Design Green Architecture
Interior design with a special focus on refurbishment and revitalisation.
Curated by Christiane Burklein
20-10-2021 - Design
Eco-social artist Luca Gnizio at the Italian Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai
Italian eco-social artist Luca Gnizio is one of the ten outstanding individuals selected to represent Italy for a series of ‘Success Stories’ on ecology, beauty and reuse as part of the Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai. For over ten years, the artist and designer has been transforming waste into an ecological and social opportunity rooted in the principle of the three Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - offering a new lease of life to old materials.
15-10-2021 - Design
SET Architects, how to rethink a small flexible home
The Italian SET Architects studio has completed the renovation of a small apartment for a graphic designer in the heart of Rome’s Testaccio district. A carefully conceived project, on minimal but flexible spaces, which enhances the pre-existing elements with a new formal vocabulary.
01-10-2021 - Design
Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm designs Aera, a bakery in Berlin-Mitte, in Germany
The Berlin-based Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm has designed the second location of Aera, a bakery specialising in gluten-free products that also includes a café area. All in an intense lapis lazuli blue, overlooking the central Rosenthaler Platz square in Berlin.
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10-09-2021 - Design
RECS Architects design Il Ferrarino restaurant in Casablanca
The RECS Architects international studio has designed the Il Ferrarino restaurant in Casablanca, Morocco. A place to savour Italian cuisine and which combines the design traditions of both countries, in an elegant setting with carefully balanced coloured accents. All in a recovered pre-existing space.
01-09-2021 - Design
Architectural storytelling by Heliotrope Architects in NYC
Seattle-based Heliotrope Architects has designed the renovation of the Filson NYC Flagship Store in mid-town Manhattan. It all originated with the conversion of a mattress shop that now houses an old barn, the central element in the architectural storytelling of the new shop.
27-08-2021 - Design
BITSAFE by Richard Yasmine x Jason Maynard
The Lebanese product designer Richard Yasmine, in collaboration with the American artist and sculptor Jason Maynard, has created BITSAFE for the Behspoke company. It is not only an elegant piece of furniture, but also a sculpture and work of art that questions the true values of our time.
26-08-2021 - Design
Architecture that helps, Snail Baby Growth Center by TOWODesign
Snail Baby Growth Center, designed by Chinese studio TOWODesign in Shanghai, is an environment for users with special needs. Despite a limited budget, the designers have created a space with a warm and welcoming atmosphere.
02-08-2021 - Design
Lagranja Design designs XAPO, a bank for cryptocurrencies
Multidisciplinary design studio Lagranja Design has created something truly special: the physical offices of a bank exclusively for cryptocurrencies. The challenge was to give material form to something intangible in a high-impact physical space: an old army barracks in the historic centre of Gibraltar.
28-07-2021 - Design
Visual Display represents the imagery of beauty
Giorgio di Bernardi’s creative design studio Visual Display specialises in branding and interior design for corporate and individual clients. The studio designed the new headquarters and showroom of Germaine de Capuccini, a brand concerned with beauty and wellness, with a subtle spatial and visual representation.
