Located in Melbourne, Australia, Crown Metropol, newest hotel was designed by Bates Smart, Crown Metropol’s brief was to impart a youthful and dynamic form. The architects intended the hotel’s design to challenge tradition and add a sense of occasion with unorthodox elements, dark, dramatic shapes and earthy, grounded silhouettes inspired by nature. The sensual, fluid form of the building seamlessly...
Located in Miami Beach, FL, United States, Montclair Lofts was designed by Oppenheim Architecture + Design LLP. The 65,000 sq ft Montclair condominium complex’s surrounding Miami Beach area is defined by a well established fabric of 1950’s modern residential buildings, rational and rectilinear in design, with prominent balconies as their major scalar feature. In contrast, the historic Montclair...
The Cite de l’Ocean et du Surf latest cultural offering designed by Steven Holl Architects is located in Biarritz, France. Adjoining this curved surface are two ‘glass rocks’ which contain the restaurant and surfers’ kiosk, linking the interior facilities to an active outside plaza which has been paved with a progressive variation of Portuguese cobblestone paving, through which grasses and...
Designed by AWW, The Cornwall Hotel is located in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Conservation was a key element of the brief with the estate’s historic setting and natural beauty a great asset. It was the inspiration for integrating elements of nature and the external parkland surroundings in both the architectural and interior design. The development respects and sensitively complements the outstanding...
Ridong Gold Coast that located in Queensland, Australia, Designed to stand out and fit in at the same time, the development is designed to maximise value while creating a green development that pushes the boundaries for sustainable high rise living while ensuring that energy costs and life cycle costs are kept to a minimum. The buildings, distributed around the perimeter of the site in order to create...