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54 Montaigne Facade Intervention / FRESH Architectures

June 17, 2022 Luciana Pejić 0

From the first sketches, the 54 avenue Montaigne project has been positioned as a continuation of the approach undertaken by FRESH Architectures in terms of rehabilitation: imagining the transformation of the existing building while taking into account the issues of durability and comfort of use, and ensuring the coherence of the project in its environment.

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54 Montaigne Facade Intervention / FRESH Architectures

June 17, 2022 Luciana Pejić 0

From the first sketches, the 54 avenue Montaigne project has been positioned as a continuation of the approach undertaken by FRESH Architectures in terms of rehabilitation: imagining the transformation of the existing building while taking into account the issues of durability and comfort of use, and ensuring the coherence of the project in its environment.

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Archivépke Showroom / Bricol Lab

Archivepke is a women’s bag and shoe brand with a simple but classic style, embodied in their offline showroom Archivepke Atelier. Archivepke Atelier’s space concept was conceived from within the Archivepke brand itself.  The brand’s vintage feel comes from its use of colors and materials which harks back to the mid-century, the pinnacle of modern design and the golden age of design furniture. Its specific concept was inspired by the works of a number of designers that wholly exemplifies the mid-century aesthetic including Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Gerrit Rietveld.

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Jetlag Bookstore / +C Architects

June 15, 2022 Collin Chen 0

“Shan Hai Si He” by Jetlag Books is a bookstore designed by +C Architects. Located on Dongsi North Avenue in Beijing’s Dongcheng District, with a store area of 70 square meters. The store is situated at the podium level of a residential building. Both the owner and the designer wish to weave the bookstore as part of the daily life of nearby residents. Started with placing a series of stools at the storefront, where visitors can sit and read, enjoying their coffee while witnessing the daily activities of its surrounding public.

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Attitude of “permanent renewal” drives retail success says Colette co-founder Sarah Andelman in Liganova talk

June 15, 2022 Dezeen staff 0
Liganova Salone Club with Sarah Andelman and Ben Hobson at Milan design week 2022

Promotion: Sarah Andelman, co-founder of Parisian concept store Colette has discussed the unexpected approaches needed to succeed in the future retail landscape in a talk hosted by Dezeen and brand retail experts Liganova during Milan design week. Andelman was in conversation with Dezeen’s chief content officer Benedict Hobson at brand and retail experience company Liganova’s Salone

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Elisabethlaan Conversion / B-architecten

June 15, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

Elisabethlaan 214-216 is a former Minerva garage with an adjacent director’s house, located just outside the Antwerp ring road. After a long period of partial vacancy and temporary leasing, new life was breathed into the site. A supermarket, parking, and an accompanying logistics zone were integrated into the former warehouse. The director’s house with the studio was converted into a local shop with a top-floor flat.

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Geometric metal fixtures feature in Wuhan’s QYF fashion boutique

June 8, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Curved stairs in QYF fashion boutique by Sun Concepts Office

Chinese design studio Sun Concepts Office has accented the pale interior of the QYF boutique in Wuhan with straight, curved and squiggly metal fixtures. The interior’s clean, geometric look is meant to reflect the modern womenswear on offer in the store, which occupies two storeys on a prominent corner plot of Wuhan’s Tianyuan Street. As

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QUAN Sphere Multipurpose Space / Ürobrous_studiolab

June 8, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

QUAN is located in Sanchongdingkan Industrial Zone, Taiwan. It is a typical street house commonly seen in Taiwan. It shares the same violent and unregulated architectural forms as the surrounding environment, such as iron cover and illegal construction. The building skin has experienced traces of use over time. After the site survey, we found that this area has a unique urban context and historical traces, which also triggers how we locate QUAN.

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Atmosphere Architects creates optical illusion in Chengdu jewellery store

June 2, 2022 Ali Morris 0
KVK jewellery store Chengdu by Atmosphere Architects with gridded black and white floor and ceiling

Geometric grids cover most of the surfaces in this futuristic jewellery store in Chengdu, China, designed by local studio Atmosphere Architects to play with customers’ spacial perception. Located in the Jingronghui shopping centre in Chegdu’s Jinjiang district, the 180-square-metre concept store belongs to jewellery brand Kill Via Kindness, abbreviated as KVK. The store features a

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Productive House La Balconera / Natura Futura Arquitectura

May 30, 2022 Agustina Coulleri 0

Located in the city of Montalvo, a satellite city of Babahoyo, Ecuador, with approximately 16 thousand inhabitants, has based its urban growth on a horizontal, dispersed, and low density. This has led to the abandonment of traditional organizational systems such as the gallery and the porch that promoted the connection with the street and community life. In this sense, it seeks to recover the link between private and public use.