Tag: design

Le Brassus, Switzerland – Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet, a new cultural arm of the Swiss luxury watch brand, opens today. Studding a high mountain valley, the spiral-shaped museum building – designed by Bjarke Ingels Group with scenography by Atelier Brückner – is located on the outskirts of the Swiss village Le Brassus, where the watchmaker was established

The 1960s film Playtime by renowned French director Jacques Tati set the tone for this whimsical co-working office that Masquespacio has designed in Valencia . Cabinette is a co-working space for creatives set inside a mixed-use building in Valencia's La Fuensanta neighbourhood. It takes over a ground-floor unit that was originally fit-out to serve as an

If retailers are to bounce back after lockdown lifts, it will only be through establishing their premises not solely as experiential playgrounds, but also as trusted and transparent safe havens. This is important both to inspire confidence in what are likely to now be hyper-hygiene-conscious consumers, but also to ensure operations will be able to continue

Dubai – With its first boutique in the Middle East located in Dubai Mall’s Fashion Avenue extension, Moncler was keen to stand out amongst its glamorous neighbours. Tokyo-based studio Curiosity decided that the best way for the Italian outerwear brand to distinguish itself was to go back to its roots and the origin of its brand name – an abbreviation of

BANDe Architects have completed the multi-faceted cultural destination GreenMonster Lab in Beijing . Occupying a 5,000sqm basement level of the Kuntai Jiarui Cultural Center, the lab encompasses an exhibition centre, traditional hall, bookstore, brand room, and functional spaces for entertainment and leisure. Being at basement level complicated the

Set within a co-working hub in Beijing’s newly gentrified commercial hub of XianYuKou, Basic Coffee occupies a 30sqm corner lot in a restored historic building. Office AIO aimed to direct focus to the enjoyment of, rather than the making of, coffee. The café layout is determined by sensory experiences, as opposed to attention being drawn to fancy coffee

Gentle Monster is an eyewear brand, right? Well, now the Seoul-based company can also add ‘set designers for an entire department store’ to its bag of tricks. In a radical retail move, the in-house design team was called upon to deck out the interiors of SKP-S, the forward-facing offshoot of Beijing’s SKP luxury mall. Beijing – They’ve created a buzz in a

Discerning Americans are turning to furniture with soul, like this Custom Rift Sawn Oak Dresser made for Sunday Shop by New Orleans workshop Doorman. “There is a palpable shift toward collecting fewer but better things that represent shared experiences through real craftsmanship,” said Nicola Coropulis, CEO of Italian brand Poltrona Frau. Also gaining value:

Spaces that keep kids in mind are usually more whimsical than others. They allow for more daring color palettes, seating options, and #clever details. But these kid-friendly zones often lean more heavily on smiles than style. When Cleo Murnane, creative director at Project M Plus in Los Angeles, was tasked with creating the space for Brella childcare , she

Brands have long understood the need to localize their offer, even those for whom their position as global status symbols is central to their appeal. But localization strategies have often lacked true cultural nuance or taken into account the specific context of each store. Instead of aiming for deeper forms of engagement between a foreign brand and its

New Jersey – Perkins+Will’s Brent Capron (design director of interiors NY) and Joan Blumenfeld (principal) explain how social spaces – such as those at Unilever’s New Jersey campus – can form part of an integrated approach to workplace wellness. How does your design of Unilever’s New Jersey campus promote health in the workplace? BRENT CAPRON: Mental and

Top: The blue accents and pale maritime pine in this interior references the clear blue skies and sandy beaches of Los Angeles. | Middle: An industrial New York identity is achieved through yellow colour accents and metal details; Three levels of workspace are supported on pilotis. | Bottom: The atrium functions as Adidas' welcome centre as well as the

Warsaw – Today, it's actually one of the oldest medical schools in Poland that looks the most modern. In 2015, local practice Open Architekci added a new seven-storey children's hospital to the centuries-old Medical University of Warsaw. The 80,000-sq-m University Clinical Centre is a glass block that offers a state-of-the-art facility for patients coming