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ON THE COVER At the Hele International Art Center, a children’s arts academy by Pone Architecture in Wuhan, China, ballet students balance before an aperture in the painted gypsum-board canopy. Photography: Chen Ming.

FEATURES 128 AHEAD OF THE CURVE

by Athena Waligore

NOA gives the traditional arch a modern twist for Gloriette Guesthouse, a boutique hotel in Soprabolzano, Italy.

136 THE SHAPE OF THINGS

by Jen Renzi

A brand reinvention comes together at McDonald’s new Chicago headquarters, a collaboration between IA Interior Architects and Studio O+A. 136 146 TIME TO CHECK-IN

by Ted Loos

With Gachot Studios, watchmaker Shinola expands to hospitality in its hometown of Detroit.

154 ARCHITECTURE AS ARABESQUE

by Rebecca Lo

Grace pervades Pone Architecture’s arts academy in Wuhan, China.

162 IN PERFECT HARMONY

by Tate Gunnerson

A beloved Chicago music venue is now accompanied by Tied House, a Genslerdesigned restaurant.

170 FORMS AND FUNCTION

by Georgina McWhirter

Design-driven workplaces can enhance productivity.

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interior design giants 34 HEALTHCARE GIANTS

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walk-through 59 PICTURE OF HEALTH

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67 MARKET

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79 FLOORING

by Mark McMenamin and Rebecca Thienes 123 CENTERFOLD

by Wilson Barlow Breath of Fresh Air

An inflatable steel sculpture by Zieta Prozessdesign revitalizes a southern Poland site.

178 CONTACTS 183 INTERVENTION

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building memories Did you ever stop by a construction site when you were a child, hand held firmly by your dad to avoid mud baths? I know I’m speaking to the right crowd, although I suppose my generation had more boys than us girls doing it. Being from Long Beach—a Long Island seaside town that was and is literally being rebuilt—I did quite a bit of construction sighting!

I clearly remember staring at those larger-than-life cranes, watching, with rapture, towers being built, but also diving in the muck. These activities, etched in my memory, were in retrospect dead giveaways of a future in design (for the former) and publishing (for the latter).

And sure enough, here I am, tangling with both.

Busy as that keeps me, I have done my fair share of hard-hat tours in New York. And although everyone just wants to show me the pristine finished product, I get completely enthused by process: It always gives me a puzzle or two to solve, many projects are worth an early peek, and the general direction is toward the sky. . .the way I like it.

See what I mean? Construction is always engaging, uplifting, a net positive—and that’s a fact. In the middle of the winter, polar vortex notwithstanding, it can also be a tonic for the blahs. And that’s exactly what we set out to do in our February issue. In addition to lead stories on the best that global design and its rich livelihood have to offer, we’re including our brand-new investigation of Los Angeles real estate development. Impeccably clad in research, our PowerGridLA of who’s building what follows in the steps of our fall New York iteration, PowerGrid50—and it promises to be the best winter-blues buster ever.

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H E A D L I N E RS “Our mission is to help clients find, celebrate, and unfold their design story”

co-founder: Lukas Rungger. office site: Bolzano, Italy. office size: Five designers and 12 architects. current projects: A store in Merano, Italy; a residence in Berlin. honors: AHEAD Award for Hospitality, Experience and Design; German Design Award. role model: M.C. Escher for his ability to blur boundaries between art and architecture, space and time, connecting and dividing. past: Rungger and co-founder Stefan Rier met in 2009 while working for Interior Design Hall of Fame member Matteo Thun. present: They and their respective wives have recently become parents. noa.network

NOA* Network of Architecture “Ahead of the Curve,” page 128

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H E A D L I N E Rs Studio O+A

Gachot Studios

“The Shape of Things,” page 136 principal and co-founder: Primo Orpilla, FIIDA. design director and brand director: Elizabeth Vereker. firm site: San Francisco. firm size: 34 interior, architectural, and brand designers. current projects: Slack headquarters and SOMA Pilipinas popup store in San Francisco; NetApp training facility in Sunnyvale, California. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards. role model: Documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit for his strength in storytelling.

“Time to Check-In,” page 146 co-founder: Christine Gachot. co-founder: John Gachot. firm site: New York. firm size: 20 architects and designers. current projects: Pendry Manhattan West hotel; a hotel in Nosara, Costa Rica. role model: Painter Fairfield Porter for his masterful use of color to explore light and shadow. close quarters: The Gachots met in 1996 working for Interior Design Hall of Fame member William Sofield.

Pone Architecture “Architecture as Arabesque,” page 154 design director: Golden Ho. design director: Ming Leung. firm site: Guangzhou, China. firm size: 80 architects and designers. current projects: Poly Tianyue Art Center in Guangzhou; Military World Games stadium in Wuhan, China. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; IF Design Award. street: Orpilla’s initial career goal was to be a Formula One race-car mechanic. space: Vereker wanted to be an astronaut. o-plus-a.com

fast forward: They founded their firm in 2014 and married the following year. gachotstudios.com

IA Interior Architects “The Shape of Things,” page 136 design director and principal: Neil Schneider, IIDA. senior associate: Ruben Gonzalez. office site: Chicago. office size: 48 architects and designers. current projects: Dyson headquarters in Chicago; RSM offices in Chicago and Minneapolis; McDonald’s field offices nationwide. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; CoreNet Global Chicago Chapter Real Award. role model: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for his influence on Chicago and design overall.

“In Perfect Harmony,” page 162 principal and managing director: Todd Heiser, IIDA. principal: Eric Gannon, AIA. office site: Chicago. office size: 324 architects and designers. current projects: Wilson Sporting Goods in Chicago; Nvidia in Santa Clara, California; Volkswagen office in Herndon, Virginia. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award. role model: Daniel Burnham for his work in Chicago and his optimism. appreciator: Heiser listens to his vinyl records on a Braun player by Dieter Rams. musician: Gannon strums Americana tunes on his Gibson acoustic guitar. gensler.com

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small: Schneider grew up in Aberdeen, South Dakota. large: Gonzalez has eight siblings. interiorarchitects.com

role model: Tadao Ando for his unique and influential architecture. pone.cn.com

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Color blindness is likely not a common characteristic among artists. But for glassmaker Dylan Martinez, it’s a condition he’s not only had since childhood but that has also shaped his body of work: The way he sees things has evolved into a successful profession exploring, artistically, the boundaries of human perception. Three-dimensional examples of this journey can be seen in “Dylan Martinez: New Glass Works,” February 21 to March 22 at Method & Concept, a gallery and design atelier in Naples, Florida.

Among the exhibition’s 17 pieces is his Water Bags series, sculptures that look so much like clear plastic bags filled with water—bubbles included— you practically have to touch them to realize they’re molten glass. Similarly disorienting, the cut and polished glass rods in his more recent Mach series refract and reflect light in a riot of color.

Dylan Martinez’s Inverted Logic, a sculpture made from repurposed camera and condenser lenses, float glass, and vinyl, is at Method & Concept in Naples, Florida, through March 22.

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northern lights From top: Phillip K. Smith III’s Portal 1, in fiberglass, automotive paint, and LEDs, on view at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art through April 7, changes from soft to saturated colors as day shifts to night. Portal 10. Portal 8. Detail of Portal 1 at night.

During Design Miami 2017, dozens of tall, slender bars of mirrored-polished stainless steel poked up from the sand outside the Faena Hotel Miami Beach.

Throughout the day, they reflected the sun, clouds, and surrounding buildings.

Called 120 Degree Arc East-Southeast, its investigation of light, form, and environment is the focus of its creator, Phillip K. Smith III. Today, different works are the subject of his debut museum exhibition in Northern California: “Portals: A Space for Color,” at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art through April 7. Again, the white fiberglass rounds change over time, from pastel to saturated. They were part of a larger installation from the 2016 Coachella music festival near Joshua Tree National Park, which, perhaps not coincidentally, is where Smith, a former architect, created his first artist-initiated public project, Lucid Stead, an old shack he dressed up in mirrors and LEDs.

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CHICAGO

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H E A LT H C A R E giants WORK INSTALLED

RANK 2019

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HEALTHCARE FEES

VALUE

SQ. FT.

(in millions)

(in millions)

DESIGN STAFF

RANK 2018

$3,852.30

15.82

492

1

(in millions)

1

PERKINS + WILL Chicago, perkinswill.com

$59.840

2

CANNONDESIGN Chicago, cannondesign.com

$44.583

NR

16.70

200

4

3

PERKINSEASTMAN New York, perkinseastman.com

$43.593

$43.59

7.50

286

3

4

HDR Omaha, hdrinc.com

$36.016

$4.62

18.76

151

7

5

AECOM Los Angeles, aecom.com

$34.400

$804.10

20.10

385

5

6

HGA ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS Minneapolis, hga.com

$31.957

$4.57

NR

97

6

7

HOK St. Louis, hok.com

$29.580

$850.00

9.00

346

9

8

HKS Dallas, hksinc.com

$29.191

$25.00

10.00

123

2

9

STANTEC Edmonton, AB, stantec.com

$25.838

NR

NR

747

13 10

10

SMITHGROUP Detroit, smithgroup.com

$23.323

NR

NR

258

11

NBBJ Seattle, nbbj.com

$22.080

NR

NR

182

8

12

EYP Albany, eypae.com

$20.628

$147.00

27.00

125

12

13

LEO A DALY Omaha, leoadaly.com

$18.701

$120.00

NR

142

11 15

14

GENSLER San Francisco, gensler.com

$16.826

$16.38

NR

2,885

15

ZGF ARCHITECTS Portland, OR, zgf.com

$12.749

$273.00

1.95

102

17

16

SHEPLEY BULFINCH Boston, shepleybulfinch.com

$12.718

$181.69

0.52

11

14

17

PAGE Washington, pagethink.com

$11.310

$603.20

NR

74

19

18

ARRAY ARCHITECTS Conshohocken, PA, array-architects.com

$9.600

NR

NR

24

22

19

HMC ARCHITECTS Ontario, CA, hmcarchitects.com

$8.968

NR

NR

12

21

20

FLAD ARCHITECTS Madison, WI, Flad.com

$8.663

$1,049.25

7.00

238

20

21

STUDIOSIX5 Austin, TX, studiosix5.com

$7.350

NR

NR

49

31

22

CALLISONRTKL Baltimore, callisonrtkl.com

$6.067

NR

NR

351

25

23

WARE MALCOMB Irvine, CA, waremalcomb.com

$4.635

NR

NR

137

38

24

E4H ENVIRONMENTS FOR HEALTH ARCHITECTURE Boston, e4harchitecture.com

$4.536

$453.60

1.51

18

33

25

NK ARCHITECTS Morristown, NJ, nkarchitects.com

$4.446

$1,194.18

2.65

10

32

26

BSA LIFESTRUCTURES Indianapolis, bsalifestructures.com

$3.931

NR

11.29

21

27

27

CORGAN Dallas, corgan.com

$3.872

NR

NR

129

-

28

HORD COPLAN MACHT Baltimore, hcm2.com

$3.763

NR

NR

17

-

29

TSOI KOBUS DESIGN Boston, tsoikobus.design

$3.700

$41.30

0.37

4

29

30

LAWRENCE GROUP St. Louis, thelawrencegroup.com

$3.637

$255.00

1.14

61

31

LITTLE Charlotte, NC, littleonline.com

$2.862

NR

NR

261

-

32

CO ARCHITECTS Los Angeles, coarchitects.com

$2.739

$442.00

0.42

13

37

33

ARCHITECTURE, INCORPORATED Reston, VA, archinc.com

$2.629

$12.62

0.35

10

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THOMPSON HANCOCK WITTE & ASSOCIATES (THW DESIGN) Atlanta, thw.com

$2.619

NR

NR

50

35

BALLINGER Philadelphia, ballinger.com

$2.279

NR

NR

22

-

36

TPG ARCHITECTURE New York, tpgarchitecture.com

$2.240

NR

NR

205

-

37

GALLUN SNOW ASSOCIATES Denver, gallunsnow.com

$2.179

NR

NR

16

36

38

YITIAN DESIGN Wuhan, CN, ytdesign.cn

$2.135

$114.12

4.90

307

-

39

GRAY DESIGN GROUP St. Louis, graydesigngroup.com

$1.543

$7.20

0.76

19

-

40

RLF Orlando, FL, rlfae.com

$1.363

$24.57

1.44

10

-

NR - not reported

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H E A LT H C A R E giants actual 2018 $810

fee by project type

corporate offices

forecast 2019 $831

$569

healthcare

$575

$175

educational

$183

$165

government

$187

$150

retail

$155

$149

hospitality

$151

$91

transportation

$84

$85

cultural

$84

$36

residential

$41

$69

other

$60

*in millions

types of projects

53% new construction

most admired healthcare firms

ZGF Architects Perkins + Will NBBJ

(1)

renovation 43%

(2)

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fee by project type

*in millions

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top three growth segments for next two years outpatient facility mental health facility health/wellness/fitness

89% 71% 64%

$20

other

skilled nursing/hospice

assisted living

$14

$5

$21

$17

mental health facility

health/wellness/fitness

$21

rehabilitation facility

$22

medical/dental office

senior living

clinic $45

$36

$117

outpatient facility

acute care hospital $256

acute care hospital $259

$105

outpatient facility

$42

clinic

$31

medical/dental office

$36

$19

mental health facility

senior living

$18

rehabilitation facility

health/wellness/fitness

$13

assisted living

skilled nursing/hospice

other

$25

$5

$17

The UT Southwestern Medical Center Radiation Oncology building in Dallas is by Perkins + Will [#1].

forecast 2019 methodology The annual business survey of Interior Design Healthcare Giants ranks the largest design firms by healthcare design fees for the 12-month period from July 2017 through June 2018. Healthcare design fees include those attributed to: 1. All healthcare interiors work.

2. All aspects of a firm’s healthcare design practice, from strategic planning and programming to design and project management.

3. Fees paid to a firm for work performed by employees and independent contractors who are full-time staff equivalent.

Healthcare design fees do not include revenues paid to a firm and remitted to subcontractors that are not considered full-time staff equivalent. For example, certain firms attract work that is subcontracted to a local firm. The originating firm may collect all the fees and retain a management or generation fee, paying the remainder to the performing firm. The amounts paid to the latter are not included in fees of the collecting firm when determining its ranking. Additionally, where applicable, all percentages are based on responding Healthcare Giants, not their total number.

The data was compiled and analyzed by the Interior Design market research staff, led by Wing Leung, research director.

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golden age At the International Interior Design Association’s annual industry roundtable, thought leaders parsed the multigenerational workforce they’re designing for—and navigating in their own organization

“We millennials are shaking things up, paying attention to systems but with the caveat of asking, Why?” —Tara Headley, Hendrick

“From Boomers, we learned commitment. From Millennials, we learned about the importance of taking time to recharge and replenish—something Gen Xers have struggled with.”

—Edwin Beltran, NBBJ

—Doug Shapiro, OFS Brands

“People see millennials as rabid warriors. But the world is messed up, so it doesn’t feel like we have a choice in pursuing activism.”

—Chris Stewart, IIDA

“Millennials have been both vilified and celebrated, yet everyone’s trying to captivate and engage this generation. They have already changed the workplace.”

—Cheryl S. Durst, IIDA

“The younger generation approaches work differently, and the industry is having to adapt how they go to market—not only in promoting products but also in educating professionals.”

—Teresa Humphrey, Wilsonart

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That’s Nairobian sculptor Cyrus Kabiru in the C-print Macho Nne Mount Kenyan Music. That and the mixed-media mask below it showcase his ability to turn trash, in this case discarded cassette tapes and scrap metal, into visionary, collectible items. Notions of waste and consumerism are themes of “Material Insanity,” on view from February 26 to September 22 at the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakech, Morocco, where Kabiru’s works join those by 30 other, mostly African artists in an exhibition designed by local architect Zineb Andress Arraki.

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strong connection From inset: Founder and director Ross Gardam. His Hemera lamp for Artedomus stands in the northern Greece quarry from where its marble is sourced.

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Clockwise from top left: The Nebulae pendant fixture is in fluted glass and anodized aluminum. LEDs illuminate the Hemera and all of the firm’s lights. In the firm’s workshop in Brunswick, Australia, a staff designer assembles the Ora desk lamp. Brutalist architecture was an inspiration for the Hemera.

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With a mechanical engineer father who had metal and wood workshops at home, Ross Gardam grew up outside Melbourne, Australia, with small-scale manufacturing all around him. “We were always making things,” says Gardam, who, as a teenager, crafted tables with tools passed down from his carpenter grandfather. Given that background, it’s no surprise that Gardam went on to study industrial design at the nearby Monash University. After graduation, he worked in interior design firms there and in London. But his true passion ultimately prevailed, and he founded his eponymous studio in 2007, focusing on Australian-made lighting and furniture.

“Materials drive our projects,” Gardam explains. The Hemera table lamp, for example, was born out of a super-veined marble sourced in Greece. The light is now part of a multi-designer collection called New Volumes produced by Sydney-based manufacturer Artedomus. The material changes to delicate fluted glass for the Nebulae pendant fixture, its anodized aluminum armature—and the Hemera’s fittings—made in Melbourne. “All our products are informed by place, drawing upon local materials and manufacturing techniques,” Gardam explains.

Speaking of local, his studio in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick was designed in collaboration with area firm MRTN Architects. Sited there partly for the neighborhood’s industrial past, the workshop is where pieces are assembled, finished, checked, and packaged. As an added bonus, there’s an alley out back that doubles as a basketball court or cricket pitch for Gardam and his eight employees. Genius, as they say, is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. —Athena Waligore

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From top: Hemera’s fittings are in locally made anodized aluminum. Gardam sits on Noon, a chair he designed, in the reception area of his studio.

Ross Gardam a few of his favorite things: Melbourne restaurant: Attica for its local ingredients.

Artist: The attention to detail of painter Patricia Piccinini.

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surrounded by sixties Mid-century modernism inspired Kevin Hviid and Martin Kechayas’s enveloping chair 1. Cocoon Lounge in oak and COM upholstery. kevinhviid.com

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picture of health Panels of ribbed fiberglass trimmed in brass front the central organizing structure at NYDG Integral Health & Wellness.

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hippie and chic on one end and high-tech on the other,” recalls the architect, who’d been senior partner at Foster + Partners before launching his namesake firm four years ago.

So he proposed a hybrid environment that would feel both peaceful and clinical.

To order the seemingly disparate services on offer, Haw constructed a freestanding pavilion in the middle of the L-shape plan.

Clad in ribbed ivory-colored fiberglass paneling trimmed in bronze, the undulating 11-foot-tall structure houses reception and skincare product displays along with eight treatment rooms. The idea, Haw hopes, is that newcomers draw a connection between the pavilion’s delicate form and a gentle health-care experience. Further, the interiors of the treatment rooms continue the

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Although beauty is more than skin deep, dermatologists often favor exfoliation and ointments over integrative medicine. But in 2018 the tri-state portion of the profession took a leap toward treating appearance from within when the New York Dermatology Group opened NYDG Integral Health & Wellness, a 7,000-square-foot center designed by Brandon Haw Architecture.

Patients are just as likely to come up to the full floor space inside the landmarked former Lord & Taylor department store to meet with a nutritionist or an orthopedic surgeon as they are to get a facial peel.

Brandon Haw says expressing NYDG’s new approach to skincare could have defaulted to one of two extremes. “I drew a barometer in which holistic health feels

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WA LK through Clockwise from top left: Reception and retail are built into the freestanding pavilion. The same materials define the elevator bank. Treatment rooms have walls covered in textured vinyl, with lighting and HVAC systems hidden behind the stretched ceiling. Flooring transitions from reclaimed oak in public areas to pulverized quartz in treatment rooms. Details of the reception area were worked out in a pencil drawing. A second retail desk is behind the waiting area.

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clean in white palette, their luminous quartz flooring and digitally controlled LEDs conveying precision and attention to detail. He then clustered the center’s blood-infusion, cryotherapy, and nutrition facilities in smaller rooms off the floor’s short wing.

The scheme actively participates in patients’ well-being, too. By placing the pavilion away from the existing 11-foot-tall windows, Haw could situate seating and circulation spaces along the perimeter, drenching them in daylight. Where NYDG devotees could be frustrated by wait times, “Now,” Haw says, “it’s not a problem because they are quite happy to sit and relax”—soaking in the sun’s vitamin D. —David Sokol FROM FRONT ELEMENT: DOWNLIGHTS (RECEPTION). VIABIZZUNO: SHELF LEDS. WOLF-GORDON: SHELF WALL COVERING (RECEPTION), WALL COVERING, PAINT (TREATMENT

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Clockwise from top: Custom millwork was made by an Italian yacht-interior fabricator, and ceramic tile lines restrooms. The center is on the second floor of a landmarked limestone building from 1906. Under wooden ceiling baffles, the waiting area’s tables and leather-upholstered armchairs are custom.

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latin flavor Daniel Germani has fond memories of childhood summer holidays spent on Punta del Este, the seaside Uruguayan resort town popular among Argentines, his nationality. So much so that the archi-

tect and Daniel Germani Designs founder and creative director has named his latest furniture collection for Gandia Blasco Solanas, after one of his favorite beaches there. The seven pieces include a lounge chair and a sectional sofa formed from microperforated aluminum that’s available in 19 vibrant thermolacquered colors, including Red-Orange. The polyurethane-foam cushions come covered in a variety of removable waterproof

fabrics. There’re also coordinating side tables, which, thanks to the manufacturer’s recent alliance with Cosentino, sport tops of durable Dekton composite. gandiablasco.com

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product Ribes. standout Versatility defines the modular seating system in powder-coated aluminum by the Interior Design Hall of Fame member, its cushions and bolsters upholstered in waterrepellent polyester. bebitalia.com

product Trill. standout Though inspired by the language of metalwork, the industrial designer chose lightweight, recyclable fiberglass resin for the material of his sleek and precise stackable chair. nardioutdoor.com

product Linear. standout Formerly the head of design, the Thomas Bentzen Industrial Design founder has returned to the manufacturer for its foray into allweather furniture, a steel table and bench set offered in four powdercoats. muuto.com

product Laze. standout The industrial designer and company art director stretched supportive polyester filaments across a powdercoated stainless-steel frame to form the low-slung lounge chair, which is also available as a rocker. rodaonline.com

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product Patio. standout The textile designer’s latest collection for the brand—and its first outdoor line—is made of specially developed Trevira CS yarns dyed from such natural ingredients as eucalyptus leaves, with a fast-drying, fluorocarbonfree finish. kvadrat.dk

product Archi. standout The 365° North founder’s background in fashion design is evident in his exquisite coordination of buffed teak and polyester rope backing for the lounge chair, also available in an ottoman, barstool, and dining chair. gloster.com

product Sebastian. standout Sculptural armrests contrast with an otherwise rectilinear frame and tailored cushions for the Spanish industrial designer’s collection in weathered or natural teak that also includes a chaise longue, dining table, and chairs. rh.com

product Flindt Wall. standout The furniture and industrial designer shines his talent on lighting with a cast-aluminum and polycarbonate sconce, its aperture on top directing its LED glow up and down, suggestive of a waning moon. louispoulsen.com FEB.19

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around again The difficulty with designing a chair is conceiving a shape that is new yet also feels “as if it has somehow always been around,” Studio Aisslinger founder and owner Werner Aisslinger says. Inspiration for his first line for Dedon came from an earlier project of his, the 25Hours Hotel the Circle in Cologne, Germany, its namesake—and familiar—shape a motif throughout. His Cirql lounge and dining chairs and side table further the conceit: Chair backs, seats, and tabletop are rounded, the manufacturer’s proprietary fiber woven through the aluminum frames in a crosshatch pattern. There are four powder-coat colors available as well as optional seat cushions. dedon.de WERNER AISSLINGER

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FRENCH OUTDOOR FURNITURE FOR FRESH PROJECTS A new twist on an authentic chair traditionally found in English gardens. Terence Conran and Fermob share a deep love of the garden. Their collaboration brings a fresh eye to a classic garden furniture collection.

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island style The late, great Jens Risom, his first wife Iben, and their children summered on Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, in a prefab A-frame he designed in 1967. Their home backed up to a nature conservancy adored by Iben. When she died in 1977, her husband conceived the Memorial bench for the conservancy but only as a sketch; it was never built. Decades later, their son Sven discovered the drawings and, with Design Within Reach, has brought them to life as the Block Island Outdoor collection. It’s composed of a coffee table, chair, and loveseat, all in teak, the latter available with Sunbrella-covered cushions in Logo Red or Natural. dwr.com

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new bent on tradition Seeking inspiration for his collaboration with Ames, Sebastian Herkner of Studio Sebastian Herkner embarked on a journey with company CEO and creative director, Ana María Calderón Kayser, across her native Colombia. The result: Ames Sala, a furnishings line that channels the country’s artisanal craftsmanship but with contemporary flair. Maraca, for example, is a lounge chair slung with a wool or cotton seat evocative of a siesta-ready hammock but framed in powder-coated tubular steel. There’s also the Circo dining chair, its rounded powder-coated steel frame strung with leather straps, and the Nobsa rug, in handwoven wool. ames-shop.de

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FLOOR I NG gaining ground In the two years since Leolux enlisted the two principals of Studio Roderick Vos to creative-direct its new seating spin-off, Pode, the Dutch manufacturer’s offspring has diversified.

Among the brand’s extensions is a budding assortment of area rugs. Claire Vos conjured the constellation of circles that engulf the handwoven Punto. “I searched for balance between the timeless values of floor decorations from the 1930’s and the volatile values of the contemporary world of fashion,” she says. The woolcotton rug comes in three colorways—emerald green, quartz gray, and agate brown—and two sizes, 67 by 981⁄2 inches and 79 by 118 inches. pode.eu

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product Spark. standout Motifs in nature, such as trees and the sun’s rays, were the launching points for the pattern of the Pietro Russo Design founder’s rug, hand-tufted of wool and available in two standard sizes.

product Composition IX. II. standout Nods to fellow Russians Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich inform the Angelina Askeri Interiors namesake’s rug, part of a limited edition handwoven of New Zealand wool, Chinese silk, and metallic yarn. tapisrouge.ru

products Ponte and Starburst. standout The designer and HGTV star’s third collection for the brand points to art deco, its angular brasstrimmed configuration in Carrara and Nero Marquina marbles and white porcelain set on 24-inch-square tile.

product UnDone. standout Japanese calligraphy influenced the paintings of the Design Milk blog founder and selftaught abstract artist, now translated into a rug hand-knotted of New Zealand wool and silk.

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product Rain. standout Well-known for her wall coverings, it’s fitting that one of the New York designer’s patterns has morphed into a rug, its droplets in recycled sari silk populating a ground of handwoven wool and cotton. jillmalek.com

product Darby. standout The painter and textile designer has teamed up with the doyenne of domestic decor on a collection of bedding, accessories, and rugs, one of the latter shown in hand-knotted wool and inspired by her own art. annieselke.com

product Snake & Pomegranate standout After her 2016 departure from Commune, which she co-founded, the Studio Shamshiri principal now has her own buzzing interiors practice as well as a rug collection that includes this mythology-inspired one in wool and silk. christopherfarr.com

product Monodon standout The founder and designer’s latest rug collection, Epidermis, celebrates the anatomy, particularly that of the arctic narwhal, rendered in hand-knotted Tibetan wool and mulberry silk in an apt oceanic palette. lindstromrugs.com FEB.19

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From sustainability to solution-focused specification, Carpet Concept has spawned invention for more than a quarter of a century. Deftly conveying those dual visions is Slo-Advantage, the German commercial flooring provider’s series of modular carpet tile. Conservation begins with Aquafil’s Econyl, composed entirely of polyamide recycled from discarded fishing nets, which is tufted in a multi-level, loop-pile construction. Backing is PVC-free felt regenerated from PET bottles.

Slo 150 Concrete is developed specifically to capitalize on the spatial expanses in today’s open offices. Graduated shades of gray, clay, or sand mimic concrete in the 38-inch-square tiles, plus matching broadloom. Through Relative Space. relativespace.com

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fringe element The ability to reinvent keeps a heritage brand relevant. With that in mind, Edward Fields design director Juliana Polastri took a deep dive into the company’s 84-year-old archives, identifying 12 patterns ripe for reinterpretation. The result is On-the-Fringe, hand-tufted abstractions that challenge

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the confines of the typical rug. “We explored the possibilities of celebrating three-dimensionality in an unconstrained way,” Polastri says. Along the edge of Monolith, for example, the silk-wool field disappears and is replaced by swinging fringe. Wool and silk simulate dimensional folds in the uneven borders of Deep Frieze, and random shag patches peek above the short pile of Metropolis, a coloredpencil drawing rendered in silk, wool, and Lurex. edwardfields.com

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in great shape Tyler Hays continues to grow his design empire with the launch of the BDDW Annex, a 2,000-square-foot tile showroom and gallery in downtown New York, across the street from his successful furniture atelier. It showcases two ranges: wild clay dug on the site of his Philadelphia studio and clay from Wallowa County, Oregon, that’s part of his more affordable line. The latter’s M. Crow Hexagonal is a rustic collection in mixed tones, while the rectangular BDDW Hand-Painted contemporizes Delftware. All come in matte, satin, or gloss glazes and are suitable for floor or wall applications. bddw.com

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Elegantly connecting the indoors and outdoors, Danish architect and professor Bodil Kjær has always worked to create harmony between design and architecture. Designed in 1959 and based on the philosophy that furniture should be balanced with its environment, the Indoor-Outdoor Series fulfills a need for aesthetic and functional interplay between buildings, spaces, and interiors. The furniture features high-quality solid teak and superior craftsmanship – designed to withstand a changing climate and the test of time.

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sasha bikoff You might say she was destined for rugs. “I am half Persian and grew up surrounded by silk carpets,” recalls the Sasha Bikoff Interior Design founder, whose Memphis-inspired stairway for the 2018 Kips Bay Decorator Show House was an Instagram sensation. Her first rug collection is equally eye-catching.

Inspired by her grandmother’s vintage gold lamé dress, Disco Dots features Lurex circles on a Tencel shag ground. It’s available in standard colors—gold/ pearl, rose gold/platinum, and silver/rhodium—and sizes, from 6 by 9 feet to 10 by 14 feet, but customization is welcome. Through 1stdibs. 1stdibs.com

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After studying political science and working in the public sector, Sylvie Johnson did what every budding bureaucrat does. . .taught herself to weave. Her resulting Parisian atelier became a go-to source for such clients as Interior Design Hall of Fame members Lee Mindel and Annabelle Selldorf. Now, newly named the artistic director of Merida, Johnson’s inaugural Atelier rug line for the Boston-based manufacturer is “an ode to minimalism,” she says, in intricate yarn combinations of linen, felted wool, alpaca merino, mohair, cotton, and sisal.

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“We used pattern and texture to conjure a sense of well-being but also as a means of visual stimulation,” Shaw Contract designer Alyssa Gagnon explains. She’s referring to Forum, the manufacturer’s multi-format collection that injects vitality into high-use spaces such as hotels. Overlapping shapes and crisscross lines establish a tactile template that suggests the coarseness of sisal or jute. The 17 machinetufted broadloom options are grouped into Field, including the geometric Collect, and Corridor, including the linear Compile.

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Yabu Pushelberg project Century Plaza Hotel and Towers. square feet 967,000. developer Harley Ellis Devereaux and Next Century Partners.

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growing up Los Angeles and New York couldn’t be more different— and, yet, they’re also so similar. New York is the classic high-density, high-rise U.S. city, while L.A. is all hills and sprawl. New York is concrete and glass, L.A. palm trees and freeways. But both cities are their respective coastal capitals and home to the most exciting real estate development projects.

In 2017, our first PowerGrid took a deep dive into the Big Apple development business. It was such a success, we did the survey again in 2018. Now it’s the City of Angel’s turn. We surveyed 50 firms to form our PowerGridLA, dug into local research, and looked at both completed and on-the-boards projects.* Here’s what we found.

In the past 18 months, our PowerGridLA firms completed 248 developments for a total of 40 million square feet, with an average project size of 954,000 square feet.

The biggest chunk of that business came from multi-family residential work: 30 percent of the firms took part. Office projects (27 percent) and mixed-use developments (23 percent) were next in line, with 15 percent working in hospitality (nearly 11,000 hotel rooms are under construction or planned in downtown alone).

JG Neukomm and SPAN Architecture and Gensler and Harley Ellis Devereaux and AECOM project Metropolis. square feet 3,500,000. developer Greenland.

Residential development has been a historically profitable segment in L.A., with $11.5 billion invested in downtown alone since 1999. Right now, 7,500 residential units are planned or under construction. And if one had to pick a single word to describe the work? Luxury. High-end rental, condominium, and co-op space makes up more than half of the developments.

Office space is also sizzling with more than 68 million square feet developed in the past 20 years. There are 3 million square feet currently under construction, and another 3.3 million on the boards. L.A. is an industry town, naturally, so some of the higher-profile projects come with familiar names attached: Netflix’s Hollywood high-rise and both Warner Music and Spotify making big moves to the Arts District.

Speaking of the Arts District, it’s by far the number one area ripe for development in our survey. Culver City, Koreatown/Chinatown, and Inglewood are also coveted.

We found two critical factors driving development projects in L.A. County: transportation and accessibility, the latter, according to the PowerGridLA firms, being the top issue influencing which areas of the city become desirable for development.

And with ever-present traffic and limited parking, proximity to freeways is far less a factor than public transportation (particularly certified Transit Oriented Communities, which offer incentives to developers).

A DiGiusseppi Architect representative says, “In a city of cars, public transportation becomes a major factor, whether it be cable cars, buses, or subways, especially with fewer and fewer millennials owning automobiles.”

Other firms concur. “Public, accessible, user-friendly trans-portation has the ability to transform a city,” a Yabu Pushelberg rep adds. “The ability to travel to different areas of the city without being dependent on your own vehicle is essential.”

As robust as L.A. development is now, the next few years look even better. PowerGridLA firms have just over 670 developments on the boards for a total of 135 million square feet. And while a third of that is multi-family residential, nearly half of the firms say they’re looking at mixed-use projects going forward, with office, retail, and public-space work keeping them busy, as well.

But who’s doing all this work? Who’s the talk of the town? We asked firms to tell us what—and who— impressed them most. Here’s the buzz in La La Land.

*While this information paints a general picture of the city’s development business, many firms couldn’t comment on certain projects because of nondisclosure and other proprietary concerns.

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PROJECTS COMPLETED

SQUARE FEET

ON-THEBOARDS PROJECTS

ON-THETOTAL BOARDS COMBINED SQ. FT. SQ. FT. IN LA

1

GENSLER Los Angeles, gensler.com

47

7,524,051

157

38,721,736

46,245,787

2

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS Los Angeles, rchstudios.com

16

6,493,320

41

22,681,280

29,174,600

3

AC MARTIN Los Angeles, acmartin.com

13

4,000,000

42

11,000,000

15,000,000

4

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL Los Angeles, som.com

13

2,434,000

16

10,567,000

13,001,000

5

HLW INTERNATIONAL Santa Monica, hlw.design.com

7

2,000,000

20

4,000,000

6,000,000

6

AECOM Los Angeles, aecom.com

3

3,280,000

2

2,000,000

5,280,000

7

STEINBERG HART Los Angeles, steinberghart.com

10

737,500

18

4,153,000

4,890,500

8

R&A ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN Culver City, r-a-a-d.com

1

54,000

27

4,171,370

4,225,370

9

SHIMODA DESIGN GROUP Los Angeles, shimodadesign.com

10

2,000,000

6

2,000,000

4,000,000

10

ROTTET STUDIO Los Angeles, rottetstudio.com

20

1,000,000

120

2,000,000

3,000,000

11

DEGEN & DEGEN ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN Seattle, ddseattle.com

1

62,600

3

2,866,000

2,928,600

12

HIRSCH BEDNER ASSOCIATES Santa Monica, hba.com

3

501,497

8

2,046,701

2,548,198

13

JG NEUKOMM ARCHITECTURE New York, jgnarch.com

2,508,859

14

CALLISONRTKL Seattle, crtkl.com

15

2

2,001,805

1

507,054

N/R

N/R

3

2,417,038

2,417,038

BROOKS + SCARPA Hawthorne, brooksscarpa.com

5

335,000

4

1,900,000

2,235,000

16

CARRIER JOHNSON + CULTURE Los Angeles, carrierjohnson.com

4

72,000

9

2,100,000

2,172,000

17

PERKINS + WILL Los Angeles, perkinswill.coom

6

185,200

10

1,945,893

2,131,093

18

MARMOL RADZINER Los Angeles, marmol-radziner.com

2

330,000

4

1,753,100

2,083,100

19

LYNCH EISINGER DESIGN ARCHITECTS New York, led-nyc.com

1

45,000

2

2,000,000

2,045,000

20

M-RAD Los Angeles, m-rad.com

1

105,000

24

1,800,000

1,905,000 1,737,000

21

PARISI PORTFOLIO San Diego, parisiportfolio.com

2

377,000

5

1,360,000

22

RAPT STUDIO San Francisco, raptstudio.com

5

600,000

7

1,050,000

1,650,000

23

ABRAMSON TEIGER ARCHITECTS Los Angeles, abramsonteiger.com

6

155,740

16

1,342,000

1,497,740

24

YABU PUSHELBERG Toronto, yabupushelberg.com

N/R

N/R

5

1,485,328

1,485,328

25

SHUBIN DONALDSON Culver City, shubindonaldson.com

10

435,600

13

793,170

1,228,770

26

ZGF ARCHITECTS Los Angeles, zgf.com

4

655,984

3

493,123

1,149,107

27

FELDERMAN KEATINGE + ASSOCIATES Culver City, FKAstudio.com

3

810,000

2

300,000

1,110,000

28

DIGUISEPPE ARCHITECT New York, diguiseppe.com

N/R

N/R

3

1,000,000

1,000,000

29

PERKINSEASTMAN Los Angeles, perkinseastman.com

11

208,422

5

752,400

960,822

30

ROBERT HIDEY ARCHITECTS Irvine, CA, roberthidey.com

4

883,080

1

50,820

933,900

31

PATRICK TIGHE ARCHITECTURE Los Angeles, tighearchitecture.com

4

284,560

7

504,000

788,560

32

HENDY Newport Beach, CA, hhendy.com

4

485,000

9

285,000

770,000

33

WOLCOTT ARCHITECTURE Culver City, wolcottai.com

N/R

N/R

18

750,000

750,000

34

BLITZ San Francisco, studioblitz.com

N/R

N/R

1

650,000

650,000

35

SPAN ARCHITECTURE New York, span-ny.com

1

635,769

N/R

N/R

635,769

36

GULLA JONSDOTTIR ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN West Hollywood, gullajonsdottir.com

4

350,000

10

280,000

630,000

37

BELZBERG ARCHITECTS Los Angeles, belzbergarchitects.com

3

50,000

4

550,000

600,000

38

EHRLICH YANAI RHEE CHANEY ARCHITECTS Culver City, eyrc.com

2

38,749

6

479,320

518,069

39

JOHN FRIEDMAN ALICE KIMM ARCHITECTS Los Angeles, jfak.net

3

113,900

10

381,169

495,069

40

FREDERICK FISHER AND PARTNERS Los Angeles, fisherpartners.net

2

111,900

8

358,700

470,600 459,594

41

KELLY WEARSTLER Los Angeles, kellywearstler.com

42

NBBJ Los Angeles, nbbj.com

N/R

N/R

3

459,594

2

183,800

3

167,500

43

ROCKWELL GROUP New York, rockwellgroup.com

351,300

N/R

N/R

2

327,500

327,500

44

CLIVE WILKINSON ARCHITECTS Culver City, clivewilkinson.com

2

152,000

5

150,000

302,000

45

APPLETON PARTNERS Los Angeles, appleton-architects.com

5

99,200

7

140,800

240,000

46

MOORE RUBLE YUDELL ARCHITECTS & PLANNER Santa Monica, moorerubleyudell.com

1

150,000

1

50,000

200,000

47

STUDIO O+A San Francisco, o-plus-a.com

N/R

N/R

1

200,000

200,000

48

DESIGNAGENCY Los Angeles, thedesignagency.ca

3

15,000

4

93,500

108,500

49

COMMUNE Los Angeles, communedesign.com

1

74,000

N/R

N/R

74,000

50

NXT STUDIO Los Angeles, nxtdesignstudio.com

1

35,000

N/R

N/R

35,000

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el segundo 7%

downtown 10%

inglewood 13%

koreatown/chinatown 17%

project Santa Monica College Center for Media and Design and KCRW Media Center. square feet 115,000. developer Santa Monica College.

culver city 17%

arts district 23%

Clive Wilkinson Architects

ripe for development

FIRM

COMPLETED PROJECTS

LOCATION

SQUARE FEET

1

GENSLER

LOS ANGELES

47

7,524,051

2

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS

LOS ANGELES

16

6,493,320

3

AC MARTIN

LOS ANGELES

13

4,000,000

4

AECOM

LOS ANGELES

3

3,280,000

5

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

LOS ANGELES

13

2,434,000

6

JG NEUKOMM ARCHITECTURE

NEW YORK

2

2,001,805

7

SHIMODA DESIGN GROUP

LOS ANGELES

10

2,000,000

8

HLW INTERNATIONAL

SANTA MONICA

7

2,000,000

20

1,000,000

4

883,080

9

ROTTET STUDIO

LOS ANGELES

10

ROBERT HIDEY ARCHITECTS

IRVINE, CA

11

FELDERMAN KEATINGE + ASSOCIATES CULVER CITY

3

810,000

12

STEINBERG HART

LOS ANGELES

10

737,500

13

ZGF ARCHITECTS

LOS ANGELES

4

655,984

14

SPAN ARCHITECTURE

NEW YORK

1

635,769

15

RAPT STUDIO

SAN FRANCISCO

5

600,000

16

HIRSCH BEDNER ASSOCIATES

SANTA MONICA

3

501,497

17

HENDY

NEWPORT BEACH, CA 9

485,000

18

SHUBIN DONALDSON

CULVER CITY

10

435,600

19

PARISI PORTFOLIO

SAN DIEGO

2

377,000

20

GULLA JONSDOTTIR ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

WEST HOLLYWOOD

4

350,000

availability of transit systems 62% affordable housing 17% land availabity/cost 17% cultural influences 14% other 3%

factors influencing development

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AC Martin project Onni Times Square. square feet 1,100,000. developer Onni Group.

The largest residential developments completed by PowerGridLA firms in the past 18 months added a minimum of 7,400 units to the L.A. market POWE RGR I D LA

FROM TOP: MICHAEL MORAN/OTTO; COURTESY OF AC MARTIN

top 20 firms with largest share of completed developments by project size

i t i f f a r G

A FIRST IMPRESSION BY

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top 20 firms with largest share of on-the-boards developments by project size COMPLETED PROJECTS

SQUARE FEET

157

38,721,736

LOS ANGELES

41

22,681,280

LOS ANGELES

42

11,000,000

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

LOS ANGELES

16

10,567,000

5

R&A ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

CULVER CITY

27

4,171,370

6

STEINBERG HART

LOS ANGELES

18

4,153,000

7

HLW INTERNATIONAL

SANTA MONICA

20

4,000,000

8

DEGEN & DEGEN ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

SEATTLE

3

2,866,000

9

CALLISONRTKL

SEATTLE

3

2,417,038

10

CARRIER JOHNSON + CULTURE

LOS ANGELES

9

2,100,000

most admired developers

11

HIRSCH BEDNER ASSOCIATES

SANTA MONICA

8

2,046,701

(1) Related Companies

12

ROTTET STUDIO

LOS ANGELES

120

2,000,000

(2) CIM

13

SHIMODA DESIGN GROUP

LOS ANGELES

6

2,000,000

(3) Avalon Bay

14

AECOM

LOS ANGELES

2

2,000,000

(4) Hudson Pacific Properties

15

LYNCH EISINGER DESIGN ARCHITECTS

NEW YORK

2

2,000,000

(5) Mack Urban

16

PERKINS + WILL

LOS ANGELES

10

1,945,893

17

BROOKS + SCARPA

HAWTHORNE

4

1,900,000

18

M-RAD

LOS ANGELES

24

1,800,000

19

MARMOL RADZINER

LOS ANGELES

4

1,753,100

most influential real estate firms

20

YABU PUSHELBERG

TORONTO

5

1,485,328

(1) CBRE

FIRM

LOCATION

1

GENSLER

LOS ANGELES

2

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS

3

AC MARTIN

4

(2) Agency (3) Douglas Elliman

Rios Clementi Hale Studios project Music Center Plaza. square feet 43,000. developer Los Angeles County.

most influential real estate agents (1) Carl Muhlstein of JLL (2) Phillip Sample of CBE

most admired projects (1) Platform (2) Nomad Hotel (3) Wilshire Grand

According to CBRE, the average office rent in L.A. is $40.56 per square foot compared to $59.04 in Silicon Valley during 2018 102

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top 20 largest completed developments by total square footage PROJECT

FIRM

SQUARE FEET

TYPE

DEVELOPER

1

METROPOLIS TOWERS 1 & 2

JG NEUKOMM, SPAN ARCHITECTURE GENSLER, HED, AECOM

3,500,000

MIXED-USE

GREENLAND

2

ROW DTLA

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS

2,200,000

MIXED-USE

ATLAS CAPITAL GROUP

3

THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL DOWNTOWN LA

AC MARTIN

2,100,000

MIXED-USE

MARTIN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

4

WREN

TOGAWA SMITH MARTIN, AECOM

1,156,000

MIXED-USE

MACK REAL ESTATE GROUP & AECOM

5

AVEN

AC MARTIN, AECOM

902,564

MIXED-USE

MACK REAL ESTATE GROUP & AECOM

6

COLUMBIA SQUARE

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS

750,000

MIXED-USE

KILROY REALTY

7

AVA STUDIO CITY

DEGEN & DEGEN ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

620,900

MULTI-FAMILY

AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES

8

GOOGLE, SPRUCE GOOSE

ZGF ARCHITECTS

593,235

OFFICE

RATKOVICH COMPANY LINCOLN PROPERTY COMPANY

9

OPEN

HLW INTERNATIONAL

542,750

MIXED-USE

10

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES

ROBERT HIDEY ARCHITECTS

523,100

MULTI-FAMILY

CHADMAR GROUP

11

BANC OF CALIFORNIA STADIUM

GENSLER

500,000

SPORTS

LAFC

12

SUNSET LA CIENEGA RESIDENCES

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

470,000

MIXED-USE

CIM GROUP CIM GROUP

13

JEREMY

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

390,000

HOSPITALITY

14

NINEFIFTEEN

HLW INTERNATIONAL

385,588

OFFICE

LPC WEST

15

VISION ON WILSHIRE

STEINBERG HART

342,000

MULTI-FAMILY

UDR

16

BCG DIGITAL VENTURES MANHATTAN BEACH

R&A ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

309,682

OFFICE

BCG DIGITAL VENTURES

17

ARGYLE HOUSE *

MARMOL RADZINER

280,000

MULTI-FAMILY

RELATED CALIFORNIA

17

CONFIDENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY *

FELDERMAN KEATINGE + ASSOCIATES 280,000

MIXED-USE

CONFIDENTIAL

18

AVILA

PARISI PORTFOLIO

209,000

MULTI-FAMILY

GREYSTAR

19

AVANTI

ROBERT HIDEY ARCHITECTS

200,600

MULTI-FAMILY

NEW HOME COMPANY

VIACOM

ROTTET STUDIO

200,000

OFFICE

KILROY GROUP

20

* tie

Shubin Donaldson project 5300 McConnell. square feet 73,000. developer Wonderful Co.

DEVELOPMENTS COMPLETED IN PAST 18 MONTHS by participating firms average per firm

TOTAL

TOTAL SIZE IN SQUARE FEET

248

40,065,677

6

953,945

PowerGridLA firms have nearly 680 on-the-boards developments; that’s 2½ times more than they have completed in past 18 months

ON-THE-BOARDS DEVELOPMENTS by participating firms average per firm

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TOTAL

TOTAL SIZE IN SQUARE FEET

676

135,084,096

14

2,874,130 BENNY CHAN/FOTOWORKS

Among top 30 tech markets ranked

by CBRE, L.A. ranked #9 in highest job growth and #2 in office rent growth

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L.A. County has one of largest concentration of millennials in SoCal, with 28% of population compared to national average of 25% According to JLL, just 49% of L.A.residents own a home compared to national average of 65% Gensler project Banc of California Stadium. square feet 70,300. developer Legends Project Development.

PROJECT

FIRM

SQUARE FEET

TYPE

DEVELOPER

3,000,000

MIXED-USE

CONFIDENTIAL

1

MIXED-USE CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

2

METROPOLIS TOWER 3

AECOM, JG NEUKOMM ARCHITECTURE GENSLER, HED 2,001,805

MULTI-FAMILY

GREENLAND

3

HAZENS LA CITY CENTER

GENSLER

2,000,000

HOSPITALITY

SHENZHEN HAZENS REAL ESTATE GROUP

3

MIXED-USE CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

2,000,000

MIXED-USE

CONFIDENTIAL

4

ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LA

GENSLER

1,525,000

MIXED-USE

ALTASEA

5

PLAYA DISTRICT

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS

1,400,000

MIXED-USE

EQUITY OFFICE

6

945 W 8TH ST APARTMENTS

MARMOL RADZINER

1,350,000

MULTI-FAMILY

BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES

7

SAN PEDRO PUBLIC MARKET

RAPT STUDIO

1,300,000

MIXED-USE

RATKOVICH COMPANY AND JERICO DEVELOPMENT

8

CONSTELLATION PARK

ROTTET STUDIO

1,200,000

MULTI-FAMILY

JMB REALTY CORP

9

COLLEGE STATION MIXED-USE

DEGEN & DEGEN ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

1,140,250

MIXED-USE

ATLAS CAPITAL GROUP

10

ONNI TIMES SQUARE

AC MARTIN

1,100,000

MIXED-USE

ONNI GROUP

WOLCOTT ARCHITECTURE

EQUITY OFFICE

11

VKCC

1,000,000

MIXED-USE

12

DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ZGF ARCHITECTS

818,928

OFFICE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

13

LA FLOWER MARKET

BROOKS + SCARPA

798,000

MULTI-FAMILY

LOS ANGELES FLOWER MARKET

14

LA PLAZA CULTURA VILLAGE

DEGEN & DEGEN ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

777,330

MIXED-USE

TRAMMELL CROW COMPANY

15

SOUTH PARK TOWERS

AC MARTIN

775,162

MULTI-FAMILY

VENICE HOPE GROUP

16

CENTURY PLAZA CONDO TOWER NORTH & SOUTH

YABU PUSHELBERG

704,000

MULTI-FAMILY

JMB REALTY CORP

17

LA PREMIUM OUTLETS

ABRAMSON TEIGER ARCHITECTS

640,000

RETAIL

MACERICH

18

UNION BANK PLAZA

HLW INTERNATIONAL

628,060

MIXED-USE

KBS

19

HAZENS LA CITY CENTER

STEINBERG HART

590,000

MIXED-USE

SHENZHEN HAZENS REAL ESTATE GROUP JIA YUAN USA CO

20

AVA LA ARTS DISTRICT

R&A ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

565,000

MIXED-USE

AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES

106

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type of developments completed in past 18 months multi-family 30% office 27 % mixed-use 23% hospitality 15% lobby/amenity spaces 10% academic campus 10% retail 8% public space 7% model apartment 2%

Marmol Radziner project 945 W 8th Street Apartments. square feet 1,350,000. developer Brookfield Properties.

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community center/garden 2% other 17%

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mixed-use 43%

Commune

multi-family 32%

project El Centro Apartments & Bungalows. square feet 74,000.

office 28% retail 21% public space 21% hospitality 13% lobby/amenity spaces 12% community center/garden 7% academic campus 3% model apartment 1% transit terminal or development of surrounding area 1% other 12%

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developer DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and Clarett West Development.

The Amphora collection has been designed to create a warm environment especially in outdoors. However, thanks to its highly decorative look, the Amphoras can equally be placed both in outdoor and indoor.

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investment in downtown 1999-2017*

celebrating 30 years of award-winning design I furniture | textiles

residential $11.5 billion

mixed-use $6.8 billion

civic & institutional $4.6 billion

commercial $2.2 billion figueroa corridor/expo park $1.9 billion arts & entertainment $1.5 billion

other 8%

affordable housing 24%

mixed-use 32%

luxury rental 44%

luxury condo/co-op 36%

types of on-the-boards residential developments

7,492 residential units under construction/plannng

midscale/economy 11%

luxury/upscale 56%

boutique 33%

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residential growth* estimated population

71,000+

new units available

2,027

condo units under construction

1,839

affordable units under construction

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hospitality growth* annual visitors to downtown

19 million+

hotel rooms available

8,814

hotel rooms under construction

1,271

hotel rooms proposed

9,455

office growth* square feet of office space square feet under construction square feet of proposed space

68 million+ 3 million 3.3 million

retail growth* square feet of retail space

22 million+

square feet under construction

1.1 million

square feet of proposed space

2.6 million

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Patrick Tighe Architecture project Copper on Beverly. square feet 75,000. developer 4-Site Development.

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The magic of BuzziSpark lies in the allure of the unknown—the surprise of not knowing whom you’ll meet around the corner. Until you plunge yourself in its cocoon, you won't know 'who' or 'if' someone is sharing the same experience.

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Vermont Modern by Hubbardton Forge OLD SPARKY HONOREE LIGHTING: TABLE A twist on modern design and turn of the century form, Old Sparky was inspired by old-fashioned throw switches...like the one used to bring Frankenstein’s monster alive. From the double pole knife switch design, to the dual purpose maple wood accents that act as the insulator for the flow of electricity, Vermont Modern by Hubbardton Forge brings analog and digital technologies to life with this multipurpose LED. It can be used as a plug in for your desk or as a wall pin-up. Direct the LED on the wall for a wash of light or rotate the handle and arm downwards to use as a reading lamp.

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2. In the early stages, potential designs were run through simulations using a custom algorithm and Grasshopper software. 3. The final design is composed of 35 arches of mirror-polished stainless-steel panels, one of which was wrapped in protective film before being laser cut, welded, and inflated with compressed air into a 3-D shape, a process known as FIDU, or free inner pressure forming. 4. Oskar Zie˛ta checks an arch’s finish. 5. The sculpture was fabricated at a former shipyard in Wrocław, and then transported by barge to Daliowa.

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ahead of the curve NOA gives the traditional arch a modern twist for Gloriette Guesthouse, a boutique hotel in Soprabolzano, Italy text: athena waligore photography: alex filz 128

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For centuries, residents of the northern Italian city of Bolzano have sought refuge from the summer heat by retreating to the Dolomites. The construction of a cog railway in 1907 gave ready access to the nearby Alpine village of Soprabolzano, where members of Bolzano’s upper crust established warm-weather estates.

In their gardens they built gloriettes, small guest houses, one of the most known being the 18th-century pavilion on the grounds of Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace. That arcaded belvedere, along with its local descendants and the villas they serve, many in the art nouveau style, informed the design of Gloriette Guesthouse, a new 25-room boutique hotel by NOA* Network of Architecture that reinterprets Soprabolzano’s leisured past for the 21st century.

Naturally, NOA founder Lukas Rungger begins all his and cofounding partner Stefan Rier’s projects with consideration of site and context. But stringent municipal regulations heavily influenced Gloriette’s size, form, and materials. “I took them not as limitations, but as inspirations,” says Rungger, who demolished the sloping property’s existing hotel and replaced it with a compact six-story building. One of its facades reads as three stories topped by a mansard roof; on another, the land falls away to reveal an additional 130

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Previous spread: In Soprabolzano, Italy, the rooftop infinity pool at the Gloriette Guesthouse by NOA* Network of Architecture looks out over the Dolomites.

Opposite top: Flooring in the bar area is resin. Opposite bottom: Maple trees and porphyry pavers define the garden.

Top: Bronzed glass forms the end wall of the pool’s entry portal. Bottom: European oak extends from floor to ceiling in a guest room.

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Opposite: Padded outdoor fabric upholsters the walls and ceiling of a corner in the spa.

Top: Bronzed aluminum panels clad the pool’s 7-foot cantilever. Center: Aluminum rods crisscross overhead. Bottom: The custom platform is resin.

story housing seven suites, each with a private terrace opening onto the garden. Overall square footage is 21,500 square feet.

The neoclassical arches of Vienna’s Gloriette are echoed in the sinuous curves and rounded windows of Soprabolzano’s art nouveau buildings. Respecting that tradition, Rungger has made the semicircular arch a defining architectural element of this hotel, inside and out. “New building techniques allowed us to twist and mirror the form,” the architect says, referring to its most prominent exterior use: a rooftop infinity pool that cantilevers 7 feet from the mansard roof, making it visible from the hotel grounds and further afar. A massive horizontal half-cylinder, whose inverted “U” cross-section Rungger likens to a smile, the aerial structure is clad in bronzed panels and, above the pool, sports a canopy of crisscrossing aluminum rods that casts geometric patterns on the surface of the water.

Entry to the pool is via sliding glass doors set in a large cylindrical portal reminiscent of an airlock on a space station. Accessed by a monumental resin platform, it’s a sleek, sculptural object that dominates one end of the top-floor spa, defining the atticlike volume as strongly as the angles of the mansard roof overhead.

“The spa is organized as one floating space surrounded by more intimate niches,” Rungger explains, acknowledging the need to create moments of enclosure in the face of the omnipresent mountain views. Custom beds, for example, are pushed against low peripheral walls paneled in herringbone oak that serve as anchoring headboards, and upholstery-padded alcoves are outfitted with mattresses on oak platforms, like a luxury take on a mountain grotto. The spa’s more private spaces include a steam bath and a sauna.

Rungger weaves the arch form into the six additional suites and 12 guest rooms occupying the three floors below the spa. All have a balcony framed by a semicircular arch in the hotel’s facade. In some rooms, the inverted “U” reappears as a sort of partition between the sleeping area and the bathroom. On the bathroom side, it’s mirrored and set above the vanity and sink.

Beds, desks, built-ins, and paneling are all in European oak.

Wood is an essential part of the regional vernacular, after all, but the architect was sure the interiors didn’t read as what he calls “Alpine rustic.” So, wherever the material appears, it’s silky smooth with knots and imperfections minimized. “We used a lot of timber, but with clean lines and surfaces,” Rungger explains.

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from the hotel’s facade. Fitted with arched windows and built-in daybeds, these nooks feature walls and ceilings upholstered in cotton in a deep blue, a reference to the signature color at the client’s restaurant, Vögele, in Bolzano. Each suite’s lounge area is furnished with comfortable sofas, adding to the sense of warmth and welcome; one, appropriately named the Chimney suite, has an enormous blackened-steel fireplace.

Arched and rounded elements repeat on the ground floor, where reception and the lounge, restaurant, and bar areas are located.

“There’s not a single door,” Rungger notes of the mostly open plan.

The fireplace near the entry is circular, while the shiny black bar is a semicircle. Extra-wide arched windows give access to the dining terrace. Angularity figures in through some of the lighting, particularly the bronzed pendant fixtures that bend out and downward, like peaks of a mountain.

These areas are peppered with salvaged treasures, antique cupboards and tables from the previous hotel that Rungger refinished and mixed with new furnishings. That touch is representative of the way he blends past with present to create a contemporary environment—an effect he calls “a journey through time.”

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Opposite top: The Chimney suite’s blackened-steel gas fireplace is custom. Opposite bottom: A mansard roof in powder-coated aluminum tops the 25-room stucco hotel.

Top: Cotton upholsters another suite’s niche and daybed. Bottom: A custom mirrored partition separates bathroom from bed in a guest room.

PROJECT TEAM CHRISTIAN ROTTENSTEINER; MARINA GOUSIA; BARBARA RUNGGATSCHER; LEA MITTELBERGER: NOA* NETWORK OF ARCHITECTURE. TSCHIGG-GARDEN: LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT. LED-TEC: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. ING. STEFANO BRUNETTI: STRUCTURAL, CIVIL ENGINEER. KTB-GROUP ENGINEERING DESIGN: MEP. PECHLANER NIKOLAUS & URBAN: WOODWORK. METALL RITTEN: METALWORK. RAMOSER: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT SUPERGRES: BORDER TILES (POOL). ALUCOBOND: PANELING. TISCHLEREI PRAST: CUSTOM BENCH, CUSTOM TABLES (BAR). MONTBEL: CHAIRS. MAIR GERT: FLOORING. UNICUM: CUSTOM ARMCHAIR (POOL). GLASERI RASOM URBANO: CUSTOM END WINDOW. SIMONAZZI: CUSTOM PLATFORM. ROSSETTO: ARMCHAIR (GUEST ROOM). BILLIANI: ROCKING CHAIR (CHIMNEY SUITE). PÖHL CALORE ESTETICO: CUSTOM FIREPLACE. STUDIO P CARPETS: RUG. SMEG: REFRIGERATOR (SUITE). BLOOMINGVILLE: SIDE TABLE. SCARABEO CERAMICHE: SINK (BATHROOM). CRISTINA RUBINETTERIE: SINK FITTINGS. THROUGHOUT WOLF FENSTER: CUSTOM WINDOWS. RUBNER: CUSTOM DOORS. FISCHNALLER; RIER: CUSTOM FURNITURE. LOBIS BÖDEN: WOOD FLOORING. JAB ANSTOETZ GROUP; SOLEIL BLEU: UPHOLSTERY FABRIC.

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the shape of things A brand reinvention comes together at McDonald’s new Chicago headquarters, a collaboration between IA Interior Architects and Studio O+A text: jen renzi photography: garrett rowland

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Previous spread: In McDonald’s Chicago headquarters by IA Interior Architects and Studio O+A, a stairway emblazoned with vinyl wall graphics based on menu items brings students of the training center Hamburger University from and to its lobby below.

Top: A sectional sofa by Outofstock furnishes a break-out area. Center: Hickory-veneered millwork arches over Patricia Urquiola’s sectional in the Hamburger University lobby. Bottom: The metal mesh typically used for French fry baskets inspired the stainless-steel accents in the main lobby.

Opposite: Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific sculpture—an assemblage of cooking implements patented by McDonald’s employees—fills the double-height volume connecting the main lobby and the second-floor test kitchens.

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Almost 50 percent of the workplace is devoted to amenities. Office areas are open-plan, choice-enabled, and activity-based. All 2,400 employees are equipped with the necessary mobility tools to work almost anywhere in the 480,000-square-foot facility—from dinerlike booths tucked in corridors to a verdant roof deck.

Areas around the M.C. Escher–inspired terrazzo staircase that staggers up the four-story central atrium are ground zero for impromptu hangouts and on-the-fly ideating. Wi-Fi and connectivity in the nine-story building are so robust you can dial into a conference call on your cell phone while exiting your car in the below-ground garage, hop on an elevator, and then join the meeting in the eighth-floor boardroom without dropping the call along the way. Visitors check in not with a receptionist but a tablet-wielding greeter à la the Apple Store.

What sounds (and looks) like the paradigm-shifting headquarters of a venture-funded Silicon Valley startup is in fact the home of an iconic Fortune 500 corporation founded in the 1950’s, the kind of company you’d envision rooted in some cubicle-centric suburban campus.

Which in fact describes McDonald’s former Oak Brook, Illinois, HQ to a T. The story of why the global burger giant decamped to Chicago’s West Loop—the formerly fringe-y neighborhood that’s now a burgeoning tech hub and fine-dining epicenter—is a classic American tale of reinvention. The new office is just the latest phase of a top-to-bottom corporate culture shift the fast-food entity set in motion four years ago, when Steve Easterbrook was appointed president and CEO. IA Interior Architects, which had been tapped years ago to consult on the company’s Oak Brook campus master plan, was hired again—this time to help with the real-estate search and an extensive workplace strategy initiative. The latter process netted three key objectives: “To connect work and people, foster and showcase innovation, and create a sustainable, flexible, and evolving workplace that would respond to changing needs,” McDonald’s director of corporate real estate Scott Phillips recalls. The client’s gung-ho embrace of internal mobility sparked a chain reaction that would ultimately impact everything from employee onboarding to technology infrastructure. “That drastically changed how the building was selected and ultimately designed,” IA principal and design director Neil Schneider begins.

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Top: A corridor’s hickory-veneered paneling is CNC-cut with vintage logos. Center: Jacob Hashimoto’s acrylic disks levitate in the four-story atrium. Bottom: LED-lit die-mark packaging illustrations pair with matching cast-resin models on another corridor’s lacquered MDF wall.

Opposite top: A custom polished-brass pendant fixture joins Piergiorgio Cazzaniga chairs in the boardroom. Opposite bottom: Hickory stadium seating runs beneath Allied Maker’s custom pendants in the café.

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The winner of the six-month site search was a notyet-built structure slated to replace Oprah Winfrey’s former studio. The block-wide edifice, designed by Gensler, had the right vibe and enough square footage that McDonald’s could be the sole tenant—giving it the leverage to weigh in on the base building design. “The ability to modify the structure to match the design intent was something we couldn’t have achieved elsewhere,” Schneider notes. “McDonald’s wanted an industrial, exposed-concrete look,” he continues. “But the space also needed to perform.”

The only catch was having to complete the ground-up project within the client’s aggressive 18-month timeline. Pulling off the impossible entailed piloting a novel construction method to simultaneously build up while excavating down. “Every team member brought their most cutting-edge solutions to the table,” says IA senior associate Ruben Gonzalez, the project’s senior job captain. Including Studio O+A, who collaborated with IA on the interior design and oversaw environmental graphics. “We weren’t going to get any give in that schedule!” O+A co-founder and principal and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Primo Orpilla says with a laugh. He and design director Elizabeth Vereker had just 13 months to dream up and fabricate branded art moments to vivify every floor and outfit the copious ancillary zones. “We created lots of little nooks and crannies, from engaged shelters and soft seating in hallways to long arrays of sofas,” he adds.

One such seating-scape—an enfilade of Patricia Urquiola’s Tufty-Times—commandeers the main lobby, which has a view to the second-floor kitchens, where executive chefs cook up menu innovations. (Workplace

strategy extended to the culinary spaces, designed to catalyze collaboration.) Sofa sitters can also marvel at sculptor Jessica Stockholder’s vortex of cooking utensils and equipment patented by McDonald’s employees.

“That beautiful volume was begging to be filled with art,” Vereker says. “We wrote briefs for how artworks could tell the McDonald’s story and tie into the broader design concepts.” The brief for Jacob Hashimoto’s acrylic-disk waterfall filling the atrium: innovation through scale (think billions served).

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Happy Meal toys from the past 50 years populate a custom hickory display unit.

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The piece summarizes the tone of other spatial graphics, which range from a display showcasing decades of Happy Meal toys to fries-motif frit glass on workstations. “In a desire to pivot to new thinking, the client initially said, ‘Don’t look back!’” Orpilla says.

“But the more we dug into the company archives and history, the more we understood the value of revisiting their past.” Vereker adds, “So the challenge was how to look ahead and back simultaneously.”

Now, it’s all about forward momentum. Just eight months post move-in, recruitment is already up 22 percent. But metrics aren’t necessary to gauge the project’s success. “In the old space, employees were sequestered,” Vereker notes, “they didn’t meander. Here, it’s buzzing like a college campus.” Phillips concurs: “We’ve seen a great adoption of the public spaces.” You might even catch sight of the CEO talking with colleagues in the café, modelling how high-level innovation happens.

PROJECT TEAM THOMAS E. POWERS; CAROLYN TUCKER; TJ SMOCZYNSKI; NICHOLAS MOSHER; ADRIENNE HARBARGER; CARA ROONEY FIELDS; ANNE NILSSON; MAGGIE SCHROEDER; JULIE MAGGOS: IA INTERIOR ARCHITECTS. PERRY STEPHNEY; TARI PELAEZ; ALEX BAUTISTA; PAULINA MCFARLAND; JILL GENTLES; DONALD KOIDE; KRISTINA CHO: STUDIO O+A. MAGNUSSON KLEMENCIC ASSOCIATES: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. WMA CONSULTING ENGINEERS: MEP. TERRA ENGINEERING: CIVIL ENGINEER. WAVEGUIDE: AUDIOVISUAL CONSULTANT. MOSS: CUSTOM GRAPHICS FABRICATION. PARENTI & RAFFAELLI: WOODWORK. EXECUTIVE CONSTRUCTION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT SKYLINE DESIGN: RISERS (UNIVERSITY STAIRCASE).

TERRAZZO & MARBLE SUPPLY COMPANIES: CUSTOM TREADS, LANDING (STAIRCASES). OPTIC ARTS: TREAD FIXTURES. HDI RAILING SYSTEMS: CUSTOM HANDRAILS. BOLIA: SOFA (BREAKOUT). DEVORM: SIDE TABLES. NORR11: CHAIR. SIMON JAMES: STOOLS. KASTHALL: RUGS (BREAKOUT, LOBBIES, ATRIUM). ATELIER ARETI: CEILING FIXTURES (BREAKOUT, UNIVERSITY LOBBY). B&B ITALIA: SOFAS (LOBBIES). MISSANA: ARMCHAIRS. PHASE DESIGN/REZA FEIZ: CUSTOM COFFEE TABLES. TOM DIXON: SIDE TABLES. FURNI TURE SHOP: PILLOWS. CAESARSTONE: DESKTOP (UNIVERSITY LOBBY). MUTINA: DESK FACE. BANKER WIRE & IRON WORKS: MESH PANELS (LOBBY). KVADRAT: BOOTH FABRIC (HALL).

WEST COAST INDUSTRIES: CUSTOM TABLES. MASHSTUDIOS: CUSTOM TABLETOPS. NAUGHTONE: BENCH. ANDREU WORLD: CHAIRS (BOARDROOM). KEILHAUER: TABLE. VAN BESOUW: CUSTOM RUG. INNOVATIVE GLASS CORPORATION: SWITCH GLASS. REJUVENATION: CUSTOM PENDANT FIXTURES (BOARDROOM, OFFICE AREA). ALLIED MAKER: CUSTOM PENDANT FIXTURES (CAFÉ). KRISTALIA: CHAIRS, STOOLS. DAVIS FURNITURE: TABLES. TEK NION: CUSTOM WORKSTATIONS, HIGH TABLES (OFFICE AREA). INTERFACE: CARPET TILE. TANDUS

Top: Photographs along a corridor’s feature wall are of favorite dishes globally and flip over to reveal descriptions. Center: A swath of treated concrete flows through an office area. Bottom: In the sustainability lounge, abstracted aerial views depict the farms from which McDonald’s sources ingredients.

Opposite: LEDs illuminate the atrium’s terrazzo stair treads.

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CENTIVA: RUG. FLUXWERX ILLUMINATION: CEILING STRIP FIXTURES. OX DENMARQ: ARMCHAIRS (LOUNGE). MOROSO: SOFA. HINTERLAND DESIGN: TABLE. ANOTHER COUNTRY: TABLES (ATRIUM). THROUGHOUT BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT. VERSATRAC: STOREFRONT SYSTEMS. DOOGE VENEERS; PLYBOO: VENEER.

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With Gachot Studios, watchmaker Shinola expands to hospitality in its hometown of Detroit text: ted loos photography: nicole franzen

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Haven’t heard of Detroit’s coolest accessories company?

Then you don’t know chic from Shinola. Named after the defunct 19th-century shoe polish that spurred the famously salty phrase, the brand was begun in 2011 by Tom Kartsotis with a line of upscale watches. Now making other luxury leather goods as well as bicycles, it has been on a meteoric rise since—as has its hometown of Detroit, a formerly depressed city, but today a burgeoning cultural hub. When a label and a city reach a convergence point, can a stylish hotel be far behind?

But a Shinola hotel had to be just right. Enter Gachot Studios, led by husband-and-wife John and Christine Gachot. The 129-room Shinola Hotel they conceived for Kartsotis pulls off the trick of fitting into its location, smack dab in Detroit’s downtown, while also elevating its surroundings with a look that could be called American eclectic modern.

Previous spread: A former department store houses the lobby of the Shinola Hotel in Detroit by Gachot Studios, the staircase’s iron balustrade dating to 1925 but the woodburning fireplace and Italian marble mantel newly added.

Opposite top: Its mohair-covered sofas are among the many American-made furnishings throughout the 129-key property.

Opposite bottom: A guest room’s bed and side table, both custom, and flooring are white oak, the hotel’s dominant wood.

Top: Artworks are mostly by Michigan-based artists, curated by Library Street Collective, a local gallery. Bottom: The combination of new and old buildings resulted in 50 room types.

The Gachots had been working with Shinola since 2014, designing retail locations in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, New York. So when the topic of a hotel came up, Christine Gachot, who has developed properties for André Balazs, leapt at the chance. “Tom said, ‘I don’t know if you’re getting the keys to the castle just yet,’” she recalls of early discussions about the project.

Eventually they did, and then their firm had to grapple with a serious architectural challenge: combining historic and new structures in a felicitous way to create the nearly 140,000-square-foot final product. The historic structures

are two circa 1930 buildings, one of them an old eightstory department store on a corner lot, and the other, a nearby former Singer sewing-machine store. Gachot fused them with a ground-up addition plus two small infill buildings. The addition of a sky bridge further cements the combination. From the longest front elevation, the buildings appear like separate neighbors, respectfully varied in a sort of Jane Jacobs way. But from the back, it’s apparent how they all add up to one entity. Inside, the designers kept great old details, “and what we couldn’t maintain, we replicated,” John Gachot says.

Room planning in a hotel is a jigsaw puzzle at the best of times, but the patchwork nature of this project meant the firm ended up with a staggering 50 different room types. But the optimists at Gachot Studios made lemonade. “Typically, when you’re working on existing conditions, rooms get cut up,” Christine Gachot says. “But we didn’t do that. If there was leftover space, we made it into a guest-room vanity or a dining nook.” Or, bathrooms

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became extra large, getting dressing rooms and big closets.

“We just maximized each of the room plans,” she states.

“We let loose a little and had fun.”

The color scheme is a warm combination of caramels, browns, and a signature blue the firm invented for the project, a similar version of one that is used in Shinola retail shops, where you can purchase the Shinola products used throughout the hotel. In both the rooms and the lobby, that palette mixes with American white oak flooring and trim. “Everything had to be super friendly and inviting,” Christine Gachot says, “nothing over designed or tricky.” The Gachots also resisted the attempt to gesture explicitly to Detroit’s manufacturing past and Opposite top: In a guest room, above another marble-clad fireplace, is a urethane on wood by Beverly Fishman, artist-in-residence and head of painting at Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy of Art. Opposite bottom: Italianate marble flooring flows through San Morello, the hotel’s restaurant.

Top: Linen-shaded sconces and a mohair-covered stool, all custom, furnish a guest-room vanity nook. Bottom: Custom rugs are made of handwoven wool.

present—no muscular iron beams here—so the aesthetic would be appropriate in other cities.

It’s in the lobby that the cozy factor comes through the strongest, perhaps a natural outcome given the firm’s established residential portfolio. “I never call it lobby, I say living room,” Christine Gachot notes. “People are looking for a hotel to be an extension of home. The days of a big theatrical set are gone.” Setting that tone is a grand marble fireplace (the firm installed them wherever possible), along with residentially scaled sofas peppered with velvet throw pillows. Like nearly all the hotel’s furniture, they’re custom creations made in the U.S., in sync with Shinola’s own manufacturing practices.

The vibe skews a bit more continental in San Morello, the restaurant on the hotel’s ground floor. Chef Andrew Carmellini, who’d collaborated previously with the Gachots on one of his New York eateries, sought an Italian look for this 110-seat space. But, worried it would be too divorced from the American eclecticism permeating the project, their firm reined in that desire, but acquiesced with an Italianate checkerboard floor pattern and vibrant wall tile in the open kitchen. The U.S.—and Detroit in particular—is one big melting pot, after all.

PROJECT TEAM CATE MILLS; LENA BRAGINA; LIANA CASSEL; ELIZABETH CRUZ; CARLY ROTATORI; KRISTEN COLLINS; BRIDGET RYNNE: GACHOT STUDIOS. KRAEMER DE SIGN GROUP: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. L’OBSERVATOIRE INTERNATIONAL: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. DESAI/NASR CONSULTING ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. IDS: MEP. DIVISION 6 FABRICATION & INSTALLATION; MOD INTERIORS: WOODWORK. ARTISAN TILE; WOLV-ERINE STONE CO.: STONEWORK, TILEWORK. RUSSELL PLASTERING CO: PLASTERWORK. BARTON MALOW COMPANY: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT HEATH CERAMICS: CUSTOM VASES, CUSTOM BOWLS (LOBBY, GUEST ROOMS). FRETTE: BEDDING (GUEST ROOMS). THROUGHOUT DE MC NABB FLOORING; MASTER CRAFT FLOORS: CUSTOM WOOD FLOORING. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT.

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Clockwise from top left: Shinola’s first store, by Rockwell Group, opened in New York in 2013. A worker fine-tunes a Shinola timepiece in the Detroit factory. The Caseback of the Vinton is the brand’s first engravable watch.

The hand-fitted Runwell bicycle has a steel frame and fork. Leather forms the Birdy Hobo as well as the Luggage ID.

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Opposite, from top: Stainless steel surrounds the Shinola clock outside a Los Angeles store. The Shinola Hotel in Detroit by Gachot Studios has its own retail component.

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keeps on ticking The aesthetic is old-school, strong to the point of muscular, but with luxury undertones. That’s Shinola, the men’s and women’s accessories brand headquartered in Detroit. Its factory, set up there in 2012 by Tom Kartsotis, who previously founded the watch company Fossil Group, now produces some 500 timepieces a day, mostly by hand, and has its own in-house leather workshop fabricating the straps. Shinola has since expanded its offerings to include totes and backpacks, journals, audio speakers, and bicycles.

Retail locations have equally taken off. Rockwell Group designed the first in 2013, in downtown New York. Today, there are 30 stores across the U.S. as well as outposts in Toronto and London. To hear the company’s executives tell it, expanding to the hospitality sector was a natural. “Shinola has always been committed to delivering high-quality, beautifully crafted goods since the get-go, and it’s been no different with this project,” CEO Tom Lewand says of the Shinola Hotel designed by Gachot Studios. “We pieced every aspect of it together with Detroit in mind yet it’s also welcoming to tourists and business travelers.” Given the brand’s proclivity to steady growth, you shouldn’t be too surprised if a Shinola Hotel rolls into your town, too.

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architecture as arabesque Grace pervades Pone Architecture’s arts academy in Wuhan, China

text: rebecca lo photography: chen ming

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Moms and dads will vividly recall the moment when their child first pipes up with an insight that leaves them breathless. Exactly that occurred while Pone Architecture design director Ming Leung was playing with her 4-yearold daughter at home in Guangzhou, China. “When bubbles meet the ceiling, why do they burst?” the girl asked as she watched soap bubbles float upward. “Why doesn’t the ceiling burst?”

In that eureka moment, bubbles became the central concept that Leung and design director Golden Ho would subsequently explore for an arts academy in Wuhan. As Leung elaborates with a smile, “Children think differently than we do. My daughter was speaking instinctively. To me, her comment meant that she was eager to protect the beauty that she sees both with her eyes and in her heart.”

Children age 4 to 12 were the group that interested the government-owned China Poly Education when it originally approached Pone about setting up an initiative to conduct research into the design of arts environments. A year later, China Poly Education announced the intention to establish Hele International Art Center, a professional school for the performing and visual arts.

In addition, the affiliated China Poly Development Holdings envisions the ground-up facility as a real-estate magnet, attracting families to the company’s new midrises in the surrounding suburban area.

“From the start, there were three criteria,” Leung explains. “First, Hele should not look childish. Rather, it should convey an impression of professionalism. Second, interiors should reflect how children feel, as opposed to the constrained and rigid style of traditional teaching environments. Third, the center should be a place that fosters art for the entire city.”

Previous spread: A staircase with stone-composite treads connects the two levels of Hele International Art Center, a project in Wuhan, China, by Pone Architecture.

Inset: A sculpture standing near the entry to a dance studio is also the work of Pone design director Ming Leung. Above: Forms around the staircase were inspired by the way soap bubbles make contact with a surface, stretching before they burst.

Opposite: LEDs illuminate a ring recessed in the stone-composite floor as well as in the stair’s risers and balustrades.

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Opposite top: A dance studio features engineered wood sprung flooring. Opposite bottom: Movable furniture, ample storage, and running water are essential for a painting studio.

Below: Jam sessions can take place in an open space upstairs.

Hele’s two-story, 58,500-square-foot building now serves 2,000 students, led by 30 faculty and staff consisting of arts professors from China’s top universities alongside professional artists and performers. Subjects include calligraphy, ballet, vocal music, piano, an ancient Chinese plucked instrument called the guzheng,

and martial arts. Students attend regular day school for reading, writing, and arithmetic, then come to Hele to study in the late afternoon and early evening, on weekends, and during holidays.

Immediately upon entering, Dorothy knows she’s not in Kansas anymore. The fluid open spaces that greet her are anchored by the sweeping curves of a staircase with illuminated steps that spiral upward, while an overarching canopy swoops down. In sight of the entry, room enclosures curve enticingly, leading the eye around corners. These enclosures are clad with vertical panels of blond wood-grain composite, the only color against an ethereal white backdrop.

“We played with the idea of a naughty bubble that we chase, but it keeps eluding us,” Leung explains. “Some bubbles expand to function as classrooms, while others demarcate spaces that students can appropriate for mini concerts. A few semicircular lounges can accommodate parents waiting for children to finish class.” Due to the nature of the school’s curriculum, square footage ranges from 50 for dressing rooms and 90 for intimate studios for one-on-one teaching to 1,300 for a dance studio and 2,600 for an amphitheater. One round classroom on FEB.19

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Inset left: Hele’s ground-up structure stands in front of a tower built by China Poly Development Holdings. Inset right: Ballet students appropriate a corridor with an aperture overlooking the staircase. Above: Stair balustrades are painted gypsum-board.

Opposite: The school serves children from 4 to 12 years old.

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the ground level, just behind the spiral staircase, is intended for painting. Stacked directly above is a multipurpose room for assemblies and the like.

“Furniture in the smaller classrooms, such as the ones for painting, is multifunctional,” Ho points out.

“Tables and chairs can be height-adjusted to suit different ages and sizes. Tables can be ganged together for group learning or separated for independent work, depending on the lesson or the activity.” Rooms that require storage for gear such as paint, palettes, and brushes are outfitted with built-ins that combine open shelves, closed cabinets, and shallow pull-out drawers for large sheets of paper.

Wherever possible, illumination is natural. Sunlight shines through the large windows of perimeter classrooms, then filters through their glass fronts, into corridors. Artificial illumination is LED, softly diffused by a stretched membrane system. Against the predominantly white backdrop, the overall effect is of a gentle aura that seems to radiate from the curving surfaces.

“Circulation areas are lit at 200 lux, the average classroom is 300 lux, and the dance studio is 400 lux,” Leung notes. “The warm glow is meant to help build confidence in budding artists.”

PROJECT TEAM GUANGDONG PAK CORPORATION CO.: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. WUHAN TOPOGRAPHY ELECTRONICS CO.: AUDIOVISUAL CONSULTANT. FOSHAN TIANGE ACOUSTICS DECORATION MATERIALS CO.: ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANT. CITIC GENERAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND RESEARCH CO.: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. WUHAN XIANYAO ARCHITECTURAL DECORATION ENGINEERING CO.: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT PACO: FLOOR (DANCE STUDIO). IKEA: TABLES, CHAIRS (PAINTING STUDIO). THROUGHOUT MARCO POLO: STONE-COMPOSITE FLOOR. LG: WALL COVERING. NIPPON PAINT: PAINT.

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Once ubiquitous, Chicago’s corner bars have closed up shop in ever growing numbers lately. But Schubas Tavern, a live music venue housed in a neo-Gothic landmark, is more relevant than ever, hosting sold-out shows nearly seven nights per week. And that’s just the recent history. The building was constructed in 1903 by the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. as a “tied house,” a British term for brewery-owned pubs that pushed their own beer. In fact, the orange brick facade of Schubas still features the Schlitz logo—a globe wrapped in a sash—in terra-cotta bas-relief.

Schubas is now owned by the Audiotree Group, which also operates a music festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was Audiotree COO and co-founder Adam Thurston and president Michael Johnston who saw the potential in opening a more upscale sister restaurant for Schubas. “There are a lot of crossovers between music and food,” Thurston says.

“Chefs are like rock stars these days.” So Audiotree bought and demolished the diner and parking lot next door, then hired Gensler to build on the site.

The new structure’s basement would include a luxurious green room for talent, something that Schubas lacked. Thurston and Johnston made it clear, however, that Schubas itself was off-limits. “It felt like we were treading on sacred territory, this beloved place where people have memories of seeing concerts,” Gensler managing director and principal Todd Heiser explains.

A notion that locales can become more vital, over time, was central to Heiser and principal Eric Gannon’s design of the building for Tied House. At 12,000 square feet, it’s larger than Schubas, but both use orange brick. “Honesty of materials—it’s certainly a Chicago story,” Heiser says. On the upper level of Tied House, window

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Previous spread: In the dining area at Tied House, a Chicago restaurant by Gensler, Almudena Rodriguez’s mixedmedia painting hangs against a Venetian plaster wall.

Opposite top: The bar’s Calacatta gold marble descends to a floor detailed with tile by Kelly Wearstler. Opposite bottom: In the courtyard, a copper mantel surrounds a gas fireplace.

Top: A courtyard connects Schubas Tavern, a 1903 landmark, to Tied House.

Bottom: Dining chairs by Matthew Hilton are reflected in mirror suspended beneath ceiling panels custom-cast in fiberglass-reinforced gypsum.

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Top, from left: The steel lattice system supporting the facade’s brick screen can be seen from the private events space. Its bar contains nonfunctional stereo equipment, visible behind steel mesh. Bottom: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s multi-pendant fixtures light the bar’s walnut top.

Opposite: In the private events space, a Wang Ke acrylic on canvas faces a vintage table and chair.

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walls are partially concealed behind a brick screen laid out in an X pattern, a nod to the brickwork next door. “In the architecture, you see a series of X shapes that play off each other, and there’s the positive-negative relationship of the brick,” he says. “It all works together.” On the ground level, Schubas has arched windows, whereas Tied House’s floor-to-ceiling glass is more open to the street.

Inspired in part by Chicago’s motto, Urbs en Horto, meaning city in a garden, Heiser and Gannon left space for an intimate courtyard between the street-front sections of the two buildings. Inviting people to gather, a massive copper outdoor fireplace is already starting to patina. Like the copper cornices next door, the fireplace will just get more beautiful over time. “The idea was to give Schubas a little pocket park,” Heiser says.

“In the summer, you can come early for a drink or dinner and then stay for a show.”

When the weather allows, Tied House’s sliding glass doors stack away, opening the bar area completely to the courtyard.

Although the bar proper is purposely similar in size and shape to the antique wooden bar at Schubas, the new one is Calacatta gold marble, selected for both its heft and gold veining. “The bar grounds the space, and the marble speaks to the quality and service,” Gannon says, adding that the bar is one of two big moves on the ground level. The other is a tufted leather-upholstered banquette that wraps a corner of the dining area, absorbing sound and complementing the dark-green painted paneling on one wall and the Venetian plaster on the other. Oversize molded panels cover much of the ceiling, a response to the tin ceiling at Schubas. “This is a very clean-lined, contemporary project, but there are nuances in the detailing,” Heiser says. “We took traditional references and blew them up.”

Compared to the natural lightness and brightness during the summer, the winter experience is much cozier, with candles on every table, copper sconces with slender LED tubes, and indirect lighting from concealed LEDs. Light also bounces off gilt-framed mirrored canopies suspended just below the ceiling. The one over the bar allows drinkers to watch the mixologists, crafting cocktails, from an unexpected perspective. “Almost like a chef’s table,” Heiser says.

Previous spread: In the sitting room of a Beirut home by Claude Missir Interiors, a custom sofa and vintage Gio Ponti chair meet a of in glass and From left: Near a HervĂŠ Van der Straeten anodized-aluminium mirror in the same room, another seating vignette is anchored by a brass and steel screen by Taher Chemirik; the coffee and side tables are also

by Van der Straeten. GamFratesi Beetle chairs surround a custom dining table with Bianco Sivec marble top. The necklace sculpture is by Jean-Marc Othoniel.

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References to the past are more mid-century modern in the upstairs space for private events. The furniture, scavenged from thrift stores, can be easily moved into different configurations depending on what’s taking place. During one of the shopping excursions for the project, the design team visited stores selling used stereo equipment and ultimately bought a lot of nonfunctional speakers. Now grouped beneath the top of the tableheight bar, they’re visible behind mesh punctuated by the Tied House logo in neon.

“We did all the brand work,” Gannon notes. “We were very thoughtful about how to tie that string all the way through.” All in all, the blend of contemporary innovation with historical call-backs strikes just the right note.

PROJECT TEAM LEE GREENBERG; ALLISON WEBER; SAM DAVISON; MARK SPENCER; RANDAL CARTWRIGHT; DANIEL KRAUSE; ELEFTHERIA RIGA-DERRICO: GENSLER. ZUTALÉ DESIGN: LIGHTING, AUDIOVISUAL CONSULTANT. WOLFF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT. ROCKEY STRUCTURES: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. RTM ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS: MEP. V3 COMPANIES: CIVIL ENGINEER. DEMETER MILLWORK: WOODWORK. LCS CONSTRUCTION CO.: MASONRY. HELIOS CONSTRUCTION SERVICES: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT DESIGN WITHIN REACH: CHAIRS (DINING AREA). KINGSTON TILE COMPANY: CUSTOM BAR (BAR AREA), CUSTOM FLOOR TILE (RESTROOM). STELLAR WORKS: BARSTOOLS (BAR AREA). ANN SACKS: FLOOR TILE. REBECHINI STUDIOS: CUSTOM SHELVES. L ACANTINA DOORS: CUSTOM SLIDING DOORS. DESIGNTEX: DRAPERY FABRIC. COALESSE: CHAIRS (COURTYARD). PROGRESSIVE DYNAMICS: CUSTOM FIREPLACE. SQUARE 1 PRECISION LIGHTING: CUSTOM SCONCES (DINING AREA). FLOYD STEEL: CUSTOM LATTICE (EVENT SPACE). HOWE: CHAIRS. NEON DESIGN: CUSTOM NEON LIGHT. MUTINA: WALL TILE. FLOS: PENDANT FIXTURES. BRIZO: SINK FITTINGS (RESTROOM). LEE BROOM: SCONCES (RESTROOMS). FLAVOR PAPER: WALL COVERING (GREEN RESTROOM). DORNBRACHT: SINK FITTINGS. KVADRAT: WALL COVERING (EVENT SPACE). THROUGHOUT TIGER LEATHER: UPHOLSTERY. STROMBER ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS: CUSTOM CEILING PANELS. CW KNEELAND GLASS: CUSTOM MIRROR PANELS. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT. ARTISAN VENETIAN PLASTER: CUSTOM PLASTERWORK. STEELITE INTERNATIONAL: FLATWARE, GLASSWARE. PITTCO ARCHITECTURAL METALS: CUSTOM WINDOWS.

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Opposite top: Chairs by Florent Coirier Design Studio stand on the courtyard’s porcelain pavers. Opposite bottom: Oak-veneered paneling, found in the restaurant’s public spaces, extends into the men’s and women’s restrooms.

Top: Ghislaine Viñas designed the wall covering and Lee Broom the sconces in the unisex restroom. Bottom: PearsonLloyd side chairs join vintage furniture in the private events space.

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“When diverse elements collide, ordinary becomes unique�

AD Architecture project XZone, Shantou, China. standout The combination of concrete, sculpturesque seating, and spare but strong color feels more art gallery than branding consultancy headquarters. photography Ouyang Yun.

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text: georgina mcwhirter

forms and function Design-driven workplaces can enhance productivity

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Progres Atelier project Aon, Prague. standout Contemporary interventions in the form of a resin cocoon chandelier and a mezzanine of powder-coated metal enabled the 1896 neo-baroque shell housing the insurance company to stay intact. photography BoysPlayNice.

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Beza Projekt project Nest, Warsaw. standout Residentially scaled custom furniture, plush upholstery and carpet, and decorative wallpaper by Ikakok yield an intentional homey vibe at the five-level co-working space, drenched in its corporate color. photography Jacek Kołodziejski/Beza Projekt.

“Our language of pattern and texture is organic and vivid”

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KOGAA Studio project Distillery, Brno, Czech Republic. standout The 19th-century former distillery’s bones translated well into a co-working space: partially removing its central beam system to create a double-height presentation hall and installing a tiny bar in an existing elevator shaft. photography BoysPlayNice.

“The potential of post-industrial adaptation excites us”

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C O N TA C T s DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE AD Architecture (“Forms and Function,” page 170), adcasa.hk.

Beza Projekt (“Forms and Function,” page 170), bezaprojekt.pl.

KOGAA Studio (“Forms and Function,” page 170), kogaa.eu.

Progres Atelier (“Forms and Function,” page 170), progres-atelier.cz.

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES Alex Filz (“Ahead of the Curve,” page 128), alexfilz.com.

Nicole Franzen (“Time to Check-In,” page 146), nicolefranzen.com.

Eric Laignel Photography (“In Perfect Harmony,” page 162), ericlaignel.com.

Chen Ming (“Architecture as Arabesque,” page 154), pgchenming.com.

Garrett Rowland (“The Shape of Things,” page 136), garrettrowland.com.

DESIGNER IN HOTSHOTS Ross Gardam (“Strong Connection,” page 46), rossgardam.com.au.

PHOTOGRAPHER IN HOTSHOTS Haydn Cattach Photography (“Strong Connection,” page 46), haydncattach.com.

DESIGNER IN WALK-THROUGH Brandon Haw Architecture (“Picture of Health,” page 59), brandonhawarch.com.

PHOTOGRAPHER IN WALK-THROUGH Albert Vecerka (“Picture of Health,” page 59), Esto, esto.com.

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Zieta Prozessdesign (“Breath of Fresh Air,” page 123), zieta.pl.

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Sport has risen to spectacle these days.

And the Arena du Pays d’Aix in southern France is a response to that movement.

Designed by Auer Weber and Christophe Gulizzi Architecte, the exterior of the 250,000-square-foot elliptical building is as engaging as the activities happening within—mostly handball but also basketball and hockey games, boxing matches, concerts, and other entertainment.

“Today, an arena is a contemporary theater, a bridge between sport and culture,” Christophe Gulizzi says. “Ours is an allegory to energy and movement.”

He’s referring to the facade’s aluminum ribbons. They increasingly protrude as they rise up three stories, the uppermost level cantilevering 40 feet.

Their stacked orientation also subtly guides visitors toward the entrance, a ground-level expanse of glass panels.

Inside is equally dynamic, encompassing a 6,000-seat multifunctional hall with a modular platform offering 17 different configurations, and the sports hall with over 1,000 seats and retractable bleachers. In addition to the complicated programming, the teams had to comply with a short timeline, completing the project less than three years after the initial competition. But, like athletes, architects love a challenge. Auer Weber partner Moritz Auer states: “We never lost sight of our goal.” Spoken like a true champion. —Wilson Barlow

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