Oliver Sweeney Store, Manchester Retail Space

Oliver Sweeney Manchester 1

Design: Urban Salon. This store building is located in Spinningfields, central Manchester, off the main high end retail street, Deansgate. The ground floor debuts a new store design for the luxury shoe brand, which is being rolled out across its store portfolio.

The glazed façade is mullion-free in order to achieve views deep into the store interior. The façade is the first of its kind. Horizontal steel rods act as wind bracing between the glazing and the building superstructure.

San Vicente House, California Property

Ramona Residence 5

Design: McClean Design. Designed for a family with three small girls this house needed to respond to the busy street it is located on. We came up with a sequence of entry which uses several devices to separate the occupants from the noise beyond.

The drive court is screened from the street by high gates and tall landscaped elements. This area connects to an inner courtyard through a curving glass screen designed to allow the light to pass through but shield from the cars and noise.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands

Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam

Exhibition design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER, Germany. The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam (Het Scheepvaartmuseum) is presenting its extensive collection of maps and atlases in a new setting.

The exhibition, “The Atlases”, is being shown in the east wing of the museum, part of the ‘object galleries’, designed by architects ATELIER BRÜCKNER and opened in 2011.

Hanging Boxes Interior in Avignon

Hanging Boxes

Design: NBJ Architectes

The project is an interior renovation of an existing building and seeks to establish a coherent whole operation by adapting the program to the needs and uses of new users. The intervention is essentially a reorganization of interior spaces, limiting interventions on buildings and ensuring optimization of quality and comfort of use. The general principles of circulation of the old building are maintained and adapted to the standards required by the change of destination.

Bagsvaerd School Copenhagen Building

Bagsvaerd School

Design: Nohr & Sigsgaard Architects

The new Bagsvaerd School in Denmark has been formed by amalgamating two local schools.

Split levels, double-height rooms and a high degree of transparency characterise the spacious complexity of this Danish education building, while the overall design and spaces have been well worked out with the finer details carefully considered in relation to colour, texture and materials.

Pure Crystal Hotel, Jongno-Gu Accommodation

Boutique Hotel Seoul

Design: Seungmo Lim. Pure Crystal is a special room of Boutique Hotel the Designers in Jongno, Seoul. Pure Crystal is a room filled with sparkling glow and delicate texture of crystal. Continued smooth surface and edge of furnishings and walls amplifies the “flexibility” of the 31㎡ space. Projections of furnishings on walls imbued with light make boundary vague and expand the dimension to grant a unique experience to the guests.

Umo Japanese Restaurant, Barcelona Interior

Umo Japanese Restaurant

Design: Estudi Josep Cortina

The architecture forms a dreamlike scene inspired by a forest turned into geometric shapes, capturing the essence of the organic and taking it to an industrial environment.
Wood and iron blend in a reflection of the tension between the industrial, the geometrical and the cold on one hand; and the organic, the curved and warm on the other. The dining area becomes a big stage where the great show cooking takes place and fills the place with dynamism and vitality.

Barrel House Tavern: Sausalito Building

Barrel House Tavern

Located on one of the most scenic waterfront lots in Sausalito, Barrel House Tavern occupies 5,000 sqft on Bridgeway Avenue. CCS Architecture receives a IIDA Northern California Chapter Honor Award for this building. With 140 seats, the restaurant features an enormous Carrera marble bar, a cozy lounge, wood fired pizza oven, and waterfront seating with breathtaking views of the Bay and San Francisco beyond.

Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen

Den Frie 1

Design: Bente Lange Arkitekter

The A.P. Møller Foundation has made a generous donation to securing the future of the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art by adding new building facilities.
In 2014 it’s exactly a century after the building was moved to its current location at Østerport in Copenhagen and in November, the new part of one of Europe’s oldest artists’ houses will be completed and open to the public.

Shirokane House – Tokyo Residence

Shirokane House 9

Design: MDS Co.Ltd. The small site is located in a typical Tokyo urban residential area, where houses are closely built up. A pursuit of internal spaces in this house, as a result, changes the Tokyo cityscape a little.

An area for one floor is usually desired as large as possible, in particular, in such a narrow site. For this house, the first floor area is small due to the parking space and the second floor is, instead, larger. The outer appearance is examined based on ceiling height, slant line regulations for a building shape.