Sogo Department Store Beijing

The Beijing office has made a stunning presentation of their Sogo Department Store fitout. We are working into the challenge of scale, quality and time frame.

UOMO = Fashion for Man

This flagship store is one of the hottest fashion venue in Milazzo Italy. The undulating display benches are crafting the shopping experience of the seasonal collections. The shop front is fitted with low reflective glass to bring the display closer to customer. This is a special shop handcrafted to the precision of the digital design process.

Town hall, Rometta

Town hall

Castelmola art gallery, Taormina

The gallery occupies a hill top site and will house the art work produced over a time by artist that come to stay for retreats. The collected art pieces are to be housed in an ever growing collection that will be open to the public.

Lemon factory extension, Messina

The administrative wing to the factory that is the largest producer of lemon juice and lemon extracts and essences in Italy is being built adjacent to the production building.

The brief was to create a sequence of flexible spaces that would house the reception, the offices, the staff meeting spaces and canteen as well as small swimming pool and fitness.

The interior of the building reacts to the need of the brief to keep the spaces flexible and be able to change their use over time.

Holiday Inn hotel, Oxford

The proposal comprises a three star hotel to be operated as a franchise of Holiday Inn and an adjacent new leisure club & spa.

The two components of the development, the hotel and leisure club & spa, were conceived as a single concept albeit to occupy two physically separate but closely related buildings. The two components complement one another and together would represent a new gateway development for the Harwell International Business Centre north entrance.

The buildings have been designed to occupy small footprints within the site retaining as far as possible the existing open character of the site. The development would retain all of the large, mature trees around the site perimeter boundary…

Sarajevo Concert hall, Bosnia Herzegovina

The project extends the public surface of the city of Sarajevo into and under the ground, forming a continuous space wrapping the foyers, the auditoriums and the service areas as well as an outdoor landscape above which bleeds into the surrounding parks.

The surrounding surface of the parkscape dissolves into and continues underground in a whirlpool movement allowing access from several critical viewpoints. The bifurcated landscaping creates openings for entrances and natural lighting. The surface also expands and contracts on its way down, accommodating different events through the building.

Piaggio Headquarters, London

Previously the UK headquarters of Piaggio have been located in South London and following the success of the sales of the Vespa range of scooters the comapny grew to about thirty staff in a short space of time nad needed to relocate. The top floor of 1 Boundary Row was available and the central location and the refurbished interior offered a suitable space of 500 sqm for Piaggio UK headquarters. The office space was left mainly open plan apart from the main boardroom serving up to 30 for annual board room meetings, the spaces of accounts and the main directors office. The contrast between the old interior and the new was emphasized by the choice of predominantly simple design of UNIFOR Misura and Less (designed by Jean Nouvel for Cartier Foundation) range provided by Ergonom London. All cabling was concealed within the trunking underneath the refurbished timber floors to provide broadband facilities. Glass walls were introduced for divisions to provide light and privacy. Meeting tables offer various layouts for the meeting arrangements and desks have personalised storage facilities.

Watermill, Amalfi

The project won the bronze medal for the Holcim awards in Architecture worldwide.

The refurbishment of the disused industrial buildings in Italy were part of the competition for architects and individual buildings were assigned as briefs.

The proposal responds to the current trends of agri-turism and re-instes the original spaces by assigning them new uses and new relationships to the landscape.

G Valentino, Milano

with Gianni Botsford Architects

Giovanni Valentino, the leather goods company was seeking a design strategy for the new concessions and retails chain they were seeking to establish. The proposal included in result a complete integration of the interior design, graphic design and material, advertising and product design. After the initial proposal for a New York site the first shop unit was completed in the centre of Milan. The small space of the shop interior - a mere 5 x 5 m - was maximised by the concealement of all storage within the sliding walls and the semitransparency of the stainless steel space-frame shelving emphasized by the adjustable ligthing arrangements. This module unit that was reflected throughout the interior was a reflection of the cyber-skin leather designs for the leather goods and house design items.