Minato Pharmacy by Keisuke Fujiwara Design Office

Japanese Keisuke Fujiwara Design Office recently completed 2 Minato pharmacies in Tokyo. The first was designed primarily of wood. Shelves are fixed tot the wall at various heights and also includes a floating bench for waiting customers. The colors used on the feature wall are that of the brand. The second pharmacy is mainly composed of white colored material and accented colors of the brand’s image are used on the floor. Systematic shelves are lined on the wall.

Minato Pharmacy, by Keisuke Fujiwara Design Office, via: designboom

Collectors Loft by Poteet Architects

The Collector’s Loft is featured as one of the 100 best spaces published in Metropolitan Home magazine over its illustrious 30 year history.

Collectors Loft, by Poteet Architects
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citizenM Hotels by Concrete Amsterdam

citizenM is short for citizen mobile, and a new series of hotels with interiors designed by Concrete in Amsterdam. The hotel chain caters to a new type of traveler, these modern individuals are explorers, trekkers, professionals and shoppers. They travel a lot – both long and short haul and they share a common desire: affordable luxury.

Furniture selected for the interior of the hotel, include classic designs by Verner Panton, Charles & Ray Eames, Jean Prouvé, George Nelson, and recent designs from Jasper Morrison, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Antonio Citterio

citizenM, Glasgow, Amsterdam City, by Concrete

The Fredensborg House by NORM Architects

On a sloping property north of Copenhagen, the Fredensborg House is built on five small plateaus connected by steps, reflecting the shape of its surrounding terrain. The house aesthetic is derived from inspirations brought about by the labyrinthine mountain village architecture, those that you may find familiar in Southern Europe, the architecture of Chinese temples, and in the works of modernist Danish architecture Jorn Utzon.

The Fredensborg House, Copenhagen, Denmark, by NORM Architects, via: Contemporist

Compact Interior by i29 Interior Architects

This small apartment measuring 45 m2 is completely renovated because of foundation repair. In it’s new layout all the functions of the house are placed in two wall units. Entrance hall, wardrobe and kitchen equipment are hidden behind a pinewood wall. On the opposite a second wooden wall of the same material is placed. This wall integrated a bench, fireplace and storage. Floor, ceiling and walls are all white. A custom designed table and bench, together with the fireplace are anthracite gray. The simplicity of the design and choice of materials give this apartment lots of space within the limited area.

Compact Interior, Amsterdam, Netherlands, by i29 Interior Architects

Das Neue Kubitscheck by designliga

“Tell me what music you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are” was among the principles that served as a blueprint, starting-point and road-map for the look and feel of the campaign and for the subsequent implementation of Das Neue Kubitscheck (The New Kubitscheck).

Cafe owner, Armin Stegbauer’s aim is to free cakes and gateaux from their years of imprisonment behind the bars of crocheted doilies, cologne and dusty Sunday tradition. Stegbauer, saviour of Cafe Kubitscheck in Waldfriedhofstrasse, a traditional Munich confectioner’s from the 1950s, has made it his goal to revamp the confectioner’s tradition for the modern age. But not without taking on board some endearing aspects of Germany’s confectionery culture that are worthy of preservation.

Das Neue Kubitscheck, Munich, Germany, by designliga

Ceramic House by Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez

In the attic of an emblematic building of classical early 20th century Madrid, this new concept of living space is placed: UNLIMITED SPACE (Ceramic House) is presented by architect Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez and built out of total freedom of layers. As if the design would be a three-dimensional object, every one of the rooms or points of the home can be located by specifying the axis of coordinates. The result is the power to move around in few square meters at different heights, going up and down, offering a new experience of roominess in the context of a home: to explore the space. The transition between the rooms is continuous and lets the movement flow freely across the numerous levels. The spatial flexibility that transforms this home is an innovative housing concept which adapts itself to the actual necessities and to the new usages. Where roominess, brightness and time flow in a multifunctional space without corners or precedence. It is also about expanding the parameters of interior design as well as the conventional trends of arrangement.

Product Name, Madrid, Spain, by Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez, Photography by Pedro Martínez
via: Contemporist

Unagi Store by Stad

Reconstructing project of a traditional eel store established over 100 years ago in Yanagawa-city. This form is led by many restriction such as floor level gap by iterating reconstruction. Heavily burnt and carbonized cedar board on outside and inside wall, this is because of charcoals the artisans have used to grill eels for a long long time.

Unagi, Office & Store, Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan, by Shimokawa Toru, Stad
Photography by Kozi Hayakawa

Axor Bouroullec for Axor Hansgrohe

Who wouldn’t want a bathroom designed entirely according to one’s own personal preferences? With Axor Bouroullec, Axor offers the freedom to create individual designs – allowing this space to be tailored to suit the personal needs and wishes of the user perfectly. Axor Bouroullec is a collection that is not constrained by a rigid pattern. In fact, more than 70 bathroom products – from mixers, accessories and wash basins to the bath tub – give you the freedom to compose the ensemble that best suits your individual needs. The position of the mixer is not predetermined: you can decide where to locate the spout and handles above, on top of and around the wash basin. Shelves integrated into the wash basin permit flexible positioning of the mixer or provide space to store your personal items.

Axor Bouroullec, by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, for Axor Hansgrohe

Mandarin Oriental Barcelona by Patricia Urquiola

While the 1950s Catalan façade has been left untouched stylistically, architects Carlos Ferrater and Juan Trias de Bes have made some major changes to the former bank while retaining its symmetrical simplicity. The nine-storey building’s unassuming façade opens to a light-drenched atrium, around which the hotel rooms have been designed. Crossing the atrium via a floating catwalk, guests pass into a lobby before being drawn to a split-level mezzanine platform – flanked on one side by Moments restaurant and on the other by Banker’s Bar – from where they view the central Blanc lounge below. “Previously visitors walked down into the building, so we designed an elevated ramp for the gallery entrance to make it feel as though you are walking on air,” says de Bes. “By placing black reflective stone at floor level, there is a multiplying effect to the perceived height of the windows and atrium.”

The building’s character also provided much inspiration to Patricia Urquiola, who knew she must come up with a visual story specific to Barcelona while hinting at the Oriental roots of the Mandarin Oriental brand. “I noticed all this light flooding into the building, and wanted to harness it to mirror the light that shines in this Mediterranean city,” comments Urquiola. “Then I thought of how a white glove represents elegance and service. Closing my eyes, I knew there had to be a continuity of design flowing through the spaces; one point of view. But I also wanted there to be a sense of memory here.”

Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona, Spain, by Patricia Urquiola
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