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      Edinburgh College of Art's interior design students imagine cultural centres for their city

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      In this school show, Edinburgh College of Art students are presenting 10 interiors projects for public and community spaces, from an archive chronicling Scotland’s black diaspora to a hybrid day and nightclub.Created by a mixture of graduate and undergraduate students, the concepts adapt existing and historical buildings in Edinburgh for new uses, in a bid to create interiors that are sensitive to their context.
      University: Edinburgh College of Art, University of EdinburghCourses: BA and MA Interior DesignTutors: Ed Hollis, Rachel Simmonds, Gillian Treacy and Andy Siddall
      School statement:
      “The interior design programmes at ECA use real buildings and spaces as testbeds for the adaption and evolution of interior, architectural and spatial design ideas. Under the Interior Lab initiative, staff and students share research knowledge to develop their own individual response to the discipline, benefitting from the international cohort’s varied experiences and approaches.
      “Further work of the students can be found at ECA’s digital exhibition Summer 2020.
      “Through self-generated briefs for their projects, our 10 graduates have proposed designs including an Astronomy Centre within a light-polluted city centre and a Black Cultural Archive and Legacy Centre for Scotland.”

      The Island of Knowledge by Alkistis Brountzou, MA

      “The Island of Knowledge is an open, public space inside the Freemasons Hall for sharing knowledge and learning, which explores the spatial intersections of the physical and the digital world.
      “Inside the main hall, or ‘nest’, new hybrid experiences are generated by utilising new technologies such as augmented reality inside of an expanded cinema, various multilayered exhibitions and lecture halls.
      “The intervention’s form emphatically symbolises the contradiction between the diachronic character of the space formations and the extremely changeable digital content, suggesting that the physical and digital, materiality and immateriality are interwoven by their contradictions.”
      Email: brountzoualk@gmail.com

      Freemasons Hall by Gillian Kavanagh, MA

      “My master’s thesis focuses on the intersection between interior architecture and conservation. The design briefs I devised for the Freemasons Hall in Edinburgh challenge the idea of a historic institution in the modern world and question how interiors can be ‘re-programmed’ to revitalise the institution’s appeal.
      “To represent these ideas, I explored experimental mixed media drawing methods including collage, watercolour sketching and video studies. Adaptive conservation aids the longevity of buildings, which is the principal ambition of my work. The layering of materials, decoration and human narratives significantly influences my approach to the conservation of interior architecture.”
      Email: gilliankavanagh54@gmail.comInstagram: @gk_trinsic

      Viaticus by Mari Nasif, MA
      “Inspired by the idea of Masonic degrees, the brief re-imagines the Freemasons’ journey towards knowledge and translates this into spatial settings based on the learning domains proposed by Benjamin Bloom.
      “The proposal, broadly defined as a philosophy library, occupies the voids inside of an existing staircase volume. Its verticality mirrors Bloom’s hierarchical learning model where higher levels house more complex learning. Each degree is uniquely designed to activate the senses and help individuals resolve the cognitive challenges along the journey to mastery.”
      Email: mari_nasif@outlook.comWebsite: marinasif.com

      Pixelbox by Sher Ming Foo, MA
      “Pixelbox is a site-specific, transitional intervention designed as part of the museum in the Freemason Hall, Edinburgh. The lattice layout is an extrapolation of the building’s existing design, with the addition of modern elements to create a new design language.
      “The white, stainless steel structure seamlessly integrates furniture design and interior architecture, reducing the boundaries between the insertion and the existing building. Its location allows for the existing use of the Grand Hall to continue while welcoming visitors to the building.”
      Email: sherming97@gmail.comWebsite: linkedin.com/in/shermingfoo

      The Ar/ba/Son Market by Sinead Russell, MA
      “Personality is a big driving force in my work. I believe in curating and invoking a unique soul within the core of every project. I draw a lot of inspiration from researching and conceptualising how these projects may look and feel if they were people. I focus on creating a story and with every detail hope to add to that narration.
      “Recently, my work has begun to focus its attention on artisans and craft, and specifically on the promotion of local makers. This project explores how their work can be incorporated within my designs to inspire a new appreciation for craft makers at a larger scale.”
      Email: sinrussdesign@gmail.comWebsite: sinruss.co.uk

      The Third Place by Hollie Middleton, BA
      “Like many UK cities, Edinburgh has seen soaring rents, an influx of Airbnbs and the perennial construction of student accommodation in the past decade. A little-known casualty of these private developments is Edinburgh’s post-war architecture, which is overlooked in favour of maintaining the city’s Georgian heritage.
      “The Third Place is a Scottish architecture archive dedicated to preserving the history of undervalued post-war buildings and supporting local communities in challenging the homogenisation of Edinburgh’s urban landscape. Black steel frames demarcate contemporary insertions while complimenting the existing lines of the 1960s building. Sculptural concrete forms echo iconic Scottish post-war structures.”
      Email: holliemiddletondesign@gmail.comInstagram: @byholliemiddleton

      Black Cultural Archive and Legacy Centre of Scotland by Aaliyah Oshodi, BA
      “This project establishes a Black Cultural Archive and Legacy Centre of Scotland. Archives are necessary to preserve the work of marginalised people but they are often overly clinical. That’s why I wanted to create a space which is colourful and warm and where the lives and stories of the Black diaspora across Scotland can be collected and preserved.
      “I created a series of interior spaces that facilitate oral storytelling. Inspired by the Adinkra stamped cloths of Ghana and the kanga garments of Kenya, I was able to design textiles and wallcoverings that can act as catalysts for conversation.”
      Email: hello@aaliodesigns.co.ukWebsite: aaliodesigns.co.uk

      Scottish Literature Centre by Jiawen Zhang, BA
      “This project aims to create a new literature centre for the city of Edinburgh. It hopes to connect and provide a central hub for all of the existing architectural spaces on the literary trail in Edinburgh Old Town.
      “This interior proposal for the Tron Kirk church provides a central, easily accessible location for promoting local literature by providing spaces for interaction between local writers and literary tourists.”
      Email: jiawenz@umich.eduWebsite: 924370879.wixsite.com/website

      Wax Lyrical by Bethany Harle, BA
      “I am interested in how interior spaces can shape our wellbeing and behaviour. Alongside the alarming rate at which UK nightclubs are closing, this guided my graduate project. Called Wax Lyrical, this day and nightclub consists of five venues that focus on different aspects of nightlife culture: drinking, drugs, sex, dance and music.
      “The design concept aims to reduce the risks to the physical and mental health of visitors, which are usually heightened within these environments. Informed by the experimental interiors of 1970s disco clubs, the spaces hope to create a healthy escape.”
      Email: bethany.harle@hotmail.comWebsite: bethharle.com

      The Astronomy Culture Centre by Echo Zhu, BA
      “The Astronomy Culture Centre is designed as an interior ‘station’, where the public can engage with sky events and explore the world above with interactive galleries and simulation technology, despite the light-polluted skies of Edinburgh. It helps visitors to investigate and understand our role in the universe and ultimately care about the future of humanity.
      “The design strategy revolves around gravity, the dominant force in the universe, which is closely related to the birth of life on earth. This theoretical underpinning is integrated into the design in the form of flow routes to encourage experiencing and pursuing activities within the designed interior environment.”
      Email: echoecho0716@gmail.comPortfolio: linkedin.com/in/echo-zhu-67091a184

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      Apartment on the Belgian coast balances natural and industrial materials

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      A steel staircase offsets seaweed-coloured joinery and marble surfaces inside this Belgian apartment designed by local architects Carmine Van Der Linden and Thomas Geldof.Van Der Linden and Geldof thought using natural materials and colours would reflect the calming coastal location of the two-floor apartment, which is encircled by sand dunes and grassy banks.

      The kitchen in the apartment features seaweed-coloured cabinetry
      In the apartment’s kitchen, the splashback, shelving and panelled birch-wood cabinets have been stained a murky shade of green.

      “The colour choice of the wood subtly brings in the seaweed colour from the adjacent sea and the marram grasses in the surrounding dunes,” said the architects.

      The same green stain has been applied across the apartment’s wood-panelled walls
      This green hue continues across a handful of wood-lined walls in the apartment and into the guest toilet, which is fitted with a Gris Violet marble basin.
      Alga Marina marble has then been used to craft the kitchen countertops and the surface of a central prep table. It’s supported underneath by interlocking silver-metal poles.

      The guest toilet includes a marble sink
      The architects blanketed the remaining surfaces throughout the apartment in white paint that leaves a clay-like textural finish, in hopes of fostering an “unconscious sense of silence and serenity”.
      Dark-grey terrazzo also runs across the floor.

      Atelier Dialect places mirrored tub in minty green bathroom of Apartment A

      One wall of the living room features a sequence of shelves extending up across both floors of the apartment, offering a spot for the owner to display books or cherished ornaments.

      A galvanised-steel staircase connects the apartment’s two floors
      The shelves also serve as a backdrop to an open-tread spiral staircase that’s made from galvanised steel. This material was specifically chosen by Van Der Linden and Geldof as they felt it has an almost pearlescent quality.
      “With its extremely logical and pragmatic construction method, this object stands as a ‘pièce unique’ in the open living space,” they explained.

      Pale white joinery dominates the master bedroom
      Panelled joinery, similar to the kitchen, appears again in the master bedroom upstairs, but this time in a whitish colour.
      At this level of the apartment, there is also an almost-black sauna room that’s fronted by a panel of glazing, providing views out across the beachy landscape.

      The apartment also includes a sauna that has views of the outdoors
      This is the first collaborative interiors project from Van Der Linden and Geldof, who are based respectively Ghent and Antwerp.
      Other striking Belgian homes include Apartment A by Atelier Dialect, which boasts a mint-green bathroom, and the Spinmolenplein penthouse by architect Jürgen Vandewalle, which is simply arranged around three blocks of furniture.
      Photography is by Piet-Albert Goethals.

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      Seven wooden kitchens that offer a different take on timber

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      Wood has long been used to create kitchens, but architects and designers are finding subtle ways to reimagine the material in the cooking space. Interiors reporter Natasha Levy selects seven standout examples.

      The Rye Apartments, UK, by Tikari Works

      Spruce-wood cupboards inset with subtle grooves feature in the kitchens of these apartments in south London’s Peckham neighbourhood.
      The cabinets and the surrounding cross-laminated timber walls are meant to lend the homes a cosy, domestic atmosphere. Extra warmth is provided by brass door handles and amber-flecked terrazzo that runs across the floors.
      Find out more about The Rye Apartments ›

      Ti Clara, Portugal, by Atelier Espaço P2
      Atelier Espaço P2 felt that a natural material palette offered “the most honest and true solution” for the overhaul of Ti Clara, a historic home in the Portuguese municipality of Ansião.
      The kitchen has therefore been set within a wood-lined gabled niche. Pale plywood has been used to craft its cabinets, as well as the triangular extractor hood above the stove. Contrast is offered by the grey stone countertop, splashback and floor tiles.
      Find out more about Ti Clara ›

      Southgrove Road, UK, by From Works
      A photograph of a moss-covered stone inspired the earthy green hue of this stained plywood kitchen suite, which design studio From Works incorporated into a Sheffield family home.
      “[The photo] sparked conversation about trying to create a space and a material palette that referenced Sheffield’s special position as an earthy regenerating city uniquely connected to the beautiful surrounding Peak District.”
      Find out more about Southgrove Road ›

      Urban Cabin, Italy, by Francesca Perani
      Surfaces throughout the kitchen of this 25-square-metre apartment in Albino, Italy are covered in oriented strand board (OSB) – a type of engineered timber made by compressing strands of wood in different directions.
      Although architect Francesca Perani was more accustomed to seeing OSB used on building sites, she thought its continuous pattern helped make the micro-sized kitchen appear bigger.
      “I love its textural irregularity, random organic composure and recycled properties,” she added.
      Find out more about Urban Cabin ›

      Powerscroft Road, UK, by Daytrip
      Design studio Daytrip didn’t want the interiors of this London townhouse to seem “over-designed or mass-produced”, so applied a selection of textured and patterned materials.
      In the kitchen, grainy Douglas fir wood has been used to make the cabinetry and the base of the central breakfast island. Countertops are pale Evora marble, while walls have been limewashed to leave a “painterly” finish.
      Find out more about Powerscroft Road ›

      An Attic for David, Spain, by MH.AP Studio
      The kitchen and all the storage elements of this Barcelona apartment are made from matte-finish MDF.
      While this type of engineered wood is often appreciated for being cost-friendly, MH.AP Studio also thought it would create a warm, “enveloping” ambience inside the home – especially when combined with oak parquet flooring.
      Find out more about An Attic for David ›

      Hackney House, UK, by Applied Studio
      A jet-black timber kitchen suite forms a striking focal point inside this east London home.
      “[The clients] wanted vivid contrast between the background and feature elements,” explained Applied Studio.”We worked with them to introduce natural elements to soften this, hence the visible grain in the joinery.”
      Find out more about Hackney House ›

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      Thomas Juul-Hansen opts for earthy tones in Bangkok's Scope Langsuan apartments

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      Dezeen promotion: the interiors of the Scope Langsuan residential building have been designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen, his first project in Thailand.Located in the heart of Bangkok’s city centre, the soon-to-be-completed development for Scope is situated on a piece of the most expensive freehold land in the city.

      Danish designer Thomas Juul-Hansen was behind the interior design for Scope Langsuan, which will feature a calming colour palette of warm, sandy hues and muted pastel tones.

      Juul-Hansen has selected fittings and furniture to complement this colour palette from brands such as Minotti, Walter Knoll and Poliform, as well as designing some bespoke furniture pieces for each unit in the development.
      The Copenhagen-born designer was previously responsible for the interior design of New York’s 75-story skyscraper One57, nicknamed The Billionaire Building, which reached completion in 2014.

      Global architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) was design consultant for the building itself, which will accommodate 158 residences across 34 floors.
      “We’re a disruptive developer, focusing exclusively on designing and building top, international standard premium homes,” said Scope CEO Yongyutt Chaipromprasith.
      “We cater to a new generation of homeowners who seek design and build quality that match the very best available in New York or London,” he added. “So, we’ve teamed up with the best partners in the world.”

      Scheduled for completion in early 2023, the block will have one-bedroom residences sized at around 83 square metres, while two-bedroom apartments are sized at 153 to 162 square metres. Penthouse residences will be between 419 to 443 square metres.
      All apartments will have floor-to-ceiling windows and ceiling heights of 3.5 metres, with four metres for the penthouses.

      A wine cellar, cloakroom, cigar storage, piano room and 25-seat auditorium will be found on the third floor of the complex, while a fitness centre, temperature-control pool, business lounge and kids room will be located on the fourth floor.
      Thirty levels up, on the 34th floor, is a sky lounge, private kitchen and dining area and a barbecue deck.

      In the living spaces, the kitchens feature furniture by German manufacturer Bulthaup, as well as kitchen appliances from Gaggenau and Sub-Zero.
      The bedrooms also include built-in closets by Italian furniture manufacturer Lema, and luxury bathrooms designed by TOTO.

      Scope Langsuan will also offer a range of lifestyle facilities and five-star services, including maid and cleaning services, receptionists, 24-hour comprehensive security, and valet parking.
      “Scope Langsuan will be one of Thailand’s highest quality condominium developments with its clean and open simplicity, functionality, international good taste, and searingly close attention to details,” Chaipromprasith added.

      Located at the centre of the city on Lang Suan road, Scope Langsuan is 140 metres – just a two-minute walk – from the city’s BTS Skytrain and rail transit system.
      The complex will be positioned within minutes’ walk of Bangkok’s most prestigious retail avenue, Ploenchit Road, as well as the Central Embassy, Siam Center and Central Chidlom.Bangkok’s popular central Lumpini Park is also “only a straight-line jog away” at the end of Langsuan Road.
      For more information about Scope Langsuan can be found on the company’s website.

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      Patagonia granite and wooden logs decorate Off-White's first store in Milan

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      Fashion brand Off-White’s first store in Milan uses natural materials to add warmth to a paired-back store that has white walls broken by Patagonia granite cabinets.Located on Via Verri in Milan, the 400-square-metre Off-White store opened in September and will sell menswear, womenswear and homeware. According to the brand, which is led by fashion designer Virgil Abloh, the boutique “embraces earthy yet elegant minimalism”.

      Top: a wooden log adds an organic feel to the entrance. Above: wall niches are clad in Patagonia granite
      Organic materials were used across the store, with a “fallen” tree log placed near the store’s entrance and granite cabinets used to display products.

      The theme is carried through into the second ground floor room, where wooden plinths were used to create an installation to showcase Off-White accessories and shoes.

      Wooden plinths show Off-White accessories
      Throughout the ground floor womenswear section, travertine flooring is partly covered by rose-coloured rugs featuring the brand’s logo.
      Display cases were kept simple and modernist in polished steel and glass, but the brand chose wall niches clad in Patagonia granite to add interest to the clean walls and underline the organic feel of the space.

      The menswear floor features green hues
      The upstairs floor houses the menswear section, which has a different colour palette to differentiate it from the womenswear section.
      Floor rugs are evergreen instead of rose and a pale green hue is picked up in the wall niches.

      Wooden blocks are used for seating
      Wooden and marble blocks and granite plinths show off the brand’s accessories, while the men’s ready-to-wear is displayed on steel racks.

      Virgil Abloh and AMO design flexible flagship Off-White store in Miami that “can host a runway show”

      The final room in the store, which houses Off-White’s homeware collection, features silk wallpaper and travertine flooring as well as wooden display stands and wall niches.

      The homeware section has simple wood display cases and stands
      Though this is the brand’s first store in the city, Off-White’s design studio is already based in Milan.
      “With a design studio based in Milan, Italy, the label harnesses the history and craftsmanship within the country yet offers a global perspective in terms of design and trends,” said the brand.

      Off-White Milan is on Via Verri
      Off-White also recently unveiled its first Miami store, a flexible flagship that “can host a runway show”.  In addition, Off-White opened the doors to its first stand-alone store in London in September.
      Abloh, who was a judge for the 2019 Dezeen Awards, works on numerous projects outside Off-White and recently teamed up with Mercedes Benz to create a conceptual version of the Mercedes‑Benz G‑Class car.

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      Ortraum Architects builds timber music studio beside house in Helsinki

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      Ortraum Architects has built an asymmetric studio called 12 in the garden of a house in Helsinki, Finland, to provide its owners with space to compose music and make ceramics.The structure was commissioned by a couple who wanted an external space to work from home, beside their existing 1960s home in the Jollas neighbourhood.
      It features two contrasting storeys that Ortraum Architects has set askew, giving rise to a sculptural form and two individual workspaces inside for the couple.

      Ortraum Architects’ 12 studio has two storeys set askew
      The 12 studio, which has been shortlisted in the Dezeen Awards in the small workspace interior category, measures 72-square-metres and is complete with a kitchen and bathroom.

      While providing individual studio space for the couple, it is designed to be easily adapted into a guest house or even become a home for the client’s children in the future.

      The studio is in the garden of a house in Helsinki
      “The client couple needed two main spaces, a ceramics workshop and a music-composing studio,” said the studio. “The massing is visually divided into two levels, reflecting the two different building functions,” it continued.
      “The plan also needed to be flexible enough to function additionally as a guest house and future home for one of the two children in the family, so bathroom and kitchen spaces were included.”

      A ceramic studio is on the ground floor
      The material palette of 12 is deliberately pared-back, with its cross-laminated-timber (CLT) structure left exposed internally and externally. On the exterior, this will turn grey with time to help the structure blend in with its surroundings.
      Its entrance is marked by large glass doors that face the existing home, sheltered by a small cantilevered corner of the second floor.

      A hidden black staircase has storage in its treads
      This entrance opens into the ceramics studio on the ground floor, which is complete with a small bathroom.
      A black wooden staircase that leads to the first floor is concealed behind a wall and features treads that double as storage units.

      The building contains a music studio upstairs
      Above, the first floor contains the music studio. Its angular form was developed to help enhance the acoustics of the space and make it suitable for recording music.
      This space is complete with two large windows that open towards a neighbouring forest, alongside a small balcony and gallery level for use as an extra lounge area.

      The music studio has an angular form to enhance its acoustics
      Ortraum Studio’s goal for 12 was for it to “be a best practice example for environmentally friendly construction and infill projects in a suburban context”.

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      For this reason, its size was dictated by an existing concrete foundation from an old garage, avoiding the need for new and obtrusive groundwork, while its structure was prefabricated using CLT to avoid waste and speed up construction time.
      It has also been developed to facilitate natural ventilation and is powered by solar panels and heated using a ground source heat pump of the main home.

      A small balcony looks out to the neighbouring houses
      As part of the project, Ortraum Architects also built a small playhouse for the client’s children, which is also made of CLT and is tied to a pine tree in the garden.
      Named the Birdhouse, it features heart-shaped windows and is modelled on pictures that the children drew of their “dream house”.

      A playhouse sits next to the studio
      Ortraum architects is a small Finnish design studio headed up by architect Martin Lukasczyk. In 2017, it completed a family home in Finland that has a number of child-friendly features including a trapeze, a climbing wall and a hammock.
      Photography is by Marc Goodwin.

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      Grey shades permeate interiors of Austria's Clemens Strobl winery

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      Design studio Destilat drew focus to the art of winemaking by applying a “reduced colour language” inside Clemens Strobl winery in northeast Austria.Clemens Strobl is located in the Kirchberg am Wagram municipality of Lower Austria, a region recognised for producing a rich variety of wine cultures.
      The winery, which is shortlisted in the large workspace category of this year’s Dezeen Awards, is composed of two gabled barns that are connected by a ribbon of gridded glass.

      Top image: The winery occupies two former barns. Above: The barns are connected by gridded glass.
      One of the barns has been restored, and still boasts its original brick facade. The other had fallen into a state beyond repair and has been replaced by a contemporary white-painted structure.

      The greyscale spaces that design studio Destilat has created within the winery come in response to the brief of the owner, who wanted the interiors to have an understated design so that the craft of winemaking could be the focal point.

      The interior of the winery has been completed in shades of grey
      “The clients asked for ‘as little design as possible’ for their premises, and we reacted to this request with a very reduced colour language and design vocabulary as well as an equally puristic material selection,” said the studio, which works between offices in Vienna and Linz.
      “Grey in all of its nuances puts the winemaking process front and centre.”

      A tasting room slots beneath the vaulted roof of the wine cellar
      Off-white Heraklith tiles – which are crafted from a mixture of wood and wool – have been applied across the winery’s ceiling, while the floor is polished concrete.
      To one side of the ground floor lies a garage and toilet facilities, while on the other is a huge cellar where metal tanks and barrels of wine are stored.
      This space is topped by a lofty vaulted ceiling, underneath which a glass-fronted volume has been slotted to accommodate a tasting room.

      Grey-stained spruce wood clads the winery’s kitchen area
      A two-level module clad in grey-stained spruce wood sits at the centre of the winery’s ground floor. At the bottom of the module lies a kitchen that features wine bottle-lined shelves.
      A flight of black metal stairs can then be used to reach the casual meeting area that sits up top.

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      Grey-tinged spruce extends to cover the lengthy walkway that extends across the first floor, leading up to an open-plan office area for winery staff.

      Black metal stairs lead up to a casual meeting area
      Other than a couple of sofas and armchairs that have been dotted along the periphery of the winery, Destilat has otherwise left a majority of spaces empty so that they can act as a “stage” for the natural light streaming in from the windows. The extra room can also be put to use for different events hosted at Clemens Strobl.
      Decor is offered by a vintage water well that the studio sourced in Upper Austria.

      A long walkway leads to offices for winery staff
      Destilat is led by creative trio Harald Hatschenberger, Thomas Neuber and Henning Weimer. Previous projects by the studio include a house that cantilevers to create a shelter above its entrance, and a wood-clad residence that staggers down a hillside.
      Its Clemens Strobl winery will compete head-to-head in the Dezeen Awards against projects such as The Audo by Norm Architects – a boutique hotel in Copenhagen that doubles up as a showroom and offices for furniture brand Menu.

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      New York clothing store Nanamica is designed like a Japanese house

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      Woodwork form the frame of a gabled house inside this clothing store in New York designed by Japanese architect Taichi Kuma.

      Tokyo-based Kuma designed the store cn the city’s Soho neighbourhood for Japanese clothing brand Nanamica.

      Large mirrors reflect the gabled structure
      Marking its second outpost following another in Tokyo, the store was designed to draw on the brand’s Nanamica, which means house of seven seas. Working with the brand founder, Eiichiro Hommam, Kuma developed the interior design to take cues from a Japanese beach house.

      Shelving is made from matching wood
      The aim is to express “the free and relaxed feeling of the seaside, but with a distinctly Japanese aesthetic sensibility meaning the true highlight is the nanamica products”, according to the brand.

      Shelving and clothing rails tucked outside the wood frame
      A key part of this is a series of gabled structures made from light oak that are intended to outline a house. The frame is slightly smaller that the store to leave space on the outside for shelving for handbags and plants, and clothing rails built on the walls made out of matching wood.
      Wooden shelving for clothing and benches for customers to relax are also arranged inside the house-like structure. The free-standing shelving is backed by a translucent, recycled corrugated plastic matching the wall of the material at the front of the store and the rear, where it shields changing rooms placed behind.

      Corrugated plastic shields changing rooms at the rear
      Two large mirrors are placed on columns that protrude into the space creating the illusion of more room. White spotlighting is arranged along the top of the gable running down the middle of the space.
      Kuma and Hommam stripped back the initial space to create Nanamica New York, creating a bare backdrop for the simple intervention. Walls and ceiling beams are painted white, while the floor is polished concrete.

      Nanamica is located on Wooster Street
      Other recently completed stores in New York City include ONS Clothing store, which features a stage with a green curtain for hosting events, and Los Angeles clothing brand Lunya’s space in Nolita, which takes cues from “upscale New York” apartments.

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