Archive for May, 2008

Christophe Lemaire Shop, Paris, France »

While waiting for the opening of his store in Tokyo (2007), Lemaire opened one in Paris this January.

Two seconds away from the rue Vieille du Temple, at 28 rue de Poitou, stands a black facade, adorned with the clover emblem of the brand, forming an angle with the rue de Saintonge. This is where, on […]

EverGreen Casual Food Bar, Athens, Greece »

‘Customer experience’, ‘waiting experience’ and ‘job satisfaction’ were the base for a casual food bar: a place able to offer added value to the different moments of everyday life; a place able to show the transparency of each process of the final product; a space where the experience of freshness, quality, healthiness, focused on intensive […]

Orthodontist’s practice, Zwolle, Netherlands »

A dental practice for an orthodontic surgeon. The practice for the orthodontist - or cosmetic dentist - is located in the outskirts of Zwolle-Zuid. On the border of a recently realized industrial estate and a residential area the building forms a transition between both urban structures. As the surroundings are not that scenic and the […]

Community School in the Netherlands »

A primary school should make a joyous use of space; this spatial aspect of architecture has been utilized to create an adventurous route with exciting vistas. The movement of light plays an important role.

A Community School (in Dutch ‘brede school’, literally ‘broad school’) for a housing development near Amsterdam. The design had to satisfy various […]

“Hayrack” apartments, Cerklje, Slovenia »

The site is the edge of alpine town Cerklje with beautiful views to surrounding fields and mountains.

The building has L shape that is opened towards these views and encloses a protected 300 year old tree. Apartments are social - they were sold to Slovenian Housing Fund for young families at price 900 EUR/m2. Therefore the […]

Le Theatre, Mons, Belgium »

Our approach was to consider the place as an entity that needs a new impulse of development.

Although it is located near the centre of Mons, the riding school is isolated from the cultural heart of the city, which is concentrated around the market square.

It’s a kind of “distant proximity”, which could be resolved by creating […]

Office Dupon, Hoofddorp, Netherlands »

The former villa of the Mayor of Hoofddorp had already been in use as office space for a law firm.

The offices they left behind was all but the open office space that Dupon had in mind.

What Dupon had in mind was a modern open office environment surprising its visitors by the contrast between the outside […]