Sunday, January 9, 2011

Hotel Interior Design | Crown Metropol Melbourne | Bates Smart


The task of creating Crown's latest $300m, 658 room hotel, Crown Metropol, in Melbourne's prospering Southbank precinct was a challenge welcomed by leading Australian architecture and interior design firm, Bates Smart.

The newest hotel in Australia, Crown Metropol is the fourth Crown hotel
project for Bates Smart. Other major hotel projects include Crown Towers
(1997), Crown Promenade (2003), and Crown Towers, City of Dreams, Macau
(2009).

Distinctive, vibrant and unmistakably modern, the 28-level Crown Metropol hotel features a unique wave-like shape, sleek podium entry, 658 spacious, light-filled guestrooms, a luxurious day spa located on the top floors of the hotel, a sky bar and terrace on Level 28, Gordon Ramsay's maze restaurant and maze grill, extensive meeting facilities and dedicated Business Centre, and a world-class training and recruitment facility. .....more

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Restaurant Interior Design | Germain Paradisio | India Mahdavi


Opened last year, Germain made his life.
"For Germain, I had the proper codes for diverting Parisian bistro, juxtaposing them. Deconstructing space by playing with scale, proportion, make angular, rough. Paradisio extends the story and is the belly, so I have drawn opposition from a room's round, like a skin. "
Because a film is a world apart. The 130 m2 of underground space are a no. The first sketches explore its flaws, absorb its imperfections to remove each square. Loosens and turns drawing straight lines in a dotted line, and everywhere in 3 dimensions. Architectural bias inhabited by a stylized jungle setting and ultramodern paradise. Playing with the brightness, superstitions and curves, the material is dull and luxurious colors range from the brown, bronze and blue. A fresco leather studded Peacock blue, decorated with flat areas of primary-colored felt a draft fantasy landscape: a lion, a flower, a bird on the branch.
"The Paradiso is a unique moment in a fantasy world. Autarkic king of this kingdom, one can choose a movie and dinner there, away from light, noise, the city whose heart beats just top......more

Cafe Interior Design | Vallorini Italian Cafe | Bromley London | SHH


The second outlet for the new Vallorini Italian cafe/deli concept at The Glades shopping centre in South Bromley. The new space, slightly larger than the first, sees the refinement of the original concept (also by SHH), which was stripped down to its core essentials and re-applied within a slightly tighter budgetary framework.....more

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Retail Interior | Clair de Femme | Uccle | Belgium | Christophe Ternest

The proposed development of a boutique shop for jewelry designer.....more 

Area 60m ²

Salon Interior Design | Group's flagship salon Sanitec Kolo | Krakow | Poland | A+D Architektura


Group's flagship salon Sanitec Kolo

Sanitec Kolo Group invited studio A + D to collaborate on the development concept to showrooms. In June 2009, in Krakow, on the surface of 850 m2 opened the largest exhibition hall in Poland, Sanitec Kolo Group on projects interiors and furniture, and coordinating the entire construction process.

Our main initial assumptions for the project are:
- Reduction of decorative elements in order to focus attention on the product and logical exposition of the various product lines
- Facilitation of individual clients and interior designers to become familiar with the nature of the product through the creation of the inspirational
- Creating an ideal place for meetings with designers and architects in a specially arranged area Bar-Spa.

Distinguishing features of the living room among others.:
- An unusual form of display products - carefully grouped, highlighted and contrasted with the background
- An impressive arrangement of space with the simplest of means and materials in the form of, among others. eighty apertures materials, concrete circle with a height of 3.60 m and a diameter of 17 meters, the floor with great texture and a dominant share of large areas of natural wood
- Dozens of bathrooms decorated in different climates, reflecting the nature of the product line groups Sanitec Kolo and directed to different target customer groups
- Concern for the comfort of members living in each zone (customers, employees, accompanying persons).
Designed by our living room has gained a reputation for the best point of the group's flagship Sanitec Kolo in Poland........more

Cafe Interior Design | La Bonne Bouche Bistro | Corvin Cristian


Classic with a twist french bistro & bar au vin. among the classic french bistro features (banquette, cast iron tables, carreaux ciment), we introduced some contemporary elements as the tom dixon wall lamps, the navy chair or the taraxacum......more

Corporate Interior | Pelorus Trust Sports House | Designgroup Stapleton Elliott


Pelorus Trust identified a need to subsidise and co-locate sporting organisations in an environment to promote synergy and resource sharing, and to foster sport participation and achievement. Working closely with Hutt City Council a site was identified to accommodate this vision.

Consciously edgy and iconic, the design provides flexible office environments to foster interaction between tenants. A large reception and multi-purpose function and conference zone separates two open plan office areas.A simple palette of glass, profiled steel and rendered plastered elements clad the exterior. Internal space is rationally organised across a simple planning grid. A considered integrated interior design solution expounds colour, light and energy efficiency through crafted detailing.....more