Starhill Gallery featuring an extraordinary array of luxury shops and fine dining restaurants. Spark’s design proposal dealt with the reinvention of the existing façade of Starhill Gallery facing Bukit Bintang. This reinvention of Starhill Gallery is designed by Stephen Pimbley, founding director of Spark and the architect behind Singapore’s hugely popular Clarke Quay. The designer said about this project:
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Homes always reflect the personalities of their owners in some ways, but the K House in Melbourne, Australia goes further than most. The owners’ last name begins with a K, so the entire house was designed around that letter. The house itself, a vacation beach home, is shaped like a “K” that has been partially rotated in the middle. Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architects designed the house to let the residents enjoy premium ocean views.
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Rossignol is a leader in the snow sports industry, so they wanted their new headquarters to reflect their technology and manufacturing as well as their commitment to the outdoors. Hérault Arnod Architectes takes direct inspiration from the surrounding landscape, topography, and materials. A giant roof, which envelopes the whole project, is organic in form with undulations, peaks, valleys and slopes. Inside, the facilities provide space for the production of equipment, service rooms, offices for management, marketing, travel services, administrative and sales offices, R & D, design, and a “mountain restaurant”, which is similar to lodges at ski resorts.
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Mario Nanni is a renowned draftsman of light. He works in his studios in London, Milan, Barcelona and Bologna. The interest and the curiosity for light and his relationship with architects and designers of international stature bring him to experimentation and design for more than 35 years, collecting every day new challenges. Nowadays, his principal activity regards his “Mario Nanni Progettista” Atelier, a workshop of ideas, of projects, a school of thought, a workshop between poetry and craft. During the interview, Nanni talks about his experiments and how his light installations transform the boundaries of architecture in projects such as Poesie di Luce or the LIV: variable image light bulb.
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Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects designed the Gallery House in San Francisco, California. This project proposes a new domestic typology: a ‘gallery house’. It combines a semi-public art gallery and a residence for two prominent collectors who have redefined what it means to live with and look after art. The clients, a virologist and a mathematician, exclusively collect work by female contemporary artists and feel compelled to share and promote their collection, not only with friends but also with the larger art world. They requested a home within which both their extensive collection and visitors could circulate from a semi-public gallery through to the domestic space, each zone offering a different environment for experiencing the work. The street-level gallery hosts exhibitions curated from their private collection as well as the collections of friends. A site for artist and curator talks, the gallery increases public engagement in the arts within the art world as well as at the scale of their own neighborhood. Extending and redefining the exhibition space as it continues up the stairs to the next two floors and the penthouse sculpture garden, the domestic zone includes even the most private spaces in the exhibition circuit by virtue of its open plan. Architects wrote also about this project:
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Breakfast is often cited as the most important meal of the day – and for good reason. It’s a jump-starter that provides the fuel you need to make it through your busy morning until it’s time for lunch. If you’re like most, you have just enough time to grab a granola bar or other similar food-on-the-go before heading out the door. However, by creating a cozy breakfast nook in your home you may be more apt to sit and savor your chosen breakfast meal each and every morning. Here are some ideas to inspire the perfect breakfast nook.
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Pool terraces are one of the most spectacular ways to expand your home and give it that fresh, holiday feel. And since summer is just around the corner, what better way to welcome it, than preparing our crib for the great moments that come with the season. For today, we decided to dedicate a post to those of you thinking of building a poolside terrace, or remodeling your existing one. We put together a post with thirty photos, each of them displaying ideas that should get you inspired, whether you choose to go with an infinity pool design, or a small pool surrounded by vegetation and cozy chairs or canopy beds. You can opt for a themed terrace with wooden decks, or a minimalist one made of concrete- either way, pay attention to the smallest details and decorative elements, as they can make all the difference. Saving some outdoor space for a dining table is also something you should consider when making plans for a poolside terrace. Enjoy the photos, remember the details you like best and don’t forget to share your thoughts with us.
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It’s time to hit the books. To pull out a stiff wooden chair, sit at an equally stiff desk and crane your neck over several hours worth of study. The study room, a hybrid between Dad’s Office and Grandpa’s Library needs a little morale boost that will inspire great works. Change out the furniture to ergonomic and fun, splash the walls with subliminal education and straight A’s followed by valedictorian will be typed up on your college applications. These features will help encourage prepping for tests and completing assignments but not all these features will inspire the same way. You need to reacquaint yourself with your children to get in some hands on interaction. Ask your children what class or period of school they love most. And don’t let them get away with one-word answers. Probe deep into their minds to find what it is exactly that they charm them to push for full attendance. Reach past their tough or shy exteriors into their dreams for the future and hopes of today. Then apply those guidelines to the formation. A class that involves just sitting in your seat may appeal to your offspring who love to catch a nap but despite its clichéd overuse, learning can be fun.
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