Hotels & Restaurants
Noe Duchaufour Lawrance is the French designer and interior architect who completed the project Chalet Beranger. The 5,700 square feet and three-story dream home is located in St. Martin de Belleville, French Alps.
Basically, the modern home is a ski lodge in the French Alps, which has the traditional lodge appearance basing on its physical appearance exteriorly. However, it is not an ordinary chalet with regards to its interiors. The modern architecture actually has a family home appearance that looked like a cut-out from the mountains and valleys expressed in a contemporary manner. The organic form of the architecture was built around the strip of wood. The project in its entirety including the program, construction and interior design are constructed basing on its focal point – the living room where the family comes together around the warm hearth.
The public domains are located on the top floor while being isolated from the exclusive and private chambers. There is also a separated 100-square meter barn area that works as a guest house. Primarily, the place of residence consists of the main living room situated on the second floor with the great kitchen and each of the five bedrooms has been provided with its own bathroom design. In addition, the Jacuzzi area and the game room are also situated in the same level.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 20 March, 2012
Description from the architects: This amazing project by bluarch is conceptually linked to the notions of self-similarity and non-differentiability descending from the fractal definition of a geometry versus its topological essence. The ceiling installation is a three-dimensional, cloud-like, organic formation of 1/2”-square by 6-inch poplar members organized to shelter the occupants in a soft, shifting, ever-fluid space.
Similarly to fractal geometries, the ceiling installation in its layered layout is self-similar and recursive in the sense that its formal behavior is the same from near and from afar, and further exists within the fractal non-differentiability if one considers the essential multiplication of each member as its distance from the viewer increases. As such distance increases, the visual understanding of the form multiplies with the same detail, thus being non-differentiable.
Integrated and seamless is the lighting system of LED sources arranged to enhance the hovering nature of the poplar-cloud ceiling, and to multiply a weightless, mobile sense of space. The seating is anchored to one side of the room via a tufted banquette which pays homage to Mies’ Barcelona chair with its square organization of the buttons. The walls are all clad in cherry veneer, and a mirror band unifies the perception of the space as it runs throughout its perimeter. The storefront is frameless and further multiplies the ceiling installation, while opening the venue to the City.
Posted by Keren Fathi-Poor at 15 March, 2012
The Arthouse Café located in Hangzhou, China has been designed with triangular windows piercing the faceted walls, which fold around the hospitality design. This has been designed by Joey Ho – a Hong Kong designer. The location is on the top floor of the 3-story building, which includes the gallery.
Some of the triangular openings are housed within recesses that are lined with wood and the others are contained in thick wooden frames. The geometric design of triangular surfaces and facets continued through monochrome chairs and tables, which furnish the café.
This is the geometric ambience offered by the Arthouse Café as you enter its premise. Basically, no one expects what the restaurant design is until you walk into it for fine dining or perhaps just a cup of coffee. A lot of chained café have been popping up into the city today and sometimes it is the sense of familiarity that draws out people into the restaurant – not just the design itself. Many people prefer to walk inside a familiar place that is within their expectation. However, it is also quite a feat if there is a substantial change and who knows what comes as a surprise next.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 8 March, 2012
The collaboration between Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio has resulted to a marvelous hospitality design in the form of Tori-Tori Restaurant. This restaurant design is hailed as one of the best Japanese restaurants located in Mexico City secondary to its undeniable success. Tori-Tori moved to Polanco, Mexico City and in this new, bigger location stand a great restaurant to visit both for locals and visitors.
The new restaurant moved into a residential area where changes occurred in its zoning. A lot of houses were being transformed into either restaurants or commercial spaces. However, some of the changes go unnoticed – meaning there is only slight indication that a new space has been developed, designed and implemented with a different program within. This “small change” included the Tori-Tori restaurant, which Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio created.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 7 March, 2012
Located in Beijing, China particularly on the south-west corner of an office tower, the Cornerstone Restaurant designed by Studio Ramoprimo was completed early in 2011. It stands royally on a 360-square meter surface area. Damon Sun – Life Less Ordinary Group Ltd tasked Studio Ramoprimo to complete this restaurant design.
The focal point of design for the beautiful restaurant is the use of two strong walls. It defined the space as well as organizing it to an extremely functional program including the kitchen, bar counter, dining area, pizza area, lounge corner and wine cellar.
This amazing restaurant made use of a mixture of both natural and artificial materials such as brushed steel plates, wood, bricks, reflecting glass, black iron profiles and mirrors. All of these combined made the restaurant utterly modern with a touch of organic charm.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 28 February, 2012
Kengo Kuma and Associates is a firm based in Tokyo that recently completed the assigned task of designing the Café Kureon. The café is located in Toyama, Japan encompassing a meadow and the 197 square-meter restaurant that appeared to be floating and minimally touching the ground.
The restaurant design is absolutely stunning with its internal dining area placed within a glass enclosed box on the overview. The exterior of which is wrapped with interlocking lengths of timber making the concept appeared organic and earthy. The timbers were perpendicularly placed like a grid arrangement thus visually stimulating making the structure appear inverted with continuous layers at the roof line.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 13 February, 2012
The fast-food haven of Barcelona, Spain is none other than FASTVíNIC and is a physical representation of the most delicious dish. Not only the food is mouth-watering but the restaurant design as well. This particular hospitality design is entirely sustainable and eco-friendly. It is one of the must-visit restaurants in Catalan capital. Design-wise, the establishment takes on 100% organic style but more importantly on the product that they use. It does not end here as the restaurant makes use of organic utensils making the restaurant earn LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).
Alfons Tost is the one who implemented and completed the organic concept. The idea behind this amazing restaurant is to create an extremely functional design yet comfortable and organic at the same time where everyone will feel welcomed.
The actual restaurant has two levels – ground floor and the underground level. The ground floor houses the kitchen and dining area while the underground level has the bathrooms and service office. The focal point of the design is the functional creation – perimetrical dexion racking – which can be used flexibly as a bar, table, seating, rack for plants and pots, shelves and wine rack.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 6 February, 2012
