Archive for May, 2008

City Market, Mexico »

City Market is one of the first amongst its kind, to expand the typical smaller gourmet shop into a unique, new high-end, contemporary gourmet supermarket, attracting a new type of customer for Commercial Mexicana. The goal was to corner the high-end market, making a lasting impression with the gourmet shopper. For this reason, the design […]

LaCONES Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species »

This unique laboratory set up is a joint venture between the Central Zoo Authority, New Delhi, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi, C.C.M.B., Hyderabad and the A.P. department of forestry.

Besides basic research activities, it would have cages and exercise areas for the concerned endangered species along with in vitro fertilization facilities for them.

The […]

“Ave Fenix” Fire Station, Mexico City »

“The design chosen for the fire station is that of a simple high box that almost disappears after the facade, which plays with the context in a game of reflections…”

Project details
* Project Name: “Ave Fenix” Fire Station
* Client: Alejandro Vigil
* Principal Designer/s: at […]

City Apartment, Eindhoven, Netherlands »

This luxurious city apartment is designed by COEN! to create a harmonious whole. A perfect combination of robust, warm and pure materials like wood, stone, glass and marmoleum. The use of sober colors with colorful accents make it a timeless and stylish residential.

All the furniture, colors and materials are well thought combined by Coen. If […]

Aussersihl Community Center, Zurich, Switzerland »

A combination of several difficult circumstances formed the starting point for this project: the dramatic polarisation of the political parties for and against socio-cultural infrastructures, a building site that threatened to slip out of public control due to an open alcohol and drug scene but that was, at the same time, one of the few […]

[WIDE]BAND, Various/Los Angeles, USA »

[WIDE]BAND - a Nomadic Cafe / Club is a 600-square foot, portable project with the flexibility to accommodate a multiplicity of functions (more or less the architectural equivalent of a hermit crab shell). Originally designed as an installation for NeoCon West, it has since been moved to the A + D Museum in Los Angeles […]

2 Apartment Towers, Deventer, Netherlands »

28 apartments, in 2 towers; 2 apartments per floor, 7 floors high. The plan consists of two apartment towers, each with fourteen apartments, in the ‘Vijfhoek’ neighbourhood in Deventer. The building marks out the intersection of the Gooikersdijk and the Springerlaan, the latter of which forms the main access to the neighbourhood. The levelled dike, […]

Media Academy, Hilversum, Netherlands »

The Media Academy is the leading training institute for the media and is located in a stately villa at the Media Park in Hilversum. This beautiful building has been renovated to restore its original glory. The interior was designed by COEN! to create a harmonious whole. All the walls and window casings are white, which […]

HP Demo Room, Chengdu, China »

This HP demo room exhibits nothing but the virtual. In this digital era, the ‘display approach’ by representing no “real” products, is manifested by projecting their images on screens; the whole concept in this HP demo room is to provide an online tour for all patrons. Thus, all that one needs to update is the […]

Pistoia Public Library, rea ex-Breda, Pistoia, Italy »

FondaRIUS architecture on San Giorgio Public Library said “The preexistent complex has a thickness of 40 metres.”
Project details
* Project Name: Pistoia Public Library
* Client: Comune di Pistoia
* Project Type: Architecture
* Principal Designer/s: PCA int + Federico Calabrese (fondaRIUS architecure) […]