foldable cardboard furniture

Ian McDougall, Melbourne Theatre Company

“The robust sculptural facades have already become iconic and the changes to traffic and pedestrian patterns at an urban level have transformed the area into an active domain,” praised the jury.

Wave Pier design proposal

The Candy Room, RED design Group

Nature Factory Store, Tokyo

http://cubeme.com/blog/2010/12/10/nature-factory-store-by-suppose-design-office/

'Tree' design to bring nature to the retail space, made out of recycled pipes.

‘Café Day,’ Japan

For their renovation of this Izakaya (Japanese style bar) based in the quiet residential area of Numazu-shi, Shizuoka Suppose Design Office have taken inspiration from car parks, a driving school and a road. Benches designed to emulate bus stops and car seats transformed in sofas accompany the startlingly unique painted asphalt flooring complete the sensation that a road runs right on through this thoroughly unique space.


The former Izakaya was easily transformed into the Café/Day without betraying any element from the former program. It has incorporated socializing and gathering over a mug of coffee with a now new bolder effect. The architects used the power of a ‘word’ in a paradoxical manner and found a new approach in the renovation works’ design process of. Suppose Design Office has stated that they would like to start out their design process without giving a particular ‘name’ to the program, but by defining the space through the program.





http://cubeme.com/blog/2011/11/16/cafe-day-japan-by-suppose-design-office/

watercolour interior illustration

Conveying Eco messages

Lush, London
Nudie Jeans, London
Looptworks
Selfridges, London
Howies, London

WGSN link

ceilings

http://www.chictip.com/design-tips/ceiling-design-ideas

shelving extending to ceiling

In a small condo or apartment it can be difficult to plan for or sacrifice space for storage. Still, when the bookcase can look this beautiful and become an integral part of an incredible interior hallway design … well, it becomes a much easier decision to make.  In an age of digital fabrication technologies, creating curved cuts is easier than ever – especially in already-flat materials like these plywood horizontal shelves and vertical supports. DBD design + build studio had a relatively simple task: pre-cut the pieces and then fit them together as a three-dimensional puzzle on site.  A lack of shelving space for books and collected odds and ends coupled with the desire for an artistic solution let to this wrap-around, built-in solution. The unit as a whole is built up along the wall but also made to wrap across the ceiling and create a transitional envelope of engaging and undulating space between the entryway and main living spaces of the home.


http://www.hiddentreasuresmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=543:laser-cut-custom-built-wood-wall-shelves&catid=101:house-a-living&Itemid=54

D'expresso NY

The concept for the design is straightforward, bold and receptive to future locations: take the ordinary and turn it on its side. Drawing from the nearby New York Public Library in Bryant Park, the space is lined in a sepia-toned full size photograph of books printed on tiles. The custom tiles run along the floor, up the 15’ foot wall and across the ceiling. The frosted glass wall behind the service counter illuminates the space and the wall directly opposite is clad in rich brown herringbone. The thrust of this concept finds expression in the lighting and materiality, and ultimately the space gives definition to the emerging brand.


http://www.nemaworkshop.com/603302/D-espresso

slanted old style bookcase

curved library book shelves

zigzag staircase

contemporary black and white zig zag effect staircase.


http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.housedesignet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/contemporary-staircases.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.housedesignet.com/2010/07/modern-minimalist-floating-staircases-by-ecole/contemporary-staircases/&usg=__IVD_Mhx4DrnwzrYYRafnsU8gWug=&h=558&w=450&sz=151&hl=en&start=17&zoom=1&tbnid=_eWbqqA32bkewM:&tbnh=140&tbnw=118&ei=ArB2TfS5Ko2L4QbhwdzlBw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcontemporary%2Bstaircases%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1057%26bih%3D616%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C711&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=532&vpy=190&dur=3297&hovh=250&hovw=202&tx=177&ty=168&oei=_692TfaDGdGAhQeSv9SRBg&page=2&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:17&biw=1057&bih=616

Richard Chai Shop, White Cubic Interior

Richard Chai shop is temporary retail installations made by Snarkitecture collaboration with designer Richard Chai as part of a series of Fashion House HL23. Carved from the confines of existing structures under the High Line, the cloth store interior design envelops visitors in a glacial cave dug out of a single material.

Architecture of white foam cut by hand to produce erosion and extension of carved wall and ceiling to create a varied landscape for the appearance of Richard Chai’s collection. The range of shelves, niche, hang bars and other times embedded in the form of encouraging the designer to display the curatorial eye.

This cubic temporary architecture building will be open from October 21 to 31, 2010 504 West 24th Street in New York.

http://zeospot.com/retail-store-interior-design-in-cubic-temporary-architecture-building-fashion-at-hl23/

Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid - Maijik Cafe - Belgrade

Modern Cafe design in Belgrade, Serbia.  The design is vibrant and has a very unusual style, an inspirational Cafe/Resturant/Bar design.  [Building and construction study for restaurant and bar design]

Diesel Denim Gallery, Tokyo

Ohno Chikara Japanese designers have created installations from Sinato Rolls at Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Characteristics of materials used for this installation, the aluminum, is that it is very thin and easily bent by hand, but harder than cloth or paper. Therefore has both soft and hard properties. With the winding and sometimes expand the strip, a length of aluminum from the entrance to the back-end store. This store interior design creates a wave form of the beautiful, changing the functions and features as changes in material strength. The quality of flexible material representing quality connection between softness and hardness of architectural clothing.


http://zeospot.com/retail-store-interior-design-rolls-by-chikara-ohno-of-sinato/