INTERIORS
ILCSI Beauty Manufactury; sporaarchitects+terhalozat; Attila Korompay, Ádám Hatvani │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Ilcsi is a family run business that specialise in all natural products. The products are created using the power and richness of nature and contain natural ingredients which are sourced from a wide selection of plants. These products are sold not just in Hungary but throughout the world. The site is located in the heart of Buda, in an over 100 years old civilian tenement house at the base
Osteria di Birra del Borgo; b15a architettura; Andrea Desideri, Silvia Guzzini │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Osteria di Birra del Borgo combines a bar, a brew-pub and a bottle shop in an elegant, informal and warm atmosphere. The space has been thought in order to create different experiences based on the various activities during the day. The design finds its deep inspiration in BdB craft beer experimental-production process. Values of passion, creativity and attention to details, ingredients and materials have been translated into three dimensions
Colonnade – Renovation of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange Headquarters; Kosi in partnerji, Arhitektura 2211 │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Business premises of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange are located on the second floor of a business complex built in 1965. The design concept of the interior is based on the concrete structure of the building, which has been emphasised to the full. Parallel to the existing set of inner bearing pillars an additional set of columns of the same dimensions was added. The new element of the colonnade runs
Healthy Jar; Think Forward; Galina Milkova, Nedko Nikolov│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Healthy Jar is a dessert bar for healthy food, located in the heart of Burgas city. The owner’s artistic and colourful design of homemade breakfast in a jar has inspired a boutique space with layers of materials, textures and colours. The 15 square meters space is divided into a client and a bar zone, united only by the metal mesh ceiling. Customers are welcomed by the marble bar where
Primaverii Headquarters; Cristiana Zgripcea│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Primaverii Headquarters is the Bucharest head office of a multinational company, maybe the most famous and disrupting, at the same time, world-wide known car sharing company. The most challenging part of this project was the extremely short period of time in which it had to be completed. Being both the architect and the project manager, Cristiana Zgripcea had a six-week time frame for the entire project to be done,
Restoration of a XV. century colonial Villa; CMT Architects; Paolo Mori, Simone Carloni │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The XV. century farm Villa is located in Tuscany, Italy in the town of Monteriggioni (Siena). The intervention focuses on the noble floor 400 square meters’ apartment. The leading idea of the project was to use two parallel registers, the almost philological restoration of the original parts and the contemporary new interventions and furnishings design. The original walls were treated with a lime-colored paste plaster and the floor slabs
Reframe; Norma Arhitectura; Fleșeriu Alexandru, Péter Eszter │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The project is the result of the Waiting for Revival Competition organised by the client Transylvania Trust aiming to transform the spaces of the castle into ateliers for the restoration workshops held here each summer. The brief required not to intervene onto the existing historical structure in order to carry out a full restoration at a later date. Consequently, the design was conceived using a set of independent installations.
Supermarket in Kifisia; Klab Architecture │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The main idea was to change the notion of the supermarket as it exists today in Greece -indifferent big boxes with long alleys of products. For us, the supermarket had to be resolved as an interpretation of an urban market place where you go to different shops to find different goods and interfere with other people. Following the refurbishment, the super market extends to 1500m2 and was limited to
Private office in Budapest; YOD Design Lab │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Private office, which is located in the downtown of the Budapest, intended for director and his assistant. On the not big area we could effectively accommodate all functionality of the office, without cluttering it. To avoid oversaturated area, we used cabinets and niches in which hidden office supplies, also hidden bathroom and a kitchen. Area divided on two functional zones: office of director and a separate room for assistant.
POLYTROPO – Apartment renovation strategy; Z-level; Elena Zervoudakis │BIG SEE Awards 2018
POLYTOPO-TOPOS-POLYTROPO POLYTOPO is a low-cost intervention proposal to the interior of “polykatoikia” apartments in Greece, based on a new construction system aiming at upgrading devalued properties. The polykatoikia (apartment building) constitutes the residential building type, housing the greater part of the population in Greek cities. It combines a European system of organized construction with local air, tradition and “Greekness”. Out of the 6.384.353 residences in Greece 44.7% are in
Niczky Apartment; Béres Architects; Attila Béres, Jusztina Balázs │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Only a few years have passed by since Béres Architects designed its first realized projekt, the Hideg house in Kőszeg, Hungary. The client, Attila Hideg recently found another interesting property where he intended to create something unusual in a medieval context. As he explains „The apartment in the nearly 400-year-old building needed a thorough renovation after most of its values were damaged or hidden during the last reconstruction works
Apartment in Korydallos; Plaini and Karahalios Architects │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The project is the transformation of a 1980’s apartment to an optimum living space for a family of four. A public family area and three private rooms had to be accommodated in 80m2. The arrangement of the apartment was reshuffled. The scheme became a sequence of spaces interlocking to each other, a travelling through subspaces. Every subspace is a threshold to the adjacent areas. The use of color and