Hotel Interior | Hotel City Garden | Zug | Switzerland | Designed By EM2N

Name: hotel city garden
Time: 04/2009 - 12/2009
Location: zug
Client: mz-immobilien ag
Year: 2009
Type: hotel
Award: best.architects 11
Status: realised........more

Bar Interior Design | b side Wine Bar Designed by Kariouk Associates

Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Project Dates: 2008
Task: To design a downtown night spot with a seductive street presence.

Project Description:

The challenge of this project was to create an elegant interior for a new wine bar within the very long and narrow ground-floor space of a turn-of-the-century building that had only two windows at one end; the building's exterior curb-side front was to be converted to an additional seating area to be used seasonally. These objectives were to be achieved with a miniscule budget.
Project Response:

The design solution aimed to make the space appear larger by dematerializing the perimeter walls of the interior. First, the walls were entirely clad with mirrors (a costly material that was salvaged from the space's previous occupant). Then, new obscured-glass panels patterned with silver leaf were installed several inches in front of the mirrors. Concealed uplights placed between the mirrored and glass layers reflect light between the backs of the silver-leafed areas and the mirrors, causing the already numerous silver-leafed "squares" to be further multiplied and appear to float throughout the interior. In this way, the otherwise solid wall is broken down and given depth thereby creating a luminous, dreamlike interior; despite the space's shortage of windows, there is no "bad seat in the house." Silver-toned, shear fabric screens whose softness complements the glass walls, were designed to allow the interior to have the capacity to accommodate periodic, more private seatings, but to remain as open as possible for general use. A similar strategy was used for the new exterior patio, which was wrapped in 10-foot tall silver-toned translucent fabric walls illuminated from within by many wine-goblet lights suspended at various heights. Seen from the sidewalk, the patio appears as a giant, billowing lantern drawing in night-time urbanites.
Testimonials:

"After hearing rumours that b/Side was open, we decided to check it out... The decor is modern, dark with great glass panels along the walls and an illuminated bar showcasing the wine on offer."

"The place is gorgeous... The muslin screens for the patio is particularly notable, it's beautiful inside as well." ...more

Office Interior Design | ARB Office | London | designed by dRMM

The initial brief for the refit of the Architects Registration Board's offices was not just in recognition of the need for a modern workplace, but to recognise a new openess and accessibility in the organisation for the profession and public.

ARB occupies the ground floor of a standard 60's block on the corner of Hallam and Weymouth Street. Externally a nondescript brick and sash windowed envelope over a 6m concrete frame. Internally what was a cellular collection of offices and file storage forming the labyrinthine legacy of the former ARCUK. The brief for ARB's offices was not just in recognition of the practical need for a modern workplace, updating an inadequately serviced poor spatial arrangement, but to recognise the importance of a new openess and accessibility in the organisation for the profession and public. The brief called for the opposite of what was existing, i.e. ARB's offices should be transparent, fresh, friendly, lean, modern and serious. The design response has been to make a new Weymouth Street entrance (and hence address), remove as many internal doors and walls as possible, and to provide a continuous flexible open plan working environment with an 'island' service core and boardroom. All services and data are re-routed into a prefabricated underfloor heating and cooling system. The ceiling is notable for carrying nothing but light reflection, a white mirror. When the Board are not sitting, the boardroom divides into meeting rooms for staff, architects, students, public and press alike.....more

Restaurant Interior | Ovni Restaurant | Barcelona | AV62 Arquitectos

It was to make a fast food restaurant, based on buffet of salads and pasta or pizza where you can eat for 5 euros. A quick but quality food and little manipulation. It was essential to give an idea of the highest quality and hygiene does not mask the price advantage. The option price is a clear claim to the public, but forces you to think in a room providing a rapid turnover of diners. In the entrance floor houses the bar buffet with a rotating container which allows access to different foods quickly and in a small space, making useful the two sides of the bar. On this floor is a bar with stools and a table space. In the basement are also placed tables and try to improve the conditions of a priori most inhospitable space as above with the contribution of natural light through a skylight placed in the local access......more

Hotel Interior Design | Casa Fuster Hotel | Barcelona | GCA Arquitectos Associados

Paseo de Gracia, 132. Barcelona

Re-conversion of Domènch i Montaner's modernist building into a luxury hotel. The hotel's function has been adapted to the building. Therefore, the basement, ground and first floor, with diaphanous spaces supoorted on columns, house the communal areas, while openings in the façade allow the repetition of rooms on the upper floors.....more

Home Interior | Family House | The Hague | Hofman Dujardin

The living, the kitchen, the dining and the bedrooms are connected through the new extension on the garden side of the house. The extension with its generous roof lights transforms the ordinary house into a spacious and transparent house with a lot of daylight and visual relations to the beautiful garden.....more

Cafe Interior Design | MGM Mirage City Center Buffet | Las Vegas, Nevada | LTL Architects

23,000 sq.ft.

LTL Architects was selected to design the major in-house dining venue for Aria, the CityCenter's 61-story main casino and condo tower. The design negotiates between the desire for visual openness - views to serving areas and adjacent pool deck - and the need to produce a sense of intimacy within an expansive floor plate. The requirement for an efficient plan with minimal obstructions shifted the focus of the design to the ceiling, where a series of undulating cloud-like canopies migrate across the space, shifting in section to define the dining areas below. Incorporating lighting and acoustical dampening, the canopies allow for spatial articulation of the otherwise open plan, creating a series of semi-enclosed rooms without obstructing view and movement throughout. Banquette seating echoes the cadence of the ceiling to further define these zones while fields of glass cylinders extend cross grain to the canopies. In contrast to the institutional quality of the typical Vegas buffet, the design creates an interior landscape that offers contrasting areas of repose and movement......more