Saturday, July 2, 2011

Restaurant Interior Design | Pony Restaurant | Sydney | Australia | Dreamtime


Located within Sydney’s heritage Rocks precinct bordering Circular Quay, Pony is a unique lounge and wood-fired grill designed to take advantage of its location in a former bond warehouse in a secluded cobblestone laneway. The interior features a dramatic open kitchen with pony hide-clad kitchen counter, heritage brick walls, commissioned woven art hangings on a mesh-clad side wall, black japanned recycled plank flooring and custom goat skin pendant lights hung from the original timber ceiling. An exterior timber deck features an 11 metre (36 ft.) communal dining table and outdoor bar and lounge..........more

Museum Interior Design | Museum of Islamic Art | Doha | Jean-Michel Wilmotte

Built on a man-made island, this imposing white building is a powerful expression of Pei's vision.

Working together for the first time, ClickNetherfield and Wilmotte & Associates have created an environment of light and transparency. The project was described by our Technical Director Mike Chaplin as "the largest we have undertaken, involving complex logistics and electromechanical opening systems for some of the biggest cases ever made"........more

Office Interior Design | Horus Capital | Moscow | Casson Mann


Casson Mann were commissioned to design ’s new offices in Moscow, with the brief to create a new open-plan working culture for the company. The offices have workstations branching out from a single timber walkway that reaches from the chairman’s office to the board room, becoming the board room table. Cellular glass offices for management are embedded in the timber walkway, creating a sense of openness and involvement. The timber runway is cut through by the flytower of the lobby beneath the offices, creating a direct connection between the working spaces and the Museolobby below and allowing glimpses of the mechanism of the flytower..........more

Friday, July 1, 2011

Art Gallery Interior Design | The Power Plant | KPMB Architects


The Power Plant is one of Canada’s leading art galleries devoted to contemporary art, artists, and ideas. Established in 1976 as the Art Gallery at Harbourfront, it was renamed the Power Plant when it moved into a repurposed powerhouse located on Toronto’s waterfront in 1987. The Power Plant Gallery features exhibitions, publications, talks, and events from Canadian and international contemporary artists. The ‘Refresh Project’ transforms the a series of existing peripheral spaces into a space for art in the city..........more

Cafe Interior Design | Bama Lohas Cafe | Tokyo | Japan | Kengo Kuma

1F, 6-11-1 Ginza, Chuou-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2011.01
restaurant
261.29 m2 [renovation area]


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Restaurant Interior Design | Lutece | Las Vegas | Morphosis

On entering the restaurant, from the chaos of the Venetian Casino, one passes through a bronze portal etched with a conceptual plan of the restaurant—an inverse Alice’s looking glass. Once inside, an army of tiny sculpted figures, with arms raised above their heads, supports the elliptical glass floor beneath the guest’s feet. This sculptural installation, by artist Do-Ho Suh, contains nineteen thousand human figures, equivalent to the entire population of the resort at a given point in time. Lutèce is an oasis from the casino’s strategically planned insular, disquieting environment, its design both a foil and a reference to the casino’s frenetic air of chance and motion.............more

Office Interior Design | Ayers Saint Gross | Arizona | Ayers Saint Gross Architects


Ayers Saint Gross has expanded into a new office location at Hayden Ferry Lakeside in Tempe, AZ. The loft-style studio provides an open and flexible work environment that supports up to 30 architects and planners. The curving western glass wall provides an unlimited source of natural lighting, while it maximizes the views of Mill Avenue, downtown Phoenix and the entire valley. The office is equipped with travel-saving conferencing capabilities and shared network systems to facilitate local, national and international design efforts.