Design Green Architecture
Interior design with a special focus on refurbishment and revitalisation.
Curated by Christiane Burklein
12-01-2021 - Design
Helsinki City Museum, making people fall in love with Helsinki
The Helsinki City Museum is on a mission to get people to fall in love with Helsinki. The campus consists of five historical buildings in the oldest part of Finland’s capital, very close to Senate Square. It’s not easy to tell the story of a city and its people, but they’ve made a success of it in Helsinki!
22-12-2020 - Design
24Kilates The Clockwork, iconic interior design in Bangkok
Telling the story of a brand is one of the big challenges of interior design, especially when it comes to conveying the brand’s identity. Carmelo Zappulla from External Reference and Chu Uroz together created an arresting example of this in Bangkok: the 24Kilates The Clockwork.
14-12-2020 - Design
Buttercup, a coffee shop in Girona
Attractive interior design in an old building in downtown Girona. Buttercup is a spin-off of the Michelin-star restaurant “Les Magnòlies” and welcomes guests into interiors designed by Jordi Ginabreda + Anna Sabrià. The project is a winner in the interiors category of the 2020 COAC Girona Architecture Awards.
RECENT PROJECTS
02-12-2020 - Design
RAPPU by OWIU, a new venue in the historical fabric of Singapore
RAPPU, in Singapore’s lively Tanjong Pagar district, is the latest project by OWIU Studio. The venue is a new omakase sushi bar concept by The Feather Blade group. A project that rehabilitates the historic building and offers striking design worthy of the largest restaurant of its kind in Singapore.
27-11-2020 - Design
Sentences after Conceptual Art, installation by Petr Dub
Czech artist, Petr Dub gives his own take on the famous Sentences on Conceptual Art by American artist, Sol LeWitt, published in 1969, in the space of a modernist church in Hradec Králové. His installation works on a range of visual layers. Also, it exploits architectural visualisation techniques to challenge the way we see and understand images.
19-11-2020 - Design
Kirsten Schwalgien, award-winning interior in a historical setting in Barcelona
German interior designer Kirsten Schwalgien has transformed the ground floor of listed local gem Casa Burés—one of the best examples of Modernist architecture in Barcelona’s Eixample district and designed in 1905 by Francesc Berenguer—into a state-of-the-art residential loft. The LoftBuresQ project also won the German Design Award.
13-11-2020 - Design
Past and future in the present, Vanke Nantou Gallery by Various Associates
The Chinese studio, Various Associates, has designed the interiors of a refurbishment project in the district of Nantou, Shenzhen, an exhibition gallery of urban memory. The venue tells the story of the past, present and future of the current transformation taking place in what used to be the heart of the Shenzhen metropolis.
28-10-2020 - Design
JG Phoenix and the Highland Star Chef Restaurant
With the Highland Star Chef Restaurant, the Chinese studio JG Phoenix has completed a venue that looks like it’s in the middle of greenery, despite it being in the centre of Shenzhen. The interior design project combines socialising and art with the desire to show the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.
13-10-2020 - Design
After Ago new collection by Richard Yasmine
Lebanese designer Richard Yasmine is back in the limelight with a new collection of objects. AFTER AGO embodies the themes dear to Yasmine, who has always placed emphasis on the value of his native country’s artisan work, this time combined with architectural influences from the last century.
