ARCHITECTURE LIST

Designed by Studio ST Architect & Z-A, the renovation of the 14th Street Y in Manhattan, New York is aimed to create a new identity for the building. As you can see in the image, for the entrance and lobby an “East Meets West” pallet was chosen, exposing the raw grunge of the East Village and the ethnic diversity and Jewish link to Israel and to …

Have you’ve heard an idiom ‘home sweet home’? I think everybody know about it. And we also know that the most crucial aspect to achieve the mentioned idiom is not the home interior, of course. But I think the home interior took the second place to help people feel ‘home sweet home’.

Camenzind Evolutionhas designed the Google offices in Zurich. The offices comprise seven storeys of 130,000 square feet of floor space for up to 800 employees. On of their design concepts including ‘flexibility of space that allows employees take ownership and feel like they belong’.

The final design strategy involved the creation of highly functional, yet somewhat basic individual workspace surrounded by proportionally larger, highly stimulating communal areas and meeting spaces. Open-plan workspaces were created for 8-10 employees, while glass-partitioned offices were built for smaller work teams allowing for both transparency and light from the outside, as well as creating the required degree of privacy from within. And because the average Google worker moves workstations twice a year, each area has to be exceedingly flexibly and adaptable.

Interesting exhibition space was designed by German design student to show off student’s work at HAWK Hildesheim university of applied sciences. The student who has name Jana Klein-Kalmer, said that the ground and the angulared walls are painted in a strong red and attract visitors from far away.

Red Room: The interior designers’ exhibition room during university HAWK Hildesheims’ November show 2007 is artwork and worth being exhibited itself. Taking place yearly, the exhibition shows student works of the past semseters and always arouses the question how to present the school properly to the public.

A super expensive penthouse suite has been unveiled by the Four Seasons Hotel New York. The penthouse is claimed as the most expensive suite in the world: at $30,000 a night, wow! This 4,300 sqm suite has 9 rooms with luxury interior including glass balcony, which hovers 700 feet above the street with spectacular city views.