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Cardboard office by Paul Coudamy, Paris, France

French artist Paul Coudamy designed a cardboard office interior for an advertising agency in Paris, France. The challenge of the artist was to design an interior in a industrial room in only one month for conception and production. He designed the furniture by using 4cm thick water- resistan cardboard mounted with wood glue and tape. Light in the space comes down from the umbrellas.

Text from the Paul Coudamy:

The challenge: to design an office space, in a 180 m² industrial room in the north of Paris for an advertising agency, in only one month for conception and production, with the most restricted budget.

The client needs 20 working posts separated in different spaces, a solution for small internal meetings with acoustic insulation, and storage. Job has been done thanks to 4cm thick water resistant honeycomb cardboard, mounted with wood glue and tape, there is no additional structure.

1 Space is completly modular, all the partitions are mobile, a system of angles cuts afford both structure and customising solutions.

2 Storage mixes the raw estectic of honeycomb and the smooth cardboard partition

3 Lighting breaks with the industrial atmosphere, umbrellas give a kind of magic.

4 Creation of a meeting box : «le confessional », for fast intern meeting hidden and isolated.

Photographs by Benjamin Bocass.

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Grand Cafe Usine by Bearandbunny, Eindhoven, Netherland

A few weeks ago, I passed this cozy cafe in Eindhoven during the Dutch Design Week in Netherland. After some search work, I found some pictures and text via Dezeen. Amsterdam designers Bearandbunny designed the interior of this cafe, that is located in a disused factory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Called Grand Cafe Usine, the cafe is located on the ground floor of the building where the Philips light bulbs were once produced.

The former Philips light tower in Eindhoven is now host to Grand Cafe Usine which is based on the ground floor of this iconic building. In the early days light bulbs for Philips where produced here. Nowadays the building is one of Eindhoven’s well known monuments.

An old Philips poster with the caption: ‘Les plus grandes usines du monde’ was the inspiration for the restaurant. For the concept it was changed into: ‘Usine le plus grand cafe du monde.’ A grand cafe for everyone!

Project Usine concerned the development of an overall concept where the menu, the food as offered, the service as desired, the opening hours, the graphic language and the interior should all bind together.

Bearandbunny therefore first visualised the moments of the day and analysed Usine’s consumers. With these analysis as a base we created the different zones in the restaurant; entrance, kitchen, bar, cafe, brasserie, restaurant, function room, childrens corner, shop, smoking area, office, toilets, storage and the terrace.

When making the lay-out Bearandbunny started by planning the toilet area; we believe that enough space and attention for this particular zone emphasizes the level of service as provided.

A large entrance was created to liaise with the existing architectural language and to get a strong sense of atmosphere. Big windows characterise the architectural aspects of the building and guarantee the interior space has a strong focus towards the outside. However, the raised flooring near the windows creates an intimate atmosphere indoors.

When we refined the details and selected the materials, our main goal was to make the contemporary interior fit flawlessly in the structure and characteristics of this characteristic building.

By combining old and new together in a natural way an atmosphere was created as if Usine has been there already for several years. Bearandbunny was responsable the overall part of the design of the furniture.

Click here for more info and pictures

Photographs are made by Arjen Schmitz.

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Aesop store in Singapore by March Studio

Melbourne architects March Studio have designed a new shop interior for Aesop. They hung 30 km of coconut-husk string from the ceiling of the new shop in Singapore the Australian skincare brand Aesop.

Here’s some more information from Aesop:

In our Singapore store, thirty kilometres of coconut husk string, a regional product, was used to construct a dynamic whole-ceiling light fixture. When combined en mass, the seemingly insignificant threads mesmerise and remind one of airline magazine flight maps.

Aesop Director Dennis Paphitis says, “Geography, climate and light all inform which path we take with our design decisions. For Singapore, we referenced the humble ball of twine with which we wrap and detail our gift boxes. The entire store is framed with meticulously detailed grids that suspend twine from the ceiling. The idea is to work with a sombre material palette in an unexpected way. We’ve used coir matting as carpet and marine plywood to detail our storage units which conceal a palette of Corbusier-inspired coloured wall panels.”

Other Aesop store’s @ArchiDE:
– Aesop store in Notting Hill, London by March studio
– Aesop store in Australia by Ryan Russel
– Aesop store in Sydney by March studio

More info on March studio and Aesop
Via Dezeen

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nov

Princi Bakery by Claudio Silvestrin Architects, Milan, Italy

The Princi bakery in the heart of Milan, is designed by Claudio Silvestrin Architects.

The bakery offers a whole new experience to the Milanese: a bread baked with organic flour, but without yeast, in a solid brick fire oven positioned in the bakery shop itself. A simple expanse of clear glass is all that separates the customers from the baking process, protecting them from the considerable heat of the exposed fire.

The elements that are involved in the making of bread – water, air, earth and fire – are strongly present in this works of rigorous geometry and pure, natural materials. They have chosen a sand-coloured porphyry stone that matches the color of the bread-flour. Slabs of smooth porphyry cover the floor, while rough porphyry is used to texture the wall that faces the stretched 19 meter-long bronze counter.

The mighty impact of this earth-wall is softened by the gentle features of the waterfall and by seven candles, which are placed inside the wall. Recessed spotlights, positioned in the ceiling, illuminate only the bread.

Claudio Silvestrin Architects was established in 1989 with offices in London, and since 2006 in Milan.

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nov

Havaianas by Isay Weinfield, São Paulo, Brazilia

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld recently won the Shopping category at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona last week for this store for flip flop brand Havaianas in São Paulo.

Havaianas Sandals, created in 1962, drew their inspiration from the “zori”, traditional Japanese slippers made of rice straw. A product of extremely low cost, for many years they were just rubber flip-flops, a long way from the fashion icon they are today.

To design a store at one of the world’s most expensive addresses (Rua Oscar Freire, in São Paulo) to sell products that cost from € 2.30 to € 10.00 – and not more than that – was, at one time, the excitement and the joy of the work.

This is Havaianas’ first store in Brazil. Our greatest challenge was to cast onto the architecture the climate the brand inspires: freshness, casualness, comfort, ease, well-being, Brazilianness.

The shop has a very informal atmosphere and the outcome is nearly a square – a space fully opened onto the street, practically an extension of the sidewalk, without doors or window displays, with lush greenery and intense natural lighting, only covered by a metal grid alternating glass/wooden closures and openings for ventilation and irrigation.

The building develops in descending levels. At street level, just a small lounge area, a mezzanine overlooking the whole store; the store per se, one level below, occupies an ample clear span featuring double-height ceilings, marked by independent elements: a street market stand reminds of the origin of the sandals, initially sold at the city’s free markets; a container displays the ” export” models, so far unseen in Brazil; a transparent cylinder features the so-called “new products” (bags, socks, towels, etc.); and a high-tech cube tells the story of Havaianas.

Amidst all that, a lowered area for customization services and featuring displays for the children’s product line. At the back of the store, on a half-raised level, there is a small garden for exclusive use by staff; the underground houses offices and storage areas.

Here’s some more information from Isay Weinfeld Arquiteto

Photos are made by Nelson Kon

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nov

Fabbrica restaurant by Tjep, Rotterdam, Netherland

Fabbrica, is a Italian restaurant designed by Tjep, located in Rotterdam, Netherland. After the success of restaurant Praq, one of our favorite clients commissioned a new restaurant to be located in the Rotterdam harbor, right between the boats and the cranes. Fabbrica struck us as the most convenient name for this new Italian restaurant.

Fabbrica meaning factory in Italian, we envisioned the canteen of a very special factory: a very romantic factory where pleasure is produced for guests.

Like in the canteen of a factory you will find long tables and benches at Fabbrica, but than colored in Italian ice-cream shop style colors: pink and pistachio green. The oven is placed in a huge tank, covered with italian mosaic. A large wall composed of crane elements is used to store wood to fire the oven.

Every detail combines industrial sturdiness with soft colors or decorative elements. We chose not to intervene with the authentic industrial character of this nineteenth century warehouse so we left all the structures in original state. The walls for example are left intact, in several places large glass panels were placed in front of them covered with Italian wallpaper patterns.

The result is that the patterns seem to float in front of the wall in a complex game of reflections. Lovers get to sit in a train structure that floats in the center of the space. The logo of Fabbrica is based on a font in which the point on the i resembles the beautiful shape of a hand made pizza, but one can also see a full moon, as it enlightens Fabbrica at night.

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Photographes are made by Daniel Nicolas

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nov

Square, Brussels Meeting Centre by A2RC Architects, Brussels, Belgium

I passed this building several times when it was under construction. I was suprised by seeing the pictures on world architecture news. because it was long time ago that I visited the building. The meeting center in Brussel, Belgium, is designed by A2RC Architects, a Belgium based office. Enjoy the pictures!

An audacious architectural proposition to the city offers a newfound visibility to the former “Palais des Congrès” by means of a poetic emblem embodied in the glass cube that forms the principal entry to SQUARE, Brussels Meeting Centre.

Its treelike structure and an aesthetic based on transparency and light, irresistibly evokes landscape architecture, takes root in history and projects the « Mont des Arts » into modernity. This monumentality, mild and poetic, dialogs with the image of the garden. Present and at the same time melting into the surrounding architectural landscape, it changes in materiality as the light and time of day change. The entry, in the form of a large exterior auditorium, allows an entry to the base of the cube, sliding along the exposition hall under René Pechère’s renovated historic garden. A terrace leads to the upper access situated on the « Esplanade du Mont des Arts ».

The carefully articulated cube contains ribbon shaped suspended stairs and catwalks that connect the different access levels to the complex of 50,000 sqm that optimally exploits the complex existing structure and succeeds in the challenge of increasing the capacity and the efficiency of the whole. Square now offers 27 meeting rooms of 40 to 1,200 for a total capacity of 3,538, an exposition zone of 3,670 sqm divisible in two distinct entities with a free ceiling height of 6m, a restaurant, and a « brasserie » of 420 places.

The reorganization fully exploits natural light in a building where the majority of spaces are underground. The meeting centre also benefits from the presence of prestigious works of art that decorate the foyers and position colours, which create an ambiance specific to the site.

Square therefore constitutes an attractive technological jewel at the heart of the « Quartier des Arts » and consumes the transformation of an important historic site by respect for it’s history and ambition for it’s future.

The poetic emblem of the cube becomes the urban symbol of a new site of communication with the world.

Location: Brussels, Belgium
Client: Palais des Congrès, SPF
Artist: Arne Quinze Studio
Budget: 60,000,000 €
Area: 52,000 sqm
Competition year: 2000
Construction year: (2002) 2006-2009
Photographs by A2RC Architects

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Hof Residence by Studio Granda in Skagafjörður Fjord, Iceland

Hof is a (awesome) country residence in the Skagafjörður fjord, less than 100km from the Arctic Circle designed by Studio Granda from Iceland. The spectacle of the location, its remoteness and special program fuelled a unique rapport between the client, contractor and architect resulting in a building that is in every respect a direct consequence of that collaboration.

The existing assemblage of buildings on the estate included a house, church, barn and cowshed clustered on a riverbank. Further inland are recently constructed horse stables. The wide fjörd has a mountainous rim punctuated with long valleys embracing the cliff islands of Drangey, Málmey and the graphic foreland Þórðarhöfði. The new residence is slightly removed from the old cluster on raised ground, with each room and space orientated to capture this magnificent panorama.

Most internal walls are of raw or painted concrete and the ceilings, doors and other carpentry are predominately of oiled sawn oak with steel details; a rustic palette offset by smooth painted planes. In a gesture of refinement and escape the kitchen and bathrooms enjoy marble surfaces suggestive of more habitable latitudes whereas the larder’s glazed white tiles and basalt shelves reminds of the need to stash food for harsh winters.

The house is highly insulated and thermally stable due to the massive concrete walls, stone floors and balanced fenestration. Geothermal water is used for the floor heating and radiators as well as for all domestic use. Electricity use is minimised by design and the little that is required is sourced from hydroelectric and geothermal sources.

Although dramatic views fill the interior the ambience is augmented by a secondary system of clearstory lights and other roof penetrations that orchestrate daylight throughout the house. The exception is the dogleg route between the living and bedroom wings where lighting is reduced to a few pinpricks.

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Panta Rhei college interiors by i29 Interior Architects, Amstelveem, Netherland

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i29 Interior architects, designed this college interior, that is located in Amsterlveem, Netherlands. The interior design gives the spaces an identity that connects with the students’ environment and addresses them directly and personally. i29 let itself be inspired by the name of the school. Panta Rhei, meaning ‘everything flows’, ‘everything is in motion’.

In the design for the new accommodations of public school Panta Rhei in Amstelveen (NL) there is a lot of attention on the balance between freedom and a sense of security. Snelder Architecten realised a building with many open multifunctional spaces where students can make themselves familiar with the teaching material. The interior design by i29 links up with that perfectly and gives the spaces an identity that connects with the students’ environment and addresses them directly and personally. i29 let itself be inspired by the name of the school. Panta Rhei, meaning ‘everything flows’, ‘everything is in motion’. This led to a design that leaves space for the imagination of the users, offering elements that can be used flexibly, which also propagates the school’s identity.

Throughout the entire school poems have been applied to the linoleum floors and the furniture. The thought behind this is that there are moments outside of the classroom when you can learn and gain insights: often a casual setting is very inspiring. i29 commissioned the poet Erikjan Harmens for this. He worked out themes like insecurity and friendship together with the students. The open texts leave room for their own interpretation.‘We think in structures and rhythms and not in taste or style. You can look at it as music which deals with harmony and contrast. One tone is not unconnected to the next and silence is essential.’ i29 has realized a spatial composition which has been carried out without compromise. Over the neutral basis of tables and benches there is a fine fabric of black elements; consisting of the poems, the hassocks and the Magis One-chairs. The furniture is strong and robust, but does not look bulky, rather refined. Remarkable in this context is the choice of the Grcic chair. It matches well here because of its technical aura and it urges you to think about the design and production process. It is a vocational school after all. Just because this is not a university, does not mean you do not have to challenge the students.

Photographs: Jeroen Musch

Other projects of I29 Interior architects on archiDE, click here!

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Headvertising office by Corvin Cristian, Romania

Architect Corvin Cristian has designed an office interior inside a former Romanian stock exchange building that is located in Bucharest, Romania. The office was designed for a advertising company Headvertising.

In the Old Romanian Stock Exchange Building, the shipping case themed furniture acts as: storage, dividing walls, dynamic company statement and reverence on the genius loci. Stock exchange>>moving goods
advertising agency>>moving brands, which is moving goods as well>>moving shipping cases. The meeting room has the proportions of a shipping container.

The revamping of the building itself is the work of another team led by arch. Mario Kuibus. The chesterfields and the over sized lamps bring a homey feeling to the otherwise austere design.