Over in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, Buro Ole Scheeren’s fast
food concept for Dean & DeLuca’s chef-led eatery, ‘Stage’, uses a
sculpted high-tech white Corian and steel centre-piece, to celebrate
the artistry of food, and to create a stage for those who make and
those who consume it.
And in the City of London, Universal Design Studio are behind
Fortnum & Mason’s new 360-degree bar, shop and restaurant in the
Grade I Listed Royal Exchange courtyard, complete with a bespoke
curved metal canopy.
These big hitters go up against novel projects, such as the cat-themed
café, Meow Restaurant in Guangzhou, China, that embraces cats’ love
of heights in its interior design.
And Karavanstop Café, a lifestyle café by One Bite Design Studio
at Hong Kong International Airport, that puts social media at the
heart of its design, with an iconic green ceiling, abstracting the city’s
topography, and an 'instagrammable' logo wall, both designed to
capture the spirit of the area’s outdoor leisure activities.
Photo credit Rasmus Hjortshøj
Meow Restaurant is joined by another pet-themed project in
China, this time a private home interior in Shanghai, designed to
accommodate a family’s high pet ratio, giving freedom for both pet
and owner to enjoy the living space freely.
In the Civic, Culture & Transport category, entries range from a
cloud shaped, glass wedding chapel in Japan, to a library with an
‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’-themed section in Singapore,
and highlights from the Health & Education category include a
multi-sensory room in Thailand for pre-school children with visual
impairments.
Embracing a more organic approach to interior design is the National
Museum of Qatar Gift shop by Koichi Takada Architects, which
features curved timber ceilings and walls, inspired by the natural
Qatari desert-scape, and engineered from 40,000 3D-modelled
parts.
St Andrews Beach Villa by Woods Bagot takes the organic approach
to interior design to an even greater level, using a mixture of newer
elements and old, worn materials from the villa’s previous iterations,
to create a deliberate juxtaposition of eroded and resilient surfaces,
and mundane and exquisite materials.
Photo credit Tai Ngai Lung
Major world architects and designers shortlisted include BIG-
Bjarke Ingels Group, Woods Bagot, Universal Design Studio, Buro
Ole Scheeren; alongside others such as E Studio, KTX archiLAB,
ONG&ONG, Snuper Design, Koichi Takada Architects and more.
INSIDE will reconvene in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 4-6
December this year.
This is the second time the event has been hosted in the Dutch
capital, following previous editions in Barcelona, Singapore and
Berlin.
Photo credit Snuper Design
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All nominees will present their projects to distinguished international
juries that include Johan Carlsson of Jac Studios, Annabel Kassar of
AKK, James Grose of BVN and Weng Shanwei of AN Design during
the Festival to compete for one of the nine INSIDE category awards.