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This boutique in Antwerp by Van Halewyck & Marco Architects features glossy white surfaces in a raw concrete shell.

Called Y. Di Cassanova, the shop at the base of two towers has white backlit shelves to display stock and a tree in the middle of the space.

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The following details are from Van Halewyck & Marco Architects

The new shop Y. Di Cassanova is located under the recently built towers of Diener & Diener Architects on “t’ Eilandje”. The semi-transparent aspect of the building is subtly mirrored in the interior with white glowing translucent panels.

The concept of a softer layer within the rough concrete concrete shell continues the white effect in the overall materialization. Under the white veil one finds surprising textures like coarse-grained wood and fiber board. Through careful manipulation of the different interconnected volumes a varied “parcours” is created with both intimate corners and free open space.

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Clothes store Y. Di Cassanova
Location: Westkaai 45, Antwerp, Belgium
Client: Joli bvba
Stage: built (1st phase)
Date: 2010

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Architecture firm Scott Brownrigg have completed the London office of internet search engine Google, with a giant logo in the lobby forming doorways through the two Os.

Designed with a Brighton beach theme, the interior is filled with dodgem cars used as work spaces, red telephone booths, beach huts and giant dice.

Wallpaper in the meeting rooms and video conference booths is printed with seaside imagery.

The space also includes a gym, spa centre and restaurant offering free meals for the 300 strong staff.

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Here’s some more information from Google:

SCOTT BROWNRIGG INTERIOR DESIGN COMPLETES PHASE ONE OF GOOGLE’S NEW LONDON OFFICE

Scott Brownrigg Interior Design has created a new 40,000 sq ft office for Google at 123 Buckingham Palace Road, London to accommodate over 300 staff.

The new office is designed to create a dynamic and collaborative work environment that supports the growing number of Google staff in London. As with many other Google offices worldwide, the office has a strong local theme. Joe Borrett and Jane Preston from Google, working with the Scott Brownrigg Interior Design team chose a theme of London-Brighton and as a result many iconic elements of both are incorporated into the office design.

For example, brightly coloured timber beach huts are meeting rooms and giant colourful dice accommodate individual video conference booths, original dodgem cars and traditional red telephone booths are all work spaces available to staff and visitors. Open plan workstations for all staff are mixed with a few offices, meeting rooms and open break out seating areas and support spaces for printing and IT technical support. Google look after the health and welfare of their staff in an exceptional way and Scott Brownrigg Interior Design has designed a fully fitted out gym/shower facility, massage and spa treatment centre, and an Asian Fusion/Sushi restaurant that is free for all staff.

Ken Giannini, Interior Design Director of Scott Brownrigg stated: “It is little wonder that Google is one of the most desirable places to work in the UK. We have enjoyed every minute of this exciting project. All the Google staff are up for innovation, brilliant ideas and they like to be challenged. We also recognise that Google is a serious business and demands efficiency, value and solutions that can support their business practices. This project has it all – a fun working environment that also incorporates lots of practical solutions.”

Joe Borrett, Head of Real Estate and Construction for Google commented that: “The office was designed and delivered in a very fast timescale (4 months) and the team of consultants and the contractor pulled out all the stops to get it done. It was an impressive effort.”

Jane Preston, UK Facilities Manager at Google said: “The first impressions by visitors and our staff has been very positive. The project fits well with our real estate and HR strategy and will definitely help support our growth plans. We see the work environment as a major recruitment factor for us to compete for the best talent and this new office certainly does that.”

Client: Google
Interior Designers/Planning: Scott Brownrigg Interior Design
Programme Managers: CBRE
Project Managers and Cost Consultants: MottMacDonald
M&E Consultants: TBA
Main Contractor: Cameron Black
Size/floor space: 40,000 sq ft
Timetable: 16 weeks
Furniture: Desking System: Bene, Task chairs: Herman Miller, Knoll, Vitra, Hitch Mylius, Wiesner Hager, Arper, James Burleigh
Flooring: Interface Floor, Object Carpet, Dalsouple

Completion of phase one was November 2010 and phase two (10,000 ft2) completes March 2011.

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Back in December, to mark the debut of the newly-opened Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, IFC Films was hired to make six short films/commercials profiling some of people and firms involved in the lavish luxury hotel’s development. We were particularly keen back then to talk up the first of them, which featured celebrated designer David Rockwell, who handled the design of many/most of the room interiors. Now we’re back to being keen again, with the fourth in the series, which profiles the work of production house Digital Kitchen in creating a number of video-based columns in the hotel’s lobby. They’re absolutely stunning, and we say that not just because we’re pals with the guy being interviewed about them (full disclosure: this writer has known him for years and now works at the same place he used to work). DK has put up some behind-the-scenes info on the project, as well as watchable versions of each of the panels. And here’s the IFC-produced video:

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Here are some more photos and sketches of the information centre by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón for the newly renovated Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (see our earlier story)

The space features long pendant lights hanging from a circular mirrored panel on the ceiling.

In the middle of the room, desks with hoods covering computers create private booth-like spaces for browsing.

Many of the pieces have been custom-made for the space, including the furniture, magazine stands, mirrors and a bespoke handmade vase.

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The following information is from the designer:

The Info Center

The idea behind the info center was to come up with a new approach for this sort of space that is traditionally cold and impersonal. Our aim was to integrate the latest technology into it without making this visible.

The center would retain a homey feel to it and would be functional as well as flexible. The table with niches allows for privacy and concentration and it also provides plenty of traditional table surface for any other use.

The concept had to be as special and different as this museum so most furniture elements were custom designed and manufactured for the center.

A few of the custom furniture elements include the multitable, the magazine stands, the mirrors and vases as well as many other features. The space stands out with its bespoke residential feel and the quality of craft visible in every element.

Surely, the visitor will feel they have entered a special place. There is a special art piece in the center and it is a gigantic hand made and hand painted vase that is one of a kind. It is dedicated to the Netherlands, my loved one and her loved ones.

The marble floors are cut in hexagon shapes and give a royal feel to the public space. The copper lights, custom cinema and display cases around the room create a warm atmosphere, filled with light and energy.

The media center is a very special room for a very special museum…

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Swedish design studio Form Us With Love have completed the interior for an exhibition celebrating dapper gentlemen at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Called Dissecting the Dandy, the space is filled with dismembered mannequins displayed in grey MDF boxes with wooden supports.

The designers have suspended their Work Lamp (see our earlier story) from rows of connected metal frames at different heights to illuminate the pieces on display.

The mannequins are dressed in typical ‘dandy’ attire – fashioned blazers, waistcoats, shirts, shoes and accessories.

The Dandy exhibition is on show at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, until May 2011.

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The following information is from the designers:

Dissecting the Dandy
Form Us With Love has designed the exhibition architecture for the exhibition “Dandy” at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm.

What is a dandy? What does he look like? Some say a dandy is a particular person. Others say a dandy is a way of life. The architecture of the exhibition dissect the dandy into pieces. “We wanted to expose the details that makes the Dandy” says John Löfgren, Jonas Pettersson and Petrus Palmér of Form Us With Love.

The architecture consists of dismembered mannequins, fused with MDF boxes which then has been laqcuered in a slate grey, giving the illusion that a stonecutter has started working on sculptures, but only finished the parts essential for the exhibition pieces.

The exhibition gives examples of how a contemporary Dandy could look. Tailor Frederik Andersen, fashion researcher Rickard Lindqvist, journalist Olaf Enckell, stylist Lalle Johnson, author Björn af Kleen, designer Göran Sundberg and shop owner Christian Qua- glia have all given their suggestions on the modern style dandy.

The exhibition is on display until May 1, 2011. Nordiska museet is situated on Djurgården.

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