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ON THE COVER For a private wine cave in the Texas Hill Country, Clayton & Little blasted out a limestone hillside on the client’s ranch and fitted it with a thermally cooled entertaining retreat that hosts up to 20 people and some 4,000 bottles. Photography: Casey Dunn.
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features 102 ALL SHAPES AND SIZES by Becky Sunshine
Studium’s many disciplines forge the Spectris Innovation Center, a dynamic Portuguese workplace for HBK, a newly merged tech company. 110 FUSION CENTER by Jessica Dailey
Combining unexpected colors, eras, and sensibilities has an energizing affect at an office in Xi’an, China, by Hong Designworks. 118 BUILDING ON GENERATIONS by Jane Margolies
Steven Harris teams with Manuel de Santaren and Rees Roberts + Partners on a coastal Maine estate’s outbuilding that nods to history while serving a present-day extended family.
126 THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL by Thomas Connors
Deborah Berke Partners creates an ideal environment to experience contemporary art at the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago. 134 EARTHY BLEND by Annie Block
Journey from a 1,000acre Moravian vineyard to a snug Texan wine cave in this harvest of enological projects. 144 A RCHES OF TRIUMPH by Rebecca Lo
Leaping Creative invigorates the aesthetic of the dated Chinese foot spa with Forest for Rest in Chongqing.
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departments 21 HEADLINERS 27 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 33 CROSSLINES by Jane Margolies A Green Global Vision
Boosting its commitment to sustainability, Neil Jacobs steers wellness hotel brand Six Senses through the pandemic and beyond. 38 BLIPS by Annie Block 48 PINUPS by Wilson Barlow 81 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes and Georgina McWhirter 97 CENTERFOLD 61
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The annual CODAawards celebrates the artistic results of when creatives and clients unite. 186 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie
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I looked it up in Merriam-Webster. The far-and-wideranging definitions of this adjective convey qualities varying from outstanding/wholesome to hair-raising/ abnormal! All apply to the crazy days we find ourselves
E .X .C .E.P. T. I.O .N .A .L . in, making the exceptional perhaps not so unusual after all. And that roundabout-ly takes me to our monthly issues in this extraordinary year. For example, in September we would have typically dedicated all coverage—along with all our boundless love—to NYC, our hometown. There is nothing ordinary about these times, however, and that granted us at least a freer hand. We chose to postpone our traditional New York appointment until October (the eventual intent is to throw a monumental “welcome back” celebration). The marching orders for our September reporting are clear: usefulness above all! So we decided to rigorously redouble our efforts, surveying and reporting from the most forward trenches of the craft and offering to your attention a crystal-clear view of the most active and progressive categories in our industry right now. Starting dutifully with health and wellness, we showcase a mental-health therapy center for women by women in Manhattan, an L.A. outpatient surgery, a restorative dentistry clinic in London, and a 29,000square-foot spa complete with ancient Chinese foot massage. Moving to hospitality, art is celebrated at the newly renovated 21c Museum Hotel in Chicago by Deborah Berke Partners, a hi-tech workplace gets prefab-ulous new digs courtesy of Studium.Creative Studio, and finally, we toast to a far-flung roundup of exceptional wineries that respect nature and culture. Altogether, what we spy and deliver in our issues is the essence of what’s melting in the forges of our design future, and as always, we hope it is a restorative tonic for these trying times. Boundless love,
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“Building on Generations,” page 118 president: Manuel de Santaren. firm site: Boston. firm size: Five designers. current projects: Residences in Massachusetts, Florida, and Montana. role model: Axel Vervoordt for his use of honest and often humble materials mixed with extraordinarily beautiful antiquities and art.
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leader: De Santaren is co-chair of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Photography Council. supporter: He collects new-media, time-based, and video artworks. manueldesantaren.com
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Group office, a Fritz Hansen lounge, and Ecco Northwest headquarters, all in Xi’an. honors: IF Design Award; Silver A’ Design Award. role model: Professor Helfried Hagenberg, who influenced Dang to become an interior designer. student: Dang spent time abroad, studying graphic design in Dusseldorf, Germany. teacher: He’s a lecturer at Xi’an University of Science and Technology. behance.net/dang _ming
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“All Shapes and Sizes,” page 102 founder: Sérgio Miguel Magalhães. creative director: Catarina Rodrigues. firm site: Porto, Portugal. firm size: Seven architects and designers.
“Building on Generations,” page 118 partner:
Steven Harris, AIA. firm site: New York. firm size: 20 architects and designers. current projects:
current projects: Headquarters for GKN in Porto, Fricon in Vila do
Conde, and Portfolio Vinhos in Vila Nova de Gaia, all in Portugal. honors: Change International Competition Visual Spaces award. side gig: Magalhães is the author of monstruktor.com, his site devoted to his writing and drawings. full-time: He and Rodrigues are also brand and creative directors at AMMP, a branding agency. studium.pt 22
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mind: Harris teaches architecture at Yale University. road: He is an avid Porsche collector. stevenharrisarchitects.com
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Ajmer Highway, an oil on linen, is among Lily Stockman’s 22 new paintings created during the pandemic lockºdown, appearing in “Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match,” at New York’s Charles Moffett gallery through October 18.
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Readers of this magazine may well be familiar with Block Shop, the textile studio founded by siblings Hopie and Lily Stockman, beloved for their Bauhaus-inspired block prints and transparent production processes. Perhaps a more under-the-radar fact is that older sister Lily is also a prolific abstract painter, who studied under Kiki Smith during her MFA and appren ticed in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and Jaipur, India. “I do think I paint like a printmaker,” she says, describing her technique of creating works flat on a saw horse, building them up layer by layer, using oils and thinning solvents to manipulate opacity. In another instance of over lapping pursuits, her “Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match” opens this fall in New York on the second floor of a former Benjamin Moore & Co. factory from the 1920’s. It’s Charles Moffett’s new, larger space, which debuted February 29 but closed two weeks later due to COVID-19. This is the gallery’s first in-person exhibition since the pandemic’s start.
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living legend In 2018, Balkrishna Doshi was the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Even more awe-inspiring is that the 93-year-old still draws, writes, and, up until shelter-in-place orders, made daily visits to his Ahmedabad studio, Vāstu Shilpā Consultants.
d e s i g n w ire Clockwise from top left: The work of Balkrishna Doshi is the subject of “Architecture for the People,” at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 through December 12. His miniature painting of Sangath architect’s studio, a 1980 project in Ahmedabad, India. Amdavad Ni Gufa gallery, a 1994 collaboration with M.F. Husain in Ahmedabad. His sketch of Aranya, a 1989 low-cost housing project in Indore. Housing for the Life Insurance Corporation of India, Ahmedabad, 1973.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: IWAN BAAN; COURTESY OF VASTUSHILPA FOUNDATION, AHMEDABAD; IWAN BAAN; COURTESY OF VASTUSHILPA FOUNDATION, AHMEDABAD (2)
“Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People,” at Wrightwood 659, the Chicago institution designed by fellow Pritzker winner Tadao Ando, celebrates all this and more. The exhibition presents 23 of Doshi’s institutional and residential projects from 1958 to 2014 through over 200 sketches, paintings, models, and photographs. They display the influences of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, with whom he worked before launching his own firm, as well as Doshi’s ability to meld Modernism with traditional Indian techniques and forms. After opening at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and traveling to Asia and Europe, this is the show’s Stateside debut.
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Clockwise from top left: The porcelain Dauw, Disk plate and Modus Vivendi bowl, and La Mer Box Macaron are among pieces by Studio Pieter Stockmans, designed between 1987 and 2010, on view at C-Mine in Ghent, Belgium, through June 30. The handmade hard-porcelain process. The Studio Pieter Stockmans shop and showroom at C-Mine.
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STUDIO PIETER STOCKMANS
Piet Stockmans, the Belgian ceramicist with pieces in the permanent collections of New York’s Metropolitan and London’s Victoria and Albert museums, turns 80 this October. To mark the milestone, Studio Pieter Stockmans is mounting a retrospective of his work and career, which he began in 1966 as an industrial designer at the Mosa porcelain factory, rising to chief designer and creating Sonja, the iconic stackable mug of which over 40 million were sold. He founded his studio in 1987, since earning accolades for exquisite hard-porcelain objects, particularly admired and utilized by such Michelin-starred chefs as Alain Ducasse and Thomas Keller. He even devised his own personal colorway, Stockmans Blue, which he discovered after experimenting with kiln temperatures. Crockery in that shade as well as crisp white, plus new items by Frank Claesen, who’s been designing at the studio for decades, are on display at C-Mine, a 1905 former coal-mine complex in Ghent, that TeamvanMeer! converted into Stockmans’s studio, shop, and showroom in 2010.
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a green global vision Boosting its commitment to sustainability, Neil Jacobs steers wellness hotel brand Six Senses through the pandemic and beyond
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To call Neil Jacobs a hospitality veteran is an understatement. He spent 14 years with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. He ended his run there as senior vice president of operations Asia Pacific to join Starwood Capital Group as president of global hotel operations. In his five years at Starwood, he developed the successful Baccarat Hotel and 1 Hotels brands. Clearly, Jacobs is fluent in the language of luxury (as well as in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Bahasa Indonesia). But in 2012, he made a subtle pivot, joining forces with Pegasus Capital Advisors, which purchased Six Senses Resorts & Spas. Back then, the company was small—mostly beachfront resorts in Southeast Asia. But all along, since its founding in 1995, the Six Senses mission has been to promote personal well-being and the health of our planet. Jacobs’s goal was to fortify that vision while expanding and diversifying locations. With Jacobs as CEO, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas has done just that. Properties have been added in Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, and the Seychelles. Shifting sights to Europe, in 2015 the company took over a 19th-century manor house turned hotel in Portugal, hired Clodagh, and remade it into Six Senses Douro Valley, which has the country’s highest occupancy rate. Properties have opened in France and Turkey since. In early 2021, the company debuts its North American toehold—and first urban project—with Six Senses New York, a 10-story hotel by Gilles & Boissier and a club/spa by INC Architecture & Design at the XI, the much-anticipated, Hudson River–fronting complex by Bjarke Ingels Group. Six Senses London by AvroKO is slated for 2023, bringing the total to 18 hotels and resorts. COVID-19 has slowed the development of these projects. But with its emphasis on wellness, community, and sustainability, Six Senses, now owned by IHG, may be well positioned to ride out the storm. Jacobs, a London native based in Singapore, who is an American citizen, shares his thoughts. From top: Six Senses Douro Valley in Samodães, Portugal, the brand’s first European property. The CEO of Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas. SEPT.20
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What’s your strategy ahead? Neil Jacobs: We’re going to broaden and deepen what we already do. Connection has always been our vision—reconnecting with oneself, others, and the world. Now, there seems to be a greater sense of mindfulness and need for connection. We’re creating new programming that touches on gratefulness, compassion, even love. What has reopening been like? NJ: Six Senses Ninh Van Bay in Vietnam reopened in early May. It was shocking. People got off the boat, ripped off their masks and clothes, and ran for the ocean. Social distancing is already built into how we design many of our properties. Our warm-weather resorts have outdoor restaurants, and there are villas instead of big hotel buildings with long corridors. What led to launching properties in Europe and cities? NJ: Some on our team thought we shouldn’t do Douro Valley—it wasn’t us. But we’d wanted to expand into Europe, plus it was a beautiful building. We brought in Clodagh—who really understands sustainability and wellness—to translate our value set into a building that did have corridors and was set up like a hotel. It turned out wonderfully and showed us, and our customers, that we shouldn’t put ourselves in a box. Who we are isn’t necessarily what a building looks like but how it expresses our mission. We knew then that our properties don’t all have to look the same. In fact, we don’t want them to.
Why Gilles & Boissier for the hotel’s 136 guest rooms? NJ: We didn’t want traditional interior design. The buildings don’t speak to that. I’d done the Baccarat with Dorothée and Patrick. They’re from Paris and sophisticated. But the fact that they’re great designers was not why we hired them. It’s that they embrace sustainable design. They’ve stayed at Six Senses properties. Our values resonate with and are important to them. That’s what sealed it for me. What are the rooms like? NJ: Warm, soft, comfortable. A lot of sustainably sourced timber. We have strict guidelines about where wood comes from and how fabrics are treated. Materials here are natural, organic—that’s who we are—yet more finished than in the resorts.
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BIG’s twisting XI towers still seem like an architectural departure. NJ: Actually, the connection I mentioned earlier is manifested in Bjarke’s architecture. I look at his two towers as coming together, creating a connection within a community that also includes 236 condominium apartments. Six Senses Place, the club part of our hotel by INC, which I’d worked with on 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, is geared equally to those residents and hotel guests. The project is about bringing buildings, people, and functions together. And the facade is this beautiful natural travertine. Sustainable materials are outside and in.
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Opposite, from top: Bjarke Ingels Group’s XI, where Six Senses New York will be located when it opens in 2021. A Douro Valley suite and the hotel’s dining room, both designed by Interior Design Hall of Fame member Clodagh. From top: Aerial view of beachfront villas at Six Senses Fiji by Richard Priest Architect and Space Studio. Native Vesi wood inside a Fiji villa.
FROM TOP: COURTESY OF SIX SENSES NEW YORK; COURTESY OF SIX SENSES HOTELS RESORTS SPAS (2)
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Have you tweaked anything because of COVID? NJ: Yes, in Six Senses Place. Its 45,000 square feet include the spa, plus restaurant, bar, and rooftop spaces. It’s all very social. But now we’re looking at how to integrate a work environment, because that’s where I think the pandemic is really going to change things, how people work. We’re all hearing that no one will go to the office anymore. But we don’t believe the choices are only working at an office or working at home. We think it’s going to be a combi-
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nation of both. So in addition to the wellness, dining, and cultural offerings, there will also be a workplace. As for the rooftop, the developer assumed we would be installing a pool up there. But we won’t. I don’t want that vibe. It will be cool and energized but driven by nature. We’re planting an organic garden—a touchpoint of our brand. It will be where people can dine surrounded by a mini urban farm and restorative river views. —Jane Margolies
Clockwise from top: A villa suite at Cambodia’s Six Senses Krabey Island designed by Dimensional Interpretation. The Thimphu Prayer Pavilion at Six Senses Bhutan by Habita Architects. The outdoor cinema at Krabey Island.
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Since the onset of COVID-19, urbanites have fled cities for greener, less-populated pastures. Arts entities took note, and some responded quickly with satellite sites, pop-up and permanent. One such is Phillips auction house, which hired StudioMDA to convert a 1925 former town hall by William A. LaFon into Phillips Southampton on the East End of Long Island. The 6,000-square-foot interior is hosting themed exhibitions in advance of upcoming auctions, such as Editions and Photographs, both in New York in October, which will be selling such works as an Alex Katz screen print, a Joan Miró etching, and a Christian Marclay chromogenic print.
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ready for takeoff In the VIP lounge at Gagarin Airport, a custom play “capsule” upholstered in acrylic references Vostok 1, which transported Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin on the first-ever space flight.
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Nearly 60 years have passed since Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space. Today, that historic voyage is honored at something else flight-oriented: Gagarin Airport in Saratov—the same Russian city in which the Soviet astronaut landed in 1961 upon returning from his 108-minute orbit around the earth. It’s in that new airport that Vox Architects has unveiled a cosmically inspired VIP lounge. Vox, a Moscow firm led by chief architect Boris Voskoboynikov and head of creative Maria Akhremenkova, had already completed other airports and lounges throughout the country for the clients, SarAero-Invest JSC and Airports of Regions MC. For this project, how ever, “We referenced the idea of defying gravity, waiting for a miracle,” Voskoboynikov explains. Although the word luxury never came up in briefings, Voskoboynikov says that he and Akhremenkova “strived to create an atmosphere of care and attention—there’s always an elec trical socket and room for luggage.” That the lounge is 11,200 square feet across two floors helps provide the space needed for such amenities. The levels are connected by a circular floating staircase with an elevator in its core. Upstairs, the spaces are private, with meeting and conference rooms geared toward business travelers. The ground floor, where reception and the boarding gate are, is more open and social, offering a restaurant, bar, and children’s play area. Among the lounge’s 54
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Clockwise from opposite, top left: Panels of gradient-printed glass line the corridor to the boarding gate. Ernesto Gismondi pendant fixtures in a meeting room evoke solar flares. In the bar area, PearsonLloyd stools stand on porcelain floor tile. Acrylic-composite solid-surfacing forms the custom reception desk. An elevator is contained in the stairwell’s core. Extra-long linear pendants by Bjarke Ingels Group run above a sectional sofa by UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel in a sitting area.
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themed elements are circular lamps resembling solar flares, cloudlike white-and-gray porcelain flooring, and pops of brilliant blue. “The color reminds us of a rocket shooting into the meso sphere,” Akhremenkova notes. Acrylic in that shade is a component of one of the lounge’s more memorable moments. It lines the freestanding, spherical “capsule” modeled after Vostok 1, the spacecraft that carried Gagarin into the heavens, in a corner by the windows. Children are often found climbing aboard. “It passes on this amazing story to a new generation,” Akhremenkova adds. “My 7-year-old daughter took part in the
advertising shoot and still recalls the capsule with delight”—a stamp of approval from a very important VIP. —Colleen Curry
FROM FRONT SIX INCH: TABLE (CAPSULE). STEKLO MODA: PRINTED GLASS (HALL). ARFA: CEILING SYSTEM. ARTEMIDE: LIGHT FIXTURES (MEETING ROOM), PENDANT FIXTURES (CONFERENCE ROOM). COR: CHAIRS, TABLE. WALTER KNOLL: STOOLS (BAR), SOFA (SITTING AREA). VITRA: BLACK TABLES (SITTING AREA), SMALL MIRROR (RESTROOM). ARPER: CHAIRS (CONFERENCE ROOM). DYSON: SINK FITTINGS (RESTROOM). THROUGHOUT HI-MACS: SOLID-SURFACING. SMILE: CUSTOM FURNITURE. LAMINAM: FLOOR TILE. ARTEMIDE: LINEAR PENDANT FIXTURES. PROJECT LINE: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
Clockwise from top left: A relief of Gagarin enlivens a wall in the conference room. The restroom corridor ends in a custom mural of printed ceramic. Restrooms have wash-dry sink fittings by James Dyson. The lounge spans two floors and 11,200 square feet.
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BHDM Design project Real, New York. standout Which color expresses confidence and empathy? It’s Yves Klein blue, especially when supported by a palette based on diverse skin tones and works by female artists at the new mentaltherapy concept for women by women.
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ZGF Architects standout More than just a lab, the structure’s glazed facade with angled projections creates a sense of arrival and ushers in abundant natural light to airy, industrial-chic spaces designed specifically for fundraising, presentations, and entertaining.
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CO Architects project Outpatient Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, L.A.
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Pedra Silva Arquitectos project Maida Smiles Dental Clinic, London. standout More than 500 handcrafted ceramic discs
based on the implants commonly used in restorative dentistry clad reception’s walls and door leading to the clinical area, where advanced cosmetic dental and facial aesthetic procedures take place.
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NC Design & Architecture project Garden Pavilion, Hong Kong.
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For the inaugural introduction from her namesake studio, young Italian designer Elisa Passino cleverly links the age-old Portuguese tradition of azulejos, or patterned ceramic tile, with the vibrant architecture of Luis Barragán, Ricardo Bofill, and Le Corbusier. The suite’s nine designs are named after Italian architecture terms, Arco and Capitello among them. Geometrie Componibili—handmade in
the architecture of color Portugal from terra-cotta clay and screenprinted with a mash-up of geometric shapes— suits most interior and exterior applications, including walls, countertops, showers, and swimming pools. Each pattern also comes in 10 colorways that can be swapped with any combination of the studio’s 18 Miami art deco– inspired shades—like Green Salt and Flamenco Red. Passino can also develop custom glazes and compositions. elisapassino.com
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he’s got it all Meet Bob, a sink and freestanding cart that, should he appear on a dating app, is bound to make you swipe right because of his dashing good looks. Part of Ceramica Globo’s Opi collection, Angeletti Ruzza Design’s Silvana Angeletti and Daniele Ruzza have assembled the fixture’s curves and straight lines into a pleasing whole. The customizable mix-and-match components are a pill-shape countertop in scratch-proof Dekton—a composite of glass, ceramic, and quartz—atop a visually light frame of powder-coated steel rods. The ceramic basin comes in a selection of Ceramica’s Bagno di Colore hues, terrazzo patterns, or classic white. An optional MDF drawer finished in one of 14 matte lacquers keeps toiletries organized and out of sight, while a side bar holds a hand towel. ceramicaglobo.com
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looking good, doing good A new pedestal sink by Antoniolupi focuses on more than eye-catching aesthetics, which, by the way, it has in spades. Bolgheri, conceived by Gumdesign’s Laura Fiaschi and Gabriele Pardi, begins with a base in cork, the lightweight material that’s harvested from
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cork oaks without harming the living tree, reconstituted, and bound with natural resin. It’s topped by a basin in Cristalmood, Antoniolupi’s proprietary translucent colored resin that’s fully recyclable. The result is a sleek and sustainable fixture boasting texture and contrast— soft and matte, hard and shiny. The basin’s color options are numerous, while the base comes in honey-toned Natural or darker brown Toasted. antoniolupi.it
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Happy D.2 Plus. Design and technology perfectly combined. The perfect combination of iconic design and innovative technology: the bathroom classic Happy D.2 Plus with harmoniously rounded corners in new variants. The unique Duravit technologies like the patented c-bonded open up new, individual solutions. Design by sieger design. For more bathroom design visit www.duravit.us
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product Happy D.2 Plus C-Bonded. standout Sieger Design’s Happy D.2 Plus series celebrates two decades with an evolution of its patented C-bonded process, which enables a near-seamless connection without protrusion or recess between the fixture’s ceramic basin and oak veneer vanity. duravit.com
product Argile. standout The Workshop/APD founding principals expand their product-design range from rugs to bath fixtures with the cast mineralresin composite tub, its exterior haptic decorative relief inspired by wood cuts and carved clay. kallista.com
product Vieques Outdoor. standout Originally created by the Interior Design Hall of Famer for the W Retreat & Spa Vieques Island, the Puerto Rico hotel she designed, the deep soaking tub is now obtainable in stainless steel for outdoor use, no travel required. agapedesign.it
product AA/27. standout Trompe l’oeil appears in the lighting for which this industrial designer is known, and it’s present in his PVDfinished steel sink fittings: The spout doesn’t touch the surface it appears to be mounted upon, it’s instead connected to the handle. fantiniusa.com
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Interior Design and CODAworx—the online platform that stands for Collaboration of Design + Art, connecting creatives with potential clients to foster the commissioned-art economy—have recently announced the winners of the eighth annual CODAawards. Recognizing projects that successfully integrate contracted work into interior, architectural, and public spaces, the honors represent over $89 million in commissions. Judging the 465 entries from 25 countries—Australia, Bulgaria, China, and Israel among them— was a panel of 18 jurors from the design and art worlds, including Gensler principal and creative director John Bricker; Jennifer Kolstad, chair of the American Society of Interior Designers and Ford Motor Company global design director; and Rhode Island School Clockwise from top left: Julian Vossof Design president Rosanne Andreae’s Annabelle Over the Holly Somerson. Installations were wood Hills, the residential category selected in 11 categories, such winner, is a stainless-steel sculpture as hospitality, healthcare, eduat a Los Angeles home. A merit selection in the commercial category, cation, and transportation. AdArt for Earth was Anne Patterson’s ditionally, the jury’s top 100 immersive installation of laser-cut picks were exhibited online, strips of Zegna fabric commissioned by where the public was invited the company for Milan Fashion Week Fall 2020. At a deconsecrated church in to vote for three favorites. Here are some of ours. Parma, Italy, Multiverse by Fuse is an institutional category merit selection.
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Clockwise from top left: The healthcare winner, Rob Ley’s Endless Miles frames the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in L.A. in stainless steel and painted aluminum panels. Pillars of Dreams by Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany, a landscape merit selection, is a permanent pavilion of ultrathin aluminum for the Valerie C. Woodard Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The liturgical winner, Thierry Boissel’s self-supporting facade for the new Saint-Joseph church in Montigny-Lès-Cormeilles, France, is enameled glass. Constellations by FutureForms, the education winner, is a steel theater-in-the-round lit by LEDs at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.
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Studium’s many disciplines forge the Spectris Innovation Center, a dynamic Portuguese workplace for HBK, a newly merged tech company
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What was once an uninspiring 1990’s warehouse in the Northern Portuguese city of Porto is now an open, contemporary office thanks to local firm, Studium.Creative Studio. Conceived for tech client HBK, the Spectris Innovation Centre encompasses 7,000 square feet across a single floor. Studium founder Sérgio Miguel Magalhães and creative director Catarina Rodrigues have designed the workplace for 180 employees to embrace the stark surrounds, just a mile from Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, but also usher in a new sense of community with elements that are flexible, vivid, on brand, and tied to locale. For Magalhães, Rodrigues, and their multidisciplinary team, the project represented the opportunity to utilize all of Studium’s portfolio of skills, which includes architecture, branding, and product and web design. With Magalhães as the architectural lead and Rodrigues on furnishings, graphics, and palettes, their shared aim for HBK, which was formed in 2019 when HBM and Brüel & Kjær merged, was to bring the interior alive with the simplest of interventions and a tight edit of materials and color. When HBK commissioned Studium the warehouse was entirely empty. Is a blank canvas a gift for an architect? “No, it’s terrible,” Magalhães confesses. “That was the most troubling part of the project. To develop a strategy for a building you need to study its context. The context provided here was none, zero—vacant with a non-referential relation to anything.” Furthermore, external walls were not to be altered and no additional windows or doors were allowed. “The building has a 26-foot ceiling and was very industrial,” Rodrigues remarks. “We started with the functional goals of the office and then implemented practices that had to do with well-being, community, society—the new way to approach office design,” Magalhães continues. While the interior feels transformed, there’s no mistaking that you’re in a warehouse. It’s with the lightest touch by Studium’s team of flexible and prefab arrangements, such as lightweight, portable chairs and ottomans, partitions, and shipping containers, which punctuate, humanize, and help temper the voluminous space.
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Previous spread: For the HBK Spectris Innovation Centre in Porto, Portugal, by Studium.Creative Studio, a 1990’s warehouse was converted into a workplace and expanded upon with a steel canopy leading to a new pine-clad structure for employee dining and lounging. Opposite top: Custom partitions divvy up individual workstations for the 180 employees. Opposite bottom: The machine-cut canopy connects two of the ½-acre site’s existing buildings. Top: The partition system is made from laser-cut MDF. Bottom: A vertically oriented shipping container turned meeting room and a Portuguese olive tree help scale the warehouse’s 26-foot ceiling.
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“It all feels fluid and easy to navigate: areas for teams to come together, areas for working alone”
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Left: A second shipping con tainer, this time positioned horizontally, also functions as a meeting room, connecting to the vertical container via a raised walkway with balu strades of welded steel mesh. Right: Paneling of perforated MDF is colored a shade that symbolizes two merged companies.
“We created a town square of sorts with the shipping containers, and those containers create viewable references,” Magalhães explains. At the office’s heart is what Studium refers to as an auditorium. An arrangement of steel bleachers and raised walkway anchored on either end by the shipping containers, one oriented horizontally, the other vertically, both used as meeting rooms, is based on the principles of an ancient Greek agora, or central public meeting space. There’s even a live Portuguese olive tree there. The vertical shipping container provided an ideal canvas for Studium’s branding and graphic designers to flex their muscles. On two of its elevations, HBK’s timeline is plotted out in rectang ular panels of yellow MDF linked by a circuit of neon-blue LED tubes. Inside both meeting rooms was more opportunity for branding. Perforated MDF lines their interiors, aiding in controlling acoustics and, in the same shade as the timeline rectangles, continuing the project’s dominant hue. “The yellow represents the two companies coming together,” Rodrigues says, “and warms up the all-gray envelope. Architects usually deflect color, whereas designers like to impose it. We’re in the middle, trying to create equilibrium.” Gray and blue nylon carpet tile installed throughout the meeting rooms helps with acoustics, too; elsewhere, flooring is gray vinyl.
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Beyond the auditorium is a wide circulation area, which provides access to each department—marketing, software development, human resources. Here in the office area, Studium’s varied disciplines are again put to excellent use. The firm’s product-design team created the + System, a simple LEGO-like construction of MDF pieces that slot together in multiple con figurations to create storage, partitions, and workstations—all in that saturated yellow. Bursts of green paint—coating the air ducts, covering the olivetree planter—add a nature note. In such a huge space, lighting was also challenging. “We had two types,” Magalhães says. “Natural light from the existing but tiny windows in the west- and east-bound walls and skylights, and, of course, artificial light.” Studium added spotlights overhead and task lamps at desks, which provide a “more intimate light, almost a partition,” the architect notes. It all feels fluid and easy to navigate: areas for teams to come together, areas for working alone. More importantly, Magalhães adds, it’s futureproofed, allowing for the business—and staff—to expand. “Phase 1.5 of the project provides the client the opportunity to develop more work space by creating a mezzanine,” he says. But what about areas for eating and relaxing? That’s where Studium’s work is perhaps most apparent. A new freestanding structure, a rectilinear timber-clad “shack,” as Magalhães calls it, houses the staff dining area. It links to the warehouse via a sinuous steel canopy, and also abuts the site’s storage facility. Nearby, a 20-foot shipping container functions as a lounge, complete with foosball table. “The client has decided that the center is a success,” Magalhães says. “The shack and the project overall correspond to everything we thought about strategically and financially”—and underlines the importance of connection and well-being. PROJECT TEAM HUGO MARTINS; MIGUEL BARBOSA: STUDIUM.CREATIVE STUDIO. DETAILSMIND: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, GENERAL CONTRACTOR. SILENCIO: CIVIL ENGINEER. NOGUEIRA FERNANDES: WOODWORK. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT GUIALMI: TASK CHAIRS, WORKSTATIONS (OFFICE AREA), CHAIRS, OTTOMANS, TABLES (AUDITORIUM, MEETING ROOM). EFECTOLED: LED TUBES. THROUGHOUT TECHNAL: WINDOWS, DOORS. FORBO: CARPET TILE, VINYL FLOORING. KNAUF: DRYWALL. ONE AIR: HVAC DUCTS. JNF: DOOR HANDLES. LUMITEK; TROMILUX: LIGHTING. CIN: PAINT.
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Opposite top: Vinyl flooring runs through the lounge, located in a separate shipping container outside of the warehouse. Opposite bottom: The perforated MDF helps absorb and contain acoustics in the meeting rooms. Top: Studium utilized the vertical shipping container’s exterior as a billboard for the company timeline, highlighted by LED tubes. Bottom: A steel bleacher system is based on the principles of an ancient Greek agora, or central public meeting space.
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Combining unexpected colors, eras, and sensibilities has an energizing affect
fusion center at an office in Xi’an, China, by Hong Designworks text: jessica dailey photography: xiao tan
Previous spread: For the Xi’an, China, office of a tech and e-commerce client, Hong Designworks outfitted reception with a custom desk and sitting-area pod, both lit by Lee Broom pendant fixtures. Top, from left: Acrylic paneling screen-printed with an abstract dot pattern. Constance Guisset’s bench in the reading room. The conference room’s Lievore Altherr Molina chairs and custom table. Bottom: The palette of the 7,000-square-foot workplace is inspired by Le Corbusier’s color theory. Opposite: In a break-out area, a built-in banquette and James Irvine chairs provide seating.
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A very 21st-century workplace in Xi’an, China, has a decidedly European, early 20th–century influence. The 7,000-square-foot office belongs to an executive with multiple tech and e-commerce businesses—and a flair for the sophisticated and global. “The client loves collecting art and breaking stereotypes,” Ming Dang says. So Dang, founder and chief designer of Hong Designworks, looked beyond the usual office design tropes for the project, which is part work space but also part innovation-collaboration center. His guiding light: Le Corbusier.
The Swiss architect also known as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret believed color was instrumental to orchestrating spatial effects. “Certain colours have the property of stimulating in a lively and dynamic way. . .others are exceptionally constructive, more ‘human’,” he wrote in 1925. Dang pulled from this theory, using color, some in shades rarely associated with workplace, as a central architectural element to differentiate zones and shape the emotional experience of those using the space, which ranges between 10 and 30 people from different companies on any given day. “I wanted to show the client’s own personality in this design as well,” adds Dang, who, like the executive, spent time studying abroad. A palette of reds, pinks, and white—per Le Corbusier, “constructive” hues, which he considered to be naturally occurring shades used to create atmosphere—was chosen to create a multilayered, multifunctional environment that utilizes color to delineate spaces. White performs as the neutral base, deep red brings warmth and drama, and soft pink serves as a coordinating, transitional accent. The pastel was specifically selected, Dang explains, “to break everyone’s perception of the traditional commercial office.” He also incorporated curved forms and furnishings to produce a futuristic feeling. “Symbolizing the infinity of creative thinking, the rounded elements make the space more playful,” Dang adds. SEPT.20
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“The hushed cocoonlike pods are meant to be calming, quiet, restorative” This page: A Lievore Altherr Molina table stands near an ottoman by Ichiro Iwasaki in the waiting area. Opposite: Above woven vinyl flooring, recessed LEDs swoop through the office, indicating circulation.
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That this is no ordinary office is clear upon entering reception, where a swooping spiral desk is backed by a deep crimson curtain. Steps away, two cylindrical volumes that function as a waiting area and a reading room have interiors cloaked in brick-red carpet and wall covering. The hushed cocoonlike pods are meant to be calming, quiet, restorative. Their exteriors, however, are more animated, clad in acrylic screen-printed with an abstract fractal dot pattern that evokes the world of sci-tech, one of the key words guiding the overall concept, along with warmth, business, and nature. Creating this component was the biggest challenge for the Hong Designworks team, according to Dang. They had intended to use fabric, but the material was too soft to fit the curves of the surfaces. A similar pattern reappears in the ceiling above the conference room and private offices, but there it’s applied to perforated aluminum panels that conceal ductwork. A continuous and sinuous ceiling track of recessed LEDs outlines the different zones, serving as a circulation guide while accentuating the curved shapes and free-flowing vibe. The glowing trail leads back to the conference room, featuring a custom table done in a triangle shape so it won’t block circulation during a meeting, or over to an open, elevated lounge space for collaborative work. At each area, color reinforces the transition: The conference room threshold is marked by a maroon archway, while a raised pale-rose platform denotes the lounge. The latter color extends to the adjoining all-hands area, which has built-in bleacher seating to accommodate up to 30 people for presentations or events and also offers another casual spot for employees to work. “People feel more chilled and comfortable there,” Dang notes. But even the workstations feel more relaxed than what’s typically found in a tech company’s open office.
Top, from left: Instead of cubicles, the open office area incorporates flexible workstations, including a high table by Metrica, to accommodate the client’s various businesses. The all-hands area holds up to 30 people for presentations and events. Bottom: The adjoining lounge features a custom bench. Opposite: Arik Levy pendant fixtures and a Jean-Marie Massaud sofa and executive chair furnish one of the project’s two private offices, where the lighted niche is for displaying a tea set.
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They’re separated into pods: one with five fixed desks and a sofa, another with a high-top table that can seat eight, and a third with lightweight moveable chairs and tables and a built-in curved banquette upholstered in millennial pink. Furniture here and throughout reflects the client’s and Dang’s penchant for the clean-lined and the contemporary, many of the pieces by Lievore Altherr Molina and Jean-Marie Massaud. Lighting is noteworthy, too, with Lee Broom’s ethereal pendant fixtures glowing in reception and Arik Levy’s unadorned conical forms
hanging in a partner’s office. The latter showcases a scarlet-red lightbox of a niche that Hong Designworks carved into the wall for displaying a beloved tea set. “This is an open, free, and artistic office space that enables the employees to find an appropriate working environment at any time,” Dang concludes. And it’s the thoughtful application of color that achieves that flexible yet stimulating atmosphere. Timeless, yet forward-thinking, the project embodies Le Corbusier’s belief that color is the foundation of a harmonious interior. PROJECT TEAM XU XIE; QINGE AO; QING WANG; ZHEN YAN; HAICHUAN WANG: HONG DESIGNWORKS. BPI: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. SDCIC CONSTRUCTION GROUP SHARES CO.: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT LEE BROOM: PENDANT FIXTURES (RECEPTION, WAITING AREA). LA CIVIDINA: BENCH (READING ROOM). WALDMANN: PENDANT FIXTURE (CONFERENCE ROOM). ARPER: CHAIRS (CONFERENCE ROOM, BREAKOUT, WAITING AREA, OPEN OFFICE, OFFICE), TABLES (BREAK-OUT, WAITING AREA, OPEN OFFICE, OFFICE), OTTOMANS (WAITING AREA, ALL-HANDS, LOUNGE, OFFICE), SOFA (OFFICE). MILLIKEN: CARPET (WAITING AREA, OFFICE). SHANDONG HONGTAO YICHUANG TECHNOLOGY CO: WALL COVERING. VIBIA: PENDANT FIX TURES (OFFICE), RECESSED LIGHTING. THROUGHOUT BOLON: FLOORING, COLUMN SURROUND. KVADRAT: WALL COVERING, CURTAIN FABRIC. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.; DULUX: PAINT.
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building on generations Steven Harris teams with Manuel de Santaren and Rees Roberts + Partners on a coastal Maine estate’s outbuilding that nods to history while serving a present-day extended family
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Boaters zipping by might mistake the slender, weathered-gray building peeking out from a certain waterfront property for one of the age-old boathouses that dot the coast of Maine. That would surely please architect and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Steven Harris. He and his team at Steven Harris Architects studied the vernacular structures along the Atlantic Ocean’s edge in preparation for designing a two-story outbuilding on a Kennebunkport estate that is a boathouse, yes, but also a whole lot more. What becomes clear upon closer inspection is that the simple cedar-shingled structure forms a T with an adjoining granite-faced, single-story entity that together total 2,800 square feet. The pair serve the client’s two-pronged request: a place to store kayaks and another for daytime lounging and evening lobster bakes overlooking the ocean. The resulting pool/boathouse hybrid, which also contains bunk and bathrooms, is a crisp, modern distillation of the historic boathouse form, one that respects and even blends into the natural surroundings. “With such an extraordinarily beautiful site, our first response is to stay out of the way,” Harris begins. He collaborated on the project with David Kelly, a partner and the head of the landscape department at Rees Roberts + Partners, the sister firm to SHA. “The project defers to the existing landscape and the ocean,” Kelly adds. It also defers to the parents of the clients. The latter are husband-and-wife art collectors with three teenagers and a primary residence outside Boston who visit the Kennebunkport estate often. Its main house, which sits farther inland on the 3-acre property, belongs to the parents. One requirement for the outbuilding—which is sited slightly downhill, closer to the sea—was that it not obstruct the house’s glorious water views. The boathouse portion, set to the side of the grounds and turned so that it’s perpendicular to the coast, with its narrow facade facing the water, is a self-effacing presence
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Previous spread: At an estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, a gravel drive leads to a new boathouse, with an adjoining pool house, both by Steven Harris Architects, with landscaping by Rees Roberts + Partners. Bottom left: For the pool house’s open living/dining area, designer Manuel de Santaren selected reclaimed limestone slabs for flooring, solution-dyed acrylic for the custom sofa’s upholstery, and polypropylene for the custom woven rug. Top: Beyond the rift-cut oak dining table is the kitchen, with Corian cab inetry and solid-surfacing countertops. Bottom right: Siding for the boathouse is 16-inch Alaskan Yellow cedar shingles.
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amid the trees, some of them newly planted by Kelly. The pool-house portion, which runs parallel to the coast, can’t be seen at all from the main residence. This is because SHA buried most of it in the ground, and then Kelly planted its roof. Submerging that part of the structure accomplished more than maintaining open sight lines: It keeps the interior cool even on hot summer days, averting the need for air-conditioning. To compensate for the windowless side of the building, a skylight above the back wall brightens and also illuminates an art installation of stone boulders so massive they had to be wrestled into place before the pool house could be constructed around it. Ample light also streams in from the trio of enormous bronze-framed sliding doors that completely disappear into pockets in the facade’s piers. These bays—along with reclaimed oak ceiling beams—help divide the long sweep of loftlike space into zones for cooking, dining, and lounging. Manuel de Santaren, the president of his namesake design firm who has worked with the clients on their Boston home, helped with the pool house’s finishes and furnishings, aiming for an “organic feel” and “ease of maintenance,” he explains. Flooring is reclaimed limestone that can withstand dings, the walls clay plaster that de Santaren says yields “a velvety, flat surface.” Furniture includes an oaktopped dining table that seats 10 in chairs covered in caramel faux leather. Equally generous is the sofa upholstered in solution-dyed acrylic the color of warm sand. Opposing armchairs are wrapped in a burlaplike polyolefin. The table and chairs on the adjoining Dolomite limestone terrace, meanwhile, are powder-coated aluminum, the better to withstand the salt air, de Santaren notes. Chaise longues framed in the same material sit on the deck of what Harris calls “our Oklahoma pool,” referencing its panhandle. A long side measuring 75 feet accommodates laps, while a wider, shallower portion is perfect for lolling on floats.
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This page: Chaise longues with powdercoated aluminum frames stand on the ipe deck fronting the pool, its 75-foot length for laps and its wider, shallower end for relaxing. Inset: Seen from the Atlantic Ocean, the boathouse peeks out from the trees.
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A secluded part of the property purposefully does not have seating. Shaded by maples and poplars, it was landscaped “like a little secret garden,” Kelly says. He brought in native plants to enhance those found on-site and placed them around existing rock formations and a hot tub. Accessed from a staircase leading down from the green roof, it’s like a private escape. Another escape, albeit slightly more populated, is found in the boathouse. SHA fitted its second floor with no less than eight built-in bunk beds. Their white-painted ladders and railings yield a nautical vibe, while English antique pendant fixtures chosen by de Santaren add an industrial note. An outdoor shower, a bathroom, and a changing area are incorporated into the lower level. If the inspiration for the boathouse design came from fact-finding excursions along the shore, the idea for the bunks came from a summer Harris spent between college and graduate school working as a waiter on an overnight train running between New York and Miami. “I became obsessed with sleeping cars,” the Florida native recalls. Except Harris’s version—with its gleaming oak floor and expansive fold-up window ushering in the ocean breeze—goes way beyond any Pullman car. PROJECT TEAM KIM CLARK: MANUEL DE SANTAREN. JOHN WOELL: STEVEN HARRIS ARCHITECTS. MATT JARRETT: REES ROBERTS + PARTNERS. VENTRESCA LIGHTING DESIGNERS: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. ROSS DALLAND: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. BECHT ENGINEERING: MEP. CLD CONSULTING ENGINEERS: CIVIL ENGINEER. S.W.COLE ENGINEERING: GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING. BOWLEY BUILDERS: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT PARIS CERAMICS: FLOORING (LIVING AREA). AMERICAN CLAY: WALLS. RALPH LAUREN: CHAIR UPHOLSTERY. SUNBRELLA THROUGH KRAVET: SOFA UPHOLSTERY. STUDIO FOUR: CUSTOM RUG. GREGORIUS PINEO: ARMCHAIRS, CUSTOM COCKTAIL TABLE (LIV ING AREA), CUSTOM TABLE, CHAIRS (DINING AREA). ARCHITEX: CHAIR UPHOLSTERY (DINING AREA). URBAN ELECTRIC COMPANY: CEILING FIXTURES. JANUS ET CIE: CHAISE LONGUES (DECK), TABLE, CHAIRS (TERRACE). THROUGH BALSAMO ANTIQUES: PENDANT FIXTURE (BUNKROOM). ROCHESTER COLONIAL: WINDOW. THROUGHOUT BROMBAL: CUSTOM WINDOWS, CUSTOM SLIDING DOORS.
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Bottom left: Reclaimed oak ceiling beams and a stone-boulder wall installation by Lew French, a Martha’s Vineyard sculptor, further enhance the pool house’s organic feel. Top: In the boathouse, custom bunks by Steven Harris Architects sleep eight, flooring is 5-inch-wide stained oak planks, and the pendant fixture dates to the early 20th century. Right, from top: A staircase from the pool house’s green roof leads down to the hot tub, designed around rock formations found on-site. Around the bronze-framed sliding walls, the pool house facade is a mix of granite, much of it sourced locally.
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the eye has to travel Deborah Berke Partners creates an ideal environment to experience contemporary art at the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago text: thomas connors photography: julie soefer
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Eye-catching art has been a part of the program at any number of hotels for some time now. But when the work fails to pack a real retinal wallop, the strategy can have all the effect of last season’s wallpaper. Art has been central to the experiential mission of 21c Museum Hotels since the Louisville, Kentucky–based boutique hospitality chain’s inception in 2006. Thanks to a keen curatorial eye and a sympathetic ongoing collaboration with Interior Design Hall of Fame member Deborah Berke, the brand has managed to keep the visual component of its operation fresh. The latest addition to 21c’s nine-property portfolio—all of which Deborah Berke Partners designed—is a 297-room, 16-story high-rise in downtown Chicago. While most of the chain’s locations have been cases of adaptive re-use (including McKim, Mead & White’s 1914 Fayette National Bank Building in Lexington, Kentucky), the 1927 brick structure in the Windy City was a hotel from the getgo—The James, in its most recent incarnation. Having executed the interiors of that iteration in 2006, Berke was a step ahead of the game in refashioning it for 21c more than a decade later. “It had been a pied-à-terre kind of hotel,” Berke says, looking back. “The rooms were small and had kitchen nooks and weird spaces, which we took out for The James and made into sitting and working areas. This time, with all the cutting-edge and provocative art in the hotel, the idea was to create a sense of welcoming comfort, with good lighting and all the things you want in a hotel room.” Another of the firm’s previous design strategies—installing a broad swath of large street-level windows—has played perfectly into its work for 21c. “Chicago is a very dense city with a lot of street life, and these windows now allow us to connect the art inside to the vibrancy of the sidewalk,” Berke notes. “Traditional museums don’t even do that.” Articulating the brand’s art-driven concept was the firm’s primary charge as it renovated the property. “It’s all about the gallery spaces and the experience of contemporary art,” DBP partner Terrence Schroeder affirms. “So the heavy lifting involved the public areas and flow.” He, Berke, and their team began by creating a double-height lobby and relocating the main staircase, interventions
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Previous spread: A new staircase with balustrades of resin panels backdrops a life-size sculpture by THE KID, a French artist, in the lobby of the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago by Deborah Berke Partners. Opposite: As with all the public zones, contemporary art is integrated into the hallway leading to the second-floor meeting and conference rooms. Top, from left: The building’s expansive street-front windows allow passersby to connect with the lobby. James Irvine chairs and Antenna Design tables convert the main gallery into an events space. Bottom: Nations: Vertières, 1803 by Kapwani Kiwanga hangs behind the custom reception desk.
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that open up the arrival space and provide an engaging visual path from the street deep into the hotel. This was tougher than it sounds, because the building did not have an orderly column grid. “It was kind of eccentric, and we had to work between it,” Schroeder explains. “Because the old stair was threaded through the crazy structure, it didn’t have much of an opening around it. So we migrated it.” Although still tight, the new location allowed the architects to construct a partly open staircase, its solid balustrades clad in honey-color resin panels strategically lit with LED strips that give the angular form an alluring glow. The sculptural stair could almost be one of the many three-dimensional artworks that populate the lobby and other gallery spaces—approximately 10,000 square feet in total on the first and second floors—dedicated to showcasing 21c’s impressive contemporary holdings. These currently include a hyper-realistic lifesize male figure astride an equally convincing bison by a French artist known as THE KID; a towering white-resin woman, draped in a cloak like a Renaissance Madonna and floating mysteriously above the floor, by the Italian-Senegalese sculptor Maimouna Guerresi; a large, ghostly American flag made of sheer black chiffon by the Filipino-American conceptual artist Stephanie Syjuco; and many paintings, photographs, videos, and installations—all of them startlingly vivid works that would never be mistaken for mere decorative art. Berke has been careful to give the collection the museum-quality setting it deserves. Flexible, surface-mounted track lighting with white canisters ensures that each piece is optimally lit. And in true gallery fashion, display areas are mostly all-white with furnishings kept to a minimum, often consisting of nothing more than a few simple white-oak benches of Berke’s design. The emphasis is on being able to move around and look at the art free of distractions. In contrast, guest room hallways are painted darker hues, indicating the more private nature of these areas. The rooms and suites are light and airy, with a calm, cool palette drawn from the Midwestern skies and the waters of nearby Lake Michigan.
Left, from top: Thomas Heatherwick chairs outfit the video gallery, where Kota Ezawa’s National Anthem is currently presented. A custom upholstered headboard spans a suite’s wall. Right, from top: The white-oak bench in the ground-floor space linking the lobby, elevators, lounge bar, and restaurant is also custom. Greenguard-certified polyester-acrylic covers the custom sectional sofa in a suite TV area.
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The architect’s long association with 21c Museum Hotels means her firm now speaks the chain’s signature aesthetic fluently. And with every project, its mastery of the distinctive syntax grows even more idiomatic. “When a design solution in one hotel proves successful, we often carry it forward to the next project,” Schroeder reports. “One classic example goes back to the first property, in Louisville.” The restrooms had to be located far from the restaurant, and there was concern that guests were being forced to walk too long a distance. But it created a journey through gallery spaces, and once the property opened, it became clear that people enjoyed the trip because of everything they saw along the way. “With each project after that, it became a point to locate the restrooms at some length from the restaurant,” he concludes. And sure enough, 21c Museum Hotel Chicago offers just such an extended tour of artistic discovery on the way to powder one’s nose. PROJECT TEAM STEPHEN BROCKMAN; YASEMIN TARHAN; GUNNAR BURKE; VIRGINIA GRAY: DEBORAH BERKE PARTNERS. GREC ARCHITECTS: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. ILLUMINATION WORKS: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. BABICH ACOUSTICS: ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANT. SP ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. IMEG CORP.: MEP. BULLEY & ANDREWS: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT 3FORM: BALUSTRADE (STAIR). ACOLYTE LED: LED STRIPS. POLLACK: CURTAIN FABRIC (SECOND-FLOOR HALL). DÉCOR INTERNATIONAL: CUSTOM SWIVEL CHAIRS (SECOND-FLOOR HALL), CUSTOM BENCHES (GALLERIES). ARPER: STACKING CHAIRS (MAIN GALLERY). KNOLL: MEETING TABLE, WALL COVE R ING. CONWED: ACOUSTIC PANELING. RULON INTERNATIONAL: SLAT CEILING. BROTHERS OF INDUSTRY: CUSTOM DESK (RECEPTION). HERMAN MILLER: CHAIRS (VIDEO GALLERY). MOHAWK: CARPET. REMINGTON: CUSTOM LINEAR CEILING FIXTURE, CUSTOM FLOOR LAMP (BEDROOM). SHAW HOSPITALITY: CUSTOM CARPET. 1925 WORKBENCH: BARN-DOOR HARDWARE. MOMENTUM TEXTILES: LOWER-HEADBOARD FABRIC. ERICA SHAMROCK TEXTILES: UPPER-HEADBOARD FABRIC (BEDROOM), CURTAIN FABRIC (LIVING AREA). LOOMSOURCE: SOFA FABRIC (TV AREA). SOURCE ONE/TRIKES: PILLOW FABRIC (LIVING AREA). ARCHITEX: SOFA FABRIC. ARTERIORS: TABLES, FLOOR LAMP. ROLL & HILL: CEILING FIXTURES. ELITIS: WALL COVERING. CLASSIC STONE: COUNTERTOP. DESIGNTEX: CHAIR FABRIC (LIBRARY). JUSTIN DAVID TEXTILES: PILLOW FABRIC. FIBREWORKS: RUG. NEMO TILE: SLABS, TILE (BATHROOM). THROUGHOUT CREDIBLE HOSPITALITY: CUSTOM FURNITURE. LIGHTING SERVICES: TRACK LIGHTING. CTS CEMENT: FLOORING. ARMSTRONG CEILING SOLUTIONS: ACOUSTIC CEILING TILE. PAINT: SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY.
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Opposite: A flush-mount ceiling fixture by Jason Miller hangs above antiqued-brass cocktail tables in a suite’s living area. Top, from left: Upholstered in cotton-polyester velvet, vintage armchairs gather in the library. Calacatta marble slabs and tile appoint a bathroom. Bottom: Self-leveling concrete flows through the main gallery, with Maimouna Guerresi’s resin figure and Stephanie Syjuco’s black chiffon flag.
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earthy blend Journey from a 1,000-acre Moravian vineyard to a snug Texan wine cave with this harvest of enological projects text: annie block
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“Through our work, we’re searching for innovations that appear familiar, roaming somewhere between the old and the new”
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Destilat Design Studio project Gut Wagram, Mitterstockstall, Austria. standout Ancient and modern tastefully mix at the threebuilding complex encompassing 17 acres of vineyards, a historic bathhouse turned guesthouse, and an 18th-century cellar adjoining a 21st-century addition for production and tastings, capped by a 33-foot peaked ceiling. photography Monika Nguyen.
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Jouin Manku project Château de Ferrand, Saint-Émilion, France. standout The renovation of a centuries-old stone building on the 100-acre estate produced a trio of experiential spaces: a shop, tasting room, and lounge, marked by slender French limestone bricks, oak trusses and beams, a revolving colored-glass screen, and a sparkling 60-foot-long skylight. photography Nicolas Mathéus.
“We tried to bring out three things: respect for nature, purity, and the cultivation of deep joy”
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“Materials are locally sourced, durable, easy to maintain, and rich—without being precious”
Clayton & Little project Private wine cave, Hill Country, Texas. standout Blasted out of a ranch’s limestone hillside for a stealthy presence, the thermally cooled 1,400 square feet are brimming with white oak, Douglas fir, live-edge cedar, slate, and textured and castin-place concrete, yielding a luxe hideaway for up to 20 people and some 4,000 bottles. photography Casey Dunn.
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“The project is rooted in our respect for the longstanding symbiosis between nature and culture”
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Chybik + Kristof project Lahofer Winery, DobĹĄice, Czech Republic. standout Thermally modified pine and reinforced concrete undulate into an open-air amphitheater outside and a vaulted tasting room and visitor center inside, echoing the archetypal cellars and topography of the Moravian region as well as immersing into and not disrupting it. photography Clockwise from bottom right: Alex Shoots Buildings (4); Laurian Ghinitoiu.
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Rooted in traditional medicine, the Chinese foot massage has been around for millennia. But it wasn’t until the late 20th century that the practice gained mainstream popularity. That was when
China’s disposable income increased— first in Hong Kong and southern parts of the country, then gradually in other provinces—and people would spend money on visits to foot spas. Today, however, those spas are typically associated with older people seeking relief from the aches and pains of aging. Because of that stereotype, the genre struggles to attract new and younger generations. But Zen Zheng, founder
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and design director of Leaping Creative, is changing that with Forest for Rest, a 29,000-square-foot spa in Chongqing for which he devised an innovative narrative and branding package. Situated in the heart of Sichuan, a sprawling megacity, Forest for Rest is the brainchild of Siwei Liu, a secondgeneration spa entrepreneur. Occupying one end of a mall filled with trendy eateries and bars, the building itself is in Chongqing’s former central business district, which has relaxed in recent years into a tourist hotspot with a mix of contemporary and traditional attractions. Forest for Rest is accessible by its main entrance in the mall via a softly glowing escalator tunnel or by elevators to a secondary entry. “Initially, we weren’t sure about the design direction,” Zheng begins, explaining his firm’s approach to the development of the leisure and wellness brand. “After weeks of researching the market, we decided to offer something fun and intriguing, different to what’s currently available and what young customers expect. The primary goal was to shake off preconceptions about the industry by upgrading the foot spa experience, showing that it can be cool and fashionable.” To do so, Leaping Creative conceived a story centered on the Hercules beetle. Native to rain forests, the insect is known for its incredible strength and vitality. Zheng developed a narrative for the beetle as an avatar for fatigued Gen Y and Z customers arriving at Forest for Rest. In Zheng’s story, the beetle discovers an oasis wonderland in the green forests of his native home after an exhausting journey across a desert wasteland. In the forest, he rejuvenates, indulging in nourishing water treatments. “Our narrative of relaxation during, and energized after, a spa journey was established at the beginning of the process, and we designed the project based around that,” Zheng continues. “The logo and icon followed.” He’s referring specifically to a 3-foot-high beetle in laser-cut steel that appears in the entry and guides customers along their journey.
Previous spread: At Forest for Rest, a foot-massage spa in Chongqing, China, by Leaping Creative, the reception area is subdivided by painted plywood partitions meant to resemble sand dunes. Opposite top: A food and beverage station serving the 33 private treatment rooms features synthetic terrazzo flooring. Opposite bottom: One of two entry corridors is designed like a maze to encourage Instagram-generation customers to pause and take selfies while being visually guided to the reception area. Top: More synthetic terrazzo flooring flows through the café located off reception. Bottom: From the mall’s second level, the spa’s main entrance is via calming zinc-enclosed escalators lit by LEDs.
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Top, from left: A niche fitted with a brass beetle. Looping brand animation visible through a wall cutout. Granite walls finished with textured paint. Center, from left: The locker room beyond the shoe-change area. The laser-cut, welded steel 3-foot beetle. Bottom, from left: Products for pur chase in the café’s custom painted MDF and velvet display unit. A backlit porthole’s translucent acrylic panels in the elevator corridor. The tiered waiting area. Opposite: The changing area offers seating platforms topped with hand made grasslike wool, while the ceiling is reflective satin-finished steel.
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That installation extended to print materials, screens, and 3-D installations “in a holistic way,” one being the looping brand animation that’s viewed through a cutout in one of the café’s plywood walls. “The layout plan follows the narrative,” Zheng says, “while the spa’s product packaging introduces whimsical details.” Twin doors open to an expansive café and a reception area beyond. Large swaths of arching taupe-painted partitions not only mimic sand dunes but also the mountainous terrain surrounding Chongqing. Stones embedded in the otherwise uniformly gray
within the room.” As part of the brand’s DNA, the café attached to the entry highlights the youthful communal revitalization that Forest for Rest offers. The café also has a small retail component. A freestanding cabinet resembling a treasure chest displays branded products such as towels and essential oils that are available for purchase. As customers proceed deeper into the forestlike interiors, vignettes of backlit acrylic nature scenes and metallic beetle installations guide the way. Juxtaposing the bright light found in the desert environs of the cafe, the
“The changing area is bathed in an ethereal glow that resembles moonlight”
terrazzo floor further emphasize the desert feel. The café acts as a transitional zone: Arrivals can proceed directly to the reception and shoe-change areas for their treatment, while people departing the spa can grab a snack before leaving. “Food and beverage service after a treatment is standard in the local spa industry,” Zheng says. “But it’s common to provide this service privately
changing area is bathed in an ethereal glow that resembles moonlight. Serpentine benches topped with a mossy material offer semi-enclosed privacy to minimize the awkwardness of removing one’s shoes among strangers. “That area is my favorite,” Zheng admits. “With its shallow moonlight concept, it’s dreamy and poetic.” The peek-a-boo experience is extended to restrooms, where a row of columns
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housing sinks and mirrors allow glimpses between them into the other genders’ handwashing area. The deep shadows found in rain forests continue into the private and group massage rooms and supporting facilities. The 33 private rooms are minimally furnished, with generous treatment beds, gently glowing pendant fixtures, and gray granite walls. The group room is like a luxe screening room. The two-tiered space includes seven roomy reclining chairs upholstered in green velvet and a 10-footwide projection screen; visitors can watch the latest blockbuster while simultaneously receiving a foot massage. “It’s turned out to be a popular place for younger customers,” Zheng states. Based on recent records, about half of the visitors are between the ages of 18 and 24. It appears that Leaping Creative successfully kicked the foot spa up a notch.
PROJECT TEAM DONGZHI YOU; C.C. CHEN; CEYU CHEN; JIALU HONG; LINXIONG YAN; DINGLING YAO; ZHENYU YAO; YANZHI TAN; SHUMING YANG; LESHI GONG; LIWEI CHEN; YINJIE LI; MINGHAO LIANG; JIENING HUANG: LEAPING CREATIVE. ZHONGSHAN SIKI LIGHTING CO.: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT DONGGUAN CHAORONG HARDWARE PRODUCTS CO.: ZINC CEILING PLATING (SECONDARY ENTRY). JUCHANG LIGHTING CO.: PENDANT FIXTURES (ENTRIES). YUJIN CARPET COMPANY: RUG (CHANGING AREA). THROUGHOUT HONG TU FANG: TEXTURED PAINT. GUI YI: SYNTHETIC TERRAZZO.
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Opposite top: Looking into the secondary entry, a cutout mimics a tree hollow with a beetle perched to one side. Opposite bottom: Stainless-steel sinks and mirrors in the restroom are nestled in columns that allow for partial views to the opposite side. Top: A private massage room is outfitted with full-size treatment beds and a niche for displaying the essential oils and other products used during massages. Bottom: Wrapped in sound-proofing velvet, the group massage room includes a large screen showing new movie releases.
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Hang low with a stout coffee table, its integrated storage compartment printed in ombré mauve or black eco-friendly plant resin and topped with sustainably sourced hardwood. model-no.com
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MOROSO Ruff
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CC-TAPIS Lines
Wax crayon sketches of varied-width lines sparked Philippe Malouin’s irregular rug pattern—its intentional waver the result of switching weavers midway through the process. cc-tapis.com
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MERVE KAHRAMAN PRODUCTS & INTERIORS Beice
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SAVOIR BEDS Sky
The bed’s headboard and base are upholstered in dyed leather by British hide specialist Bill Amberg, who harnessed an advanced digital printing technique that enables deeper dye penetration. savoirbeds.com
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WISSE TROOSTER Circular
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TACTO Caminos
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ANA VOLANTE STUDIO Arc
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Studio Gang: Architecture
by Susan S. Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino New York: Monacelli, $60 320 pages, 325 illustrations (64 color)
by Jeanne Gang New York: Phaidon, $80 272 pages, 300 color illustrations
We all know very well Chicago’s early supremacy in modern urban architecture and design, led by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This knowledge was focused on large commercial and institutional buildings, but in their shadow is a multitude of fine modern residential designs. This book is an impressive effort at bringing more attention to these designs of smaller scale but equal skill—work by Wright and Mies, but also by George Fred Keck, Bertrand Goldberg, Jacques C. Brownson, Harry Weese, Walter Netsch, Bruce Goff, Stanley Tigerman, and so many more. And while the survey ends with the houses of 1975, there are mentions also of architects (such as Robert Kleinschmidt and Ron Krueck) who are continuing the modernist tradition in Chicago today. There are 54 dwellings shown here, and they are not all, of course, of equal interest. But this is a study that is overdue. Pauline Saliga, executive director of the Chicagobased Society of Architectural Historians, writes that one thought kept coming into her mind as she was writing the book’s foreword: “At last!”
It is, happily, no longer news when a woman heads an important architecture firm. But it is news when she teaches her buildings to dance. Jeanne Gang is the talented head of a firm with Chicago origins and offices also in San Francisco, New York, and Paris. She was the only architect on Time magazine’s 2019 list of most influential people. Here are 25 projects from Studio Gang’s 23-year history, presented not by date or type but in more interesting groupings with headings such as Rhythm and Flow. The most wellknown is the 2010 Aqua Tower in Chicago, its 82 floors undulating variably. This is more than decoration; as well as nodding to the waves of Lake Michigan, the changes in balcony depths and directions of view signify that these living quarters have distinct characters despite their number. We also see the rhythm of pitched roofs in the Chicago River Boathouses; the flow of space, light, and circulation in an addition to the American Museum of Natural History; the awareness of nature surrounding the proposed Arkansas Arts Center; and the transparency of the tilted glass planes of the apartment block called Solstice on the Park, also in Chicago. Gang has written a foreword and a brief introduction to each section and is interviewed by architect Ann Lui, the founding partner of Future Firm. The introduction is by Mohsen Mostafavi, a former dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where Gang studied and is now a professor. The handsome book design is by Neil Donnelly. In her acknowledgments, Gang thanks two “courageous and bold” mentors: Henry Henderson, a leader of Chicago’s Natural Resources Defense Council, and architect Stanley Tigerman.
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What They’re Reading... Hidden Beauty: Exploring the Aesthetics of Medical Science “When I was in high school, I won a bunch of awards for advanced microbiology research. But when I got to Vassar, it was all art and aesthetics. This book is kind of a fusion of those twin interests: science and beauty. It’s not exactly a wellness book, but it sort of became one for me. It’s about finding beauty in unexpected and ostensibly dangerous places in the body, and features beautiful photographs of tools, samples, scans, specimens, and even diseases. In this age of COVID-19, when many of the things I once took for granted—walking outside and breathing without a mask, for one—have taken on an ominous or insidious quality, I hoped to find something beautiful in my newfound fear of commonplace activities and the invisible virus that has upended our lives. I love texture and pattern, and I can absolutely see translating some elements in Hidden Beauty into fabrics or wall coverings down the line. Without context, some of the images could be extraordinary Italian marbled papers or millefiori designs.”
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PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES Scott Frances (“Building on Generations,” page 118), Otto, ottoarchive.com. Julie Soefer (“The Eye Has to Travel,” page 126), juliesoefer.com. Xiao Tan (“Fusion Center,” page 110), behance.net/tan-xiao. Ivo Tavares Studio (“All Shapes and Sizes,” page 102), ivotavares.net. Minjie Wang (“Arches of Triumph,” page 144), 609034254@qq.com.
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It was 2002 when portions of Prague were decimated. Weeks of torrential rains that summer caused the Vltava River running through the historic city center to flood. As part of the slow but steady recovery of the oncevibrant waterfront, local architecture firm Brainwork has proposed a creative revitalization of long-abandoned space: a series of century-old vaults once used for storing ice. Principal Petr Janda led the charge, beginning with tearing out all existing elements, including floors and ceilings. Interiors were then rebuilt with modern HVAC, plumbing, and electrical infrastructure hidden behind a simple shell of sandblasted concrete, intentionally left spare to allow for the widest variety of uses. In some, partitions are partially clad in black titaniumcoated stainless-steel plate, its mirrorlike effect complementing the geometry and airiness of the spaces, especially when lit by Brainwork’s linear ceiling system. “The contrast between the original confinement and the current openness is the essence of our work,” Janda says. Another noteworthy feature is the pivoting 18-foot-diameter
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