Twisted frozen yogurt by Morris Selvatico

Unlike the UK and USA with familiar brands such as “Snog” and “Pinkberry”, Australia is relatively new to the frozen yoghurt craze! Morris Selvatico were appointed to bring the Twisted vision to life and create a brand that would make its mark in the Australian market!

With store number one located in world renowned Bondi Beach, Morris Selvatico wanted to create an interior that would stand out from the crowd and provide a springboard for the brand to rollout stores across the nation.

“We were conscious of creating an interior and brand that was not gender specific” says Morris. “We realised very early on in the concept stage that the brand needed to be edgy and quirky to draw a broader customer base” explains Selvatico.

Morris Selvatico specified simple finishes with a slight ‘twist’. These included the white ceramic tiles laid on an angle and the flooring returning up walls. An amazing rippled wall in a high gloss polyurethane finish emulates the texture of the yoghurt whilst bringing the Twisted brand colours to life.

Working closely with Perth based graphics company Juicebox who created the logo and online presence, Morris Selvatico also developed the packaging and stationery to complement the interior.

The Samitaur Tower by Eric Owen Moss

Description by the architect:

The Samitaur Tower is an information tower, constructed at the corner of Hayden Avenue and National Boulevard immediately across from the new Expo light rail line arriving from downtown Los Angeles in June, 2011. That intersection is the primary entry point into the re-developed zone of Culver City.

Conceptually, the tower has both introverted and extroverted planning objectives. Internal to the burgeoning site area of new media companies, graphic designers, and general office tenants, the tower will symbolize the advent of this important new urban development, provide a changing art display for local viewing, and offer a variety of graphic content and data on its five screens concerning coming events and current achievements of the tenants who occupy that part of the city.















Externally, the tower displays culturally significant content and local event information, along with art and graphic presentations of all sorts available to in-car audiences who pass the site area, traveling on a number of local thoroughfares in the Culver City / West Los Angeles area. In addition to the large number of cars passing the site, the Expo Line has an estimated ridership of 30,000 passengers per day with two local stops several blocks east and west of the site. The presence of the train riders guarantees an enormous daily audience of Tower art viewers, as well as an increase in pedestrians in the area, who will walk past the Tower from the train stops to local businesses.

All the buildings in the immediate area are governed by a 56 foot height limit. The Samitaur Tower height is an important exception to the local height rule. The project is 72 feet high, measured from grade, and includes an open-air, excavated, concrete seating and staging space at its base that begins at minus 12 feet, and housing for all the electronic and media related equipment for the Tower.

The tower consists of five circular steel rings, approximately 30 feet in diameter. The rings are stacked vertically at 12 foot floor-to-floor intervals, and, as the height increases, the rings are staggered in plan, back and forth – to the north, east, south, and west – in order to establish proximity and viewing angles for various levels at various heights. Projection screens at each floor are to be seen from cars on surrounding surface streets, from freeways, by passengers at train stops, from on-board the moving trains, and from area pedestrians at a variety of key walking and viewing points. Between each pair of staggered horizontal circular steel planes, the curving, conical projection screens are installed. Behind the screens, hung from the tower floors are a number of digital projectors, 10 in all, that will rear-project onto the translucent acrylic screens.

Inside the screens, steel decks are provided for viewers to look out at the city, and for a maintenance staff who will service the projectors and screens.

The Tower has a glazed elevator in an enclosed glass shaft, and an open stairway to the top, so the Tower will be used as a viewing platform to overlook the city, but its primary objective is to distribute art and other relevant content to the local and the in-transit audiences passing by.

There are several target audiences that account for the positioning of the five screens. First is the traffic on the Santa Monica Freeway, several blocks to the north, one of the most highly trafficked freeway routes in Los Angeles. Second, the intersection of La Cienega Boulevard and Jefferson Boulevard, several blocks from the site, another of the highly trafficked intersections in the city, and the location of the primary new, elevated train stop. Third is the corner of Hayden and National itself, adjacent to the project, which is also a signaled, highly trafficked east-west route. Finally, there is one screen, just above grade level, that, unlike the other four, faces the re-development site. That screen will be used by local audiences, seated on the terraced concrete bleachers that step down to the below grade portion of the project where a stage for speakers and performers is provided.

Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral | Video on TED.com

Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedra Seed Cathedral | Video on TED.coml


 A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.

Empire State Building

The Empire State Building goes rainbow to celebrate New York passing the gay marriage bill.

 

Iris lamp by swaroski

Modular Storage

Office Interior

For those of you seeking inspiration for office design heres collaboration from south africa














Description from the designers:

When Deneys Reitz took an additional floor above the existing two and a half floors they already occupied, our brief was to create a client area with a sense of understated elegance.

The resulting design incorporates polished marble floor tiles, several imported feature lights, flamed granite wall cladding and imported wallpaper to highlight key walls. Arper chairs; bespoke meeting tables, and tailor-designed artwork, with two signatory sculptures embodying the company’s vision and culture, provide a high level of finish without being overly opulent.

The supplementary 10th floor now houses their main reception and a 75-seater auditorium, where regular seminars and functions are held. A 20-seater boardroom, boasting state-of-the-art video conferencing facilities, opens onto an entertainment area and informal meeting room. Further meeting rooms vary in size from 4 to 10-seaters. The lower floors were redecorated and opened up to create lighter, more open-plan areas for the secretaries and candidate attorneys.

Eva chair for kids

It can be completed just by rolling up a piece of board and fastening it with a string. Because it can be returned to a planar shape easily, it can be stored even in small space. It also can save energy and cost at the time of shipment. The material EVA that is used to build this chair is lightweight and holds a rich flexibility, superior durability, and various color variations. If the material accidentally enters into a mouth by any chance, it will be still safe so it is a good material for children. In addition, with consideration of the material for high recyclability, no dioxin generation, and environmentally friendly, the material is suitable for children who play an important role in the future. We certainly wish that children can foster their flexible imagination and build a rich and enjoyable life with this EVA chair.














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Staircase for kids.. from Budapast

Description from the designer Biljana Javonovic

i am an architect originally from croatia, but based in budapest, hungary. i recently completed interior stairs for a young, creative family with two young children in their newly refurbished apartment just below unesco heritage site of buda castle. so, i tried to respect the historical ambiance of the building and the apartment and, but i also try to add a modern touch to the apartment that would be in harmony with the lifestyle and of the family using it. so i designed these stairs that use the motif of circles and semicircles that can be found on a huge old window in the apartment. i call my stairs emmental stairs cause they the sides of it look like the emmental cheese holes. the stairs divides the open space of the living room and dining room, but it does not isolate them. except for its function, the stairs are used by their younger daughter as a toy. she loves playing with them…running around them, hiding behind them, sticking her head through the holes and stuff like that
the stairs had to be quite steep (cause of the technical restraints). that is why i designed these triangular shaped treads that add an extra touch to it.

 

  

 

Graypants Studio- Seattle

What do they do at Graypants studio? - the making of lampshades using cardboard!!!!

 

Check it out on vimeo
http://vimeo.com/23006816

Connected sofa

Taken off an apartment in Athens, I just loved the idea of how the designer has managed to create a cozy space even with a moleculed sofa split into so many smaller segments.

Omnia bakery- Newyork

Antonio Di Oronzo, principal of bluarch architecture + interiors + lighting, designed the interior of the Omonia Bakery in New York City.


 

Description from the designer:

This bakery is a brand new project for the family that behind the renowned Omonia brand famous for its Greek pastries. It sells pastries and breads prepared on premises in the see-through kitchen.
The design of this store celebrates indulgence… the suspension of one’s everyday grind through the consumption of a sweet delight. The space is soft and warm… sexy and decadent… as chocolate.
Much like the physiognomy of a pastry, this design wants to offer the exciting anticipation of a pastry in-fieri… the liquid concoction, the minced ingredients…  The space shifts organically with the narrative of flavors as patrons taste the succulent delicacies.
The main feature of the 1,000SF interior space is a fluid surface [clad with ¼” chocolate brown Bisazza tiles] which covers the ceiling and the side walls to different heights. This surface warps in bubbles and negotiates a system of 6-inch tubular incandescent light bulbs… and an arrangement of red cedar wood spheres. The epoxy flooring continues to the walls via filleted corners. A shelf and LED strips navigate the transition with the chocolate surface.
The kitchen is exhibited to the public, as it sits simply within a tempered glass box…Therefore, the exquisite level of craftsmanship of the project [with its unforgiving alignments and complex details] is paralleled with the refined artisanship of Omonia’s pastries.

 
 

A single house with many shapes and textures.. interestingly looks fabuluos