Designed by KEM STUDIO, the Creative One office celebrates their distinct business model by focusing on two primary experiences: growing their team and showcasing their client engagement process. These functions are tied together with a clean, sophisticated material palette that uses contrast to focus attention on important client touch-points, cre...
Project name
Creative One
Architecture firm
KEM STUDIO
Location
Overland Park, Kansas, USA
Photography
Bob Greenspan Photography
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
Running a business in 2023 is not a simple affair. Between rising costs for consumers and rising overheads for companies, finances are scarce across the board – and many enterprises in many industries facing insolvency as a result. While it is a matter of enduring the present financial landscape for many, there are other active ways in which busine...
Tasked with crafting a contemporary workplace design for our client's Grade A office building that embraces wellbeing and functionality, we ventured on a design journey seeking to inspire potential tenants and visitors alike.
Project name
Landmark South / Mountain Workplace
Location
Hong Kong, China
Design team
Lorene Faure, Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui, Christina Standaloft, Fontane Ma, Patrick Wiejoyo
Site area
1,800 ft² (~170 m²)
Interior design
Bean Buro
Lighting
Lighting Plus Limited
Construction
Ping Kee Construction (China) Ltd
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, SketchUp Pro, Enscape
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
The story of the project originates from A Kang, the owner of AGE HOUSE, who has based his business beside West Lake since the emergence of bars in this area in the 1990s, followed by the boom of the millennium, and the resurgence of the night economy in current times.
Architecture firm
PIG DESIGN
Principal architect
Li Wenqiang
Design team
Yang Zhiwei, Wu Yicheng, Shen Taotao, Zhu Yiyun
Collaborators
Furniture design: PIG DESIGN; Visual effects: Qian Chaofan
Completion year
April 2021
Construction
Hangzhou Dianchang Decoration Design Engineering Co., Ltd.
Material
gray brick, terrazzo, stainless steel, leather, paint
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant, Bar
Nudie Jeans Repair Store at Little Collins Street Melbourne is 31sqm store, designed as a physical manifestation of the brand. Sustainability is at the core of the brand and to reflect this, repurposed elements, sustainable finishes and a sewing machine is built into the shopfront offering customers forever repairs.
Project name
Nudie Jeans Repair Store at Little Collins Street
Location
Little Collins St, Melbourne, Australia
Photography
Alex Coppel Photography
Construction
HallMarc National Projects
Material
1. DesignerPly Hoop Pine (Forest One). A local species of timber native to Australia, its' low carbon, has FSC certification and the chain of custody is passed on. 2. Winckelemns Black tiles are durable and are colour through and used in high traffic areas such as the sewing machine table, counter and base of cupboards. This defies the world of obsolescence. 3. Valchromat, by Modinex Group- natural material, colour goes through. Low toxicity and low emissions. 4. Kalahari Rug by Armadillo- natural materials and handmade by artisans, B corp certified to reflect the brand ethos of Nudie Jeans. 5. Repurposing the exisiting brick walls, shopfront and lighting tracks which reduced waste and landfill. 6. Plant walls were incorporated to improve indoor air quality and staff wellbeing. 7. Energy efficient lighting on repurposed light tracks. 8. Repurposed shopfront and showcasing of original architecture, by exposing bricks and not over using additional materials by lining the wall.
Typology
Commercial › Store
LMS Energy has relocated to a new Adelaide-based headquarters that merges conventional and separate offices into a hybrid workspace. The new office aims to reflect the company's innovative spirit and embrace the idea of a "workplace as a home". The company's existing head office was outdated and segregated, split between two separate buildings that...
Project name
LMS Energy Headquarters
Architecture firm
DesignInc
Location
Adelaide, South Australia
Principal architect
DesignInc
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
This project came to our studio in 2018 as a refurbishment, extension & interior modification project. A single storey old house on a plot size of 50’ x 80’ that was being used as an office space. The entrance patio was the reception, bedrooms were meeting/discussion/conference rooms and the store room worked as server room. The brief was to rework...
Location
Bangalore, India
Photography
Studio Suryan//Dang
Principal architect
Anisha Menon & Sabyasachi Routray
Design team
Indulekha Paul, Anisha Menon, Sabyasachi Routray
Structural engineer
Radins Engineers Pvt. Ltd
Environmental & MEP
Yash Con Pvt. Ltd
Construction
Solid Ground Constructions Pvt. Ltd.
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Vray, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
Material
RCC structure with Post tension slab & beams with exposed concrete ceiling and columns, Solid concrete block masonry with plastering and paint, Aluminium framed windows with double glazed vacuum toughened glass, vitrified flooring, Laminated wood flooring
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
Across from Jinan’s famous lake, geometric volumes form a multi-level waterfront village, an animated commercial and social meeting point with a front-row view. Commanding a panoramic view of Jinan’s Huashan Lake, this innovative hub is crafted as a cultural encounter, and entertainment inspiration for residents and tourists alike.
Project name
Fuhuali Jinan
Architecture firm
CLOU architects
Principal architect
Jan Clostermann
Design team
Zhi Zhang, Na Zhao, Mengmeng Zhao, Tianshu Liu, Yishi Li, Yuanyuan Sun, Yujie Jin, Chris Biggin
Collaborators
Signage: Nastya Zavarzina, Haiwei Xie; LDI: UDG Jinan; Facade: Foshan Shengyuan Building Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd
Interior design
Na Zhao, Rentian Liu, Mengmeng Zhao, Shuting Guo, Xiaobin Cheng, Qiaoyi Wu
Structural engineer
UDG Jinan
Environmental & MEP
UDG Jinan
Landscape
Shenzhen L&A Design
