Interior Design Magazine

DECEMBER 2012
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Winner of the Best of Year Green category and designed by Randy Brown Architects, the Elkhorn River Research Station in Sarpy County, Nebraska, is a 70-square-foot wonder of angular planes clad in Cor-Ten steel. Photography: Assassi Productions.
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PAUL DYER/WONDERFUL MACHINE
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DIANE MIDDLEBROOK WRITERS CABINS, WOODSIDE, CALIFORNIA
Carl Djerassi is an author and scientist who, incidentally, played a pivotal role in the invention of the birth control pill. This year, his philanthropic Djerassi Resident Artists Program opened a mini complex comprising four 280-square-foot cabins in northern California. Named in honor of his late wife, Diane Middlebrook, a biographer, they were designed by CCS Architecture. Each unit has a private bathroom, which certainly comes in handy during month-long live-in residencies for writers, poets, composers, and playwrights. CCS, which provided some of its creative services probono, installed assorted bathroom-tile samples taken from their own materials library. Since the coastal Santa Cruz Mountain site is often cloaked in fog, each interior provides a workspace that has a view outside through a sliding glass door. There is a sleeping nook toward the back, and a skylight that corresponds to an opening in the leggy pre-engineered corrugated-steel canopy above, which also supports solar panels. The cabins red-cedar siding is unfinished, to weather to silvergray over time. Craig Kellogg
CASS CALDER SMITH; TIMOTHY QUAYLE; BARBARA TURPIN-VICKROY: PROJECT TEAM.
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RANDY BROWN ARCHITECTS

BOZELL, OMAHA
Big space, small budget? No problem for Randy Brown, who got to show his design chops with a 7,000-square-foot office for Bozell, a 50-strong advertising and public-relations agency in Omaha that buzzes with Generation Y graphic designers, Web programmers, and social-media mavens. The site is on the ground floor of a former factory dating to the 1880s, and Randy Brown Architects did virtually nothing to change its bones. Not a single wall, column, or old lighting fixture was moved. Nor was anything done to the 100-year-plus painted wooden floor. Walls got a fresh coat of white paint, exposed bricks were sandblasted, and the dropped drywall ceiling was removed, exposing a beautiful wooden structure. Since Bozell eschews privacy and hierarchical trappings in favor of an all-for-one set-up, Brown gave them a single open workspace. He did, however, provide staffers places for solitary thinking and ad-hoc meetings in the form of a trio of freestanding structures made of salvaged wood. Somewhat like roofless, teetering yurts, theyre the projects wow factor. Edie Cohen
CHRIS TURNER; JEFF GILLWAY; ANDREW CONZETT; SEAN WARD: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Jay Godfrey, New York. standout The burgeoning womens fashion brands first boutique1,100 square feet near the High Lineplays cinderblocks and concrete flooring against sexy tinted mirrors and display fixtures of nickel-finished plumbing pipe.
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FROM TOP: ANTON KISSELGOFF (2); JIM SIMMONS (2)
project Sunset Triangle Plaza, Los Angeles. standout This year-long pilot, part of the citys Streets for People initiative, reinvented an underused asphalt right-of-way as an 11,000-square-foot recreation plaza sporting painted polka dots, custom umbrellas, potted plants, and a basketball hoop.
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ELLIOTT + ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS
CHESAPEAKE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, OKLAHOMA CITY
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Rand Elliott has innovated yet again at Oklahoma Citys Chesapeake Energy Corporationfertile ground for the Interior Design Hall of Fame member, who has completed 20 projects on the 111-acre campus. For his most recent contribution, the Elliott + Associates Architects principal tapped his inner kid to create the Chesapeake Child Development Center, a 63,000-square-foot wonderland fostering curiosity and fun. The project is a collection of buildingsclad in gray brick and Kelly green, royal blue, and Big Bird yellow aluminum-composite panelsnestled into a verdant hillside. The vivid colors extend to the centers interior, which Elliott divided it into four primary colorcoded quadrants organized by ageinfants, 1- to 2-yearolds, and 3- to 5-year-oldsplus one for staff facilities. He supplemented corridor colors with floor graphics that familiarize children with traffic-related symbols: arrows and wavy, double, and broken lines. A transverse corridor links all the quadrantsa 180-foot-long bolt of sunny yellow that not only bridges the sites grade change, but also provides an indoor play ramp. Color abounds in the lobby, too. Its here that children get perhaps their first taste of contemporary design via blocky lounge chairs by Niels Bendtsen and Quinze & Milan foam cubes. Edie Cohen
BILL YEN; KEN FITZSIMMONS; KARL WOLF: PROJECT TEAM.
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project James Berry Elementary, Houston. standout Rainwater-collection cisterns, energymanagement systems, and abundant natural light add up to this grammar school being on track to receive LEED certification.
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Perkins + Will Canada

project Instructional Centre at University of Toronto Mississauga, Ontario. standout The exterior and interior are clad in vertical planks of oxidized copper in varying widths.
Shepley Bulfinch
project Harvard Innovation Lab, Allston, Massachusetts. standout This 1964 TV studio building, where Julia Child shot her cooking show, got a new aluminum facade, but its original geometric concrete ceiling remains.
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SKYLAB ARCHITECTURE
NIKE CAMP VICTORY, EUGENE, OREGON
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It came and went like a flashor a swooshas youd expect from a sneaker company celebrating the art and design of speed. During the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials track and field competition, Nike Camp Victory, an 80-by-150-foot playground for adults by Skylab Architecture, occupied a soccer field right next-door to the action on the University of Oregon track. Three temporary exhibition pavilionstriangular and thrustingwere canted to evoke a runner exploding out of the starting blocks. Each steelframed structure measured 1,500 square feet and had a fabric skin of lightweight high-tensile membrane. Ranging at turns from transparent to reflective, the pavilions were accented like Nike products with the companys singular logo. Tech-driven interiors highlighted real-time athletes in motion on the track, as well as cutting-edge materials innovations in Nike shoes. Then there was an interactive running competition involving treadmills. Nevertheless, after a run of just 10 days, the installation was disassembled and whisked away, without a trace. Craig Kellogg
JEFF KOVEL; SEBASTIAN GUIVERNAU; BRENT GRUBB; CIARAN FITZGERALD; LIZZIE FALKENSTEIN: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Space Journey, Hong Kong. standout Entered through a hall flanked with rows of fish tanks, darkened galleries spotlighted a pagoda of stacked mooncake boxes and a pavilion of Chinese paper envelopes tied together with red string.
project Netscape, Los Angeles. standout SCI-Arc faculty members and their students knitted 45,000 linear feet of rope to support saillike fabric louvers, which provided shade for the audience of 900 assembled in the schools parking lot for graduation ceremonies.
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Shelton, Mindel & Associates

project Important Nordic Design, Phillips de Pury & Company, London. standout Chronologically arranged Scandinavian design masterworks in the 18,000-square-foot galleries were underscored, nationally speaking, with geometric silk-screened canvases based on the flags of Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.
FROM TOP: NIRUT BENJABANPOT (3); ART GRAY (2); MICHAEL MORAN/OTTO (3)
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RANDY BROWN ARCHITECTS

ELKHORN RIVER RESEARCH STATION, SARPY COUNTY, NEBRASKA
A scientific field laboratory might not be the place youd expect to find an architectural marvel, but thats the case when you round a certain bend on the Elkhorn River in eastern Nebraska. Designed by local firm Randy Brown Architects, the testing facility is a compact 70-square-foot wonder of angular planes that rises phoenixlike out of the rushing waters on steel polesa structural move that ensures the building in no way impedes the rivers natural ebb and flow. Pollution from factories, urban encroachment, agricultural practices, and beef feedlots is affecting the water quality of Nebraskas rivers. This pilot project, the first of seven planned riverside research stations, was commissioned by the University of Nebraska at Omahas Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory so that its scientists can study and monitor contamination levels in the regions waterways. Clad in Cor-Ten steel, and powered by solar panels, the probe has the weathered patina of an old sea vessel. Inside, specimen tanks, water-testing equipment, and computer workspace are tucked into every available nookeven the steel door doubles as a beaker stand. Georgina McWhirter
ASSASSI PRODUCTIONS RANDY BROWN: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Resnick Institute for Sustainability and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Pasadena, California. standout A renovation that included removing such design problems as lightblocking concrete sunshades led to a sunny, open environment, perfectly in tune with the institutes raison dtre.
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project Google, San Francisco. standout Doors, cabinetry, and cables recycled and repurposed from the buildings previous tenants plus daylight-control systems were part of the sustainable redesign of this 80,000square-foot outpost of the Internet giant.
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FROM TOP: BENNY CHAN/FOTOWORKS (2); ERIC LAIGNEL (2); TORFI AGNARSSON (2)
project Ice House, Reykjavik, Iceland. standout Raised off the ground to reduce its impact on the land, this vacation residences HVAC and carpet were omitted to improve indoor air quality while spruce decking was sourced locally.
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ZGF ARCHITECTS
RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
The challenge in designing this 334,000-square-foot childrens component of Legacy Emanuel Medical Center was to keep the message of serious treatment intact while softening the medical glare. Color became a prime humanizing element, with each hospital zone themed to one of the states regions: soothing ocean blue or cheerful sun yellow in the neonatal intensive-care unit; lush mountain green in outpatient-procedure areas; desert orange in the same-day surgery section. Emboldened by research establishing the strong connection children have with imagery found in nature, ZGF Architects assigned a different regional animal to each of the nine levels, where the mascots appear in custom art glass, emblazoned on light boxes, and applied to zebrawood veneer. Past the LED-backlit solid-surfacing frieze lining the two-story entry lobby, a pebble-lined path of terrazzo flooring connects the addition to the main hospital, casually meandering past cheery trees and birdhouses commissioned from local sculptor Larry Kirkland. Mark McMenamin
ROBERT FRASCA; SHARRON VAN DER MEULEN; ROBERT PACKARD; KIP STOREY; JULIE JENSON; FRANCO ROSETE; KATE LONGENECKER; KENTON MCSWEEN; HALLIDAY MEISBURGER; ADAM CHRISTIE; JUSTIN BROOKS; RANDY MCGEE; SCOTT TARRANT; NICK MICHEELS; JENNIFER MOUNTAIN; SOLVEI NEIGER; SUE ANN BARTON; KATHERINE WALKER; KIM ISAACSON; ROBERT WOOD; SARA SCHMIDT: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Bayt Abdullah Childrens Hospice, Kuwait. standout From striped rubber flooring and play nooks to supersize gender IDs on restroom doors, color proves a playful tonic.
project Dale & Francis Hughes Cancer Center, Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. standout Curved wood-and-acrylic dividers in the lobby reference the surrounding Pocono Mountains, while actual boulders nearby make the connection even more immediately.
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project Duke Cancer Center, Durham, North Carolina. standout Mahogany beams form soaring Gothic arches in the central atrium, where the epoxy-terrazzo floor sparkles with rosettes of recycled mirror and mother of pearl.
FROM TOP: FRANCIS DZIKOWSKI/ESTO (2); RON BLUNT PHOTOGRAPHY (3); ROBERT BENSON PHOTOGRAPHY (2)
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BAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER, DOVER, DELAWARE
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Retained to conceive a 390,000-square-foot clinical pavilion, the Interior Design health-care Giant found the prerequisites plentiful: a state-of-the-art, multitask complex with an emergency department, oncology center, conference facilities, even a helipad. But another challenge was self-imposed: Keep functionality from quashing the design quotient. EwingCole settled on an organic and fluid visual blueprint, totally fitting for a place that perpetuates life. Once past the entry garden, the exteriors orthogonal geometry is supplanted by the sinuous curves of the ceiling, which bisects the two-story lobby as it soars toward skylights. In the emergency department, 43 universal-designed treatment spaces adapt to any assignmentfrom examination to decontaminationat a moments notice. In the two-level oncology center, pops of color spread cheer across the prevailing white palette, an effect thats especially conspicuous in the infusion section, where intravenous-drug therapies are conducted. Orange acrylic projections gesture upward over treatment zones, the color mimicking the brick exterior beyond the fritted-glass windows. Mark McMenamin
CHARLES KRONK; SAUL JABBAWY; BETSY GREGOR; MARY FRAZIER; REBECCA OFSHARICK; TARA MCGRATH: PROJECT TEAM.
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Perkins + Will
project Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. standout Together with skylights that double as sculptural rooftop elements, a cylindrical glass tower, enclosing an open-air garden, pierces the entry pavilion ceiling.
Cannon Design
project Gates Vascular Institute and University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center. standout Curvilinear millwork and surfacing, echoed by a seamless trail of terrazzo and color-matched resinous flooring, symbolize the continuity of life.
Perkins + Will
project Johns Hopkins Clinical Building, Baltimore. standout Color and light saturate the 1.6 millionsquare-foot tower, as soaring window walls allow sunlight to fall on Robert Israels suspended painted fiberglass sculpture and Verner Pantons seating.
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ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

LONDON AQUATICS CENTRE
The fluid geometry so evident in the London Aquatics Centre, the celebrated swimming arena constructed post-haste for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, reflects both its functional requirements and riverside location. Designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect and firm principal Zaha Hadid, the 215,000-square-foot structure features an undulating roof that sweeps up from the ground like a wave, enclosing several pools, all of which have moveable booms and floors to create different size and depth pools at the push of a button. Cleaving to the curving roofline, a ceiling system of stained Brazilian hardwood slats accommodates highly technical light fixtures that adjust to create correct levels for all manner of recording devices. Over the training pool, a coffered roof, pierced by more than 100 cats-eye ceiling fixtures, filters light through stretched, perforated fabric to create near daylight conditions no matter what the time or weather. Poured concrete interiors, including an elegant group of sculptural diving platforms, provide a sleek backdrop for water sports. Built with the years beyond the Olympics in mind, the center accommodates 2,500 spectators, but detachable wings, installed during the games, allow seating for 17,500. One gateway to the Olympic Park is via the Stratford City Bridge, which is part of the centers roof. Georgina McWhirter
JIM HEVERIN; GLENN MOORLEY; SARA KLOMPS: PROJECT TEAM.
HUFTON + CROW
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Clodagh Design
project Miraval Life in Balance Spa with Clarins, Tucson. standout A wellness symbol in oxidized steel, copper, and turquoise stands sentry to walnut and porcelain-tiled interiors punctuated by steel fireplaces.
Beige Design
project Neo Derm Group, Hong Kong. standout A highgloss monochromatic palette is accented by a dashing light pattern playing on the citrus-colored translucent-resin panels covering the reception wall.
Row Studio
project Wax Revolution Polanco, Mexico City. standout Color-coded faceted mirror walls and shiny epoxy-resin flooring transform a dark narrow partial basement into an inviting salon.
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TOP, FROM LEFT: DANIEL AUBRY (2); KEN HAYDEN; CENTER: ULSO TSANG (2); BOTTOM: SFOCLES HERNNDEZ (2)
New York Davis & Warshow 212.680.9000 AFNY 212.243.5400
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EVAN DIONLITVIN/COURTESY OF PUBLIC CHICAGO MICHELLE
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PUBLIC CHICAGO
YABU PUSHELBERG
The Ambassador East hotel was steeped in loreit even had a cameo role in Alfred Hitchcocks North by Northwest. Over the years, however, its luster faded, making the dowager property ripe pickings for the sort of transformation that Ian Schrager specializes in. The task of rejuvenating the grand dame, now recast as Public Chicago under a program strategized by Gabellini Sheppard Associates, fell to Interior Design Hall of Famers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg. At first glance, the 285 guest rooms, done in a spectrum of pale shades, are almost shockingly simple. Platform beds with riftcut bleached oak headboards, strippeddown steel desks, and dark walnut-stained chairs are the primary furnishings. Yet seductive or witty flourishes, the kind that have long characterized Schragers boutique hotels, arent entirely missing: For instance, vintage photographs of jazz greats are placed randomly on walls, smack against door frames, or off in corners. Downstairs in the public spaces, LED strips outline antiqued mirrors in the lobby, custom chairs and tables gather by the fireplace in the library, and 500 resin orbs hang from the ceiling in the Pump Room, the hotels restaurant. Thomas Connors
CHERIE STINSON; ROBERT WALSHAW; EDUARDO MORA; CRAWFORD NOBLE; HEIDI ROSE; CARRIE STINSON; JENNIFER LEM; LISA HO; KEVIN STOREY; JENNIFER MCKEAND: PROJECT TEAM.
MICHELLE LITVIN/COURTESY OF PUBLIC CHICAGO
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Champalimaud
project Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles. standout The redo of this storied 1946 inn encompasses 103 newly decked-out guest rooms and a 12,000-square-foot mission-style pavilion containing a La Prairie spa.
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project Shore Hotel, Los Angeles. standout Pops of orange and turquoise inside reference the setting California sun, while a stainless-steel trellis over the courtyard creates an outdoor living room.
Gensler
project NoMad Hotel, New York. standout Parisian detailsvelvet and damask, vintage Heriz rugs, curated art, hardwood floorsoutfit the 168 guest rooms and public spaces inside the landmarked 1903 beaux arts building.
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FROM TOP: MICHAEL WEBER (3); RYAN GOBUTY (2); BENOIT LINERO (2)
Dcoration Jacques Garcia and Stonehill & Taylor Architects
Hosu by Patricia Urquiola
Spread out. Get things done. The Hosu lounge encourages spreading out. This unique work lounge can convert to a chaise creating a comforting personal space to relax and get things done.
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CHEREM SERRANO ARQUITECTOS
DOWNTOWN MXICO, MEXICO CITY
INTERNATIONALHOTEL
Recycling comes naturally in Centro Histrico, the neighborhood around El Zcalo, Mexico Citys main plaza, which was built by the Spanish with stone blocks quarried from local Aztec pyramids and monuments. Its in this tradition that an exquisite 17th-century town house, Palacio de los Condes de Miravalle, has been recycled as Downtown Mxico, a three-story boutique hotel with 17 keys. Cherem Serrano Arquitectos preserved many of the 50,400-square-foot residences historical elements, ranging from volcanic-rock walls, ribbed-and-vaulted brick ceilings, and clay tile floors to the 1945 murals by Manuel Rodrguez Lozano. The firms interventions include a planted exterior wall whose vertical landscape sports paths and a meandering bicycle, but it kept most additions minimal, sympathetic, and understated. New flooring is basalt, guest bathrooms are screened with utilitarian stacked lattice brick, and guest rooms are furnished with simple refectory-style beds, desks, and seating in naturally finished pine for a look thats monastic but luxe. Craig Kellogg
MOISS MICHA; CARLOS COUTURIER: PROJECT TEAM.
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Simone Micheli
project B4 Milano. standout The expansive lobby is a futuristic riot of glossy expanded-polystyrene biomorphic elements in acid colors that contrast with subtle stone flooring and white walls and ceiling.
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Rockwell Group Europe
project W Paris-Opra. standout In each of the two top-tier suites, which may be accessed by the original spiral stair with wrought-iron balustrade, the sides of the custom bed detach to become a pair of sofas while custom leather-upholstered seating populates the lounge.
project Four Seasons Guangzhou, China. standout Woven, powder-coated, laser-cut aluminum screens define areas in the marble-floored reception area, traditional motifs ornament the plush 344 guest rooms, and the 103-story towers structural columns pierce the 69th-floor pool.
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FROM TOP: MAURIZIO MERCATO; ERIC LAIGNEL (3); COURTESY OF FOUR SEASONS GUANGZHOU (3)
HBA/Hirsh Bedner Associates Design Consultants
GROUNDPIECE DESIGN ANTONIO CITTERIO

A.D. NATALIA CORBETTA. FOTOGRAFIA GIANNI BERENGO GARDIN
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ISAY WEINFELD
HOTEL FASANO BOA VISTA, PORTO FELIZ, BRAZIL
Long, clean lines reign supreme in this 1,900-acre resort, which includes a fitness center, two golf courses, an equestrian center, a petting zoo, spa, pools, and kids club among its plethora of assets. The main buildings pronounced horizontality encompasses two symmetrical wings housing 39 guest rooms and featuring exposed brickwork and patios surrounded by freijo wood. Lengthy hallways are bathed in soft natural light, filtered by a sequence of precast-concrete slats. Gardens set the tone: The main entrance leads through a lush garden to the hotel; trees protrude through freeform apertures in the concrete canopy of the equestrian center. Passing through the lobby and veranda, also appointed in freijo, allows a gradually widening perspective to develop, one that ultimately provides an unobstructed view of the lake and expansive green landscape beyond. Below grade, the bar and restaurant extend onto a large deck that projects over the waterperfect for a moment of quiet contemplation. Georgina McWhirter
ISAY WEINFELD; DOMINGOS PASCALI; MARCELO ALVARENGA; MONICA SANTONI; JULIANA GARCIA; WELLINGTON DIOGO; JULIANA SCALIZI; GUILHERME LEME; SEBASTIAN MURR: PROJECT TEAM.
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FERNANDO GUERRA
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FERNANDO GUERRA
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Gracia Studio
project Endmico, Ensenada, Mexico. standout Raised Cor-Ten steel cabins minimize impact on the Baja California desert landscape while offering rustic tranquility and minimalist luxury.
project Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. standout The lobby boasts a ceiling installation comprising 3,000 bronze tubes that form an inverted sand dune, echoing the surrounding desert landscape.
Wilson Associates
Rottet Studio
FROM TOP: LUIS GARCA (2); CHRISTOPHER CYPERT (2); ERIC LAIGNEL (3)
project St. Regis Aspen Resort, Colorado. standout Custom carpet, printed murals, a dazzling chandelier, and custom leather headboards meld the Gilded Age aesthetic with the violet-gray light of the Rocky Mountains.
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HOTELPUBLICSPACE
NERI & HU DESIGN AND RESEARCH OFFICE

WESTIN XIAN, CHINA
Almost 40 years ago, when farmers unearthed whole armies of archaic terra-cotta funerary figures, this region vaulted into the tourism spotlight. Now, the 329-room Westin Xian by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office offers contemporary luxury that nods to the ancient culture that draws its guests. Apertures in the stucco and stone facade decrease in size as they ascend the buildings five stories, lending a tapered look to walls that are capped with historically informed sloping roofs. The interior unfolds as a series of pavilions around atrium courtyardsthe most dramatic of which is the double-height sunken court at the foot of a sweeping stair. The wood-slatted canopies at the hotels entrance are mimicked throughout the property, including the ceiling that encloses the indoor pool and the armature that rises to a skylight above a formal stone garden. Craig Kellogg
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BarStudio
project Park Hyatt Sydney, Australia. standout With a spectacular cross-harbor view of the citys iconic opera house, this 155-key property combines indigenous materials like sandstone and local wood with works by Aboriginal artists.
Bentel & Bentel, Architects/Planners
project Grand Hyatt New York. standout A pair of Jaume Plensa marble sculptures takes center stage in the lobby, while custom pendant fixtures in polished stainless steel illuminate the lounge.
Concrete
project CitizenM London Bankside. standout A gaggle of white George Nelson lanterns populates the ceiling plane in the lounge while pops of red animate the courtyard and bar.
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FROM TOP: EARL CARTER AND PETER BENNETTS (3); EDUARD HUEBER/ARCH PHOTO AND COURTESY OF HYATT CORPORATION (2); RICHARD POWERS (3)
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YOJISAN SUSHI, LOS ANGELES
DAN BRUNN ARCHITECTURE

If you find yourself in Yojisan Sushi, a Japanese restaurant in Beverly Hills, be sure to look up. Dan Brunn Architecture has installed a floating plane of silk plants along the ceiling near the entry, as if a forest has magically inverted itself. But thats not principal Dan Brunns only overhead intervention at this jewel box: Further into its 2,000 square feet hang a pair of giant rectangular volumes, their lacquered interior surfaces, reminiscent of Bento boxes, casting a warm and flattering glow onto diners below. To create the illusion of space, the ceiling is slightly angled, elongating the room by forcing perspective toward the back. LED strips recessed into one sidewall create angled beams of light, like a 21st-century bamboo garden. Sheer cotton-voile curtains cloak the opposite wall, softening the overall angularity and muffling ambient noise. Outside, horizontal cedar planks front the building while vertical signage crafted from repurposed shipbuilding steel beckons passersby. Georgina McWhirter
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Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

project Uchi, Houston. standout The heft of the longleaf-pine entry screen, wide-plank white-oak flooring, and spalted-pecan booths juxtapose with sprightly floral wall covering.
bestofyear MERIT HOSPITALITYASIANFUSION
project Toy, New York. standout Its origami meets disco ball when projected images of geishas and Ming dynasty motifs pulsate across the huge ceiling installation of mirrored triangles.
Jeffrey Beers International
Kinney Chan and Associates

project SE SA ME, Hong Kong. standout Angled maple slats line the ceiling while cutouts in the slatted wall behind the hostess station reference the restaurants name.
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FROM TOP: PAUL BARDAGJY (3); ERIC LAIGNEL (3); MICHAEL PERINI (3)
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SLADE ARCHITECTURE
VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS CLUBHOUSE, NEW YORK
Breaking from typical airport blandness, Sir Richard Bransons cheekily upscale airport lounges for his Virgin Atlantic Airways are dubbed Clubhouses. Serving passengers flying Upper Class (aka business class), they take inspiration from swank English watering holes and hotel bars, heavy on the sexy sound track. Martinis and microbrews can be had at the bar, massages and facials at the spa, and blowouts at the hair salon. The 10,000-square-foot Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse, which overlooks Eero Saarinens TWA Terminal, at New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport is by Slade Architecture. An airy, curving wall of stainless-steel rods and walnut fins encloses the cocktail lounge and defines quieter conversation spaces on either side, while some 2,000 gold powder-coated aluminum cylinders hang from the ceiling. Whimsical wallpapers beguile with such local motifs as a field of hot-dog carts punctuated by big apples. Other walls covered with pixilatedaluminum cloud patterns offer round seating niches. Theyre supplemented by custom banquettes, including a massive one of red balls, and modular seating by Interior Design Hall of Fame member Patrick Jouin. Georgina McWhirter
HAYES SLADE; JAMES SLADE; TIAN GAO; DAVID ISERI; ALESSANDRO PERINELLI; MAGDA STOENESCU; FRANCES CALOSSO; YUKO OKUMA: PROJECT TEAM.
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Jeffrey Beers International
project 40/40 Club, New York. standout Owner Jay-Zs refreshed nightclub/sports bar boasts banquettes on bleacher-style tiered risers of white marble and jumbo flat-screens embedded in a champagne-bottle tower.
project W Paris-Opra. standout Reflecting the salons custom leather-upholstered seating, a mirror wall is covered in felt-tip marker drawings by artist Shoboshobo, whose stylized French kiss appears as a vinyl sticker behind the bar.
Rockwell Group Europe
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FROM TOP: PAUL WARCHOL PHOTOGRAPHY (2); ERIC LAIGNEL/COURTESY OF STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS WORLDWIDE (2); BOONE SPEED (2)
project W Seattle. standout In a nod to the Northwests aeronautical industry, the DJ booth in the hotels lobby lounge recalls an airport control tower while polyester strands hang from the ceiling.
Skylab Architecture
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CAFETERIA
ZOOEY BRAUN
IPPOLITO FLEITZ GROUP

DER SPIEGEL CANTEEN, HAMBURG, GERMANY
When Der Spiegel magazine and its stable of sister publications relocated, they left behind a beloved 1969 cafeteria by Verner Panton. How to evoke that mod masterpiece without simply knocking it off at the new 5,700-square-foot location? Whiplash lines in the white terrazzo floor help define circulation zones. However, Ippolito Fleitz Group decided that, to keep the canteen flexible on the ground, the ceiling should be a showstopper. The word spiegel means looking glass, so its somehow logical, in an Alice in Wonderland way, that 4,230 round reflectors hang overhead. But instead of glass, the shimmering mirror discs are micro-perforated aluminumsatin polished, backed with acoustical material, and dangling jauntily from the black-painted ceiling. The discs bounce daylight a bit like the surface of water in the nearby harbor does. To continue the nautical metaphor in a smaller room off the main space, a shoal of illuminated hanging acrylic rods drops through the discs for intimate, glare-free sparkle. Craig Kellogg
PETER IPPOLITO; GUNTER FLEITZ; TILLA GOLDBERG; CHRISTIAN KIRSCHENMANN; TIM LESSMANN; ALEXANDER FEHRE; CHRISTINE ACKERMANN; ROGER GASPERLIN; KATJA HEINEMANN: PROJECT TEAM.
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Rapt Studio
project Google, San Francisco. standout Adjacent to balconies with magnificent bay views, an employee cafe expands on an industrial warehouse theme, with a coffee bar hosted by a full-time barista, a dessert station, and a 60-foot-long salad barGoogles longest.
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project Steelcase, Grand Rapids, Michigan. standout At the bottom of a wide stair under a site-specific fiberglass ceiling, the 23,000-square-foot cafeteria and beverage bar offer various seating types ranging from lounge chair to dining table.
Shimoda Design Group
CL3 Architects
project Chinese International School, Hong Kong. standout The three-decade-old eatery got a minimalist, Asianinspired makeover involving concrete, steel, and wood so that it may function as a multipurpose communal space hosting films, parent-teacher meetings, and dances.
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FROM TOP: ERIC LAIGNEL (3); BENNY CHAN/FOTOWORKS (2); NIRUT BENJABANPOT (2)
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STUDIO MINAS KOSMIDIS

FABRICA KREATON and FARMA KREATON, KOMOTINI, GREECE
Youre left in no doubt that theres red meat on the menu at this contemporary Greek tavern: Almost every detail evokes an oldfashioned butcher shop. The two-story establishment, designed by Studio Minas Kosmidis, occupies 4,000 square feet in a late 1950s former house at the center of Komotini. Entry is through the basement level, where customers are greeted by a pair of stainless-steel refrigerated meat lockers. Hefty tables in the small atrium at the rear are round wooden chopping blocksa meat cleaver unexpectedly wedged into each topcircled with stools upholstered in faux cowhide. Some walls are blonde pine planks or plain white ceramic tile, while others are painted black or covered in brushed stainless steel. Floors are large-format granite tiles and ceilings feature exposed beams, also pine. Contrasting with the monochromatic palette and industrial finishes, chair pads are red and black gingham, and architectural-scale graphics by Yianis Tokalatsidis depict life-size bovine butchery diagrams. Even the accents are meat-themed: Select chairs and pendant fixtures are finished in blood-red enamel. In a separate structure behind the house, the feeling switches to farmhouse. Reached by a short stairway or ramp, the entrance to the 3,000-square-foot Farma Kreaton is surrounded by welcoming hay bales and a pair of digitally fabricated oversize cows. Inside, a pine-plank ceiling presides over simple wooden tables and assorted vintage chairs. Craig Kellogg
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Lundberg Design
project Abbots Cellar, San Francisco. standout Some walls are brick salvaged from the ruins of the 1906 earthquake, while the new acoustical partition and flooring are repurposed barnwood.
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Alexchoi Design & Partners
project Greyhound Caf, Hong Kong. standout A spiders web of naked-bulb pendant fixtures presides over a stockpile of vintage seating, mixed upholstery prints, and ceramictiled walls.
Meyer Davis Studio
project Dutch, Miami Beach. standout Beachy without being kitschy, this remodel features driftwood-colored beams, white-painted brick, and a generous zinctopped bar that bounces light from polished-chrome pendant fixtures.
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AIX ARME CAF, HONG KONG
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The spacious Aix Arme Caf is situated in Hong Kongs OCT Harbour theme park on Shenzhen Bay. Riffing on the waterfront location, Ajax Law Ling Kit and Virginia Lung, codesign directors of One Plus Partnership, drew on the wonders of the ocean for the 1,600-square-foot eaterys design scheme. Teal and royal blue dominate the color palette. The soaring off-white ceiling represents the sky, and the dark graypainted timber flooring, the murky ocean depths. Seating and tablesparticularly the octopuslike legs of the 15-foot-long wooden communal tablehave a distinctly organic feel. Rod pendant fixtures mimic a fishs view up to the waters surface, where ripples catch the light. And a giant bean-shape concrete pod, which contains the cashier and coffee service, sits Orcalike in the center of the space. Georgina McWhirter
bestofyear MERIT COUNTERSERVICE
Parallel Design Partnership

project Pop Pub, New York. standout Part of the Pop Burger chainlet, this combination saloon/beer hall juxtaposes rustic cedar paneling with sleek laser-cut anodized aluminum.
project Sprinkles Ice Cream, Los Angeles. standout A scalloped laser-cut aluminum exterior and smooth rounded Corian interior nod to this shops main confection.
ALM Project
Solis Colomer y Asociados

project McCaf El Zapote, Guatemala. standout A 3-D envelope of 6,000 ash blocks raises the style quotient at this McDonalds offshoot.
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FROM TOP: JOSHUA MCHUGH (2); TREVOR DIXON (2); MARKO BRADICH/CREATERIO (2)
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YABU PUSHELBERG
PUMP ROOM, CHICAGO
In the 1940s, Frank Sinatra and Lana Turner held court in the Pump Rooms storied Booth One, taking calls on the table-side telephone. The Chicago restaurant, now part of Public, Ian Schragers latest hotel brand, has been brought back to life by Interior Design Hall of Fame members George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg. Previously reached by a staircase tucked away by the elevators, the space can now be entered either from the hotel lobby or directly from the streetthe latter route lined with a panoply of celebrity-studded black-and-white glossies. The lounge, formerly dominated by a large U-shape bar, is more expansive with a smaller bar housed in a gold-leafed niche and a cluster of cabaret seating in front of it. The dining rooms arrangement of tables and booths echoes the old dcor. But overhead, taking advantage of the 18-foot ceiling, the mood is more up-to-the-minute, thanks to a constellation of glowing resin orbs. Georgina McWhirter
CHERIE STINSON; ROBERT WALSHAW; EDUARDO MORA; CRAWFORD NOBLE; HEIDI ROSE; CARRIE STINSON; JENNIFER LEM; LISA HO; KEVIN STOREY; JENNIFER MCKEAND: PROJECT TEAM.
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MICHELLE LITVIN
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Beijing Newsdays Architectural Design Co.
project Zhongyuan Club, Zhengzhou, China. standout Custom elements such as glass chandeliers and a copperand-wood table furnish the interiors of new steel buildings as well as 600-year-old structures.
Rockwell Group
project Swift at the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, Beacon, New York. standout Handblown glass pendant fixtures, locally crafted wooden furniture, and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a picturesque waterfall turned this 19thcentury industrial building into a dining destination.
Bentel & Bentel, Architects/Planners

project Le Bernardin, New York. standout Now showcasing a restored teak ceiling fitted with hidden incandescents and LEDs and screens of twisted aluminum fins, it had been 25 years since this Michelin threestar restaurant had been renovated.
FROM TOP: WENTAO SHE (4); ERIC LAIGNEL (2); EDUARD HUEBER/ARCH PHOTO (2)
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H3 HARDY COLLABORATION ARCHITECTURE

LCT3, NEW YORK
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Long before it embarked on a decade-long transformation of its 16-acre campus, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts imagined LCT3 as a safe harbor for the next generation of theater artists. When H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture was retained to actualize that vision in the form of performance and rehearsal space, firm founder Hugh Hardy surveyed the centers crowded plaza and realized the only way to go was up. It was a bold decision to locate the 23,000-square-foot Claire Tow Theater on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater, considering the latter was designed by Eero Saarinen & Associatesone of Hardys first employers. But the straightforward volume of steel, glass, and aluminum floats discreetly atop the 1965 structuresupplementing without supersedingpoised on three steel trusses, whose diagonal bracing becomes a recurring visual element both inside and out. Elevators clad in channel glass open to a green roof and ipe-planked terrace. Past the double-height lobby, punctuated by a Kiki Smith suspended sculpture, the 112-seat theaters rich red upholstery is bordered by warm walnut paneling. Mark McMenamin
ARIEL FAUSTO; MERCEDES ARMILLAS; MARGARET SULLIVAN: PROJECT TEAM.
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CAMILA TARIKI; JULIE HYUNJU LEE: PROJECT TEAM.
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ANTONIO MUOHIERRO AND ESRAWE STUDIO
EL PLAZA CONDESA, MEXICO CITY
Originally built in the 1950s, the 91,000-square-foot performing arts center was due for a coat of 21st-century lan. But by echoing the evolution of modernism into postmodernism, Esrawe Studio, with an assist from film and television designer Antonio Muohierro, reinvented the six-level complex to become, ironically enough, a tribute to that very era. The entrance of the 17,000-square-foot ground floor is flanked by art-display niches, one of which occasionally multitasks as a coat check. Backlit circular cutouts in the wall cast a constellation across the ceiling of the two-story lobby, the planetarium vibe mirrored by black marble flooring. Rich wainscoting, which actually begins on the exterior, becomes a material thread, winding past concession counters covered in Venetian mosaic tiles and into the main concert hall. Fiberglass latticework fitted with acoustical panels towers on either side of the auditorium, an artful solution to the challenge of sound management. Among the functional updates: improved lighting, expanded and modernized dressing rooms, and increased accessibility for the disabled. Mark McMenamin
HCTOR ESRAWE; JOAQUN CEVALLOS; NANCY OCAMPO: PROJECT TEAM.
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Tucker PANEL 2011 modularArts, Inc.
Ado Design & Public Art Consultants

project Mong Kok Post Office, Hong Kong. standout Undulating walls and serpentine dropped ceilings establish freeform visual unity, while vivid citrus tones supply a chromatic through-line.
TUCKER
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project Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York. standout: The 24,500-square-foot addition to the 211-year-old complex sports a perforated aluminum facadeactually a laser-cut abstraction of a 1936 photo of the USS Brooklynfiltering the light entering the three-story building.
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ESPACIO FUNDACIN TELEFNICA, MADRID
Arriving at the Espacio Fundacin Telefnica gallery, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Cor-Ten steel-covered tentacles winding around and through its elegantly helical staircase are a temporary installation. Quite the contrary. The biomorphic forms are load-bearing. They brace a four-level section of facade that Moneo Brock Studio and Quanto Arquitectura cut free from the rest of the landmark Telefnica headquarters, creating an ample stair atrium to welcome visitorsmany of whom might be surprised to learn that the sculptural staircase doubles as a fire exit. The Cor-Ten bracing can be closely examined through the stairs glass balustrades, their bolts echoing the rivets on the 1929 buildings columns. Stainless steel gleams. Oak trim contrasts with painted-steel mesh ceiling panels and polished concrete floors. All were chosen to recede in the presence of the artwork: paintings by Joan Mir and Eduardo Chillida alongside cubist works, adventure photography, and installations. In addition to exhibitions, visitors find a caf, childrens workshops, education areas, and an amphitheater-style auditorium. C.C. Sullivan
JEFF BROCK; BELN MONEO; MIGUEL NGEL GARCA ALONSO; ANDRS BARRN; MARA PIERRES; ALBERT RUBIO; SUSANA TORRE ARIAS; DIANA DO RO; VICTORIA CORTS LAHUERTA; REBECA SARABIA PICAZO; ANDRS DAZA PABN; ALEJANDRA OCHOA FERRER; ENRIQUE BONET: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta. standout Used as a meeting room, a nest of steel strips cantilevers off a wall at the mezzanine level, appearing to float in midair.
Mark Cavagnero Associates
project Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, California. standout Employing the same board-and-batten and clapboard siding and barn-red paint, two 1861 buildings that were a former tannery complex have been converted into 28 artist studios.
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project Calder Foundation Project Space, New York. standout Clear glass in the early 20thcentury skylights was replaced with translucent panels, bathing the 4,000-square-foot gallery and office underneath in a gentle glow thats particularly good for viewing Alexander Calders stabiles.
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Serving the Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri, Camp Prairie Schooner sits on 176 wooded acres of creeks, hills, and hiking trails high on the bluffs of the Little Blue River. El Dorado principal Douglas Stockman contributed a 4,400-square-foot trail center consisting of adjoining bunkhouseseach with a lounge, kitchen, and sleep and shower areas for 20 campers and four counselorsalong with common restrooms. The concrete-floored, corrugated-steel and translucent-polycarbonate digs include Eric Pfeiffer stools and custom bunk beds in powder-coated steel and painted birch plywood, made by Stockmans Kansas State University architecture students. Pendant fixtures, found on Etsy, were handmade by former Girl Scout Brandi Pulver. The exterior cement-board siding palette of tangerine, lime, and plum is as delectable as the boxes of Do-si-dos, Thin Mints, and Samoas that inspired it. Nicholas Tamarin
SEAN SLATTERY; BRANDON FROELICH: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Scape, London. standout The spare, sleek lines of the 600 studios, two restaurants, and myriad lounges in this 16,000-square-foot private East End housing complexopen to students from nearby universitiesare more boutique hotel than school dormitory.
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project Don Montgomery Youth Centre, Toronto. standout Windows cut into an existing corridor and the addition of bold forms transformed a former rifle range into an energy efficient multipurpose youth facility.
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The flowing three-story building that is the West Hollywood Library is already a Los Angeles landmark. Because of the need to incorporate the City Council and a municipal garage, the 47,500-square-foot LEED Goldcertified building was Johnson Favaros most complicated library-related project yet. The council chamber and conference room are on the ground level. Levels two and three belong to the library proper. Two tennis courts occupy the roof, and theres parking for 424 cars above and below ground. Calacatta gold marble paving the entry introduces the pale interior palette, where the remaining flooring is blond maple. White walls, a single skylight, and commissioned artwork including David Wisemans steel, bronze, porcelain, and plaster sycamore in the stairwell create a gallery vibe. Although unquestionably rooted in the present, aspects of the library recall the past. The childrens theater, for instance, is housed in a plywood crate, but its interior looks like an Italian Renaissance architectural fantasy with a staircase alluding to Michelangelos Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence. To bring sophistication to the reading zones, Steve Johnson and Jim Favaro called in Carol Cambianica for her expertise in library interiors. She went for simple, neutral pieces that wouldnt compete with the architectural elements. Edie Cohen
BRIAN DAVIS; MICHAEL SCHULMAN; ERNESTO BARRON; GREG STACKEL; COLE GARRISON; JONATHAN REYES; NATE CHIAPPA; JEFF HABER; ELLEN RIINGEN; BRANDON BLAKEMAN: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Kiwanis Aquatics Centre and Grantham Branch Library, St. Catharines, Ontario. standout Swimming and reading unite under one Douglas-fir roof at this 45,000-square-foot complex.
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Joel Sanders Architect
project Julian Street Library at Princeton University, New Jersey. standout Interactive technology plus color-coded study and social areas bring this 1960s space into the 21st century.
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project Poetry Foundation, Chicago. standout A garden courtyard leads from the street into the building, where glazed interior walls visually link the public spaces, including the double-height library.
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LAKEWOOD CEMETERYS GARDEN MAUSOLEUM AND RECEPTION CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS
When youre building the place where many will take their final rest, sensory comforts are important. But HGA Architects and Engineers had a further obligation when conceiving the 141-year-old Lakewood Cemeterys Garden Mausoleum and Reception Center: how to add the new facility without disturbing the Minneapolis complexs long-established integrity. Aiming to commune directly with the cemeterys past, the firm tucked most of the 24,500-square-foot structure below a hillside, its green roof a seamless extension of the adjacent 4 acres of landscaping. Bronze doors open to the foyer and reception areas, a calming union of mahogany walls and marble flooring bathed in daylight from floor-to-ceiling windows. Downstairs, a sweeping Venetian-plaster wall leads to the 45-seat chapel, its angled bronze-framed windows set into deep tiled recesses. In the most sensitive area, the crypts and columbariums, burial bays branch out from a central hallway with inset flooring of luminous green, honey, and pink onyx lit by windows and skylights that naturally dispel gloom while maintaining quiet dignity. Mark McMenamin
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project Prayer chapel, Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, California. standout The ceiling of random strips of reclaimed lumber and locally harvested olive wood undulates above, a contrast to the Shakerlike simplicity of the seating below.
Joseph Sy & Associates
project Kong Fok Church, Hong Kong. standout Bold, rectilinear stripesinterrupted by perpendicularly positioned oak pewsrecur on the ceiling, lighting fixtures, and floor, creating visual accord throughout.
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project Chabad Serving NYU, New York. standout Industrial and organic sensibilities peacefully coexist in the student center, as exposed steel columns and angled beams adjoin Jerusalem stone and pebbles.
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NEW HEIGHTS, SHANGHAI
Youd expect nothing less than a throbbing contemporary sound track at New Heights, the aptly named 2,200-square-foot Asian brasserie high atop Shanghais Three on the Bund lifestyle complex. Indeed, a DJ spins weekly at this glass-walled restaurant with postcard views of the Pudong skyline. The modern vibe contrasts with the august landmark base building, which was converted by Michael Graves & Associates in 2004. Lyndon Neri and Rosanna Hu, Graves alums, returned recently with their new firm, Neri & Hu Design and Research Office, to update the rooftop eatery. Hip new bathrooms are approached through a corridor lined with oak-plank walls, ceiling, and floor. In the mens room, a suspended mesh ceiling veils ventilation and lighting. Spotlights behind the mesh project its texturizing shadows on the floor and on concrete vanities with inset porcelain sinks. Satin-bronze stall doors and wall panels behind the urinals display a series of oversized polished numerals, which reflect the central structural column painted a refreshing mint green. Craig Kellogg
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project House, New Orleans. standout This 1920s residence renovation includes a sliding barn-door shutter for the sunken tubs picture window and, in the double-height kitchen, lacquered-MDF cabinets with a stained maple-plywood armoire housing ovens and a refrigerator.
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SPG Architects
project Town house, Brooklyn, New York. standout Two rooms and a hallway are now a 600-square-foot eat-in kitchen with quartzite countertops, handblown pendant fixtures, and a dining table of reclaimed peroba circled with Roberto Lazzeroni chairs.
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project House, Stamford, Connecticut. standout The new 325-squarefoot chefs kitchen in a 1960 Richard Neutra residence has ceramic kitchen tiles carried in from the living-room floor, stainless-steel countertops, and sculptural blackened-steel shelving inspired by Donald Judd.
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Gensler had been at the same Los Angeles address for two decades. And the office resembled, to put it kindly, a generic law firma tired one at that. With the lease ending, the firm opted to move from Santa Monica to downtown, where a 1972 former bank building not only offered a muchneeded 45,000 square feet but also a plaza in back featuring a distinctive fountain-sculpture by Herbert Bayer. Lead by principal and managing director Robert Jernigan, design director Richard Hammond, and senior designer Sabu Song, chief interventions entailed cutting a massive hole in the roof, inserting an operable skylight to cap the central atrium, and, around it, hanging a mezzanine. Meeting rooms stack and cantilever around the atrium, too; one of them, enclosed in glass laminated Gensler red, brightens the office-scape. Others are clad in panels of zinc orin the case of the one dubbed the Tree House because it hovers over the main loungetranslucent white polycarbonate. The different materials come through loud and clear, making the whole place vibrate with kinetic energy. Edie Cohen
VALENTIN LIEU; KIM ALFORD; ARPY HATZIKIAN; GREG NELSON; JEFF FUKAWA; CARLOS POSADA; MIKA YAGI: PROJECT TEAM.
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Cannon Design
location Chicago. standout Certified LEED-CI Platinum, making this the greenest of the 16 offices worldwide, reception has a gallerylike feel, thanks to a Thomas Gray video installation and epoxy-coated concrete flooring.
location Oklahoma City. standout Partitions, paint, and colored fluorescents transform an unfinished basement into the materials library, conference room, and lighting laboratory.
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location Washington, DC. standout A custom installation of Ronan & Erwan Bouroullecs Clouds floats above the break-out area of this branch, one of 10 nationwide.
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Charity starts at homea phrase NBBJ took to heart when creating the 900,000 square feet that house one of the worlds best-known philanthropic organizations: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. Utilizing the skills of individuals who benefit from the foundations work, the design for phase one of the project supports sustainable, small-craft industries in the Pacific Northwest and abroad, linking employees from 37 countries to foundation initiatives. Regional elements include receptions sustainable alder cladding, a 30-foot-long sofa covered with a continuous piece of locally sourced wool felt, and Marie Watts 14-foot-high stack of repurposed blankets collected from Gates Foundation staffers. The soaring atrium, where casual coffee breaks as well as large formal events take place, offers one of Ghanaian artist El Anatsuis textile hangings made of recycled bottle caps. Break-out sessions happen spontaneously in the outdoor courtyard, landscaped with teak decking and native plantings, or on light-filled stair landings furnished with Patricia Urquiola sofas along with tables made from trees that have fallen on Seattle streets. Deborah Wilk
STEVE MCCONNELL; WILLIAM NICHOLS; RYSIA SUCHECKA; ANNE CUNNINGHAM; DANIEL COCKRELL; JOHN HENDRY; CHRISTIAN CARLSON; KNUT HANSEN; KELLY GRIFFIN; LORI WALKER; MARGARET MONTGOMERY; ERIC LEVINE; MARGOT ROSENBERG: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Baker & McKenzie, Chicago. standout In the marble-floored lobby of this law firm, illuminated beams extend from a stainless steelclad structural column set in a sheet of water flowing seamlessly over a 6-inch-high plinth of uba tuba granite.
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Rottet Studio
project Asset-management group, New York. standout A pair of limestone stairways backed by glowing onyx walls connect the four levels, which feature Fabien Baron seating and photography by Camille Seaman and Robert Longo.
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project JetBlue Airways, Long Island City, New York. standout Receptions a branding showcase, thanks to surfaces, upholstery, and vinyl graphics in the companys signature color and seating by Scott Wilson and Lievore Altherr Molina in complementary shades.
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FASHION-ACCESSORIES COMPANY, LOS ANGELES
Joey Shimoda knows workplaceswhether tight and polished or expansive and raw. This space, more than 50,000 square feet in a Los Angeles former warehouse, falls into the latter category. Its an example of the new young office paradigm: an open nonhierarchical configuration with an industrial aesthetic. Its modesty reflects the environmentally sensitive culture of the client, a philanthropically oriented company with a staff of 400. Rough as this space may be, its luxuriously light and spacious compared to the companys previous quarters, which were seven times smaller. Here, Shimoda Design Group opened up blacked-out windows, inserted 21 round skylights, and exploded the volume by, the architect says, blowing holes in the second floor for a mezzanine, which is now connected to the ground floor by a pair of giant royal-blue slides. He also created an exercise studio, 22 conference rooms, an all-purpose gathering space, and an outdoor deck. In step with the companys social consciousness, reclaimed timber, steel, and concretelocally sourced and untreatedare among the projects foremost materials. Edie Cohen
TODD TUNTLAND; SUSAN CHANG; YING-LING SUN; ELIZABETH CAO; ROMIAR KARAMOOZ; ANDRE KRAUSE; DAVID KHUONG; DAN ALLEN; NEIL MUNTZEL; MCKENNA COLE: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Lamar Advertising Company, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. standout Adjacent to the cafeteria, ipe bleacher seating allows for casual meetings as well as staff movie screenings.
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Gensler
project Facebook, Menlo Park, California. standout Part of a nine-building headquarters complex, this structure houses business-support functions and features myriad break-out areas with murals by professionals and amateurs.
Rapt Studio
project VF Outdoor, Alameda, California. standout In tune with the sport-apparel brands it owns (The North Face, JanSport), this companys headquarters includes an outdoor training area and a bike shop and brings natural materials together in a clean, contemporary aesthetic.
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GRUPO GALLEGOS, HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA
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Scouting locations for new offices, Grupo Gallegos advertising agency founder John Gallegos envisioned a complex where creativity would be spurred by a democratic opennessa quality that was clearly in the DNA of a 40,000-square-foot former Cineplex. Lorcan OHerlihy Architects gave the project a distinctive flourish: 360 custom white umbrellas, a reference to photo shoots, which hang unfurled and upside down from the black ceiling above workstations in the double-height central atrium. Ringing the atrium are private offices, meeting rooms, and support spaces, as well as a cafeteria and lounge, all tucked below a perimeter mezzanine dominated by additional private offices. Lime-tinted film covers the glass walls of meeting rooms, while lime faux suede joins cerulean blue and citrus orange on the workstation dividers. The cafeterias beachy informality is reinforced by a glass front framing actual views of palms, sand, sea, and Surf City USAs famous wooden pier. Edie Cohen
LORCAN OHERLIHY; DONNIE SCHMIDT; KATHY WILLIAMS; TOM MYERS; ALEX MORASSUT; IAN DICKENSON: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart, Germany. standout Clearly visible through the buildings seven-story glass facade, original 1970s pillars are integrated into cruciform workstations and crowned by aluminum ceiling grids that delineate work zones.
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project TM Advertising, Dallas. standout Encircled by color-punctuated workstations and glass-framed collaboration zones, a central elliptical enclosure becomes the offices defining visual element, even as it tempts the occasional cyclist.
Gensler
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project Whole Foods Market Regional Headquarters, Chicago. standout Plywood shelving, white-oak plank ceilings, and vinyl wall typography lend general-store gusto to the 36,000-squarefoot space.
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STEELCASE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
With potted ferns and grow lights intact, the cafeteria at Steelcase headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hadnt been touched since 1983. I knew Joey Shimoda would be perfect to help us transform our research and ideas into a physical space, says in-house design manager Cherie Johnson of the founder of Shimoda Design Group, the firm hired for the task. An experimental hybrid, the 20,000-squarefoot multitasking Work Caf is a cafeteria with an office program. At the bottom of a walnut staircaseoverhung by an 80-foot-long, LED-illuminated, molded fiberglass canopya concierge desk directs staffers to one of five meeting rooms, private phone booths, or quiet rooms. Screens in the welcome area under the stairs show event schedules. In the expansive lounge, Steelcase is represented by a plethora of seating and tables rendered as Shimodas palette of postures. Stand, sit, perch. When staffers started bringing their families for lunch, both client and designer deemed the experiment a success. A space used to impress clients and bond with colleagues has also become the star attraction on the day when mom or dad gives an office tour to the kids. Eat, work, love. Deborah Wilk
DANIEL ALLEN; TODD TUNTLAND; DAVID KHUONG; BENJAMIN GROBE; YING-LING SUN; ANDRE KRAUSE; ELIZABETH CAO: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Bluepoint Solutions, Henderson, Nevada. standout Curved drywall and painted MDF grilles provide the backdrop for such flourishes as a conference table topped in back-painted glass.
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project Laughlin Constable, Chicago. standout Shipping pallets cover a portion of the exposed ceiling, while workstations and break-out areas group on the custompainted concrete floor.
Gary Lee Partners
project Open Lab: Junos Center for Innovation, Bridgewater, New Jersey. standout Under a perforated aluminum ceiling are maple-clad volumes and 8-foot-tall fluorescent towers.
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Modernism comes to Main Street in the guise of a new outpost for Kirkpatrick Oil Co. Given the location, 70 miles north of Oklahoma City, it would be correct to assume that this field office for the 60-year-old family business is the work of the prolific Oklahoma firm, Elliott + Associates Architects. When a fire devastated three of the towns circa 1910 buildings, the firm got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to positively impact the community with a 9,400-square-foot two-story structure that looked to the future while respecting historical context. EAA took cues from the masonry of the neighboring buildings: The stark-white facade is divided into three sections, the second story of each one featuring aluminum-and-steel sunscreens whose fins are aligned with the adjacent brickwork. Inside, daylight abounds. A glass roof caps the double-loaded main corridor. Transoms are above office doorways. A 17foot-tall glass-grid storefront illuminates the lobby, outfitted with Le Corbusier chairs and an Isamu Noguchi table. And the whole west side of the building opens onto a trellised courtyard, where stands a 9-foot-tall painted-steel sculpture by Nigel Hall. Edie Cohen
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KIRKPATRICK OIL CO., HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA
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project Shopbop.com, New York. standout A stripped-down loft fitted with blackened-steel framing, reclaimed-wood wall panels, and orange-lacquered cabinetry translates to headquarters for an online fashion company.
SHoP Architects
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project Ticketfly, San Francisco. standout Bold graphics, patterned accents, and engineered-wood panels add warmth, while quilted curtains around desks insulate sound at this online purveyor of concert and sporting-event tickets.
VOA Associates
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project Sasser Family Holdings, Chicago. standout Modernity and historical transport are celebrated at this transportation asset services business with the glass walls of a conference room designed to look like an abstract freight car and dynamic circular forms in the caf.
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JOHNSON CHOU
RED BULL, TORONTO
Quirky details abound in the 5,000-square-foot expansion to the energydrink giants Canadian headquarters by Johnson Chou. A continuous ribbon of reclaimed tamarack rises from the floor to create a row of custom workstations, then wraps back over them to form a canopy, complete with recessed lighting, beneath the exposed ceiling. A defunct elevator core is clad in soundabsorbent felt, which takes a form recalling the muscular torso of a bullthe companys famed logo. Looking somewhat like a rustic hut, one meeting room flaunts a continuous wall and ceiling of random-size larch slats, through which light filters as if through branches. To accommodate social gatherings, from art openings to receptions, the design team introduced a bar and lounge area wrapped by an undulating wall of reclaimed wood strips. During events, the lounge can be completely cordoned off from work areas by sliding aluminum mesh screens. Georgina McWhirter
JOHNSON CHOU; SILKE STADTMUELLER; ANNE EHLERS; DORNA GHORASHI; SHANT KRICHELIAN: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Photography studio, Milan. standout Taking center stage amid the studios oak-appointed library and metallic-painted dark-room door, a container constructed of wood slats multitasks as a meeting room and studio within the studio.
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project Sullivan, New York. standout Natural light reflecting off the Hudson River illuminates a custom reception desk of reclaimed red-oak beams, workstation benching, and glass-fronted conference room at this brand-engagement company.
Joeb Moore + Partners Architects
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project Paradox House, Bangkok. standout A tinted glass box of a private office dominates the mezzanine and a steel-and-glass staircase appears to float in this split-level design studio.
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STUDIOS ARCHITECTURE AND JUAN TRINDADE

SANOFI, PARIS
Major surgery was prescribed for an ailing 1870s building in the heart of Paris before Sanofi, a pharmaceutical conglomerate, could move in. Good design being the best medicine, Studios Architecture and local firm Juan Trindade began by soliciting diagnostic input from a focus group of 60 of the 750 employees who would occupy what became the companys 250,000square-foot headquarters. Drama comes from the restored six-story atrium, capped by glass panels framed in steel. Below, structural columns take the form of vertical gardens, wrapped by plants that are watered hydroponically. When the atrium is not set up for gatherings, greenery, planted hedgelike in resin containers, separates seating groups of C-shape booths, tables, and stools in a pastel palette. On the seven office floors, the design teams mended original ornate architectural details but gutted the cluttered layouts in favor of open plans punctuated with the occasional glass partition. Each level now centers on a contemporary lounge featuring a long plastic-laminate element that starts as a bar-height counter and morphs into a banquette. Craig Kellogg
ALEXANDRA VILLEGAS; GARY TSCHIRHART; ESTELLE BADU: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Delaware. standout The luminance of lacquered millwork and back-painted glass distinguish this conversion and expansion of the former Daniel L. Herrmann Courthouse, a 150,000-squarefoot Tennessee-marble landmark dating to 1916.
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project Calfee, Halter & Griswold, Cleveland. standout After marking time as a parking garage, the landmark former Rockwell Buildings ruined 1915 grand lobby is back to its original splendor thanks to historic tax credits and a savvy new tenant, one of the citys oldest law firms.
Gensler
project World Food Prize Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates, Des Moines. standout For a global hunger charity, the citys century-old former public library has been transmuted with gestures to the agricultural Green Revolution using allegorical stained glass and, for the restored rotunda, sculptures of food crops.
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EL DORADO
TROOST AVENUE BRIDGE, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
For a time, Troost Avenue enjoyed almost fairytale prosperity. None other than Walt Disney oversaw animation just off the Kansas City thoroughfare at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio. Through the last half of the 20th century, however, the roadway descended into povertyhaving become known as the line between the citys black and white communities. After pushing for a decade, a local team succeeded recently in replacing the Troost Avenue Bridge over Brush Creek. Designed by El Dorado, the new structure reduces barriers so that it is experienced as an enriching, poetic phenomenon. In other words, the bridge itself serves as a metaphor for diversity and optimism. Encouraging community interaction, two wide concrete walking paths span the crossing. Replacing traditional guardrails at the overpass edges are innovative 10-feet-tall balustrades made of crystal-clear laminated-glass plates discretely bolted to stainless-steel mounts. At night, LEDs concealed in the concrete barrier illuminate the panels. Craig Kellogg
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LB Architects
project Tower 45, New York. standout In this gated courtyard at the foot of the high-rise, noise-masking water washes down a twostory wall of marble blocks beneath custom acrylic and bronze fixtures housing LEDs.
Rios Clementi Hale Studios
project Grand Park, Los Angeles. standout A dozen acres sprawling over four city blocks sport new concrete pavers, 300 species of plants, and a landmark fountain, now lit by LEDs and expanded so children can splash inside it.
AC Martin Partners
project Citigroup Center Plaza, Los Angeles. standout The -acre downtown plaza has new basalt pavers bordered by succulents and punctuated by palo verde trees in planters of oxidized Cor-Ten steel.
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DAVID HOTSON ARCHITECT AND GHISLAINE VIAS INTERIOR DESIGN

NEW YORK
When purchased in 2007, this penthouse was an architectural bauble, lacking plumbing as well as heating and cooling systems. What it did have was the possibility of a 45-foot ceiling and 360-degree city views out massive half-moon windows created by the 1896, 21-story buildings Romanesque arches. Hired by the intrepid young owners, David Hotson Architect and Ghislaine Vias Interior Design embarked on their first collaboration, which ultimately yielded a 6,600-square-foot, four-bedroom interior injected with large doses of humor. Theres an 80foot-long custom stainless-steel slide curving through all four levels, a 45-foot-high steel column reimagined as a climbing wall, and a commanding black floor lamp in the form of a life-size equine statue in the living areawhich, by the way, is easily large enough to accommodate a troupe of trapeze artists. Hotsons faceted geometric volumes appear chiseled awaylike gem stones in the negativeproducing striking interior and exterior vistas. Against the neutral white backdrop, Vias deployed saturated oranges and greens but in a balanced, strategic way. Molly Heintz
MICHAEL KONOW; AMY FARBER; MARK TIMMINS; JOHN WATSON; PHILIP BERKOWITSCH; JEROME BARBU; AUSTIN SAKONG: DAVID HOTSON ARCHITECT. VAN BROUSSARD; HAYLEY SINGLETON; BRANDON LENOIR; KATHRYN MCVITTIE; ANNE BROWN; MORGAN PEDERSON; ABBY SAVAGE: GHISLAINE VIAS INTERIOR DESIGN.
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site Singapore. standout A continuous oak-floored corridor runs along the perimeter, placing the rooms, some with all-glass walls, in the center of the floor plan.
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Gary Morgenroth Architect and Tsao & McKown Architects
site New York. standout Clean lines, extensive afrormosia woodwork, and swaths of saturated color reflect the clients history of living in Asia, but the Central Park view is distinctly New York.
site New York. standout Spirals are the theme in this duplex, which features not one, but two such staircases, as well as a custom freestanding fireplace in the same corkscrew form.
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SAYIGH DUMAN ARCHITECTS

New York
When Sayigh Duman Architects principal Koray Duman first saw the 750-square-foot corner apartment on the top floor of a six-story Chinatown walkup, it had been carved up in a slapdash 1980s renovation. Gypsum-board walls on steel studs gobbled up the limited space, to say nothing of the 2-foot dropped ceiling. The plan he sketched with the firms other principal, Laith Sayigh, called for a clean slate, but in the chaos of construction, Duman took care to preserve a bit of history in the form of scraps of ancient kitchen wallpaper still clinging to original plaster. Most of the other walls are exposed brick finished with a sheer white-pigmented sealer; the ceiling, now dropped only 6 inches, incorporates indirect lighting and surround-sound speakers. Collaboration with Carol Egan Interiors resulted in a pair of custom sofas sitting on egg-crate bases that were built from digitally milled plywood fins. A sculptural chartreuse feature wallwhich cunningly conceals ample storage spacecreates a dropped ceiling at the entrance, hugs the north wall, and extends through both the living and bedroom spaces. Custom kitchen cabinetry is simply painted MDF, but Duman splurged a little on the powder room, which is porcelain tiled in a honeycomb bas-relief. Craig Kellogg
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site New York. standout Color from Missoni soft goods complements classics like the Charles and Ray Eames chair and ottoman and the pendant fixture fabricated from vintage lights the client found in Prague.
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site Shanghai. standout In this resurrection of a dilapidated lane house, the classic split-level formation remains intact with the addition of glass-box insertions.
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Shamir Shah Design

site New York. standout A David Weeks chandelier, an Arne Jacobsen chair, and contemporary artwork appoint this duplexs double-height living area, while the stairwell with oak-latticed wall leads to the master suite.
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TSAO & MCKOWN ARCHITECTS

LUMIERE, TAIPEI, TAIWAN
Taipei, Taiwan, is all hustle and bustle. But the Lumiere, a six-story residential condominium, provides peace and quiet within the urban din. Thats due in large part to Interior Design Hall of Fame members Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, who were charged with converting the existing 25,000square-foot building into nine three-bedroom residences, reworking the facade, masterminding the public spaces, and designing the model apartment. Beyond the entrys lush bamboo garden, the lobby is designed to be an extension of residents private living rooms: It offers myriad seating arrangements delineated by exquisite wood folding screens. The ceiling is a constellation of pinpoint fiber optics, their reflection gently bouncing off the floor of bleachedoak planks. Additional social spaces include a lounge, banquet room, library and game room, gym, penthouse event space, and outdoor areas. The same silk burlap curtains shade the model apartments custom furnishings, crowned by the dining areas faceted antique mirror. Georgina McWhirter
MICHAEL HSIEH; AMY BECKMAN; RICHARD RHODES; JOHN LACY; RANDI MAGELI: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Abingdon, New York. standout The three-bedroom model apartment for this converted 10-unit condominium features such notable furnishings as Kerstin Hrlin-Holmquist armchairs, a Srgio Rodrigues side table, and a Borge Mogensen leather sofa.
Gary Lee Partners
project Landmark Club, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Chicago. standout Among amenities offered at the residents-only establishment are a grand salon, billiards room, and curated and commissioned art, including Tim Andersons oil on canvas.
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DDG and Dufner Heighes
project 41 Bond Street, New York. standout This new seven-unit buildings bluestone facade pays homage to its landmarked neighborhood, while the three-bedroom models Leah Tinari acrylics reference downtown grit.
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AC MARTIN PARTNERS
LOS ANGELES
David Martin, third-generation principal of AC Martin Partners, finished the main house of his Los Angeles estate in 2001. But, architecture being a profession of delayed gratification, it wasnt until this April that he completed his lap pool and pool house, even though they were included in the overall scheme from day one. Inspiration came from Peter Zumthors Hotel Therme Valsand from Martins wife, an All American triathlete who required the 25-yard pool, which is supported by 20-foot-deep caissons since the site is at the edge of a steep hill. For the pool house, a single-story, 400-square-foot linear structure that doubles as a design studio, Martin had to work around mature palm and eucalyptus trees. Layering and precision are achieved through such honest, strong materials as poured concrete, glass, and zinc. The etched-glass panels enclosing the shower cube float in a support system of steel blades and spacers. Clear glass forms the roof, limestone slabs, the floor. Those slabs spill over to the studios interior, which reveals the couples penchant for mid-century designers and contemporary artists, including Andre Putman and Roy Lichtenstein. Edie Cohen
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project Pool house and terrace, Bedford, New York. standout White concrete forms a jagged pathway from the main residence to the tidy pavilion, surrounded by a fieldstone retaining wall.
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CTA and Envi Design
project Bathhouse, Whitefish, Montana. standout Teak appears not only underfoot but also overhead in the active areas of this addition, which combines a pool, spa, gym, and gallery.
project Rooftop garden, New York. standout Such interventions as concrete pavers, an anodized-aluminum enclosure, and furniture by Paola Lenti and Patricia Urquiola transformed space formerly used to house mechanical systems into an outdoor living room with sweeping city views.
Barlis Wedlick Architects
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WEST CHIN ARCHITECT

LONG BEACH, NEW YORK
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Theres a change at the shore, where once beloved ticky-tacky beach cottages require more than updates or overhauls, and residents are opting to replace them with bold architecture. West Chin Architects Long Island weekend retreat walks the line between the vernacular past and contemporary concerns. To withstand serious storms, including the recent Hurricane Sandy, environmentally conscious, remarkably strong, engineered Austrian lumber composes most of the walls. The 5,500-squarefoot house is further anchored by nearly 100 foundation piles and a concrete shear wall, which provides not only thermal protection but also the basis for the interiors minimalist aesthetic. In the double-height second-floor living area, the ocean view is taken in through a 26-footwide glass-and-steel bi-fold door, which opens on to the travertine deck. Cool furnishings and Paul Villinskis decorative swarm of blue butterflies complete the sense of relaxed elegance. Craig Kellogg
WEST CHIN; HOWARD CHU; IRENE DUKART; AKIRA KODAMA; ROSEANN REPETTI; KRISTEN FURMAN: PROJECT TEAM.
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ONeill Rose Architects

site Kent, Connecticut. standout A screened-in porch addition orients this restored 1740s farmhouse toward the lush landscape, while simple spruce millwork and curated furnishings maintain classic lines.
Bates Masi + Architects

site Amagansett, New York. standout After gutting the 1960s kit house, the installation of reclaimed barnwood on the walls, whiteoak flooring with a bleached-oil finish, and woven-rope details yields a rustic yet contemporary interior.
site Northumberland County, Ontario. standout Set on 100 acres, this pared-down retreat uses porcelain floor tile to echo the rocky soil and, for a barnlike vibe, quarter- and rift-cut Douglas fir for ceiling planks.
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BRIDGEHAMPTON, NEW YORK
BATES MASI + ARCHITECTS
A series of open-ended glass-fronted boxesarranged amid gardens and courtyardsdraws the eye from the street through the 6,500-square-foot interior to the landscaped backyard. Bates Masi + Architects wrapped floors, ceilings, and walls in mahogany boards; stone shingles reference the beach neighborhoods wood shingle houses. Travertine joins wood on portions of the exterior siding and is also used to pave terraces. The living and dining areas occupy one vast and largely unobstructed volume thanks to a load-bearing frame concealed by the centrally placed fireplace unit, a sculptural form that also contains a coat closet and HVAC equipment. From hearth to hood, the unit is clad in digitally fabricated patinated-bronze strips set slightly apart so light from concealed fixtures filters through the gaps. Similar construction methods were utilized for the master bedroom headboard, which is composed of overlapping strips of belting leather. The woven motif appears in the master bath, too, where it is referenced in the matchstick tiles on the wall behind the freestanding tub. Georgina McWhirter
PAUL MASI; ROBERT COUCH; KERRY SANDOVAL; KATHERINE DALENE WEIL: PROJECT TEAM.
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Isay Weinfeld
site So Paulo, Brazil. standout A red box of a dining room projects onto the veranda, which is accessed from the 137foot living room featuring a peroba ceiling and floor.
Belzberg Architects
site Toronto. standout Glass and zinc cladding enclose an interior of natural wood and stone through which a sculptural timber staircase with curving slatted sides rises.
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site So Paulo, Brazil. standout The roof of this low-slung dwelling doubles as a sundeck, while the interiors retractable walls achieve full integration between the living areas, rear patio, and front garden.
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STUDIO ARTHUR CASAS

MISTRAL, SO PAULO, BRAZIL
Situated in an exclusive shopping mall, the first real-world location for Mistral Importadora, an online wine and champagne purveyor, proves a spirited experiment in click-and-mortar retailing. Since the majority of sales already happen via the Web, Studio Arthur Casass design concept works overtime to justify the extra effort a visit to the 1,200-square-foot shop involves. The layout aspires to take customers on a journey that stimulates and satisfies their curiosity with easily absorbed information. Wine bottles, their labels clearly visible and categorized by viniculture region, cantilever from snug holes CNC-cut into wall panels of frosted glass, backlit by cold-cathode tubes. Above the displays, oak slats rise to the ceiling cove, where LEDs casts a soft glow. The materials palette is restrained but warm, with polished concrete, oak planks, and plaster used on the floor, ceiling, and walls. The digital world, however, is not short-changed: Customers can take any a bottle of wine and slide it like a computer mouse across the top of a custom interactive table to retrieve details about the vintage in hand. Craig Kellogg
ARTHUR CASAS; RAPHAEL FRANA; JOANA OLIVEIRA; CRISTIANE TROLESI; GABRIEL RANIERI; MARIA ALICE CARVALHO; MARIANA SANTORO: PROJECT TEAM. FERNANDO GUERRA
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Isay Weinfeld
project Livraria da Vila, So Paulo, Brazil. standout The latest location for this bookstore chain deploys freestanding, imbuia-veneered MDF shelving that weaves sinuously around structural columns and hugs reading nooks under the modular ceiling grid.
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OHlab/Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab
project Relojera Alemana, Majorca, Spain. standout At this exclusive jewelry boutique, wall panels of tinted mirror-finished stainless steel capture the reflection of yachts docked outside in the Port Adriano marina.
project Xocolatti, New York. standout At just 150 square feet, this vest-pocket showplace for a luxury chocolatier employs its three interior walls as both storage and display via floor-to-ceiling bronze-plated brass racks, which hold hundreds of tightly packed boxes.
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BURDIFILEK
JOE FRESH, NEW YORK
Joe Fresh, the affordably priced Canadian fashion label, debuted six years ago in a shop-in-shop at a Loblaws supermarket. Now theres a flagship in a New York icon: a Manufacturers Trust Company bank designed in 1954 by a young Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The main challenge for Burdifilek was that both the exterior and the interior were landmarked, meaning the floors, walls, and ceilings couldnt be touched. Commercial viability and artistic sensitivity at the 17,800-square-foot bi-level site were the key issues in a debate now resolved by preservationists, the Vornado Realty Trust, and JPMorgan Chase & Co., the bank that eventually absorbed the assets of Manufacturers Trust Companyallowing Burdifilek to proceed with a plan reestablishing original details and surgically inserting merchandising elements. The latter would have to defer to the interiors star attractions: a massive steel-and-brass screen and mobile commissioned from Harry Bertoia for the mezzanine, now the main sales floor. In lieu of solid walls, freestanding modular wardrobes, configured in C or L shapes, define roomlike vignettes. Each white box is 10 feet high by 4 wide, large enough to stand up to the architectures grand scale but small enough to transport upstairs via one of the repositioned escalators. Jen Renzi
DIEGO BURDI; PAUL FILEK; JEREMY MENDONCA; JACKY KWONG; DANIEL MEI; EDWIN REYES; ANNA NOMEROVSKY; ANTHONY TEY; DANIELA CERCHIE; TOM YIP: PROJECT TEAM.
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project Intermix, New York. standout A 60-foot-long suspended polished-aluminum curtain and Bec Brittain pendant fixtures paired with concrete and travertine reflect the refined-raw aesthetic of the surrounding meatpacking district.
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project Standard Style, Leawood, Kansas. standout Taking advantage of the 30-foot ceiling and resembling a flowing scarf, a curving drywall canopy suspended from aircraft cable stretches downward to 9 feet from the floor.
Hufft Projects
project Anthropologie, Oklahoma City. standout Rhythmic groupings of cedar posts create flow while a wide central skylight illuminates an indoor garden.
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JIMMY COHRSSEN
LOUIS VUITTON ISLAND MAISON, SINGAPORE
PETER MARINO ARCHITECT
Part of the massive mixed-use Marina Bay Sands development by Safdie Architects, Interior Design Hall of Fame member Peter Marinos recent commission for his longtime client is a 20,000-square-foot mega-store, comprising a mall and a floating pavilion separated by a stretch of water. All canted curtain walls of steel-framed glass, the two-level asymmetrical massnicknamed the LV Island Maisonis basically two halves of a hexagon, slightly shifted. Inside the pavilion, teak abounds. White bands of fabric, evoking sails, shade leather goods from the tropical sun. On the structures double-height side, womens ready-to-wear and travel accessories are displayed at various stations while, on the mezzanine, mens travel apparel and luggage are reached via a broad staircase. Vuittons strong alliance with contemporary art is evidenced by a site-specific Richard Deacon sculpture suspended 18 feet above the main floor. Moshe Safdie provided a bridge with a plank walkway and a tunnel, fashioned by Marino as a gallery with a gently vaulted, glowing stretched-fabric canopy. Escalators connect the tunnel to the lower level of the pavilion, but to arrive by ferry is an option conceived for VIP clientele looking to make a grand entrance. Edie Cohen
MARIA WILTHEW; ENRIQUE PINCAY; YUUKI KITADA; ANNE TIMERMAN; KI HYUN SON; MASUO NAKAJIMA; SIMON WUTHERICH; ULI WAGNER; EDWARD BENEDICT; JENNIFER FITZGERALD: PROJECT TEAM.
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Studio David Thulstrup

project Elegant Prosper, Hangzhou, China. standout The canopy resembling a luminous cloudfilled sky, which tops this three-story clothing emporium, is actually composed of thousands of sandblasted acrylic disks.
Studio Sofield
project Harry Winston, Shanghai. standout This flagship has an exterior of sawn-finished Vermont white granite and an interior featuring gold-printed faceted glass panels, silk-lined bronzeand-glass vitrines, and both Canadian and Chinese marble.
Peter Marino Architect

project Chanel 51 Avenue Montaigne, Paris. standout Rock crystal clads the walls and composes six custom chandeliers in this two-story space inspired by Coco Chanels apartment on Rue Cambon.
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MARC BY MARC JACOBS, NEW YORK
Marc by Marc Jacobs has grown so much since Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects completed its showroom in New York in 2001 that the firm was tapped to refresh and expand its own work. Principal Stephan Jaklitsch blew open the floor plan, tearing down walls to liberate a run of windows along the rear. He also demolished a restroom hogging another luminous corner. I stole the light from there and filtered it through, he explains. Plus, opening up the perimeter gained 1,000 square feet of showroom space. He divvied up part of the newly expansive 6,500 square feet with laminated-glass panels that are secured by ceiling and floor tracks, forming a slightly irregular square room. The glass sandwiches film thats been digitally printed with a gauzy gradient blue pattern, which progresses from denser at the base to sheer at eye level before virtually disappearing. The glass room houses areas for womens shoes, handbags, and other accessories, separated by gleaming white shelving units backed in acid-etched mirror. Everything is custom except the seating, Lievore Altherr Molinas stacking chairs with seats of leather-covered molded polypropylene. Jen Renzi
MARK GARDNER; CHRISTOPHER COURTNEY; ASHLEY SPATAFORE; REBECCA KING: PROJECT TEAM.
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Alexchoi Design & Partners

project Royal Spirit, Hong Kong. standout For the luxury knitwear suppliers former-factory digs, the industrial spirit remains via bricks and steel, wire glass, blackened-aluminum extrusions, and bare incandescents.
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project History of a Garment Factory, Hong Kong. standout Nostalgia for primitive materials and rustic, weathered finishes informs this space fitted with stone paving, coach lights, and recycled wood wall paneling.
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project Stuart Weitzman, New York. standout Sinuous solid-surfacing shelves run before windows in the salon, while reception features a wall of 3,000 ping-pong balls in honor of the brand founders passion for table tennis.
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ONE PLUS PARTNERSHIP

CHONGQING MOUNTAIN & CITY SALES OFFICE, CHINA
Mountains are the main theme of this 17,200-square-foot space promoting land sales in the surrounding Chongqing District, which is particularly hilly. One Plus Partnership translates the conceit with various geological features rendered in shades of gray, using a tessellated series of triangular wooden planes and attendant oblique lines. To underscore the running landscape metaphor, richly patterned marble paving, with a patchwork of thickand-thin gray stripes, plays its tectonic part as a valley floor. A number of earthbound focal points that evoke monstrous rocks are actually irregular brown stainless-steel counters dropped at intervals into the layout. In the spot where access to another level was needed, a stairwell gives the impression of a cave beneath a cliff. Its tunnellike interior is illuminated with a narrow strip of light slashed through the stone strips cladding the canted walls. And thanks to a high ceiling, a forest of LED-strip pendants rains down theatrically, like a celestial shower. Craig Kellogg
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project Tian Yang Bei North Garden Sales Pavilion & Gallery, Shenzhen City, China. standout Gemstone forms define the sculptural dynamism of the largely white-on-white interiors including reception, a water bar, lounge, chat zone, and VIP rooms.
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Kris Lin Interior Design

project Wave, Guangdong, China. standout Diverse functionsstairs, a movie theater, gallery, barare unified beneath a suspended wood-veneered ceiling in this real-estate sales center for mega-developer China Vanke Co.
project Samsung Raemian Model Home Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. standout In the prismatic glass base of this multistory black-box tower filled with model-home interiors, functional zones are demarcated by the rise and fall of jagged ceilings.
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DESIGN COLLECTIVE, SHANGHAI
Architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu renovated an existing building in suburban Shanghai to create Design Collective, a 77,800-square-foot hub of international furniture showroomsincluding one for their own furniture brand, Design Republic. Outside, an opaque carbon-fiber wrapper not only obscures the old facade behind a swirling mural of whitesilhouette clip-art, but also sets the tone for the structures new design identity. Customers enter the angular exterior through a large steel funnel that heightens the experience of arrival in the soaring white-painted exhibition hall. A wooden staircase zigzags its way up the three-story space, which is topped with seven large skylights. Ascent offers changing perspectives on the irregularly shaped volume as well as access to the various showrooms. Design Republics space, 21,500 square feet located on the ground floor, is filled with pieces sourced from both local and foreign talents and manufacturers alike. Craig Kellogg
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project SOFA New York 2012. standout Visitors entered this art fairs exhibition hall through a tunnel of theatrical scrim backlit by linear fluorescents and then encountered a sculptural lighting concept above the lounge: a sea of corrugated-plastic lanterns clustered over painted plywood seating plinths.
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project Space Furniture, Singapore. standout A new glass pavilion links a bungalow with an historic row house creating a 42,000-square-foot furniture showcase of such brands as Flexform, Moooi, Vitra, and Flos.
Luca Andrisani Architects

project ALB Design Center of Chelsea, New York. standout A conceptual spine through this custom manufacturers space starts as an MDF reception desk and ends as multilevel red runway for furniture collections.
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Top: A Robert Talbot brochure from 1998. Photography: courtesy of Vanderbyl Design. Center: The principal of Vanderbyl Design. Photography: Peter Fishel. Bottom: The LEED Goldcertied Teknion showroom inside Chicagos Merchandise Mart, 2012. Photography: Peter Fishel. Opposite top, from left: A 2009 Barbara Barry for Henredon ad. The 2004 poster for Exhibitor magazine. Photography: courtesy of Vanderbyl Design. Opposite bottom, from left: A Luna Textiles ad campaign, 2009; photography: courtesy of Vanderbyl Design. Teknions 2009 IIDEX booth focusing on sustainability; photography: Interior Images.
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Michael Vanderbyl is thoroughly Californian. Born in Oakland, he was drawn to art and design for as long as he can remember. Public-school classes led him to the California College of the Arts, where he earned a bachelors in graphic design and is now, and for the past 26 years, the dean of design. My high-school guidance counselor said I wasnt smart enough to be an architect, he recalls. Or perhaps she meant Vanderbyl was too smart to be just one thing. He is the epitome of multidisciplinary: A designer and an ipso facto business consultant who is uent in nearly all mediums. Graphic, interior, product, textile, and Web design as well as ad campaignshe does them all under the auspices of Vanderbyl Design, the San Francisco studio he established in 1973. His clients are long-term and diverse: Teknion, McGuire Furniture, Janus et Cie, HBF, Bernhardt Furniture Company, and Luna Textiles are among those in the interiors world. Hes also done showrooms for Esprit, catalogs for menswear label Robert Talbot, and graphics for an Americas Cup sailboat. His countless accolades include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacic
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Design Center; the AIGA Medal, the American Institute of Graphic Arts highest honor; and jury chairman for the 1992 National Endowment for the Arts Presidential Design Awards. Design permeates everything. Design must be about truth. Design is not a career, its a lifestyle. These are among Vanderbyls interchangeable mantras. Hes formulated them from the admiration of his own design heroes, who include members of the Bauhaus, Charles and Ray Eames, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, the latter couple sponsoring his membership to the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale. A conversation about current-day inuences leads to hosannas for Apple and the late Steve Jobs: The best things to ever happen to the design world, Vanderbyl says. Which brings up branding. A term thats overused and misused, he attests. Although that word and corporate identity have been around forever, I hate them. But clients understand them. With Vanderbyls guidance, clients discover their core, what makes their company unique. They usually know the answer, its just not front of mind. I help bring it forward. Vanderbyl does so by designing products and advertisements that make a company competitive, global showrooms that are an oasis of understatement in deference to the merchandise, and messagereinforcing exhibits, such as the Teknion booth for the 2009 IIDEX trade show that addressed sustainability without showing a stick of
Left, from top: The 2007 logo for Cru Wine Selections; photography: courtesy of Vanderbyl Design. Hull graphics for St. Francis Yacht Clubs AmericaOne in the 2000 Americas Cup; photography: courtesy of AmericaOne. An Esprit showroom in New York, 1986; photography: Sharon Risedorph. Right, from top: A 1996 Teknion brochure, Vanderbyls rst collaboration with the company. Logos and labels from 2009 for Robert Pecota, a Napa Valley winery. Photography: courtesy of Vanderbyl Design.
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furniture. Another Teknion project he conceived was Design Does Matter, a collection of essays by different authors elaborating on what it takes to create an authentic brand. Does Vanderbyl think in 2- or 3-D? Both: I have attention decit, he laughs. If Im working on a poster and I get stuck, Ill switch to furniture. Then Ill go back. Each discipline informs the other. A curve detail on a sofas arm, for instance, may come from a typeface, while layering, a graphics tenet, also informs showroom and retail spaces. He sees graphic design, the single discipline from which he branches out to multi, as ephemeral. Unlike its counterparts, he says, it moves, changes, and is a reection of the times. Recent projects in that genre include labels and packaging for such boutique Napa Valley wineries as Checkerboard, Robert Pecota, and Barbour. All three are located near the small Craftsman he designed and shares with his wife, Luna Textiles founder Anna Hernandez. The city-country commute is a joy for Vanderbyl, a confessed car guy who has a small collection of luxury autos. Most days he takes his Ferrarithe California model, of course.
Left, from top: ReInvent, Vanderbyls 2009 solo show at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Janus et Cies contract showroom, unveiled at NeoCon in Chicago last June. The 2003 catalog of California College of the Arts, featuring portraits of students and faculty by Todd Hido. Photography: courtesy of Vanderbyl Design. Right, from top: A cart of powder-coated aluminum and teak for McGuire Furniture, 2000; photography: courtesy of Vanderbyl Design. HBFs lacquered cherry bench, 1985, now part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts permanent collection; photography: courtesy of HBF.
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Alexandra Champalimaud
Alexandra Champalimaud will never forget the day she touched down in Montreal. It was January 5 lets not bother with the year, but say the sound track was disco. The city proved unwelcomingly foreign and freezing to the young refugee who, due to political unrest, had pulled up roots from her native Portugal at 2:00 in the morning with her 1-year-old son in tow. The designer didnt know a soul in her new hometown and, despite uency in both English and French, professional success was at rst elusive. I dont mean to make it sound weepy, but my life was a lot of work and not that much fun, she says of the time. But I am a survivor. So, in survival mode, she cracked open the Canadian phone book, made some cold calls, and joined a rm decorating houses for the local rich and famous. That job led to a solo commission for prime minister Pierre Trudeau. I am a pretty lucky person and have had an amazing life, she says. (Indeed. We all know how the story ends.) Born into an Anglo-Portuguese family, she was raised near Lisbon, in a posh coastal town with a Riviera vibe. Champalimaud attended Swiss and English boarding schools, studying classical architecture and interior design at Portugals Fundao Ricardo do Espirito Santo Silva. She learned the secrets of lighting, proportion, and detailalong with period styles and how they evolved. Classicism informed residences she designed after founding Alexandra Champalimaud & Associates in 1994, but her historical study also deserves credit as a springboard for things not visible on the horizon at the timethings like product design. The evolution of the chair has signicance when I am designing a contemporary chair, she says. With that background, Im even more creative because I have the condence to re away. Branching into hospitality, Champalimaud remade a rumored brothel in Montreal as a legitimate, yet amusing hotel. Next, was
Top: The principal of Champalimaud at New Yorks Carlyle hotel, where she renovated 20 suites in 2010. Photography: Sergio Kurhajec. Center: The presidential suite at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, 2011. Photography: Michael Weber. Bottom: The Green Leaf Niseko Village hotel, a 2011 project on Hokkaido, an island in Japan. Photography: courtesy of YTL Hotels. Opposite: A suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, 2012. Photography: Michael Weber.
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Left, from top: Founders Ridge at the Sundance Resort in Utah, 2011; photography: EMR Photography. A guest bedroom at the designers house in Taos, New Mexico, 2000; photography: courtesy of Champalimaud and Cond Nast. Right, from top: The Fairmont San Francisco penthouse suite, 2010; photography: Matthew Millman. The lobby at the West 57th Street by Hilton Club in New York, 2008; photography: courtesy of Hilton Worldwide.
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her stem-to-stern transformation at Quebec Citys landmark Le Chteau Frontenac (now a Fairmont Hotels & Resorts holding). On a family vacation, she met her current husband, Bruce Schnitzer, who encouraged her to move to his native Manhattan. The designers New York rm took ight on the strength of the commission to renovate the legendary Algonquin Hotel. This fall, the Dorchester hotel in London revealed Champalimauds 22 deluxe suites. Embroidered bed linens are the work of her Londonbased daughterin-law, Sandrine. Champalimaud fancies herself a design instigator and takes pleasure in empowering others. Im not controlling by nature, and I dont consider myself entirely in control now, the stylish designer says. But I am a lot of fun when I lose it. Prowling her sun-splashed Union Square ofces in a Stella McCartney Hawaiian-print minidress, Alexander McQueen leather ats, and a chunky skull bracelet, she spots a hardcover portfolio displaying projects by her rm, rechristened Champalimaud. After leang through it, she turns to her iPad for new pictures of the guest suites she remodeled at the Waldorf Astoria 40 blocks uptown. I love drawing out the soul of an old building or even layering in a story, she says. New construction at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles demanded the latter for spa suites with oors of wideplank cerused oak. Their character prole reads: laid-back California imbued with contemporary European luxury. Other ventures to which she brings her signature opulence include a carpet collection for the Rug Company and, with cult English cloth house Holland & Sherry, outdoor fabrics and a hospitality line. Of course, theyre expressive, she says, but built on wisdom and the knowledge of what can be a catalyst in peoples lives. Sounds like fodder for several more chapters of an already charmed life.
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In large part due to Jim Olson and Tom Kundig, Seattle has become an outpost of world-class design. Professional partners since 1996, the two have amassed an enviable portfolio. Their projects span continents, encompass almost every genre, and have been richly lauded; AIAs 2009 Architecture Firm Award is one among more than 150. Yet over the course of their lifetimes, nothing has inuenced Olson and Kundig as much as their roots in the Pacic Northwest. Olsons response to the Seattle connection: Look out the window. A half-block away from the eponymous studios headquarters stands the building where he started his career at age 23 and launched a private practice two years later. A native of Enumclaw, a tiny town in the shadow of Mount Rainier, approximately an hour southeast of Seattle, Olson recalls spending his childhood as a solitary thinker. Later, he earned a bachelors degree in architecture from the University of Washington. I was in too much of a hurry to start working, he says when asked why he eschewed graduate school. Raised in Spokane, surrounded by the rugged landscape of the Washington/Idaho border, Kundigs DNA is steeped in design. That his father is an architect was at rst a deterrent. Kundig was more interested in science, particularly physics. Right-brain stimuli came from the nutty group of artists who were family friends. I knew Id never be an artist, he says, but I sure appreciated what they brought to the party as provocateurs and iconoclasts. He eventually succumbed to architecturethe intersection of rational and poeticearning undergraduate and masters degrees also from the University of Washington. Ironically, it was his father who approached Olson at a lecture, which ultimately connected the two eventual partners. Kundig began employment at the then called Olson Sundberg Architects in 1986. The 100-strong Olson Kundig Architects, formed in 2010 and including Kirsten Murray and Alan Maskin as coprincipals, counts approximately 75 percent of its work as residential. Each project is spearheaded by one of the four principals. Kundigs houses are often simple in geometry but always gutsy, usually incorporating massive moving parts. For instance, cabins hes designed in
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Opposite top: A Kootenai County, Idaho, cabin, 2002, opening to Hayden Lake with a hand crank. Photography: Benjamin Benschneider. Opposite bottom: Olson Kundig Architects principals Jim Olson and Tom Kundig. Photography: Kyle Johnson.
continents, encompass almost every genre, and have been richly lauded
Top: The Lightcatcher at the Whatcom Museum, 2009, in Bellingham, Washington. Photography: Benjamin Benschneider. Bottom, from left: Rolling Huts, 2007, in Mazama, Washington; photography: Tim Bies. The living room of an Atherton, California, house, 1998; photography: Bruce Van Inwegen.
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Left, from top: The living room of a 2008 Denver house; photography: Erhard Pfeiffer. Sculptor Ed Carpenters glass skylight in a Seattle house, 1992; photography: Mike Jensen. Right, from top: A pavilion-style house in Bellevue, Washington, 2011; photography: Benjamin Benschneider. Foss Waterway Seaport in Tacoma, Washington; photography: Olson Kundig Architects.
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Left, from top: The powder room in a Portland, Oregon, house, 2007. A 2008 house in Montecito, California. Photography: Tim Bies. Right, from top: A 2005 cabin in Mazama, Washington; photography: Tim Bies. A subterranean photography studio, part of a residential project in Sitges, Spain, 2010; photography: Petter Hegre. Steel door rollers and discs from the Tom Kundig Collection, 2012; photography: Michael Burns.
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northern Idaho and Mazama, Washington, have pivoting walls that open up entirely to the outdoors via a hand crank. Says Olson of Kundig: With his physics background, Tom makes innovative and smart architecture that looks to the future. Olsons residences, on the other hand, are more classical and rened, betting the art collectors who comprise much of his clientele. One in Bellevue, Washington, cohesively incorporates an ethereal James Turrell installation and a hefty steel sculpture by Richard Serra. Kundig on Olson: In Jims projects, the proportions of the art, furniture, and landscape combine to almost suspend materiality into a magical realm. Farther aeld, Olson has residences in Bedford, New York; Lugano, Switzerland; and Mumbai, India, on his boards, while Kundig has dwellings in Manhattan, Geneva, and Buenos Aires on his. All this work has led to the rm launching a studio in 2000 devoted specically to interiors. It currently counts six designers, involved in every project. Those projects, other than residential, include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation visitor center in Seattle, JW Marriott Los Cabos hotel in Mexico, and ofces in Asia. At the opposite end of the scale spectrum is the 2012 debut of the Tom Kundig Collection of steel hardware. Recent commissions include a number of cultural institutions as well: The Whatcom Museums Lightcatcher building in Bellingham was Olson Kundigs rst ground-up museum, a LEED Silvercertied one at that. Several others have followed, and the rm is currently adapting a former Tacoma warehouse into the 45,000-square-foot Foss Waterway Seaport, set to be the West Coasts largest maritime heritage center when it opens in 2015. Further proof of their ties to their surroundings, last year the two principals launched [storefront] Olson Kundig Architects: an experimental space hosting performances and exhibitions on the ground oor of their 1892 ofce building.
Top: A mushroom-growing tent, a 2012 project from [storefront] Olson Kundig Architects. Photography: Kevin Scott. Center: Lopez Island, Washington, house, 2010. Photography: Dwight Eschliman. Bottom: Meerkats and Noahs Ark made from found objects, Olson Kundig Architectss 2007 installation at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Photography: Grant Mudford.
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Patrick Jouin
The Houdini of design. Thats how Sanjit Manku refers to Patrick Jouin, his Jouin Manku Studio cofounder. Just as the legendary escape artist would extricate himself from seemingly impossible situations, Jouin likes to work within a set of almost improbable parameters. He has this love of constraints, says Manku. Its almost a game. If you give him 50, its not enough. He wants 75. That approach has proved hugely successful. Today, the Paris-based Jouin is not only considered to be one of Frances most acclaimed designers, he is also one of the most versatile. Among his products are the Pasta Pot saucepan for Alessi, the Thalya chair and Optic storage cubes for Kartell, and the Tarti Nutella spatula for lovers of the famous hazelnut spread. His stellar projects include a house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; the Paris and Hong Kong agships of Van Cleef & Arpels; and restaurants for star chef Alain Ducasse. Jouins designs are also omnipresent on the streets of the French capital, from a bus stop near the Bastille and Vlib rental-bike terminals to public toilets known as Sanisettes. Jouin claims the latter is the project of which he is most proud. Once you embark upon industrial design, you dream of becoming part of the cityscape, he says. Jouin was born in 1967, in the western French village of Mauves-sur-Loire. His mother was a nurse, his father a craftsman who made
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Opposite top: The founder of Patrick Jouin ID and cofounder of Jouin Manku Studio. Photography: Benoit Linero. Opposite bottom: The Hong Kong agship of Van Cleef & Arpels, 2011. Photography: Nacasa & Partners. Left, from top: A house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008; photography: Roland Halbe. Optic, 2006 thermoplastic cubes for Kartell; photography: courtesy of Kartell. Set in Style, a 2011 exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York; photography: courtesy of the CooperHewitt, National Design Museum. Right: Evol, ceramic tableware for Gien, 2006. Photography: Thomas Duval.
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mechanical parts for various machines. Jouin considered becoming a cartoonist, a surgeon, or an architect, but eventually enrolled at the cole Nationale Suprieure de Cration Industrielle in Paris. Upon graduation, he was hired by Philippe Starck to work for Thomson Multimedia and then spent ve years at Starcks own rm. People often assume that Im his protg, says Jouin, when, in fact, I stopped working for him 14 years ago. Still, he does recognize a certain debt. It was Starck who introduced him to furniture design and taught him just how essential curiosity is for a designer. Curiosity is a trait he shares with Ducasse, with whom he started collaborating shortly after opening his own eponymous practice in 1998. The chefs three-star Michelin restaurant, Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athne, was Jouins very rst interiors commission. Patrick possesses a quality that is rare among creators: He listens attentively, says Ducasse. This talent plus his obsessive passion for details are key to the success of our projects, which also include Jules Verne in Paris and Mix in New York and Las Vegas. The other important gure in Jouins professional life
Left, from top: Mix restaurant, 2005, in Las Vegas; photography: Eric Laignel. The resin C2 chair, 2004, for Materialise; photography: Thomas Duval. Right, from top: The Tarti Nutella spreader for Ferrero, 2003; photography: Thomas Duval. Ether chandelier in polished steel and blown glass for Leucos, 2006; photography: courtesy of Leucos. Item, a leatherupholstered sofa for Bernhardt Furniture Company, 2012; photography: courtesy of Bernhardt Furniture Company. Jules Verne, 2008, the Paris restaurant in the Eiffel Tower; photography: Eric Laignel.
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is Canadian-trained architect Manku, who has been his associate since 2006. Together, they oversee Jouin Manku Studio, which counts a James Bondstyle house in London, a winery in the Bordeaux region, and the renovation of the 12thcentury Abbaye de Fontevraud in Anjou among its current projects. Jouin also runs a separate company, Patrick Jouin ID, specializing in industrial design. In the planning stage is custom furniture for his countrys Ministre de la Dfense, being designed by Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associs and due to open in Paris in 2014. Whatever the task, most of Jouins creations share stylistic similarities. Lines are often sensuous and sheltering. He strives for purity, imbued with the unexpected. One of my principal themes, he says, is to create a sense of wonder. He endows objects with tactility, places great emphasis on functionality, and avows a fascination for avant-garde technology and traditional craftsmanshiphis collaborators range from rapid-prototyping technicians and stereo lithographers to Murano glassblowers. More than anything, his overriding concern is novelty. Repeating myself is a constant worry, he says. Fortunately for clients and fans, that constant concern most often translates into our constant delight.
Left, from top: A Sanisette in Paris, 2006; photography: Thomas Duval. Polycarbonate Thalya chairs for Kartell, 2008; photography: courtesy of Kartell. Sur Mesure par Thierry Marx restaurant, 2011, in the Mandarin Oriental, Paris, hotel; photography: Hlne Hilaire. Right, from top: Gilt restaurant in New York, 2006; photography: Eric Laignel. Pasta Pot, designed for Alessi in 2007; photography: Thomas Duval.
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REMIX receptacles are designed for multi-stream recycling and waste management in conference and training rooms, offices, kitchens, or break rooms. Available in two sizes and a variety of lid configurations, REMIX can be mixed and matched to accommodate any type of waste. Its elegant and unassuming design makes it suitable for all corporate interiors, hallways and high-traffic areas as well. t. 800.496.0204 or visit www.peterpepper.com circle 225
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The Giulia sofa is adorned with snowball tufting, a technique rarely seen today due to the large amount of skill and craftsmanship required. Chairs, love seats, ottomans and benches are also available. All of them are crafted to order in Couture's workroom. Completely made in the USA. 108 W x 39 D x 29 H inches. Design: Luigi Gentile. t. 212.689.0730 or visit coutureshowrooms.com circle 226
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Make the drain disappear with TileDrain by Infinity Drain. Incorporate tile or solid surface material for a virtually seamless installation. Available in three sizes and works with any type of waterproofing. Visit us online for product specs, authorized dealers and image gallery. t. 516.767.6786 or www.InfinityDrain.com circle 228
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Classic 2" bronze drapery rod featuring Elegant Crystal finial with 1 3/16" traverse drapery rod behind. Rods are made to measure in a wide choice of finishes and styles. Call for a catalog or visit us online. t. +4423.9225.2525 or tillysinteriors.com circle 229
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Beautiful spheres constructed of either natural wood, or metal (matte aluminum, white enamel, or aged brown metal). Ceiling, suspension and floor versions. 3 sizes available (48 | 65 | 85 cm) Two lightsources are available: G11-24W Fluorescent or Screw-in Energy Saving Fluorscent or 120W-200W max halogen. Distributed in North America exclusively by Scangift Ltd. www.scangift.com circle 230
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With its dazzling cascading patterns, vivid programmable illumination system and custom designed water purification, the Harmonic Cascade is sure to enhance any environment. These state-of-the-art water features are available exclusively from Harmonic Environments. t. 800.497.3529 or visit HarmonicEnvironments.com circle 231
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Sculptural, fluid, natural, playfully alive. Each one is unique, eco-friendly, customizable, and scalable. Our chandeliers, pendants, table lamps, floor lamps and sconces capture the unique effects of hand-blown glass as it interacts with light. Individually handcrafted in New York City. t. 212.475.0479 or visit jGoodDesign.com circle 232
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A few reasons why Eclipse Shutters are the perfect choice for your kitchen and bathroom. GREENGUARD Certified, Fire Retardant, Moisture Resistant, 25-Year Warranty. For 20 years, Eclipse has been designing innovative and functional shutters. Think of Eclipse Shutters for your next residential, contract or hospitality project. t. 877.874.8877 or visit www.eclipseshutters.com circle 233
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Whiting & Davis metal mesh can be used in a variety of design applications to create an atmosphere ranging from luxurious opulence to industrial chic. Shimmering, fluid and dramatic mesh creates a simple, yet lustrous pattern of texture unlike any other material. Feel the difference. t. 800.876.MESH or visit whitinganddavis.com circle 234 Manufactured in USA Since 1876
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MORI is an FR polyester with the look and feel of hand woven, 4-ply Thai silk; the perfect balance of high-end luxury and practicality. The MORI Collection is suitable for an array of applications from walls, windows and upholstery. t. 212.414.2727 or visit www.barthalpern.com circle 236
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From the makers of award-winning StyleDrain, a drain that virtually disappears. StyleDrain Tile allows you to integrate any tile or stone to seamlessly match the rest of the shower. Easy installation compatible with every water-proofing method. Proudly carries the Made in California designation. t. 800.822.8855 or please visit us online at styledrain.com/ID circle 237
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The purest form of luxury WETSTYLE brings design and comfort to your bathroom. To store all accessories and products out of sight: such is the concept of the M collection. With bathtubs, lavatories and furniture; WETSTYLE offers a complete product line for your designer bathrooms. Toll-free 888.536.9001 or www.WETSTYLE.ca circle 238
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With a bisected elliptical cone base, Powell & Bonnells new Fuego table is stylish and adaptable. This design is individually hand forged; as a result, Powell & Bonnell can offer a variety of sizes and finishes tailored to your clients individual needs. Surface options include natural stone, solid surface, wood and glass. t. 800.272.2058 or visit powellandbonnell.com circle 239
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Our range of gas fires in the Element4 collection all have one thing in common, their well thought-out simplicity. Simplicity in design results in designs that do full justice to the unique beauty of the fire. Element4 gas fires. Simply the most beautiful. Call for a catalog. t. 781.324.8383 or visit europeanhome.com circle 240
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Committed to delivering distinguished styling, Aceray is proud to introduce an array of contemporary & unique seating designs suitable for furnishing hotels, cafs, bars, restaurants, corporate environments, reception areas, health care facilities, schools, store displays, museums, public spaces, private residences & more. Call 303.733.3404 or visit www.aceray.com circle 242
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A strong silhouette and streamlined shape bring an air of deco drama to Style 613, a key piece in any seating arrangement and part of the Avery Boardman Signature Collection. Glamorous in any room and available in infinite custom variations. As with all Avery Boardman designs, the 613 can be upholstered in the fabric of your choice. Shown 92 W x 37 D x 29 H. Visit averyboardman.com circle 243
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An Asian-inspired waterfall spout, framed by the simplicity of raw plumbing parts to fashion a happy marriage of industrial chic and rustic country elegance. For finish choices, handle options and must-see exposed shower systems, please visit us online at sonomaforge.com circle 244
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The Palermo Chandelier Hand formed layers of brass and steel produce a dynamic sculptural fixture surrounding a bold inner core with frosted, tempered glass diffusion. Extraordinary Lighting handmade in the USA for the Residential, Commercial & Hospitality industries. Custom lighting available. t. 818.765.2777, info@ziapriven.com or ziapriven.com circle 245
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Sophisticated, contemporary, custom-made artisanal furniture, lighting and home dcor offered with complete specification support. Featured: PANTERA BENCH by artist/architect Zak Ostrowski. Crafted of molded fiberglass with any color custom auto enamel for use indoors or out. Exclusive to DESIGNLUSH. NYDC 200 Lex and Chicago Merchandise Mart. t. 212.532.5450, info@designush.com or visit please us online at www.designlush.com circle 246
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SYNC System Contemporary designs for the bath, kitchen and garden are sculpted from natural materials including stone, bronze, bamboo, copper, iron, and hardwoods. Our modular SYNC System offers endless combinations for residential and commercial applications in carrara marble, honed black granite, onyx, and stainless steel. Please call us for a catalog. t. 888.682.2987 www.stoneforest.com/interior circle 247
Mz introduces Graphix, an innovative line of graphically enhanced metal surfaces inspired by the elements of the sky. Available in two series - Cosmos and Flare, in nine new colorways, and in select patterns. Shown: Cosmos Supernova on Pinstripe pattern. t. 510.632.0853 or visit www.mozdesigns.com circle 248
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The gracefully shaped Kudu chair, with its elegantly button tufted wingback, now has a companion: The Powell & Bonnell Kudu ottoman. Designed exclusively to complement the fine details of the chair; the Kudu ottoman provides the perfect setting to kick up your feet and unwind in greater comfort. t. 800.272.2058 www.powellandbonnell.com circle 249
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Bone Simple Design specializes in contemporary custom, handmade-to-order lighting fixtures for commercial, retail, hospitality and residential applications. We have a simple, modern design aesthetic and work with a variety of materials. Shown here is our 4 Square Boxed Pendant in satin brass finish. Our designs can be customized and are UL listed. t. 212.627.0876 www.bonesimple.com circle 251
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Woven wire mesh offers many advantages over conventional drapery. Besides being durable, fireproof, and virtually maintenance-free, the material diffused and enhances lighting without blocking views or ventilation. Complement your project using Cascade Coil for space division, window treatment, wall covering, lighting effect, retail display, building cladding, semi-security, and much more. t. 800.999.2645 or visit us online at www.cascadecoil.com circle 253
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Introducing OKITE Pietre Preziose, the worlds first and only quartz surfacing inspired by natural onyx. An uplifting kaleidoscope of deep, luminous color that will bring to your interior design projects infinite depth and an irresistible allure of precious stones. Pietre Preziose is highly heat, stain and scratch resistant and is extremely durable and non-porous. It never needs sealing and is easy to clean and maintain. t. 866.654.8397 or visit www.okite.us circle 255
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The ambiance is in the details with Safcos new Glass Accent Table. Reception, lounge and those inbetween spaces all benefit from a little modern spice. From beautiful floral dcor to a perfect setting for that coffee mug, this little addition makes a big impression. www.safcoproducts.com circle 256
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The solid-surface freestanding Adrian is boldly contemporary, with its aggressive convex ends complemented by front and back sides that are bowed outward. Measuring 68 x 36.25 x 23, Adrian is available as a soaker or air bath with pedestal base. Coordinating sink is also available. Visit mtibaths.com/adrian circle 257
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Hospitality & Residential Ton Art introduces a collection of sculptures and objects unlike anything you have ever seen: organic, mysterious, straddling the line between the natural and the surreal. Many incorporate light reflected by real 23k gold, creating a warm ambient glow. Every piece is hand-crafted by artists. Customization and special designs welcome. t. 877.822.2040 www.tonartllc.com
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INCASE is advanced fabric protection powered by revolutionary Crypton Technology. Providing superior liquid and stain repellency, odor protection and microbial resistance, INCASE is perfect for cubicle curtains, drapery, bedding... just about anywhere that a moisture barrier isnt necessary. Order a sample today. t. 800.279.7866 or visit cryptonfabric.com circle 260
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The Pia11 Platinum award winning Palisade S15 Sconce, combines hand-cut fused crystal clear glass, polished stainless steel, and energy efficient LED or halogen lamping. The result is a contemporary, made in the USA, UL listed, gorgeous green sconce. t. 800.755.0471 www.charlesloomis.com circle 261
Custom architectural lighting and fabric sculptures channel light, line and motion to transform conventional spaces into extraordinary environments. Our Lightform Sculptures are available in a wide range of colors and custom options. Please visit us online to view our complete line of lighting, sculpture and custom environmental installations for modern interiors. For more information, please contact us at: t. 626.358.8754, info@studiolilica.com or visit studiolilica.com circle 262
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The Palomba Collection 2012 builds on the design language that Roberto and Ludovica Palomba describe as a "fingerprint of nature." This new collection takes their organic sensibility even further, changing the perception of what can be achieved with ceramic design. t. 866.696.2493 www.laufen.com/usa circle 263
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Pendant fixtures in fabric, wood veneer and now powder coated perforated steel, backed with frost diffusion media. Part of our unique line of contract quality decorative lighting. Donovan Lighting Ltd. designs and manufactures these distinctive, high quality luminaires in New York State. t. 607.256.3640, donlig@aol.com or visit us online at www.donovanlighting.com circle 265
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The Jamie Beckwith Collection invites you to rethink wood flooring. The Enigma line has forever changed the limitations of traditional wood plank flooring. Engineered with over 16 patterns, beautiful wood species and custom stains that allow endless possibilities to infuse your space with creativity. Shown Wave in Golden Topaz. t. 615.254.1937 jamiebeckwithcollection.com circle 266
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The Seniah 966 chair and ottoman is a supremely comfortable, deep low slung chair with walnut legs and easy modern style. 35.5 D x 29.5 W x 29.5 H. Chair and ottoman available separately. Courtesy to the trade. info@williamhaines.com circle 267
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Over 400 leathers, 500 fabrics, 50 wood finishes and numerous nail and stitching details make creating a unique piece of furniture a design dream. Handcrafted in the U.S.A., Hancock & Moore offers quality seating for both the traditionalist & transitionalist. www.hancockandmoore.com circle 268
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Rakks is the source for sophisticated and flexible shelving solutions for your storage and display needs. Shown here with aluminum extruded shelves, our patented L-Bracket shelving system is exceptionally strong and features infinitely adjustable shelves. For more information, visit rakks.com or call 800.826.6006 circle 269
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Those familiar with Mestia, Georgia, know it as a remote ski town of medieval churches and stone towers nestled amid the Caucasus Mountains. But they may be surprised to learn that its also becoming a site for cutting-edge design, thanks to J. Mayer H. Architects. We were asked to develop a small police station for the growing city, reports principal Juergen Mayer H. The introduction of contemporary architecture in a historic rural context is a unique adventure. The commission was a natural since Mayer H.s rm had already designed the townships Queen Tamar Airport and House of Justice and Civic Centre last year. The new police station references the many 12th-century defensive towers that dot the area, and from afar looks as though its made of the same rustic local slate. Closer inspection reveals the facade to be board-formed concrete, cast-in-place in deference to the local construction culture. Freeform glass insertions further shift the ve-story buildings appearance from bygone to futuristic. The glass is part of the projectsand citys transparency theme: no repression and nothing to hide with a new political regime for Mestia, which was just named a UNESCO World Heritage site. Theres a curiosity to see how architecture works as a catalyst to improve the country, Mayer H. says. Time will tell. Edie Cohen
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Photos from select 2012 IDC/WC winners, from left: Cranbrook Art Museum Collections Building Addition by SmithGroupJJR; The Instructional Centre at the University of Toronto by Perkins+Will; Xocolatti by De-Spec; The Pierre by Olson Kundig Architects; DOMUSae, Spaces for Culture by APARICIO+DONAIRE
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Congratulations to this years Best of year ProjeCts and ProduCts

Partners: Awards by Harry Allen Honoree Awards by Duggal Visual Solutions

PhotograPhy By Keith Claytor

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ANNOUNCING A NEW COLLABORATION

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INFUSED VENEER PANELS COLLECTION ICONIC PANELS COLLECTION FURNITURE COLLECTION

Rios Clementi Hale Studios

ELLIOTT + ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS

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Shelton, Mindel & Associates

RANDY BROWN ARCHITECTS

John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

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