Design Green Architecture
Interior design with a special focus on refurbishment and revitalisation.
Curated by Christiane Burklein
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.
RECENT PROJECTS
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.
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.
