© Claude-Simon Langlois
Montreal, October 25, 2011 – In the spring of 2010, Astral Media relocated approximately 350 employees to four (4) floors in the heart of the action in downtown Montreal. The goals of this large-scale project included elaborating new furniture standards, fitting up flexible meeting spaces and optimizing employee interconnectivity in a contemporary, energetic and versatile working environment.
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Tony Owen Partners has just completed the Fractal Café in Sydney. The café is located in the ground floor of the recently completed Boston University Student Housing building. The rear of BU is located on a narrow laneway in the city. It was a feature of the original design, that building was the cut back at ground level to widen the laneway and create a public square. The new Café addresses this square.
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© Marisol Paredes
Art Arquitectos developed the interior project for this apartment of 304 square meters. A small, shapely wood paneled hall isolates the door of the elevator; the living room and dining room are open and divided by a large sill and it support a sculpture. There is a wall that becomes a bar on the side of the antechamber while, on the other side, it is an item furniture for housing de TV. Sleek built-in boxes are used to define these areas with indirect perimeter light and direct light guided on to the points of greater relevance.
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© Maharam de México
A showroom is a big challenge both for the client and the designer. The first wants all his products and services as the most important issue of the interior design language. The second has to find the way to translate his clients solicitudes into a harmonic ambiance where a third person —the client´s client— most feel even better.
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© Claude Simon Langlois
For the second year running, Montreal design firm id+s Design Solutions has won the Shaw Contract Group’s “Design is…“ international award for Innovative new space, this year, for the executive offices of Astral Media, located on the 27th floor of the Maison Astral building at 1800 McGill College in Montreal, Quebec.
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In occasion of the opening of the new flagship store in Italy, Philipp Plein chose to collaborate for the first time with AquiliAlberg, a Milan-based architectural and design studio. AquiliAlberg’s sculptural portal made with CORIAN material and LED lights, anticipate the fashion designer ultra-contemporary and luxurious world.
PHILIPP PLEIN opens his first flagship store in Italy and chooses the exclusive location of Versilia. The store, that counts as the seventh mono-brand store in Europe, faces the central Via 4 Novembre in a well-known and worldwide appreciated location where mountains and seaside create one of the most suggestive and sunny Italian backdrops. To accompany the opening, an inauguration cocktail party guests with an international flair. La bella vita. Forte dei Marmi represents an exclusive way of approaching life, style, luxury, fashion and beauty. The 32 year old designer Philipp Plein has many reasons to open his new store in the Tuscany: “PHILIPP PLEIN represents elegance and luxury, along with a balanced mix of rebellion and Rock ’n’ Roll. Our fashion symbolizes a glamour lifestyle. Forte dei Marmi is the ideal place for the store opening: the appeal of the town is perfect for the brand. After the openings in Vienna, Kitzbühel, Saint-Tropez, Monte Carlo, Cannes and Moscow we are happy and excited to continue our retail concept in Forte dei Marmi” states Philipp Plein.
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Banco Deuno (Your-own Bank) is a new concept of the Mexican IXE Grupo Financiero where the communication among the client and the bank is very open and always the same. Under the concept of renovating the bank institutions, Banco Deuno confided in usoarquitectura to transform all the institutional precepts and corporate image into an interior design where the main core is the client’s experience.
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Here’s the latest project by architects and designers SHH, a fast-turnaround revamp of the second floor café at iconic London department store Liberty. It’s a small but cute story – not one of their largest projects, but a bit of a little gem!
Architects and designers SHH have revamped Café Liberty, the 60-cover, second floor restaurant at London’s iconic Liberty department store on Regent Street, which was originally constructed in 1924 using the timbers of two ships (HMS Impregnable and HMS Hindustan). The fast-turnaround, tight-budget project was commissioned by the leisure creative team at Compass Group UK & Ireland, the catering company now operating the restaurant, and has radically changed the look and feel of the space, re-integrating it into the style and spirit of the original Arts & Crafts building – one of London’s finest and most distinctive retail environments – thanks to a number of choice vintage and contemporary interventions.
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