Studio Interior Design | Signal Return | Detroit | Michigan | M1/DTW

SIGNAL–RETURN is a letterpress studio and gallery that seeks to connect the community to traditional and emergent forms of printing as well as offer a resource for entrepreneurial artists and designers to produce for retail clients............more

Visitor Information Centre Interior Design | NYC Visitor Information Center | New York | WXY Studio

Designed by WXY and Local Projects, the new NYC Visitor Information Center just north of Times Square transforms a storefront into an "information space", seamlessly integrating media design and architecture to meet visitors at any level of engagement. The Center is a portal for New York, where people discover an array of local experiences.

The view from the street pulls the visitor into the information architecture. The graphic banding of floor and walls creates a foreshortened perspective to simulate the city experience within the Center.

Community Center Interior Design | Niagara Falls Community Center I Ontario | MJMArchitects

The MacBain Community Centre is a multi-stakeholder civic project that combines several community programs under one roof. A central lobby, with reception and snack bar, provides common access and views to several key building areas: the public library, gymnasium and swimming pools. The YMCA of Niagara operates the gymnasium, courts, fitness and aquatic centre for the City of Niagara Falls Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture. Multi-purpose facilities for community meeting and wellness functions are shared with Heart Niagara, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Niagara and the Coronation 50+ Seniors Centre. Also accessible from the lobby is a state-of-the-art branch of the Niagara Falls Public Library.

Built on a highly visible landfill area at the corner of Montrose and McLeod Road in Niagara Falls, the rejuvenated site now features re-naturalized areas, parkland, walking trails, children’s playground and skateboard park. This project was completed in joint venture with Chapman Murray Architects of Niagara Falls.........more

Dordrecht Civic Centre | Dordrecht | The Netherlands | Dirk Jan Postel

The renovation of the interior of the Dordrecht council offices consists of two sections: the municipal service desk on the ground floor, with office space for the Register Office, and the offices on the four overlying floors in the western wing. This new interior accommodates a number of units of the flexible office concept. The municipal service desk has an open, transparent and spacious lay-out. Clients can comfortably wait for their turn, while enjoying a clear view of the goings-on at the counter and of the street outside. Various facilities have been positioned throughout this area, such as waiting benches, a photo booth, a children’s play corner, a reading table and an information wall...............more

The Palace of International Forums | Uzbekistan | Ippolito Fleitz Group

The Palace of International Forums »Uzbekistan«stands on Amir Timur Square in the very centre of Tashkent. The country’s most important representative building is designed as a platform for hosting acts of state, congresses, conferences and other cultural highlights.

Our task was to give the interior a contemporary form, while incorporating elements from traditional Uzbek architecture. The result is a cosmopolitan, communicative interior clothed in exclusive materials. Planar ornamentation, organic movement, crystals, precious metals and a fascinating interplay of artificial and natural light all become a source of inspiration. ....more

Ministry of Economic Affairs | The Hague | The Netherlands | Capezed

Complete interior refurbishment of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, aimed at vitality and flexibility. The construction was originally arranged with closed hallways in the middle of each floor that were equipped with office spaces on both sides. In the new interior, this layout has been entirely abandoned. The offices haven been designed as open, light and transparant spaces, which has gained a lot of spatial quality. For the larger part, the new interior consists of flexible workstations provided with the latest ICT-facilities. These have been designed as concentration workplaces, open-plan offices or study café and have been integrated into environments with facilities such as meeting, lunch and lounge rooms. The several functions have been distinctly zoned and every floor has been furnished with a different theme. Because of the various ambiences and materials, the different parts of the ministry have acquired different characteristics, which makes for a better orientation and identification of the users. The interior is completely flexible and demountable. Accordingly, future redoings are easy and can be implemented without major construction-technical interventions......more

Office Interior Design | Netherlands Embassy in Madrid | Madrid | Spain

Interior of the new offices of the Netherlands embassy in Madrid, housed on the 36th and 37th floor of the Pei Cobb Freed and partners-designed Torre Espacio skyscraper. At this level, the tower has a lens-shaped floor plan, so that the interior has a configuration with a lot of curved outlines. Furthermore, in accordance with cepezed-philosophy the embassy interior has been designed with a lot of transparancy, so that the grand views over the city and its surroundings are almost omnipresent. As other embassies of the Netherlands' Crown, the post in Madrid has also been decorated with an abundance of Dutch art and Dutch design furniture.....more

The Twinning project | Rotterdam | EGM Architecten

The Twinning project consists of a congress that is flush with the expo hall, and a superjacent office. Starting point in the interior design was that the overall height and size of the original hall had to remain visible. Thus, the modern interior as a 'loose' filling in the spaces with a hung bridge and a staircase to the individual functions accessible. The draft also refers to the originally present 'pavilions' finished with wooden slats. The lining of the curved walls and floors vomrt modern aluminum implementation. All the rooms in which technology is fully integrated into the walls and floors of the object. Twinning is a part of the masterplan Beurs-WTC Rotterdam. This plan includes the upgrading and updating of the low-rise buildings from the thirties and the excavation and service areas located in the tower added later.....more

The Australian Wildlife Centre Designed By Minifie von Schaik Architect

The Australian Wildlife Centre is a building quite unique in both its function and form. It is both a fully functioning veterinary facility, and a remarkable and compelling experience for Sanctuary visitors.

The building has been designed to bring Healesville visitors into close contact with the vets and their patients to gain a vivid understanding of how sick and injured Australian animals are cared for. From a central space visitors can witness the diagnosis of animals, the work of the laboratory, see animals being operated on, and view them recovering and returning to health. A rich multimedia interpretive experience enables visitors to gain a keen understanding of how animals become injured and the full range of activities involved in their care....more

Interior Design | London Public Library | NAT architects

London Public Library

NAT architects were asked "the thick walls' shape in the OBA. Here is the transparency of the whole a major requirement. The appearance of the thick wall should be as transparent as possible, so that vision remains from the library in the reading rooms.

The task is spread over two floors. The deepening of nature and technology and the deepening of social sciences.

1.The deepening science and technology is a large amount of concentrated study areas, adjacent to the study. These three types of study on this floor: the individual study in the four study groups on study areas and study in an study cell locked up with two people.
It is possible to concentrate the whole of the proposed strip.
The task is a NAT Architects at first looked at its capabilities.
The question seems a paradox, how can a closed program as transparent as possible? Should such private program designed to be as open as possible? I
t seems logical to NAT Architects program decided to remain closed between here and transparency.
Would not it be wonderful if the study cells as small units decided by the study landscape were strewn around, so that exciting views through the gap and a unity within a glassy shell?

2. On the floor of social sciences calls for a concentrated service strip shape, adjacent to the private meeting rooms.
The meeting rooms just need to minimize distractions. There seems no problem to the service lane a more closed appearance.
This constitutes the starting point of the design.
One lane closed paths traversed by the shortest route to the meeting rooms and provide access to the program in the strip.
The paths will not necessarily orthogonal, but as the urban plan concentric and diagonally to create exciting lines of sight, the meeting rooms somewhat obscure.
The inside of the cuts will be as transparent as a skin, in contrast to the closed exterior. Here are the entrances and controlled lighting.
This will be cast a curious glance at the contents of this service strip. In this design the glass.
That is as material as open as possible and color as possible and sometimes absent reflective!....more 
Client: City of Amsterdam /Jo Coenen
Gross Area.: 435 m2
Contractor: Hillen & Roosen-De Nijs
stage: Completed
Photos: Peter Cuypers

Community Center Interior | Maasstraat | amsterdam | B-Architecten

location Maasstraat 14, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
year 2008
client Gemeente Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
sq.m. 530 m2

team Evert Crols, Dirk Engelen, Sven Grooten, Tom Jonckers, Julie Mabilde, Klaas Vanslembrouck

Community house 'Libérateurs' serves as a meeting point for the habitants of the Maritiem quarter in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, offers a shelter for local initiatives and organises after-school assistance. A new vertical circulation area acts as a strong backbone for the building. The facade is renewed with transparant materials: a large gate at the groundfloor and clear windows at the other levels, clearly showing the activities to the neighbourhood.

An entrance areais located behind the large gate, together with a second large polyvalent hall or exhibition zone, two offices and sanitary. A curtain serves as a buffer when necessary. Offices and waiting area or disconnected from the polyvalent space through a transparent and flexible wall. A new rooflight can be opened when needed for natural ventilation. An existing spiralling staircase connects the offices with a small archive in the cellar. .....more

Public Building Interior | Nestle Factory Visitor Center | São Paulo | Designed By Metro

The main intention of the design of the visiting area for a Neslte factory was to highlight the generic landscape of the highway that joins São Paulo and Rio, revealing the presence of the new structure. That new visibility will be accomplished with the installation of two towers, made of glass and steel, that grant access to the new course, while functionally resolving the conflicting fluxes of products and visitors. The structural geometry and the materials used were designed as to trigger a sensory and perceptive experience and to contribute to the comprehension of the informations about the history and production of chocolate distributed along the course.....more

Date of project:2009
Predicted date of completion:2010
Architectural design:
Anna Ferrari, Gustavo Cedroni e Martin Corullon
Total area:1.850 m²

Temporary Library Interior | Gruppoa12

Exhibition "Strategies Against Architecture II", Fondazione Teseco, Pisa 2001

An industrial container is customized to contain a transportable library. The roof is removed, the interior is painted pink. A new raised level, built out of steel I-beams and metal grating is inserted inside the container and becomes accessible through a steel staircase. The library becomes a point of observation of the surroundings. Books and material concerning the artists and topics of the exhibitions in which the container is inserted are available to the public thus defining a space of rest and meditation.

Il progetto lavora su due piani distinti: la realizzazione di un oggetto e uno spazio fruibile all’interno della mostra e la costruzione di un confronto indiretto con gli altri partecipanti all’esposizione. L’intervento prevede l’allestimento di due spazi: uno esterno costituito da un container riadattato e trasformato in biblioteca temporanea in cui sono mostrati i differenti testi che gli artisti presenti in mostra hanno segnalato come significativi del proprio percorso di ricerca, l’altro,negli spazi interni della fondazione, destinato a diventare uno spazio di lettura e consultazione dei libri scelti.....more
photo: Alessandro Cimmino

Public Building Interior Design | Curno Library and Auditorium | Curno - Bergamo, Italy | Archea

LOCATION: Curno - Bergamo
PROJECT: Biblioteca e auditorium
CLIENT: Comune di Curno
STRUCTURES: Studio Myallonnier
SYSTEMS: Studio Armondi
PLAN: 1996
REALISATION: 1999-2009
COST: € 2.000.000,00
BUILT AREA: 1.960 mq
VOLUME: 8.200 mc
CONTRACTOR: Viola Costruzioni
The site for the building of a new public library and a small auditorium with 250 seats has been found inside an existing school campus. The location has suggested the idea of a project centred on the continuity of the surrounding public area. The building, conceived as a kind of open book, is therefore characterized by a sloping roof which is terraced to form stands, and which may be used for open-air events, to extend the public square in front to the roof of the building. The plan distinguishes the activities which pivot on the rectangular hall of the auditorium from the areas of the library, whose perimeter consists of a longitudinal outline characterized by the jagged geometry of the external facade. The line of demarcation and communication between the two areas takes the form of a new urban itinerary, a triple-height void paced horizontally by a system of split levels which in their turn serve as communication paths, and vertically by a succession of uprights which structure the entire wall as container case of books. The materials, which have been reduced to the essentiality of an untreated concrete mixed with colour, have made it possible to mould the vertical surfaces as the pages of a conceptual book, engraved here and there with letters.....more