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PointOne showroom; Kata Suto │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The new center of design, the pointOne showroom opened in the beginning of June last year in the heart of Budapest. In the new centre the products distributed by the company DECOR FLOOR, installed according to the interior design concept of Suto Interior Architects change everything that has been typical of showrooms in Hungary. Naturally, those who like and are familiar with international contemporary design trends might think that
Bistro / Deli / Wine Shop / Restaurant / Jazz Cocktail Club; Saša Hess │BIG SEE Awards 2018
A deli, bistro, restaurant and a club, all in one has opened on the 26th of June 2018 in the city of Ljubljana. An all-encompassing place for get-togethers based on a humane kind of pleasure, one linked to sharing. The small tables at Sveti Florijan are just small enough so that the looks, thoughts and smiles, all of the playful stimuli or your wide-opened senses, don’t get lost in
New York Sweets pastry shop; MINASKOSMIDIS Architecture in Concept; Minas Kosmidis │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The famous pastry shop chain in Cyprus “New York Sweets” has decided to go through a radical rebranding. The brand has been established as a family business in 1986 and it still works in the same way. The main target of the company is to produce and sell a series of premium – mainly American sweets and pastries made of very high quality and fresh ingredients. The name of
Kolibri Cocktail Bar; Saša Hess │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Founded in one of the eldest parts of Ljubljana on the 26th of May 2017, Kolibri pays an elegant homage to the area's distilling heritage. Walls all covered with wallpapers, filled up with 19th century select pieces and all the new pieces are carefully chosen form the variety of European contemporary manufacturers create a spectacularly loaded interior Kolibri is a gun. Old recipes for tinctures, bitters and herbal remedies,
Home Sweet Home – Meridionale Fondiaria Real Estate Headquarters; Tomas Ghisellini Architects │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Meridionale Fondiaria originates from the common intentions of two young entrepreneurs who in 1980 decided to build together their idea of real estate agency, thus laying the foundations of what would become the reference franchise for the city of Lecce and all of the Salento region. Today, Meridionale Fondiaria Real Estate can count on thousands of operations and a dense network of collaborators and agencies located in a vast
COCO-mat Hotel Athens; Elastic Architects; Vogiatzi Zafeiria, Alexandros Xenos │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The reconstructed, existing building, on the road 36 Patriarchou Ioakim in Kolonaki, formerly known as “block of flats Z. Lorentzatos”, designed by the Architect M. Lazaridis was built in the year 1935. The midwar architecture building in the Athenian city center was characterized by the vertical symmetry of its facade and the erker, as well as its balconies with the curved finishes. The proposed architectural design intends to signify
Net Rovinj; Numen/ForUse, Studio Up │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The installation, positioned in the radial niche within the lobby of Amarin hotel in Rovinj, is a hybrid of Net and Tuft concepts. A deep blue carpet, covering the floors and walls of the cubicle, blends with the transparent ultramarine nets stretched across the reclusive area connected in a way to enable climbing two levels up. The person inside the installation floats between the lobby and the glass facade,
To Tsai Tea Room; Georges Batzios Architects │BIG SEE Awards 2018
Mlesna Hellas request for a unique tea house, a tea island in the middle of the hardcore center of Athens guide us to an auto-referent introverted space with minimalistic architectural details based on the characteristics of the traditional Japanese architecture such as wood light and shadows. An, ornament free, wooden framework occupies the newly constructed interior skin of the tea house. A skin that shapes the ensemble of the
Residence in Parnassus; Tsolakis Architects; George Tsolakis, Foteini Liakou, Eleni Lagkari │BIG SEE Awards 2018
At the foot of Mt. Parnassus, a paternal residence revives decades of history. Stone-built, dark and mysterious, it restores experiences and memories. This building featured some kind of state monopoly, in the form that the latter used to have in Greece four decades ago. Dozens of traders would arrive there on a daily basis to purchase alcohol, matches, oil, cardboard, and salt. Today, forty years later, the dwelling is
L’Escalier concept store; ADD Architectural Studio │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The “trans-formation” of an abandoned former commercial space, situated along the main road of the village of Arachova, into an exhibition space for small products of any kind was the goal of this project. The staircase that led to the upper floor- and was formerly separated and hidden by a wall- was chosen to be revealed due to its theatrical presence. The same happened with the bearing rock wall-background
Andronikos Hotel; Klab Architecture │BIG SEE Awards 2018
The client, Andronikos hotels along with Klab architecture, collaborated to build yet another hotel in Santorini. A 70s private residence was transformed into a luxurious suites villas. Above the volcano caldera and the famous rock “Skaros” Klab architecture had to accommodate the needs of the new hotel in the existing three story building. The main idea about the design of the six suites and the sky bar was to
Black Drop coffee shop; Ark4lab of Architecture; George Tyrothoulakis, Evdokia Voudouri │BIG SEE Awards 2018
In the center of Kavala , a city located in the northern Greece, you can have an alternative coffee break. Black drop is a coffee shop where coffee is treated more like an experience , an urban act . A stand built of mosaic becomes an interactive space for informing and exchanging views on the art of coffee. Materials such as Copper, terrazzo , exposed concrete , old wood