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Callie Restaurant
The Callie restaurant design project, by Los Angeles-based Studio UNLTD, includes the replacement of the interiors of a 638 square meter space on the ground floor of a corporate high-rise in downtown San Diego, California.
12th Street Townhouse
The clients for this wood frame townhouse renovation and extension wanted a house full of saturated color, pattern, texture, and light, with Art Deco and mid-century touches and reclaimed materials.
ModernHaus Hotel
Palette Architecture is proud to unveil its contemporary refurbishment of ModernHaus SoHo, a luxurious 114-room boutique hotel formerly known as The James New York. Situated in New York City’s vibrant SoHo district., the property was acquired by the current owners in 2017, and the hotel has changed ownership twice since its original construction in 2010. The client’s vision was to rebrand the hotel in a more contemporary style, breathing new life into the prominent structure and softening the rough material palette of its original design.
Iru Izakaya: When Tradition Meets Modernity
The concept was strongly inspired by the post-war alleyways where the izakayas were established, and by their dark and raw side.
Camp-de-Touage Service Center | Pointe-Taillon National Park
The Camp de Touage Service Center combines a coherent and poetic architectural resolution with its natural environment. In direct relation to the mission of promoting the resort and the general public vocation of the SÉPAQ, it evokes territorial and historical references related to the log drive and forestry, integrates the route of the Vélo route des Bleuets, and favors the discovery of the site in an enveloping wooden case by all visitors to the region.
Cuckoo House
Located in an urban renewal zone by a river in Da Nang, Vietnam, this residential construction uses the ground floor as a small cafe formed by rectangular brick walls, while the upper floor serves as the living space of a nuclear family, which is combined by three different blocks on a square plane.
The Courtyard Office
The courtyard office derives its principles from traditional Indian courtyard houses, resulting in office spaces that vary in volume and in orientation, allowing open spaces to be integrated with enclosed ones, and creating energy-efficient workspaces.
Taipei Performing Arts Center
Located at Taipei’s Shilin Night Market marked by its vibrant street culture, Taipei Performing Arts Center is architecture in limbo: specific yet flexible, undisrupted yet public, iconic without being conceived as such.
The Lantern
Nestled in Quebec's Laurentian forest, this residence is a composition of volumes with soothing and balanced proportions which, on winter nights, sparkles through the woods like a guiding lantern. The architectural structure, facing a large mountain and a beautiful lake, is spread across three levels, totaling 4,500 sq.ft. (420 sq.m. ).
Repentigny Theater
The new Repentigny Theatre is the result of an architectural competition aimed at offering patrons a variable configuration room with 350 seats for various cultural activities, while also providing a prominent space for classical music. The project completes a civic ensemble called Repentigny Cultural Space, conceived and developed at the heart of the municipality.
MB
From fluid promenade to pragmatic functionality, MB offers a rehabilitation of a Montreal cottage orchestrating a sculptural experience with an architectural dimension. Interfering in the daily life of a couple of young professionals, a system, both simple and complex, multiplies geometric interweavings and visual breakthroughs to reveal a home in the image of its owners.
Saint-Hubert apartment
Vives St-Laurent studio presents their most recent interior project: the renovation of an apartment located on Saint-Hubert Street in Montreal. This sector of Plateau Mont-Royal includes many Victorian-style houses built at the end of the 19th century. Curved walls, moldings, and high ceilings provide the apartments with unique character, which is also recognizable in the way the rooms align into rows. That particular existing layout dictated the orientation of the design for the project.
Cube House
Palette Architecture, a firm focused on the creation of built environment that enhances the daily experience of our contemporary lives, is proud to unveil CUBE | HOUSE, located in historic brownstone Brooklyn, New York. The late-1800s Italianate townhouse needed rescue. After previous owners stripped away the original details, partitions, and materials, the building's spirit had become muddled. The design brief called for the revitalization of the house's original character, with contemporary connections to history and nature.
Meijie Yun Lake Courtyard Resort
Meijie.Xiuju（Yun Lake Courtyard Resort) is located in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, on a hillside adjacent to the bank of Yun Lake. The building was originally a spare enclosed office building. Due to its unique location adjacent to the scenic spot, the owners wanted to transform it into a boutique resort hotel in order to promote the local tourism industry. Studio DOTCOF accepted the commission and carried out the renovation design.
Louis-Hémon House
A small brick house located on Louis-Hémon Street in Montreal recently underwent a major transformation. This residence had remained virtually unchanged since its construction in the 1950s. The program consisted of creating new living spaces that are bright, pleasant, and more adapted to a contemporary lifestyle, while respecting the original character of the residence.
T0 Sumibi Yakiniku | Shibuyanaka Sushi
The overall design for T0 Japanese cuisine brand is inspired by five Chinese elements - namely metal, wood, water, fire, and earth - which coincide with their different series of products. Through one entrance, there are two dining zones, and the water and fire concept is respectively adopted in T0 Shibuya Naka Sushi | Charcoal-grilled meat restaurant, an establishment combining OMAKASE sushi and charcoal fire roasts. First, for the fusion of two elements, the designers borrowed the concept of the traditional Japanese architectural wooden frame structure to build up and divide the interior space. Additionally, two circulations for sushi (water) and yakiniku (fire) are arranged in an irregular layout, with different dining zones also distinguished by different floor heights. Two zones are divided by a bidirectional glass wine cabinet in the middle, which can be opened at both sides and enables either zone to be seen from the other side. By means of “creating spaces within a space”, the firm also embedded private dining rooms into the space, where layers of space achieved through different floor heights, a collision of different textured materials, a variety of lighting design, circulations in a variety of orientations, and changing scenery, and movement between open and enclosed spaces all contribute to a fascinating sense of oriental mystery.
Forest path in the Roques Blanques Cemetery
a vertical garden based on Krainer wall technology was proposed, which is an innovative system based on bioengineering applied to the landscape. As a natural retaining system, it generates a large green terrace, including a suitable and accessible space for new graves, allowing for the integration of existing trees and adding new local species. It is designed to be built quickly with natural materials from the immediate surroundings.
The Leap to Copper
The symbiosis between materials, textures and earthy colours awakens a visual comfort that creates a precious symphony of emotional wellbeing
Sollertia’s Textile Architecture
No project more thoroughly incorporates the complexity of Sollertia’s specialized expertise than the firm’s commission as part of a major renovation of Montreal’s Biodome, a science museum immersing visitors in a diversity of delicate ecosystems. While the demands of the project pushed the firm to its limits, Sollertia rose to meet every challenge head on, and to expand the boundaries of their discipline. The project’s scale of complexity drew on multiple areas of expertise, and Sollertia embarked on a journey to design and install membranes to form the facility’s transit corridors and transition spaces between the various ecosystems. Drawing upon past experiences working on projects facilities in the Biodome’s surrounding Olympic complex, the Sollertia team developed a series of different prototypes before working closely with KANVA, lead architects of the project, to select the perfect balance of materiality, flexibility, and durability for the project.
Robert Street Residences
Two adjacent contemporary houses in a Victorian Toronto neighbourhood, designed by the same architect and for the same client, subtly respond to the local vernacular and to each other, while expressing their own unique characters. Designed and constructed over a span of 10 years, the first house was completed in 2011, and the second house in 2021.
Haikou International Duty Free Reception Center
Architecture, dating back to the Stone Age, has used the basic structure of wind to provide people with shelter from rain. On the basis of functionality, the pursuit of a more spiritual soul is injected. The building is located in the Haikou Binhai New Area, not only characteristic of a sales center, but also a modern art gallery. It is the gateway to the west coast city and the spiritual fortress of this area.
Sustainable Home
By taking cues and inspiration from the surrounding landscape, Studio Schicketanz, led by Mary Ann Schicketanz, designed a breathtaking, sustainable home that literally blends into the hillside for a Silicon Valley-based family, their two daughters, and live-in parent, looking for a new lease on life. What was initially planned as a weekend getaway has, given the pandemic, turned into the ultimate quarantine escape, where they can enjoy the ocean front pool and views, a game room, a den, a large kitchen, and everything else that the special property has to offer.
EG
Addressing the fictional potential of architectural space, the EG project is part of an actual hybridization between architecture and installation intervention. Fascinated by the photographic worlds illustrating the eclectic production of Jean Verville, clients, eager for unusual creative experiences, adopt the playful approach of the architect with passion, rigor, and sensitivity. The result is an architecture that is both functional and aesthetic, offering a minimalist and playful experience distinctive of the work of Studio Jean Verville architectes.
Osmo X Marusan Café
MDT Mobilier, a well-known Montreal steel furniture design and production studio, is proud to unveil its concept for the new Osmo X Marusan café-terrace, formerly known as Café Osmo. Owners Hideyuki Imaizumi and David Schmidt wanted to change the venue’s vocation and transform the café into a hybrid collective space that serves as a café, bar, boutique, and event space.
Butternut
Built with prefabricated walls, as part of a model house project, Butternut is a single-storey house that explores living as a game of volumes that balances openness and intimacy.
With the constraint of the dimensions of the structural insulated panels (SIP), the project represented a great challenge of construction and creativity for the architect. In order to break the standardization effect of prefabrication, the residence unfolds through four volumes that play with the heights, and whose layout offers a rich journey offering multiple views and atmospheres.
With the constraint of the dimensions of the structural insulated panels (SIP), the project represented a great challenge of construction and creativity for the architect. In order to break the standardization effect of prefabrication, the residence unfolds through four volumes that play with the heights, and whose layout offers a rich journey offering multiple views and atmospheres.