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City Café; SOVA architecture & design│BIG SEE Awards 2018
City Café is aimed to attract quality coffee lovers. It is located at Macedonia square in Sofia, Bulgaria on the ground floor level of City Tower. This is a new place in Bulgaria’s coffee culture and it’s seeking the opportunity of taking part in developing and refining the coffee taste of modern day public alongside with well-established branch names. The café is designed to offer the visitors a stylish
Lounge Bar and Restaurant Onogošt; Miljan Joković, Ivana Filipović │BIG SEE Awards 2018
This restaurant and lounge bar are located in the heart of the city of Nikšić, in a cult place known to many people beside inhabitants - hotel Onogošt, built in 1955. Interior design was a challenge for the studio because there were several parameters which affected the design - specific genius loci and a task for design to be accessible to all generations. The restaurant and the lounge bar
Cat and Mouse Beer – bar and concept; studio 8 ½ │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The space in this old part of the beautiful city of Plovdiv is highly restricted as well as was the budget for the completion of the whole project. The architects decided to abandon their first design for the space after they started the construction. Layers of plastering on the walls, ceiling and floor ware found, made during many years and covering the original building from the beginning of XX
Mami’s Hostel; Maden Group│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Hostels are known as vacation places for limited budget tourists, but this does not in any way mean that they should not receive proper services and adequately handle the space. This was exactly one of the goals during the design - to create something functional, comfortable, beautiful and at the same time to give a message to the guests. The hostel offers different variations of rooms, ranking from private
Gjirafa Office, Pristina
Gjirafa is the first browser in Albanian language. Even though it was founded in America, the work is done in two main centres in Kosovo, Prizren and Prishtina. Gjirafa gains its success according to the communication of interpersonal relations. This communication is achieved due to the coordination of the work and the socialization of the team work. Maden Group, during the design process of the working space, put the
Clara Stones Coral concept store; Marita Bonačić, Katarina Perić, Negra Nigoević│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspired by the ample history of old Dubrovnik and the eternity of coral, we have been introduced to the story of fantasy on the edge of animate and inanimate. The new concept of the store presents us the wondrous sea creatures and visual feast where courses of jewellery are served. Tasteful jewellery is jewellery full of flavour always made from all-natural organic materials (precious metals, various types of precious
Počesalnica (The CombHair Salon); AVA – arhitektura & design; Alja Vehovec, Petra Hudobivnik │BIG SEE Awards 2018
A small 27m2 hair salon Počesalnica (The CombHair Salon) has found its home at the corner of Metelkova and Slomškova street, on the ground-floor of an old bourgeois house in Ljubljana. Its design has been based on the inspiring surroundings of the Ljubljana Tabor park, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, The Old Power Station, and the client's personal philosophy. This is where
U1; VRTIŠKA ŽÁK; Roman Vrtiška, Vladimír Žák │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Showroom interiors for U1 engaged in the sale and production of office furniture and lighting. Due to the industrial character of the building, we have decided for a very simple and functional solution with a distinct dominant feature within the veneered organic wall covering the social background, IT, storage and two meeting rooms. Other spaces remain as openspace. Together with the colour-graded wall, the dominant is the kitchen island,
Bistrot Cento61; Studio DiDeA │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The design comes out from the refurbishment of and old restaurant with no character located in an early twentieth century building following the client request to “create a special place with an informal atmosphere that could become a meeting place for Palermo's people to eat, drink, share and coming back”. The venue has a large external space, the interior is 130 square meters large and it's 1,50 meters below
VyTA enoteca regionale del Lazio; Collidanielarchitetto │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The VyTA enoteca regionale del Lazio, located in a listed building in Rome, was conceived with the aim of enhancing the brand and the food and wine culture of the Lazio region. It is the fruit of a public-private partnership in a space with a strongly connoted contemporary design, which balances the building’s historical heritage and contemporary creativity, to welcome wine and food lovers to meet, eat and drink.
Entrance Store; Bogdan Ciocodeică │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The Entrance Store is the first high-end fashion boutique opened in Bucharest, over ten years ago. From the beginning it succeeded to position itself as a trendsetter in fashion, design and visual statements. After five years the first interior design needed a fresh approach and got a makeover, keeping up with its good tradition of always being ahead of the curve. After another five years it was again the
MOONY Coffee Room; Corvin Cristian Studio; Corvin Cristian, Serban Rosca, Adrian Oancea │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The richness of details comes from a mix match of references to the culture of coffee and to the faraway lands where it comes from. Still it manages to maintain a clean, almost minimal overall image given the reduced number of textures (plywood, porcelain, black paint). Ethnic patterns from Africa, Asia and South America or Arabic motifs in cut out plywood combine with especially designed lamps and insets inspired