TOURISM

National Memorial on mount Herzl

August 5, 2022|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Israel, Tourism|

The Mount Herzl Memorial Hall is a unique place of commemoration. It’sraison d’etreis to be amemorial for all the fallen soldiers of the country, and thus contains all their names.It is a project of hopefor peaceful times.Set in a calm biblical scenery, but adjacent to the nowadays busy streets of Jerusalem, the space isisolated and quiet. It was excavated in the mountain to form an intimate space for both
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Buha|i|rest restaurant, Budapest

August 4, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Hungary, Tourism|

Buha|i|rest is the latest gastronomic hot spot located in a historical partofBudapest,Hungar. It advertises itself as a stylish concept bar and a launge for luxury dining.During the 20th century the building had been home textile manufacture.The 1148-square-foot (350-square-metre) speakeasy is divided into a bar and a moreintimate lounge space.Plans - The 164-square-foot (50-square-metre) speakeasy is divided into a coffee-bar. “The clientwanted an ultra modern space juxtaposed with a vintage chairs
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Homeland Memorial, Zagreb

August 4, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Croatia, Tourism|

“Modernity is incredibly demanding–it calls for great intelligence and for a civilizationaldisburdening from the past.”Ivo ŠebaljThe genesis–concept, design, and execution–of the Homeland Monument wasinfluenced by global and local processes that were bound to leave a mark, whether direct orindirect, on its formation. In addition, there is an important endogenous factor to theequation, which is that, at the time of the monument’s making, Fabijanić was at the height ofhis creative power.
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Voyage Torba Hotel

August 4, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Tourism, Turkey|

Voyage Torba is the town’s largest hotel. The project area in question is the combination of two largehotels. The new project has a reduced number of rooms, i.e., 345, spans an area of 74.000 m², and aconstruction area of 60.000 m2. The five different zones comprising the project area feature 5 differentbuilding typologies, which represent the individual needs and contexts of their zones.We now report on the first zone, which
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Bar – Studio Krymská in Prague

August 4, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Czech Republic, Tourism|

The new bar on Krymská Street has a raw, scenic atmosphere and a versatile space for small cultural events. The bar is part of the lower floor of an apartment building wedged between Francouzská and Krymská streets. We decided to treat the retail facade of Krymská Street in a minimalistic modern style. We replaced the door of the former car workshop with new glazing with an entrance door and
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Hotel Maestoso, Lipica

August 4, 2022|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Slovenia, Tourism|

Maestoso is the largest accommodation building in Lipica and it is visitor's primary contact with the stud farm environment. The guideline in designing the renovation and expansion of the hotel was to find a way tone down the buildings presence in the space. The new structural membrane enveloping the entire hotel establishes a sort of an intermediate space between the buildings and the landscape. The interplay of light and
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Kanel – Swedish konditori, Thessaloniki

July 21, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Greece, Tourism|

Kanel is a Swedish konditori that opened in Thessaloniki in 2020. The owner’s family has lived for many years in Sweden and along with the mentality has brought back to Greece a classic Swedish recipe, that of the kanelbullar. Our team was inspired by the simplicity of the Scandinavian interiors, which were adapted in Thessaloniki’s warmer territory. The space is divided in two parts, the warm and the cold.
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Maslina Resort, Hvar island

July 19, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Croatia, Tourism|

Maslina is borned from the earth of Hvar island. The environment of the surroundings enters in the resort through natural materials such as the terracotta for the redish ground, the limestone rocks or the dark green of the pines. The traveler is landing there to open his trunk, relax, enjoy the peacefull sea view and feel the fresh breeze dancing in the light curtains. Each detail has been thought
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Le Burger Auhof Center Wien

July 18, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, Austria, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Tourism|

Le Burger is part of a restaurant chain whose design is primarily based on the industrial look in the use of raw materials like steel, bricks, wood, concrete and especially on using real plants, green walls etc. for creating green areas. Probably the biggest challenge of the brand “Le Burger” is that apart of its CI, each location gets its own, individual design and never looks exactly the same.
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Implementation of latest multimedia technology in interpreting and communicating the ethnographic heritage of ASTRA Museum

July 18, 2022|BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Creative story and identity as experience, Romania, Tourism|

ASTRA VR is the latest addition to the largest open air museum in Europe, ASTRA Museum, telling various stories related to obsolete professions in the region. The project aimed to reconvert a static museum area using multimodal storytelling and participatory experiences mediated by the local rural communities: intuitive display, doll house perspective or immersive VR experiences into century old rural love stories, comic strips printed on wood boards presenting
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Sport hotel Soča, Bovec

July 18, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Slovenia, Tourism|

The location of the hotel is located in the center of Bovec, which is the tourist center of Bovško and the Soča valley. It is surrounded by the Alps and the rivers Soča and Koritnica. Svinjak rises above the valley, giving Bovec a recognizable panoramic image. Investor Soča rafting are beginners in offering rafting, canyoning and zipline in Posočje. The hotel is a supplement to their activity, as they
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Das Bootshaus, Vienna

July 18, 2022|Architecture and interior design as experience, Austria, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Tourism|

With “Das Bootshaus” (“The Boathouse”) the in the Austrian gastronomy scene well-known family Querfeld (Café Landtmann, Café Mozart etc.) embarks on a new path “on the water” and combine two of their passions: rowing and being a host. Stylistically, the design concept literally goes into the waters, in particular into the waters of the traditional British rowing sport and brings this special mood to the city of Vienna. High-quality materials
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