Restaurant Interior Design | Comal | Berkeley | California | Abueg Morris Architects

Comal is a 2300 sf Oaxacan restaurant in downtown Berkeley. It features a state of the art acoustic dampening sound system by Meyer Sound. Original board-formed concrete walls were exposed, and the original wood lath was saved, cleaned, and reinstalled as a space-defining, prominent decorative surface.The space’s raw, yet refined aesthetic features locally blown glass pendants, custom copper mesh drum lights, and steel bar shelves and stools, all made locally. An expansive 2800 sf heated back patio completes the experience........more

Office Interior Design | Tencent Dazu Building | Shenzhen | EDG Creative

To convey Tencent’s youthful and creative culture as well as its unique position between physical and virtual reality, our design team applied a “regenerative design” approach to create a highly adaptive office interior consisting of different visual themes for each of its eleven floors. Open office areas and meeting rooms epitomize these themes by highlighting contemporary urban fantasies, such as: cartoon landscapes, videogame adventures and children’s fairy-tales......more

Corporate Office Interior Design | Aquilon Capital Corporation | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Taylor Smyth Architects

Aquilon Capital Corporation is an independent investment boutique offering value-based investment management through private portfolios and investment partnerships.

Michael Taylor designed the original offices ten years ago for the partners of Aquilon under their previous name of the MMI Group. Having outgrown their 3,500 square foot premises, they contacted him to design their new 15,000 square foot offices in a full floor of the newly constructed SAS building, the first LEED accredited “green” office building to be built in Toronto. The building uses about 30 per cent less energy than conventional buildings, incorporating such energy-efficient measures as underfloor heating and cooling and rainwater recovery and storage......more

Nightclub Interior Design | Cube | DMAC

Beyond the restaurants, DMAC also unveils Cube, the nightclub that alternates from a sports bar experience to a full-fledged performance venue. Passing through ingeniously designed heavy dark wood doors that function as interlocking “steps” and reveal a rhythmic geometric pattern when closed, guests enter the sports bar replete with retractable monitors above a grand rectangular bar of hand-sculpted pine and mesquite wood blocks. Descending a half-flight to a dance floor, a shift in tone and function is palpable through the complex lighting system, acoustic web and additional sensuous textures and materials, including velvety gray drapes, chains as curtains, and even a backlit wall created from inverted baby bottle nipples that is surprisingly abstract and sophisticated. The stage as focal point, which is scaled and equipped for A-list performers, draws guests to the dance floor, which reflects the light effects and images cast from the ceiling. Just beyond stage left, an outdoor terrace offers the vibe of a boutique hotel rooftop, complete with a twelve-foot fireplace. With the attention to technical capabilities and a sleek, sexy design vocabulary, DMAC’s Cube is sure to become a hot spot for guests from within the Casino and beyond........more

Bar Interior Design | Hugo's Frog Bar | DMAC

The finest in-house establishment and a destination in itself, Hugo’s departs from its downtown sister through DMAC’s clarification and modernization of the design, featuring a façade of dark wood blocks with openings that offer vignette views of the interior. Echoed by a unique patterning of wood frames installed along the back wall and in the custom-built wine lockers for high rollers, the rectilinear forms find their counterpoint in circular-patterned black and white floor tiling and the whiskey barrel-ringed ceiling. As a focal point, the private dining room features a mural-scale image of an underwater ship with a patina surface. The totality is a warm and familiar but more sensuous environment in which to feast and repose........more

Shop Interior Design | Orla Kiely | Mercer Street | New York | Architecture Republic

The spaces are arranged as a 1:1 cross-section of a doll's house, acting like a stage-set for customers to play out their ambitions of creating an ideal home, complete with original Orla Kiely designs. The modern, interchangeable interior street space allows for theatrical events and unusual displays while the backstage service rooms are integrated into the doll's house. Making the customer feel comfortable is a priority in retail design and the spaces are proportioned with familiar dimensions relating to a typical home. The cabinetry is designed in modules of 450mm and 750mm to correspond with seat and desk height while the interior spaces have ceilings of 2.4m as in a typical living room or kitchen. All of the furniture was manufactured in Ireland and shipped stateside, representing a tour de force of Irish design abroad. Solid dark American walnut cabinets with high gloss sprayed doors and thin metal legs occupy the floorspace. Very similar to the furniture used in Orla Kiely's own home, they reflect the quirky, retro style of her brand. Visitors to the shop are inclined to pick a room and sit down, "I'm very happy if they want to hang out," the designer says...........more

Pavillion Interior Design | Moet Marquee | Melbourne | Australia | LAVA

A computer-model, based on the simulation of complexity in naturally evolving systems, fed directly into a production line of sail making software and digital manufacturing for this pavilion at Australia’s premier horse race. This resulted in the efficient generation of space out of lightweight material. A perforated ceiling filtered natural light, creating a sparkling and surreal atmosphere......more

Corporate Office Interior Design | Aurora Corporate Offices | Clearwater | Florida | MESH

This 11,000 square foot office space is home to the U.S. corporate headquarters for one of the U.K.’s leading lighting manufacturer. With an open plan and private glass offices the space highlights their passion for lighting in the details. The showroom, conference room, kitchen and restrooms are shaped by contrasting pod like forms and glowing blue and white lines..........more

Shop Interior Design | Baldwin's Men Shop | Leawood | Kansas | Hufft Project

Baldwin Denim and Standard Style are two retail concepts with one owner, but completely separate identities. For Baldwin, the look is masculine and enduring. A center table runs the length of the space and terminates at one of the stores focal points -’the sewer’s room’. Dark walnut and raw steel were the materials of choice...........more

Apartment Interior Design | Kwong Shook Lin Residence | Hong Kong | Affect-t

The Renovation of a flat in one of Hong Kong’s exclusive high-rise buildings, the space was opened up to create a contemporary open-plan living environment as per the client’s request. The prior configuration afforded little space in the bedrooms and fragmented space in the living area for gathering.


In order to unify the disparate rooms and integrate the flat a common design language was chosen. A fluid curving space was created which could negotiate and unify the disparate spaces and odd angles of the arrangement. The vaulted ceilings in the bedrooms provide a subtle surface for reflecting the light from the exterior and interior cove lighting while hiding numerous beams in the ceiling. The sculptural ceiling in the living rooms hides numerous LED lights while directing the eye the centre of the dining table in the open-plan room.


Textures and materials interplay as wood is used throughout with the parquet flooring and bespoke oak screen at the entry causing subtle shifts in view as one enters the flat. Marble is used in the two large bathrooms with large sinks carved out of solid block and large soaking tub and shower room in glass tile. A walk-in wardrobe is a point of rest next to the bathroom and a large kitchen can be hidden behind and pivoting door. All features combine to create a feeling of movement of being carried through the space, with the clients affinity for Feng Shui the ideas of direction and energy movement were integrated into the placement of furniture, fittings, and openings to create a contemporary space which envelops the resident.........more

Restaurant Interior Design | Rosso Trattoria |Columbia | South Carolina | Studi ZLR

Rosso Trattoria features an open kitchen with a wood-fired grill and wood-burning oven. The interior material palette features deep red painted walls and red accent eco-resin panels contrasted against textured wood. Interior lighting is designed to accentuate the warm materials and create an elegant and warm setting. Red and black leather chairs make for comfortable seating while two large high-top tables and a wrap-around bar provide room for gathering..........more

Store Interior Design | Calypso | Michael Neumann Architecture

This store has the smart yet casual atmosphere of a French seaside boutique. Tin ceilings, weathered wood beams, tung-oiled oak floors, and plaster walls are the primary finishes with accents of white-washed poplar, sea-salted steel, and sun-bleached wood. The central 'lounge' area displays a lifestyle mix of clothing, jewelry, accessories, and furniture. Whitewashed wood fitting rooms are dramatically draped in raw linen. A hanging bed of oak planks and nautical ropes is the focal point of the home collection area.........more

Flagship Store Interior Design | Max Mara | Soho | New York | FZAD

As a repeat client FZAD is proud to announce its first “out of the ground” two story building in New York City located in Soho on the corner of West Broadway and Prince for Max Mara. Its a design collaboration with Duccio Grassi Architects form Italy. The project is very unique and modern in design offers state of the art technological innovations for the 21st century. For example there is a 600 square foot skylight supported by glass fins and stainless steel “fingers”.........more

Studio Interior Design | Signal Return | Detroit | Michigan | M1/DTW

SIGNAL–RETURN is a letterpress studio and gallery that seeks to connect the community to traditional and emergent forms of printing as well as offer a resource for entrepreneurial artists and designers to produce for retail clients............more

Restaurant Interior Design | Restaurante Cenário | Lisbon | Portugal | Joao Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos

The program envisaged the creation of a cosmopolitan restaurant within a 5-star hotel.The space, rectangular, is accessed by the main lobby of the hotel, openingsimultaneously on a great showcase for the street.
It is a volume of glass (an area within another space), lush by its orange coating with a filling soberer or by colors or by the provision ruled all equipment.
The privacy and comfort of those who eat there are secured by existing curtains in the window, runs or collected as the desired..........more

Restaurant Interior Design | L’Idiot Restaurant | Taipei | Taiwan | BAM

The design for the L’Idiot Restaurant Interior consists of two large sculptural objects. These objects, clearly the product of a digital design process, take a new and unique position among today’s architectural installations inspired by the concept for the cuisine. High French Cuisine has become a fashion for food just as smooth digitally driven forms have for architecture. Although entrancing and beautiful, these smooth forms almost remove themselves from the low realms of simple human emotion and basic mental connection. They are elevated to a realm which only few masters can execute on an enjoyable level. Their range of expression is vast, but also esoteric.......more

Apartment Interior Design | Wall Street Studio | New York | Axis Mundi Design

Axis Mundi recently completed two residences for a brother and a sister at Downtown by Philippe Starck. 

The brother owns an extensive collection of art work by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami which was hung salon-style and is the main focus of the space. Other highlights include the 20' long red silk velvet covered banquette, lighting fixtures by Droog, gun lamps by Starck, and furniture by Moooi. Red is the predominant color theme throughout.

The sister's apartment is more subdued. The main design element was the creation of a glass room with sliding
panels which serves as her bedroom. Gold silk drapes line the interior.
Most of the furniture, built-ins and silk carpets were custom designed specifically for our clients. All of the
rooms serve multiple functions, as space was at a premium..........more

Educational Interior Design | Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service | New York University | New York | SubenDougherty Architecture + Design

The new home for the NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service occupies 2 floors, approximating 46,000 square feet, in the Puck Building, a commanding landmark in Soho and one of the city’s true architectural gems. The building’s open floors presented SubenDougherty with a uniquely challenging interior and spectacular open loft space filled with exquisite architectural vestiges of its 1860-1880 origins, yet they offered a minimum of existing usable infrastructure and two masonry bearing walls, that run perpendicular to the length of the building, divide each floor into three distinct zones.

The ultimate architectural challenge was to delicately weave the school’s complex program into this extraordinary space and not compromise the Puck’s signature openness........more

Retail Interior Design | Endless Spirit | Chadstone Shopping Centre | Victoria | Australia | BKK

Endless Spirit attempts to create a symbiotic relationship between the clothing and the fit out. There are no fixed internal walls; instead a continuous curtain element defines the change rooms and the entirety of the store’s internal skin. Formal arrangement and materiality are used to establish a clear language that can be reapplied at other outlets. The display pods are transportable and can be reconfigured for various uses........more

Japanese Cafe Interior Design | Egg Sake Bistro | University of Melbourne Union | Australia | Architects EAT

A 150m2 Japanese canteen fit out located on the basement level of University of Melbourne Union building. It consists of 2 plywood boxes which are strategically placed to create circulation around the counter displays. Alike Japanese food stalls, the ‘theatre of cooking’ opens out to the public, hence we can see the chef steaming and grilling – with an abundance of steam pouring out of the large operable window.......more

Restaurant Interior Design | Twister Restaurant | Serghii Makhno + Vasiliy Butenko

Design team of Serghii Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko have completed the interior for a restaurant in Kiev, where you can fell like baby bird while drinking cocktail or have a dinner at tornado top. This restaurant can be classed as modern European and offers a molecular kitchen style dishes. The main aim while designing this restaurant space was to create an environment that is natural, modern and comfortable.This restaurant features two areas: a two-storeyed dining section and relaxing bar area.Two-storeyed dining section was inspired by two natural phenomenas: tornado and rain. The space features six tornado shape balconies which create one dynamical upper zone with five dining cells........more

Restaurant Interior Design | Maximiliano | Los Angeles | Freeland Buck

An Italian restaurant and pizzeria for chef Andre Guerrero, Maximilano is atmospherically distinct; a dynamic triangular space infused with color and evocative of the rich and refined menu. A large mural on the large south wall creates a strong graphic and spatial identity. The rhythm of embossed white stripes shifts from evenly parallel at the ceiling to randomly wavy at the seats, giving a gravitational weight to the wall and emitting vibrant color and pattern. Descending over a door to the patio is a deep porous soffit that undulates over the bar, filtering natural and artificial light and housing the restaurants wine collection.........more

Corporate Office Interior Design | Ogilvy Group | London | Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects

At 5,300sqm the pair of football pitch-sized floor plates in Canary Wharf required a dynamic solution which was able to address problems with navigation as well as overcoming some of the deepest plans in Europe.

Having moved from Central London 10 years earlier, Ogilvy & Mather's current layout had developed in an ad-hoc manner resulting in highly segregated departments linked by unintelligible circulation, leaving staff inclined to stay near their desk rather than venture into 'alien' territory.....more

Cafe Interior Design | Late Night Cafe + Bar | London | jak studio

Being a London based practice the mixture of cultures in this city is always fascinating, and Andrae the owner of Petri late night bar and café was keen to bottle it. As an interior brief it had its challenges, the bar was to be a flexible space designed to accommodate sophisticated after work drinkers, diners, and late night clubbers.
Yet the space had been derelict for several years, so the budget and time was tight. With this in mind we designed it as a raw, bold space yet still warm and full of life and colour..........more

Corporate Interior Design | JanSport Corporate Headquarters | San Leandro | California | Rapt Studio

Relocating from their Wisconsin home to the bay area, JanSport wished to retain a meaningful connection to their “rural” roots while supporting an aggressive expansion of their product offerings and a re-energizing of their corporate image. Rapt Studio’s task? To deliver a project that inspired its inhabitants, that reenergized the brand, and that came in within a tight budget and tighter schedule. The Rapt design team utilized a strategy guided by sustainable practices—a minimum of materials were actually brought onto the site and as much of the existing building was reused and exploited in order to accomplish the final result. This strategy included the polishing of existing concrete flooring wherever possible, the installation of ceilings only in areas with acoustic concerns, the utilization of salvaged wood products for the development of high-touch public spaces and the reuse of existing office construction wherever possible........more