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      Shortlist unveiled for AHEAD Europe 2020 hospitality awards

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      Dezeen promotion: a guest villa in rural Mallorca and a log-clad hotel near the Arctic circle are some of the hospitality projects to be shortlisted in this year’s AHEAD Europe awards.The AHEAD Europe awards celebrate outstanding hospitality projects that have launched, opened or reopened across the continent between June 2019 and May of this year.

      Top image: The exterior of The Standard in London, which is on the awards shortlist. Above: one of The Standard’s colourful guest rooms
      Submissions were first arranged into 15 categories, which recognise everything from a project’s guest rooms to its lobby and public spaces.
      A shortlist was then put together by a judging panel made up of hotel industry experts. As well as assessing a project’s aesthetic appeal, they also consider factors like use of budget, how well it has met the client brief and whether it captures the “theatre of hotel life”.
      Among the panel this year is Signe Bindslev Heniksen, co-founder of studio Space Copenhagen, and Ana Ortega-Miranda, director of interior design for Marriott International.

      A freezing river surrounds Arctic Bath, another one of the projects on the awards shortlist

      One of the projects to have made it to the shortlist is The Standard in London, which occupies a brutalist building opposite one of the city’s major train stations, King’s Cross.
      Guest rooms and communal areas throughout the hotel are decked out with bold colours like cherry red and cobalt blue, playfully contrasting the hotel’s heavy concrete facade.
      Also on the shortlist is a log-clad spa hotel called Arctic Bath, which floats on the icy waters of a Swedish river just 50 kilometres south of the Arctic circle.

      La Maison d’Estournel in France has also made the shortlist
      Some of the projects on the shortlist are situated in much warmer climes.
      This includes La Maison d’Estournel, a centuries-old boutique hotel in France that’s set amongst a 12-acre vineyard, and Casa Palerm, a guest villa in Mallorca that has cinematic views of the Spanish countryside.

      Casa Palerm in rural Mallorca is also competing for an award
      Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the last round of judging was executed over a series of video calls between 14 and 15 October.
      Winners will be announced on 16 November via a digital ceremony that will be broadcast on both AHEAD and Dezeen’s websites.
      See the full shortlist below:
      Bar, Club or Lounge
      40 Elephants at Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, EnglandDouble Standard at The Standard, London, EnglandSibin at Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, EnglandThe Lobby Bar at One Aldwych, London, EnglandThe Malt Lounge at The Prince Akatoki, London, England
      Guestrooms
      Apfelhotel, Saltusio, ItalyBirch, Cheshunt, EnglandBoho Club, Marbella, SpainDomes Zeen Chania, GreeceHotel Arlberg Lech, Austria
      Hotel Conversion
      AMERON Frankfurt Neckarvillen Boutique, GermanyCasa Popeea, Brăila, RomaniaGreat Scotland Yard Hotel, London, EnglandStock Exchange Hotel, Manchester, EnglandThe Standard, London, England
      Hotel Newbuild
      Dakota Manchester, EnglandHart Shoreditch Hotel, London, EnglandLindley Lindenberg, Frankfurt, GermanyMarket Street Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotlandnhow Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands
      Hotel Restoration & Renovation
      Boho Club, Marbella, SpainChâteau de Vignée, Villers-sur-Lesse, BelgiumLa Maison d’Estournel, Saint-Estèphe, FranceTreehouse Hotel London, EnglandVilla Arnica, Lana, Italy
      Landscaping & Outdoor Spaces
      Apfelhotel, Saltusio, ItalyArua Private Spa Villas, Merano, ItalyDomes Zeen Chania, GreeceEkies All Senses Resort, Vourvourou, GreeceThe Newt in Somerset, England
      Lobby & Public Spaces
      Cretan Malia Park, Crete, GreeceLocke at Broken Wharf, London, EnglandParīlio, Naousa, GreeceRooms Hotel Kokhta, Bakuriani, GeorgiaThe Lobby Lounge at The Standard, London, England
      Lodges, Cabins & Tented Camps
      57 Nord, Ardelve, ScotlandArctic Bath, Harads, SwedenCamp Hox, Oxfordshire, EnglandCasa Palerm, MallorcaTreehouses at Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham, England
      Resort
      Cretan Malia Park, Crete, GreeceDomes Zeen Chania, GreeceLefay Resort and Spa, Dolomites, ItalyParīlio, Naousa, GreeceQuinta da Comporta, Portugal
      Restaurant
      Decimo at The Standard, London, EnglandHélène Darroze at The Connaught, London, EnglandHelios at Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens, GreeceMemories Sven Wassmer at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, SwitzerlandMouries at Cretan Malia Park, Crete, Greece
      Spa & Wellness
      Apfelhotel, Saltusio, ItalyArctic Bath, Harads, SwedenHotel Arlberg Lech, AustriaLefay Resort and Spa, Dolomites, ItalyThe Newt in Somerset, England
      Suite
      Arua Private Spa Villas, Merano, ItalyEkies All Senses Resort, Vourvourou, GreeceLincoln House at Rosewood London, EnglandNobel Suite at Grand Hotel Oslo, NorwayNobu Hotel Barcelona, Spain
      Visual Identity
      Birch, Cheshunt, EnglandBoho Club, Marbella, SpainChâteau de Vignée, Villers-sur-Lesse, BelgiumHotel Arlberg Lech, AustriaVilla Arnica, Lana, Italy

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      Imafuku Architects completes Dongshang bar in Beijing with bamboo surfaces

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      Canes of bamboo interlace across the ceiling to form a canopy above guests in this bar in Beijing, China designed by Imafuku Architects.Dongshang – which is shortlisted in the bar interior category of this year’s Dezeen Awards – offers an extensive menu of sake and whiskies from Japan, as well as a selection of Japanese dishes.
      When it came to designing the interiors of the bar, Imafuku Architects wanted to use a material that spoke of the bar’s Japanese menu, as well as its Chinese location – bamboo immediately came to mind.

      Bamboo lines the upper half of the corridor leading into Dongshang

      “The history of planting and using bamboo in these two countries can be traced back to ancient times,” explained the studio. “Both Chinese and Japanese people have utilized bamboo as a material for construction, furniture, containers and even art pieces.”
      “Dongshang invites guests on a story of traditional aesthetics and crafting techniques of the two countries through the contemporary reinterpretation of bamboo.”

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      The studio had also become particularly inspired by the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, a group of Chinese scholars, musicians and writers from the third century who would convene in a bamboo grove to escape the turmoil and corruption associated with the royal courts at the time.

      The bamboo is fixed to the walls with brass nails
      Guests are led into Dongshang through a long corridor. The bottom half of the walls here are lined with dark grey terrazzo, while thin strips of bamboo have been affixed to the upper half with brass nails.
      Some of the bamboo strips arch up and away from the wall to form a lattice across the ceiling. Spotlights have been installed directly above the latticework so that, when switched on, light dapples the surrounding surfaces much like “sunshine filtering through tree leaves”.

      A “canopy” of criss-cross bamboo canes appears in the main dining room
      The terrazzo and bamboo-strip walls continue into Donshang’s main dining space. Mushroom-coloured sofas and armchairs have been dotted throughout, arranged around square wooden tables.
      Canes of bamboo have been arranged into a criss-cross-pattern “canopy” on the ceiling, a feature that the studio hopes will lend the room a cosier and more intimate ambience.

      Mushroom-coloured furnishings have been used to dress the space
      More bamboo canes appear at the rear of the room but have been stood upright to create a fluted feature wall behind the drinks bar. Backlit liquor bottles are openly displayed on three-millimetre-thick shelves crafted from steel.
      A splash of colour is offered by the high chairs that run around the bar counter, which are upholstered in sapphire-blue velvet.

      Bamboo canes create a feature wall behind the bar
      Dongshang restaurant will compete in the 2020 Dezeen Awards against projects such as J Boroski by Atelier XY, which is decorated with over 1,000 insects, and The Berkeley Bar & Terrace by Bryan O’Sullivan Studio, which includes a cosy, pink-hued snug where guests can enjoy their cocktails.
      Photography is courtesy of Ruijing Photo.

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      Rammed-earth counter anchors Flamingo Estate pop-up in Los Angeles

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      Vibrant green walls surround a chunky rammed-earth counter in this garden-themed pop-up shop in LA that creatives Alex Reed and Dutra Brown have designed for lifestyle brand Flamingo Estate.Flamingo Estate’s Harvest Shop pop-up takes over a retail unit in Platform, a high-end shopping centre in LA’s Culver City area.
      The shop offers an array of the brand’s holistic products for the body and home, along with its range of pantry foods, which includes items such as extra-virgin olive oil, honey and dark chocolate.
      Many products are made with ingredients grown on the grounds of Flamingo Estate, which is tucked away in the hills of the nearby Eagle Rock neighbourhood. Its sprawling garden is host to 150 different species of flowering plants and shrubs, as well as a fruit orchard, vegetable beds and a hive of bees.

      A rammed-earth counter sits at the centre of Harvest Shop

      This lush landscape became a key point of reference for the pop-up’s designers, locally-based creatives Alex Reed and Dutra Brown.
      Together they sought to fashion a space that resembled “a small, secret corner of the estate itself…as if it was lifted from the earth and brought to the store”.

      An abstract sculpture perches on one end of the counter
      At the centre of the shop is a monolithic counter crafted from rammed earth. The bottom of the counter is inset with different-coloured fragments of stone, while the top features a cluster of white-tile blocks and platforms on which products are presented.
      To ensure the tiles could be used again post pop-up, a simple mixture of mud and earth was used as grout.
      A corner of the counter is dominated by an amorphous sculpture that Reed and Brown created using scagliola – a type of plaster typically made from gypsum, glue and pigments.

      A mural depicting trees and rolling hills acts as a backdrop to the counter
      “For Flamingo Estate’s first physical location, we looked to the company’s ‘hands-in-the dirt’ ideals of what is luxurious and covetable today,” the pair said.
      “We’ve utilized our respective expertise to design and build a project centred around materiality – this collage of organic material and sculptural form, together with provenance and fantasy, celebrates what we love about Flamingo Estate.”

      Frida Escobedo segments Aesop Park Slope with rammed-earth brickwork

      The garden theme continues onto Harvest Shop’s walls, where LA-based artist Abel Macias has painted a rich, green mural.
      “Richard [Christiansen, owner of Flamingo Estate] and I talked about a concept based around Snow White, the enchanted little forest that she lives in that’s sort of dark but very magical and green in a way,” explained Macias.
      “We came up with this landscape that’s rolling hills and swirly trees, keeping everything in the tonal green world so that it feels verdant and very lush [in the store].”
      Emerald-coloured paint covers a wall on the opposite side of the shop, which is mounted with rows of glass jars filled with various natural ingredients.

      Another wall is mounted with rows of glass jars
      Flamingo Estate is overseen by creative director Richard Christiansen. Beyond the estate’s garden lies a Spanish colonial-style house that, since the beginning of 2020, has operated as a chic retreat for creative people in Los Angeles.
      Its Harvest Shop pop-up isn’t the only retail project to have made use of rammed earth. Last year, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo applied rammed-earth bricks to the walls of an Aesop store in Brooklyn, New York, to emulate the facade of the brownstone townhouses seen around the area.
      Photography is by Adrian Gaut.

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      Green-painted sunroom with cathedral views features in renovated Toronto apartment

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      Canadian studio Odami has redesigned a 1980s apartment in Toronto with bold and rich features like dark quartzite, walnut and green walls. The project, called St Lawrence, involved renovating an apartment that was previously transformed from a parking garage in the 1980s, with finishes that Odami said had now become dull and outdated.

      Odami removed walls to open the kitchen to the skylight-topped dining room
      “[The apartment] came to us completely in its original state: popcorn ceiling; an enclosed and very dated kitchen; mirrored walls; and beige carpeted floors,” the local studio said. “With a new owner, the entire unit was in need of an extensive update.”
      Odami redesigned the 1400-square-foot (130-square-metre) apartment to make the most of two “very theatrical” elements: views of the Cathedral of St James and five level changes that are created by steps between the rooms.

      Dark walnut contrasts with quartzite in the kitchen

      “In general we were really looking for materials that were rich and had a lot of depth to them, which would create a sharp contrast with the white walls throughout,” studio co-founder Michael Norman Fohring told Dezeen.
      “The change of levels and the views make the space naturally very theatrical, and using dramatic material and colour juxtapositions sort of amplified this.”

      A ribbed, black quartzite fireplace features in the living room
      A green sunroom, whose decoration references the Cathedral of St James viewed through the window, is one of the standout spaces.
      “Pulling in the colours and shapes of the nearby Cathedral of St James, the room is painted completely in green, and fitted with a dramatic pendant,” said Odami.

      A black wooden table and chair furnish the space
      “With its warmth and depth this space marks a moment of calm and stillness, perched amidst the steady flow of the condo and the hectic city below,” it added.
      Walnut engineered hardwood flooring runs throughout the apartment and, aside from the sunroom, all the walls in the condo are painted bright white.

      A big window in the sunroom offers views of the Cathedral of St James
      In the kitchen, the studio removed a partial wall and existing cabinets so it could be entirely open to the adjoining, skylight-topped dining room. Particle board cabinets in the kitchen are covered with a dark walnut veneer with solid walnut handles, contrasting the Super White natural quartzite.

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      Walnut steps lead from the kitchen down into the living room. Rich, dark materials continue in the form of a ribbed fireplace made of a dark quartzite, called Diamante Nero, with a matching black wooden table and chair. Wooden logs are stacked in an inlet to the side of the fire.

      Steps lead from the living room down to two bedrooms
      Two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms flank either side of the living room.
      The main bedroom suite was rearranged to include a walk-in wardrobe featuring white wardrobes with black handles. A skylight in the wardrobe floods natural light through a frosted glass wall into the bathroom.

      A translucent glass wall brings natural light into an en-suite bathroom
      Odami is an architectural, interior, and furniture design studio that Canadian designer Fohring founded in 2017 with Spanish architect Aránzazu González Bernardo.
      It has previously completed a restaurant in the city called Sara with curving plaster walls and designed a wood furniture collection made from one dying tree.
      Photography is by Kurtis Chen.

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      Esperinos is a design-focused guesthouse in Athens

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      Greek designer Stamos Michael mixed his own creations with local artworks and modern furniture classics to form the striking interior of Esperinos, a guesthouse in Athens.Esperinos is situated in the Greek capital’s Filopappos Hill area, taking over a single-storey residence that dates back to the 1930s.

      A number of Stamos Michaels’ furniture designs decorate the house’s living room
      The house used to have a traditionally domestic layout, but when local designer Stamos Michael was brought on board, he decided to knock through all the existing internal walls to form an open, gallery-style space.
      Dotted throughout is a mixture of contemporary and classic furnishings that are meant to give visitors a “new way of experiencing the cultural universe of Athens”.

      A black staircase leads up to the mezzanine

      A few of Michael’s own pieces appear in the guesthouse’s living room. This includes a pine and plywood storage cabinet that’s been handpainted to feature a black-and-white chequer pattern.
      It sits beside one of the designer’s lamps, which comprises two towering, rust-brown columns of powder-coated steel.

      The home’s kitchen is painted a plum-purple hue
      There’s also a sculptural chair by Michael that features a metal pole running through its backrest and a small stool he crafted from two blocks of stone found on a quarry in Tinos, a Greek island in the Aegean sea.
      Guests can relax on a brown-leather edition of Konstantin Grcic’s Traffic lounge chair, or on the sofa at the rear of the room which is dressed with a mismatched array of throw cushions.

      Industrial shelving displays the kitchen crockery
      A doorway looks through to the kitchen, which has been finished with emerald-coloured cabinetry and black, industrial-style shelves that display crockery.

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      Like the other rooms in the guesthouse, the kitchen has been decorated with a piece of modern art. All the works were curated by local art foundation Grace – founded by Michael in 2016 – and will be regularly changed throughout the year to spotlight different creatives working in the Greek capital.

      The bedroom sits beneath the guesthouse’s timber roof
      The bedroom sits beneath the guesthouse’s pitched wooden roof on a newly constructed mezzanine level, accessed via a set of jet-black stairs.
      Terracotta tiles, similar to those used on the balconies of Greek apartment buildings, have been used to line the staircase landing and one of the steps.
      Surfaces throughout the house have been painted moss green or a rich, plum-purple hue. Michael has also carved out small sections of the walls to reveal the property’s stone structural shell.

      Chairs by Robert Mallet-Stevens feature in the home’s outdoor space
      Guests will also have access to a private back garden that’s dotted with tubular-frame seats by French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens.
      Including an outdoor space in the house was particularly important to Michael, who had heard elderly local residents talk fondly of gathering in gardens and alleyways during the 1960s to listen to music or watch football matches.
      “People were always describing images that reflected a wonderful communal openness,” he told Dezeen.

      The garden is shaded by trees
      Esperinos joins a growing number of contemporary design-focused spots to stay at in Athens, which is largely popular amongst holiday goers for its wealth of ancient landmarks.
      Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, the owner of Athens’ Carwan Gallery, recently told Dezeen in an interview that the city is emerging as a creative hub, and could even be considered “the new Berlin”.
      “It’s almost like if the city was sleeping for 10 years during the [financial] crisis and is now ready to bloom again,” he added.
      Photography is by Margarita Nikitaki.

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      Game On's neon-filled exhibition design paid homage to 80s video games

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      Spanish practice Smart & Green Design re-designed the Barbican’s touring Game On exhibition for a former underground cistern in Madrid, using more than 150 LED arches to evoke the neon colours of the 1980s.The retrospective, which is reportedly the largest international exhibition to explore the history of video games, spans more than 400 collector’s objects and drawings covering the birth of the technology in the 1960s to the present day.

      Visitors to the exhibition can play 150 video games
      Alongside this, 150 original video games can be played as part of the show, including early games like Space Invaders and Tetris, classics like Rock Band, Pokemon and The Sims as well as more recent games like Fifa and Wii Sports.
      After touring more than 30 countries including China, the US and Australia, the exhibition came to Madrid between November 2019 and May 2020 courtesy of arts and culture foundation Fundación Canal.

      The LEDs are arranged into colour-coded arches

      Game On’s revamped set-up, which won Smart & Green Design the public vote at this year’s Dezeen Awards in the exhibition design category, relied heavily on multicoloured LED tubes suspended throughout the exhibition space.
      Set against an otherwise dimly lit interior, these nodded to the vector graphics of early video games such as Battle Zone, in which simple lines and curves on a black backdrop were used to create the illusion of three-dimensional spaces.
      LEDs were arranged into colour-coded arches and tunnels to create the impression of architectural elements, demarcating 15 distinct sections and guiding visitors through the exhibition.

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      “The design follows simple geometries and repetitions as some of the most famous video games did,” Smart & Green Design’s founder Fernando Muñoz told Dezeen.
      “These lines created perspectives and the illusion of a 3D space, despite all the elements being two dimensional.”
      Each section was also signposted through a neon sign proclaiming its theme, which was suspended in the air in a nod to the floating score numbers often found in the top corner of a game’s screen.

      Neon signs read the names of the different sections
      The main challenge for the studio was to balance the buzz and excitement of an arcade with the kind of quiet, contemplative spaces needed to take in the archival objects, sketches and the stories behind them.
      For this purpose, Muñoz developed two distinct spatial typologies.
      While stations for playing the games were placed inside of the cistern’s existing 7.5-metre tall brick arches, each illuminated by an LED frame, the remaining exhibits were housed in “lights tunnels”, running perpendicularly to the arches.

      Stations for playing the video games are integrated into the cistern’s existing brick arches
      “We designed several tunnels using rectangular timber frames with lights integrated into them,” said Muñoz.
      “The rhythm of these structures created the feeling of being inside a separate space and they also hold either walls or vitrines to show the contents.”

      The light tunnels run perpendicularly to the existing brick arches (marked in black above)
      To create these walls, the studio opted for sound-absorbing panels, which had the dual benefit of muffling the noise coming from the gaming area outside as well as being easier to reuse for future exhibitions.
      “We try not to use heavy resources like MDF or drywall, which cannot be reused without generating waste and need a lot of energy both in the assembly and disassembly,” said Muñoz.
      “We try to create lightweight systems that are easily assembled and stored and with standardised dimensions so that they can be reused and adapted to any space or design.”

      Walls are integrated into the light tunnels to house information
      In order to offset the high embodied energy of the LEDs, Muñoz designed the lighting system to be modular, with tubes that are either half a metre, one metre or two metres long, so that they can be efficiently stored and repurposed again and again in different constellations.
      This is part of the studio’s wider strategy to try and cut down the amount of waste produced through temporary installations.

      The walls are made of sound-absorbent panels
      “The exhibitions industry is responsible for a huge amount of waste due to the ephemeral condition of its products,” Muñoz explained.
      “We believe that through design and longterm strategies of collaborating with exhibition organisers, waste can be reduced. We have designed our own carbon calculator and tailored protocols to interact with the administration and coordinators in the exhibitions world.”

      The exhibition was on show until May 2020
      Aside from Game On, other exhibition designs shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 include a memorial filled with items that belonged to victims of gun violence and an installation at Fondazione Prada with 1,400 porcelain plates suspended from the walls of a golden room.
      Although the recipients of the public vote have already been determined, the winners of the official Dezeen Awards, judged by a panel of experts including Norman Foster, Michelle Ogundehin and Konstantin Grcic, will not be announced until the end of November.
      The Game On exhibition took place from 29 November 2019 to 31 May 2020 at Madrid’s Castellana 214. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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      Fashion meets art inside Dries Van Noten's inaugural US store

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      Luxury fashion label Dries Van Noten has opened its first US store in Los Angeles, which boasts interiors filled with artworks from creatives across the globe.Dries Van Noten’s LA store takes over two buildings that sit on a huge parking lot along La Cienega Boulevard. The first building is a two-floor property that has been dubbed Big House, the second, called Little House, is a 1950s-era bungalow completely shrouded by ivy.
      Together the buildings measure 8,500 square feet (790 square meters), making this the Belgian fashion brand’s largest retail space to date.

      Dries Van Noten’s LA store is split into Big House and Little House

      Clothing collections are presented inside Big House, with womenswear on the ground floor and menswear up on the first floor.
      The brand’s in-house design team took charge of the interiors – founder Dries van Noten, who was stuck outside the US due to coronavirus travel restrictions, would “visit” the space every evening via FaceTime calls with staff members.
      Simple white-painted walls and concrete flooring appears throughout. A few elements in the store, like the accessory display plinths and chesterfield-style sofas, are a sunny shade of yellow – a colour deemed synonymous with Dries Van Noten’s brand identity.

      Big House displays the brand’s fashion collections
      Decor is provided by striking artworks from a roster of local and international creatives. Some pieces, such as the mixed-media collages by LA-based artist Jan Gatewood, have been executed directly on the store’s walls as murals.
      “I didn’t want to have that gallery feeling where everything is mercantile…it’s more like graffiti,” Van Noten explained.

      Artwork and musical instruments have been dotted throughout
      “While showcasing the Dries Van Noten collections this place will be a haven for creative encounters and gathering experiences that embraces the creative pulse of Los Angeles and its creative and fashion community” added the brand explained in a statement.
      “These experiences can be as light-hearted as they can be profound, yet they will always be welcoming to all and informal.”
      Sculptural furnishings by Rotterdam-based designer Johan Viladrich are also on display, as well as busts of tattooed human heads by Czech artist Richard Stipl.

      Big House includes an archive room that presents pieces from old Dries Van Noten collections. Photo by Jeff Forney
      Big House additionally includes archive rooms which are haphazardly plastered with old catwalk and campaign imagery of Dries Van Noten designs.
      Here customers are able to purchase pieces from past collections – some of which date back to the 1990s – and once health and safety restrictions have been lifted post-pandemic, re-sell garments from the brand that they no longer want.
      “It’s not only about sustainability reasons, but it’s the whole idea that a beautiful garment stays beautiful even if other people have been wearing it – and I like the idea that you have new clothes and old clothes all together in the same store,” added Van Noten.

      Foliage-filled plant beds line the outside of the store. Photo by Gareth Kantner
      To access Little House, shoppers must walk past a series of plant beds overspilling with tropical foliage, which were included in homage to Van Noten’s passion for gardening and the brand’s frequent use of botanical prints.
      The bungalow acts as an exhibition space which, going forward, will showcase different furniture, textiles, ceramics and photography from both established and emerging creatives.
      Currently on display is a collection of porcelain tableware created by Van Noten’s longtime friend, fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester, and Belgian brand Serax.

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      The brand also hopes that, in time, the parking lot can host large-scale events, and has plans to transform it into everything from a drive-in cinema to a food-tasting space.

      Little House will serve as an exhibition space. Photo by Jeff Forney
      Dries Van Noten’s Los Angeles store joins branches in Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore, Paris and a flagship in Antwerp – but the brand’s founder already has his sights set on opening the doors to a store over on the east coast of the US.
      “Of course the space is very important, it really has to be the right building – the moment we find that, we’ll be in New York.”
      Photography is by Jim Mangan unless stated otherwise.

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      Interiors by Esrawe Studio, Adjaye Associates and Freitag among Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote winners

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      Projects by Adjaye Associates, OHLAB and 10 other studios have been chosen by Dezeen readers as winners of the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for interiors.Other winners include Robbert de Goede for a former gymnasium that has been converted into an apartment, Koning Eizenberg Architecture for a museum that offers experimental art and technology programs for youth and Eric J Smith for a poet’s studio on a forested Connecticut property.
      A total of 62,447 votes were cast and verified across all categories. The results of the public votes for the Dezeen Awards 2020 interiors categories are listed below.
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      Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote winners in the architecture categories were announced yesterday. Design winners will be announced tomorrow followed by the studio winners on Thursday.
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      The public vote is separate from the main Dezeen Awards 2020 judging process, in which entries are assessed by professional judges. We’ll be announcing the Dezeen Awards 2020 winners online at the end of November.
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      Below are the public vote results for interiors:

      Breezeway House by David Boyle Architect has won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for house interior
      House interior

      28% – Breezeway House by David Boyle Architect (winner)27% – Kew Residence by John Wardle Architects19% – Art villa, Puntarenas by Formafatal18% – House in Kyoto by 07BEACH8% – Bismarck House by Andrew Burges Architects

      The Gymnasium by Robbert de Goede won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for apartment interior
      Apartment interior
      39% – The Gymnasium by Robbert de Goede (winner)28% – Jaffa House 4 by Pitsou Kedem Architects16% – The Melburnian Apartment by Edition Office11% – La Nave by NOMOS6% – Apartment Block by Coffey Architects

      Tori Tori Santa Fe, a Japanese restaurant in Mexico, won the public vote for restaurant interior
      Restaurant interior
      41% – Tori Tori Santa Fe by Esrawe Studio (winner)22% – Voisin Organique by Various Associates13% – DooSooGoBang by Studio Lim12% – %Arabica Coffee by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio12% – Embers Restaurant by Curvink Architects

      Dongshang by Imafuku Architects won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for bar interior
      Bar interior
      35% – Dongshang by Imafuku Architects (winner)27% – The Berkeley Bar & Terrace by Bryan O’Sullivan Studio15% – The Flow of Ecstatic by Daosheng Design13% – Mercantile Wine Bar by Islyn Studio10% – A secret bar by Atelier Xy

      Casa Palerm by OHLAB won the Dezeen Awards public vote for hotel and short-stay interior
      Hotel and short-stay interior
      42% – Casa Palerm by OHLAB (winner)22% – Maana Kamo by Maana Homes17% – Capsule hostel in a rural library by Atelier Tao+C13% – Escondido Oaxaca Hotel by Decada Muebles6% – Trunk House by Trunk

      Office In Cardboard by Studio_VDGA has won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for large workspace interior
      Large workspace interior
      32% – Office In Cardboard by Studio_VDGA (winner)30% – Les Capucins by ATELIER L221% – Weinmanufaktur Clemens Strobl by Destilat Design Studio13% – The Audo by Norm Architects4% – KCC Office by KCC – Design

      Grain loft studio by Richard Parr Associates has won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for small workspace interior
      Small workspace interior
      47% – Grain loft studio by Richard Parr Associates (winner)18% – Tiny Offices by Dutch Invertuals14% – 12 by ORTRAUM Architects12% – Office for creative advertising agency DDB Prague  by B² Architecture9% – CODO by Loftwork and Shuhei Goto Architects

      The Webster, a flagship store in Los Angeles by Adjaye Associates, has won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for large retail interior
      Large retail interior
      36% – The Webster by Adjaye Associates (winner)23% – Grupo Arca Design Center by Esrawe Studio17% – Supreme San Francisco by Brinkworth16% – PSLab London by PSLab5% – Reigning Champ by Peter Cardew Architects3% – Issey Miyake Semba by NOMA

      FREITAG Sweat-Yourself-Shop by FREITAG lab won the public vote for small retail interior
      Small retail interior
      38% –FREITAG Sweat-Yourself-Shop by FREITAG lab (winner)30% –Glossier Seattle by Glossier13% – AESOP Shinjuku by CASE-REAL12% – small ICON by I IN7% – FREITAG Store Kyoto by FREITAG lab

      Vikasa by Enter Projects Asia won the public vote for leisure and wellness interior
      Leisure and wellness interior
      36% – Vikasa by Enter Projects Asia (winner)35% – En skincare by ARCHIEE16% – EKH Children’s Hospital by IF9% – Bathhouse by Verona Carpenter Architects4% – Domstate Zorghotel by Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe

      MuseumLab by Koning Eizenberg Architecture won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for civic and cultural interior
      Civic and cultural interior
      32% – MuseumLab by Koning Eizenberg Architecture (winner)25% – Church of Pope John Paul II by Robert Gutowski Architects18% – Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre by Trahan Architects14% – Crematorium Siesegem by KAAN Architecten11% – Models in Model by Wutopia Lab

      Writer’s Studio by Eric J Smith Architect has won the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote for small interior
      Small interior
      35% – Writer’s Studio by Eric J Smith Architect (winner)18% – Basic Coffee by Office AIO17% – Single Person Gallery by Offhand Practice17% – PROJECT #13 by Studio Wills + Architects13% – Smart Zendo by Sim-Plex Design Studio More