Lifestyle outdoors to life in Exeter by Architect HMKM

Lifestyle outdoors to life in Exeter by HMKM

Architect HMKM short of clothing and equipment retailer of facial fat has been to create the final destination, active lifestyle in the store retail development in Exeter there Princess. To cover three floors, a corner in the first place, the store will include men, women and children of departments and a cafe.

Hardware such as snowboards, skis, mountain-bikes and surfboards were to be used to complement the clothing ranges and give customers the “active lifestyle” experience.

To capture the fun, adventure and outdoor feel of the brand, HMKM used a natural palette of materials, configuring them to bring energy, life and wit to the interior.

The dynamic entrance draws customers in, mixing layers of copper, corten steel and natural oak to symbolise sedimentary layers of landscape. A fluid staircase encourages people to move up through the 3 floors.

Signage is supplied by the “wire men” carrying Fat Face’s hardwear range. Changing rooms echo aluminum water bottles, with 360 degree panoramic images internally.

The cash wrap is a glass-clad mountain of books with tongue-in-cheek titles, such as “Summit for Everyone” and “Heaven & Surf”. The queuing barrier is the kind of crowd barrier you might find at a festival or street march.

The top-floor café is a community meeting area, inspired by Lonely Planet’s “Thorn Tree” travel tips forum. The perimeter is wrapped in silver birch cladding, on which customers can post comments and advice on local hot spots, events and the best surf.

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BUILDING DESIGN REGENERATION TRAIN BY ARCHITECT CONSARC

New railway station in the Docklands Light Railway on Consarc

Langdon Park, located on the Docklands Light Railway has been selected for the premiere of the improvement of public buildings for the award in 2008. Designed by architect Consarc, £ 7.5m project is a way station on a long stretch of the line, which will help to regenerate the relatively isolated among all the saints and the stations must Road.

To create a local history that provides a safe environment for passengers, a pedestrian bridge created Consarc served by see-through elevator towers, which will provide visitors with a visual connection of the route of elevators and platforms forms station.

The dynamic form of bridge from the station advertisement in the local community, while the lift towers sculptures reflect the sharp increase in future development adjoining sites. Clad in aluminum fins, towers act as beacons of light along the lines of Chrisp Street, the home of David Adjaye Store ideas.

The design includes the use of land for ETFE awnings and structurally integral fiber reinforced composite panels on the roof of the bridge.

Consarc Ed Holloway said: "We are very pleased to be commissioned by Transport for London to work on the station Langdon. Consarc was really able to use innovative design to help regenerate an important part of 's of London.

The bridge was built by Costain, who appointed Scott Brownrigg that its design and construction executive architect. Langdon station was funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government, Leaside Regeneration and the London district of Tower Hamlets.

BUILDING DESIGN PARK & ROUND

Green Bank pending entry forms Richard Rogers Metro Taiwan

In the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, Rogers and Partners designed Stirka Harbor R9 - 9 of the station of the new "red" of the city subway.

The service station of the People of Central Park, the design aims to attract and landscaping of the park below the station via the main entrance.

A bank green slope helps people to concourse level, 11m below ground.

Two sets of escalators and stairs on each side, pairing and the hall of the levels of the park. The escalators are divided by a cascade of water.

A large sheet of aluminum oversails all basement of the hall, protecting the area from sunlight and rain. The design is a curve, stressed-skin monocoque roof, with a number of openings at the top of the windows, filled with frosted glass. These allow light below the competition, while dispelling the solar glare.

As the main entrance, RHSP has developed two subentrances, each with its own aluminum awnings supported in small-scale steel yellow.

RHSP also said the station interior finishes. Most interior walls are covered by the pre-made mosaic panels and the roof contains perforated aluminum panels supported by its absorbent cloth.

Page Park and turn Clydebank heritage of shipbuilding to help new businesses

Page Park and turn Clydebank heritage of shipbuilding to help new businesses

Page architect and the park has recently completed the £ 3.3m Titan Enterprise Center at the Queen docks in Clydebank, near Glasgow, one of 2 250 m² offered by the development of new firms to strengthen the area of regeneration.

With Page and Park to produce a plan for the reclamation of 80 hectares on the Clyde in 2003, the Center for Titan mark his second project. Customer Clydebank Rebuilt, including a consortium Dumbartonshire Council and local businesses, wanted a three-storey and a half to provide more than 30 spaces for business creation and assembly services and reception areas.

Echoed in the field of shipbuilding and maritime heritage, the Titan is the north of copper plating. False unmarked slabs at each level, a ship hull seems to emerge. The roof above the increase in an arc in the eastern sector reinforces the impression that the ship. Wooden columns appear to support the hull, like the ships under construction have been maintained before its maiden voyage.

Inside, the maritime theme is reinforced with the construction of the ladder of industrial integration carrots Checker and steel plate exposed members, in an evocation of a ship in the engine room. In the far south, the coating material suggests a timber ship of the organization.

In line with the environmental strategy project, heating and air conditioning are "low-tech. Only the ground floor, meeting rooms are equipped with air conditioning, mechanical extract of office suites. Soffit concrete thermal mass, and very isolated part of wooden panels were chosen for the walls.

The Center for Titan also marks the final step in the reopening of the river Clyde, as a public space, and was placed to attract pedestrians near the coast, said Andrew Bateman of the page and the park.

With its strong symbolic of a ship embarking on the Clyde, the building is meant to evoke both memory and resist the nostalgia and isolation. "We wanted to have the legacy of the region, but for a particular purpose," he said.

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BUILDING DESIGN GRAND CENTRAL STATION

Austin-Smith: Lord of updates to the Victoria rail network Salford

Austin-Smith: Lord Architects has conducted a review of the £ 5m Salford Central Station, which is part of the regeneration of the Chapel Street area of Manchester.

The reopening of the station has a new entrance and the front and rebuilt ticketing and lobby and space, with the restoration of Victoria and its brick facade. Built in 1838, Salford Central between Britain is the oldest railway stations.

First to greet the passengers are turned on and restored Victorian, the columns of the first design, which is behind a new entrance area of glass.

The new design includes more than 500 square meters of glass is also designed to upgrade the building and restoration of a symbol of the region's history.

Inside, a new ticketing hall and are improving accessibility through ramps and elevators, and modern presentation of information for travelers on the screen.

A glass of 3m high by Lumaglass screen has been installed along the main leader of the ticket office and platforms. Tempered glass is made of cast glass standard, installed in two rows in a single aluminum window frames.

On the inside of the wall, the glass panels will form the staircase and a ramp was set at the edges of images. The screen shows the area during the day and offers a reassuring glow in the night.

In the tunnels giving access platforms, the original Victorian brick arches have been exposed and re-lit from below.

Client for the project, which has attracted 1.5 billion pounds in funding from the ERDF, was the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority. In the vicinity of the station redevelopment most important, local firms have high hopes for its impact. "This is just the first phase. If we can get money, we want to transform the station into a mini Piccadilly Circus in a decade," said the chairman of the GMPTA Roger Jones.

BUILDING DESIGN GEOMETRIC CONTROL THE NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

Reid 3D air traffic control tower of two cones twisted an elegant way

The new air traffic control tower at the international airport at Newcastle is part of infrastructure development underway there, to take account of the airport traffic growth. The new 46m high control tower was designed by 3DReid, following a competition in the sector, with structural engineering and the work carried out by Arup.

The design has been guided by creating a positive impact on the natural environment, through its organic and geometry of the importance. Compared with the buildings square or linear geometry of tapered savings on the walls, roof and space for movement. The conical base and top of the building is solid, connected by a shaft with concrete.

The stem is wrapped in a stainless steel mesh, supported by a steel beam, complementing the geometry between the base and roof of the building. The mesh also varies in density from the bottom up, creating a dynamic building, with the evolution of different weather conditions.

The office accommodation and facilities of the plant at the bottom of the tower has two stories high trunk taper focused on the stem. These plants are column-free, and can be easily reconfigured. Service increased the voids within the

The Visual Control Room cantilevers out from the concrete stem. It was in fact pre-fabrcated off-site, then lifted by crane to fit around the top of the concrete shaft. Fresh air is heated locally at the top of the tower, to avoid having to duct air up and down the concrete shaft.

Chris Davis, Air Traffic Control Manager, comments: “This is a monumental improvement for us. The existing tower, which was completed in 1966, served us well, however a new tower was required to improve site lines. 3DReid has come up with a highly practical, yet beautiful and innovative design.”

Building Design Victoria and Albert initial ACE CAFF

MUMA adds style to a model of 19th-century interior design

McInnes Usher McKnight Architects is back on coffee in the Victoria and Albert Museum cafe to the three original historical refreshment rooms: the green room for Morris, Marshall and Faulkner, the central, classic-room resuscitation by James Gamble, and the blue and white Room by Edward Poynter.

Grade I listed fabric has been restored with elegant furnishings and modern lighting and a new story, so that the living spaces. The original and much wider entrances were reopened to improve access and views of the high interior decoration, which was the first restaurant in the museum world.

Besides seating is in the "corridor of the bid" in the new Madejski Garden. The addition of sculpture in these rooms also follows the approach and experience for visitors to tour the museum. The roof creates a single, unified entity that contributes to the acoustics of control, raise the quality of light, to hide services to visitors and benchmarks to measure the coffee.

For coffee to run efficiently, we need to locate some of the food preparation close to the dining room. Operation of the new, therefore, are discreetly within the niches of architecture, respecting the Grade 1 listed building fabric and maximize the space of movement.

The short of the restoration was Benugo operator to emphasize their sample of fresh produce. The servery areas, therefore, are simple white cubic forms provide a summary of records for the food on offer, enhanced by the lighting carefully.

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Building Design Real feast IVAL-Hall

RFH architect for the renovation added an authentic flavor of the 50s to new location

Allies and Morrison finished inside the second place winner Cantina restaurant, located on the ground floor of the south facade of the newly renovated Royal Festival Hall. The restaurant is facing Southbank Center Plaza, a recent addition to the public on the road between Waterloo Station and the Thames. The new restaurant - more than twice the size of the first winery in Spitalfields - up builds on the success, with a large external area that offers up to 100 extra blankets, umbrellas and offer protection against the elements.

The dining area is defined along its sides by two meters long, forming a preparation area and the Servery, the other bar drinks. Movement between them is organized around the signature "cabins canteen."

The ceiling of an elegant sculptural references to the plaster inside the RFH class I-listed, and adds lightness and volume to the deep plan. The materials and accessories, also influenced by the construction of the 1950s, creating an aesthetic of agreement with the client's vision of a "democratic, welcoming and elegant restaurant.

Building Design Drawing on the menu of St Alban

London restaurant interior designed by Stiff and Trevillion

Trevillion rigid and led the design team at the St Alban, a new restaurant on the corner of the site in London in Regent Street. Its owners are Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, the team owned by the Ivy and Le Caprice, and subsequently launched the Wolseley.

Even though the score was short for a discreet, impeccable, modern and functional interior, L-shaped space is the dining and a minimum depth of daylight.

The ceiling recessed surface uses GRP domes that the main source of ambient light, with directional spots recess sank in the flat areas between the two.

Bronze and tinted glass exterior doors lead to a lacquered platform, which in turn opens at the reception and bar. Dayle is a window of translucent glass by the artist Michael Craig-Martin, who also helped develop the color palette. "Their job is a very important part of architecture, not just decorative surface," said Michael Stiff partner.

Bar, a Welsh slate wall leads the eye in the main dining room, which is carpeted and a drawing of textile designer Govindia Hemphill.

The free-standing booths and benches were designed by Trevillion rigid and, by Charles Freeman Group, and covered with fabric Kvadrat. The chairs are Eero Saarinen Knoll, while the tables by Terence Woodgate in the SCP. The bathrooms are generous and luxurious, with health by Ross Lovegrove for Vitra.

Building Design Refreshments citrus hotel in India

Architect juice and add color to revive Mumbai hotel after 20 years of disuse

Project Orange has completed the Park Hotel in New Bombay, an extension project of the city of Mumbai. Although built 20 years ago, the hotel was never finished and fell into neglect. The architect of the building painted white, illuminating the night lights of blue and orange.

The interior mix traditional Indian patterns and textures with clean lines and modern forms. All furniture and most of the fabrics were designed by the Orange specifically for the project.

Facilities include reception, bar, coffee in the pool and on the ground floor, and "Bamboo" restaurant that can accommodate up to 60 people. The reception, with hand-finished plaster Jali, leads to the circular, stuffing "tense" the area. The orange bar of plaster broke address to the terrace.

The rooms are generous in proportion, with high ceilings decorated in a classic neutral palette, lifted by flashes of bright color. The cabinet is a one-stop shop for customers and a closet, safe, refrigerator and tea. The bathrooms have showers and a huge teak conceit against the length of the room.

On the upper floor there is a large banquet room next to three business suites of interconnection.

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Courage in Brent Cross Restaurant Building Design

SHH new Italian restaurant and the brand identity

For the first version of a draft of the restaurant chain, SHH architect was inspired by the name of the restaurant: Vallorini is Italian for "a small act of courage." Therefore, the shop concept in the restaurant in north London Brent Cross shopping center has a strong, bold feel that offers consumers a little more architecture that can wait.

The restaurant has seating areas for buyers who need a quick break and coffee and cake ladies who like to stay with fixed seats in green, free standing tables and a white stone table eating group. One of the characteristics of the wooden wall is composed of rough sawn oak three tons, insert with long strips of mirror.

Over lighting is guaranteed for 12 hand-blown yellow lights inside the dome. The coatings are sandstone from sunlight. SHH has also designed menus Stationery, signs, bags for them, the uniforms of the staff and even the new Check the Web site - www.vallorini.co.uk

Building Design Boogie in black and white

Stuttgart Ippolito Fleitz practice creates dramatic two-tone T-012 club

Stuttgart at the bar miles ", a downtown boulevard named Theodor-Heuss-Strasse, after Germany's first president, the task of the local practice Ippolito Fleitz was to create a club of three floors of an old music school.

The concept of the T-012 is a strong and distinctive visual appearance, on the basis of an urban black and white issue, combined with a world of mirrors and white illustrations.

The main room welcomes guests with an independent bar against a backdrop of large white illustrations. These issues represent grounds in urban surrealist, sometimes juxtaposed with real-life objects. On the back are two rooms: a hall of mirrors polygon with an illusion of infinity, and a black leather-clad space enfolding a light table under a ceiling mirror. The top floor is dedicated to a large dance floor and a long bar.

In the basement, is another smaller dance floor and a bar with motifs of carnivorous plants. The staircase that connects the show contributions from the owner of the club: Theodor Heuss.

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