

Renovated Penthouse in São Paulo

Renovated Penthouse in São Paulo

The CR2 Architecture project located in São Paulo is a 290sqm penthouse owned by a young single man has been renovated leaving it as a far more modern apartment.