Interior Design News

Interior Design News

Interior Design News featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Piccola Enoteca

Piccola Enoteca is an Italian restaurant interior located in Zhubei City, Taiwan. The design occupies six floors on a narrow site facing the street. Balconies with black handrails shape the facade, while large doors and windows add depth to the exterior. Each floor is defined by a different use and by a color that remains part of one unified system. The basement is formed like a grotto with a mysterious ambiance. An internal courtyard extends the visual depth and draws the view upward to starry lighting fixtures. Materials include hand made blackened steel, marble and wood.

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AIMO Hiit

H I I T is a training center interior in Shenzhen. The layout follows functional requirements to create a compact and flowing arrangement. The space is divided by a mix of solid and transparent elements. Metal, stone and other raw materials bring together art and industrial style. Curves and straight lines are contrasted, echoing the arches of the Roman Colosseum. A public walkway framed by two glass partitions forms the main axis and leads to the water bar, leisure area, classroom, changing room, physical examination room, gymnastics room and VIP room.

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Flavour Funhouse

Flavour Funhouse is an underground shopping mall interior in Hong Kong. The design draws on nineteenth century iron and glass galleria architecture. Metal and glass shop fronts and black grid sliding doors give the whole environment a homogeneous and timeless atmosphere. A high black metallic ceiling with a metal grid holds lights and decoration and preserves the full basement height. Three types of floor tiles, including hexagonal ones, mark different zones. A food court offers bar counters, small tables and a long wooden table for varied groups. Space is also given to contemporary art.

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Mastech Dongguan

To consider high density of users, multiple business relations, and unknown meeting typologies, this workplace aims to be open-plan and non-standard paradigm, to support any type of group talks. At the 1st floor, the reception area is compartmentalized by flooring plans. Each area faces to different orientation, bringing a little contrast, but maintaining more privacy during business talks. On 4th floor, considerable office desks are installed in the core area, surrounded by a loop of artificial turf running track, connecting every division and uniting working forces among peers.

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Lights and Shadows

Lights and Shadows is a residential apartment interior design of 225 square meters in New Taipei City. The design combines modern furniture with light American style wall trims. The public space holds a lounge and a dining room, and joins the role of a club reception with everyday home life. Grey is the main color, applied on delicate spray-painted walls and coarse-textured stucco walls. An orange sofa in the lounge and a blue long bench beside the dining table add contrast and balance the color temperature. A central island style television wall defines the lounge.

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BeantoBar

An important element of this design was to bring out the appeal of the materials used. The main material used was western red cedar, which is also used in their first store in Japan. As a way of showing the material, Riki Watanabe stacked up a mosaic pattern by piling together pieces one by one like a parquet, making use of the essence of materials uneven colors. Despite using the same materials, by cutting them out, Riki Watanabe was successfully able to vary the expressions depending on the viewing angles.

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