Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Tokyo, Japan
2008 - 2008
Neil Barrett
Neil Barrett Flagship Store
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Our concept for the Neil Barrett flagship store in Tokyo is based on the minimal cut of the brand`s fashion design and parallels its approach in using the same design parameters of fixed points, folding, pleating and cut outs. Rather than defining a single room or space, our design creates a circular passage allowing the customer to experience the space in multiple ways and interpretations. Furniture staged in key points throughout the store creates the spatial concept of a narrow enclosure changing to an open condition. In two formal elements the design shifts between architecture and sculpture, where a compact mass of surface layers unravel and fold to form the shelving display and seating. The emerging folds will be used as display area for the NB accessory collection.
Photograph by Jacopo Spilimbergo
Milan Store, September 2013
Interior Architecture
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Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
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The concept of the store plays with the complementary characteristics and the related dualism between male and female. This is echoed in the furniture design on both floors through the formal language and tactile quality of the materials used. The furniture piece on the ground floor is designed as a strong, masculine and dynamic form whilst the piece on the first floor enunciates femininity through more fluid contour lines. The first floor is designed in a more playful manner creating different zones that maintain the perspective view between them.
This interplay between male and female is followed through in the general aesthetic concept , setting the furniture piece with a white smooth Corian finish against the raw fair faced concrete surface of the rest of the space. This is further accentuated through the contrast in colour and finish of the white matt furniture against a black glossy floor.
The final designs are shaped by 3D computer generated models. These are processed by the manufacturer using further software to thermoform the sheet Corian into the 3D designed surfaces. A series of these surfaces will be fabricated with joints, ready to be assembled into larger sections on site. Using the latest 3D modelling and CNC programming solutions, we are able to guarantee a very precise and automatic translation of the design into the built structure.
Interior Architecture
From flagship retail stores to private homes, historic palazzos to museum galleries, offices to hotels, explore the depth and breadth of our interior architecture projects
Courtesy of ZHA
The interior design of Infinitus Plaza continues the architectural narrative established by the building’s exterior form. Echoing the symbol for infinity (∞), the design creates a series of shared indoor and outdoor spaces that reflect Infinitus’ core values: connection, adaptability, and collective well-being.
The Serpentine North Gallery consists of two distinct parts, namely the conversion of a classical 19th century brick structure – The Magazine – and a 21st century tensile structure. The Serpentine North Gallery is thus – after MAXXI in Rome – the second art space where ZHA have created a synthesis of old and new.
Courtesy of Marisfrolg
Located at the heart of Marisfrolg Fashion Group’s Shenzhen campus, the 2,900m² Marisfrolg Showroom interiors by ZHA are informed by the rich textiles, timeless design and precision tailoring embodied within the group’s nine unique labels.
Photograph by Chris Dalton, Courtesy of Romeo Collection
Bistro
From the beginning of her career, architect Zaha Hadid sited her buildings in the air, floating buildings on shadow, light, and seams of space that lifted volumes above the ground, relating her work to another tradition—Rome’s. In designing the hotel conversion of the Palazzo Capponi, Hadid and her team at ZHA started where Baroque architects ended their palimpsest - at the vaulted ceilings.
Photograph by Luke Hayes
Mews House is an innovative architectural solution built on a restricted urban site within one of London’s historic conservation areas
Photograph by Jacopo Spilimbergo
Milan Store, September 2013
The 3,000-square-foot Milan flagship store is a playful dialogue of geometries; creating a rhythm of folds and recesses that have been shaped further by functional and ergonomic considerations. The store’s central display units have been designed to showcase the Stuart Weitman collection and also provide seating.
Photograph by Paul Warchol
Il Makiage has launched a collection with a pavilion at 490 Broadway by ZHA that is informed by the label’s characteristically bold graphic identity.
Courtesy of Hoteles Silken
A new language of domestic architecture; a new dialogue between the complex, continuous nature of merging forms and textures. A dynamic project to design the 30-room floor of a hotel, driven by new developments in digital design and enhanced manufacturing capabilities. A fluid space, a seamless experience; pushing the boundaries of spatial concepts.
Photograph by Paul Warchol
Fire part of the project, Lounge Area
Fire meets ice to create two strange, synthetic worlds in Moonsoon. A formal eating area features cool greys, tables reinvented as ice shards, and a raised ‘iceberg’ floor area. Above, a furnace of fire contrasts the relaxation lounge – all searing reds, brilliant yellows and exuberant oranges.
Photograph by Luke Hayes
Mathematics: The Winton Gallery brings together remarkable stories, historical artefacts and design to highlight the central role of mathematical practice in all our lives, and explores how mathematicians, their tools and ideas have helped build the modern world over the past four centuries.
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