A SPACE ABOUT (ASA), the design studio founded by Laura Blanch and Noa Massanet, transformed a small empty shopfront into Vereda bar and restaurant. ASA’s spatial vision gives material form to the culinary concept of Vereda’s chef and owner, creating an authentic space appropriate for the community of Barcelona’s Eixample district.
Roland Baldi Architects, the studio appointed to design the interiors in the renewal and expansion of the Clubhouse in Falzes, in the Pusteria Valley, has made the town’s cultural hub into something truly special. The architects’ proposal allows the facility to adapt to the changing needs of the community with great elegance.
“Local Cultures in Global Settings” is an international contest promoted by the Iris Ceramica Group and its associated Foundation and organised by UAE Modern, drawing attention to creative contributions arising out of the interaction between expressions of identity and universalistic culture. We talked about it with Massimo Imparato, who, with Monica Mazzolani, co-founded UAE Modern, the cultural hub presenting the series of events accompanying the competition.
A secluded retreat in a bustling city, is how Chinese designer Wanmu Shazi describes his interior design project for T.T.Pilates, a centre for professional practitioners of pilates, an introspective form of exercise. Despite its location in the bustling centre of Xiamen, the studio is an oasis of tranquillity, a calm place in which organic shapes and warm materials create a rarefied, serene atmosphere.
Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse’s creative agency Masquespacio came up with the visual strategy of the Greystar Group – Resa, a leader on the student housing market. The agency was commissioned to design San Mamés University Residence, the group’s second such project in Bilbao, in the Basque Country.
The Best of Livegreenblog is back to mark the end of the year. Restaurants and hotels have always been pioneers in interior design, and so we take a look at four projects with a focus on conviviality published in the year 2021 that is about to close, from Morocco to the United States and from Italy to Taiwan.
The designers of Chinese studio CCD created the interior design for W Changsha Hotel for the client YUNDA. The creative design is inspired by the history of the Chinese city named after a star, and this cosmic theme provides the inspiration for the interior design of a hotel with a futuristic atmosphere.
“a”, a new restaurant by architectural studio Baranowitz & Goldberg in Tel Aviv, offers a harmonious combination of the heritage of Japanese design, European materials and Israeli flair. The result is captivating, timeless interior design.
The American Graham Bab architecture studio has transformed a historic pre-existing building in Seattle, an old auction house, into the showroom for the well-known glass artist Lino Tagliapietra. A recovery intervention that emphasises the materiality of architecture, in a balanced dialogue with the glass art.
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