Hasta La Ideas

Inside 2011: The Rock, the newest terminal at Wellington International Airport by Warren & Mahoney and Studio Pacific has just been announced as the winner of the transport category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona.

The project connects three existing buildings under two new copper-clad structures.

Check out more airports on Dezeen here.

We’ll be posting the winners on Dezeen Wire as they’re announced throughout the day  – see all the shortlisted projects here and all the announcements here.

Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen.

Inside 2011: in our next round of Inside awards in Barcelona, Strelein Warehouse by Ian Moore Architects has just been announced as the winner of the residential category.

The project involved converting a former grocery warehouse in Sydney into a two-storey home.

See all our stories about residential interiors here.

We’ll be posting the winners on Dezeen Wire as they’re announced throughout the day  – see all the shortlisted projects here and all the announcements here.

Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen.

Here are some more details from Ian Moore Architects:

This project is the conversion of a late 19th century former grocery warehouse into a 2 level, one bedroom residence. In the mid 20th century it had 35 years of use as an engineering workshop before being converted to an artist’s studio and residence in the 1970s.

The property has 2 street frontages, allowing clear separation of pedestrian and vehicle entries. The new front door is located in the former loading dock at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, adjacent to a heritage listed sandstone wall. The entry is defined by a full height steel plate portal, adding to the palimpsest of former window openings and recycled brickwork that make up this façade.

Internally a 1.7 metre height difference between the 2 streets is utilised to create the tall volume of the living space, with its’ floor to ceiling wall of books. The kitchen occupies the half level above, overlooking the living area and is screened by a black steel plate structure incorporating a built-in black leather bench seat. The garage opens off the kitchen, with its’ internal dimensions defining the major strategic move within the design. Once the guest bathroom/laundry/storage and the stair opposite were deducted from the internal width, together with the minimum width required for the garage, the remainder was 10 millimetres with which to construct the wall between the garage and stair. This led to the adoption of the 10 millimetre thick steel plate structure that flows through to the entry portals, the kitchen surround and bookcase.

All existing structure has been retained, lined and painted white, while all new elements are painted black. This concept is carried through to the black and white rubber flooring. All joinery is finished in black anodised aluminium, including the bathroom on the upper level, which maintains the datum established by the height of the original window openings. The clear glazing above allows light from the new clerestory window to illuminate the formerly dark centre of the deep open planned space. Internally the bathroom is lined with Corian on both walls and floor.

The main street façade reinterprets the original but in steel rather than timber, with the address spelt out in water jet cut steel letters reflecting the original engineering workshop signage. The contrast between the precision of the steelwork and the patina of the original brickwork summarises the transformation from 19th to 21st centuries and from industrial to residential.”

Inside 2011: Hostem by JamesPlumb has just been announced as the winner of the retail category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona.

The boutique in east London features an antique church pew, hessian panels and linen curtains plus reclaimed lighting and rails.

Read more about this project in our earlier story on Dezeen and see all our stories about retail here.

We’ll be posting the winners on Dezeen Wire as they’re announced throughout the day  – see all the shortlisted projects here and all the announcements here.

Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen.

Inside 2011: St Barbara Bastions in Malta by Architecture Project has won the creative reuse category at the Inside awards in Barcelona.

The project involved creating office and residential space inside an old building, with separate staircases to each winding around each other in a double helix.

See all our stories about spectacular staircases here.

We’ll be posting the winners on Dezeen Wire as they’re announced throughout the day  – see all the shortlisted projects here and all the announcements here.

Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen.

Here’s some more information about the project from Architecture Project:

The brief for this project was one which took into account three major elements. The first was the creation of manageable office space in an old building which would include all the suitable amenities of a contemporary working space; light, clarity, comfort and ease of access. The second was the creation of a high end, luxury residential space which would be located on the uppermost level of the building. The third issue was that of creating two separate entrances to accommodate for the differentiating functions of the building; one for the residential space and one for the office space. Planning authority regulations that different functioning areas have separate entrances, therefore the design had to come up with a solution to answer to this requirement.

Partnering with this logistical need was the client’s willingness to take the opportunity to create a statement-making design solution. The clients’ openness towards experimenting with form meant that the team was largely able to create something which was more experimental and boundary-pushing than conventional projects provide the chance to.

The different uses for the property were to be divided as follows: the ground floor would be a common reception space, creating an initial barrier between the outside world and the unique environment experienced inside the property. The first floor is taken up by rentable offices, and here to maximise on space a mezzanine level was introduced. The second floor is taken up by the clients’ offices, whilst the third is the penthouse floor- the residential part of the project which the client also rents out.

The location of the property is one of such prestige that it immediately lends a feeling of luxury to the project. Already being elevated by the outstanding views of the Grand Harbour, the interiors for the penthouse suite and the offices needed to be nothing short of the highest specification quality on the market. Materiality and tone is therefore a key characteristic determining the feeling for each and every one of the rooms in the building.

As previously mentioned, the client understood the value of creating a bold formal statement when it came to the key design feature of the project- the staircase.

The ‘double-helix’ style structure is conceived as one sculptural mass combining two separate winding staircases which lead to both office and residential levels respectively. The design is a re-interpretation of the helical structure, yet its dark, almost eerie atmospheric quality is the real uniqueness of this architectural feature. Through each of its design solutions, the nature of this structure is one intended to create a new experience for the visitor. The lighting programme employed here is one which is minimalistic, unobtrusive yet quite essential for the success of the design. It merely guides the visitor through the space as opposed to actually filling the area with light. Moreover, the glow is seen and not the source, creating a sensation of one being led through a giant tree bark, or cavernous passageway, where natural light has all but been cut-out.

Inside 2011: we’re in Barcelona this week with our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up at Inside world festival of interiors and a party to celebrate our Dezeen Book of Ideas at Otrascosas de Villar-Rosàs tomorrow night – click here to download the invitation.

Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona from today until 4 November.

We’re posting the winners of the inaugural Inside awards as they’re announced today – see the full shortlist here and all our stories about Inside here.

We’ve also been working closely with Inside in the run-up to its inaugural festival, producing a series of video interviews with festival judges Ilse Crawford, Paul Priestman, Andre Fu and Linda Morey Smith. Watch them on Dezeen Screen.