Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System – HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Hangzhou AN Interior Design’s design for the retail brand Heike has been named the world’s best interior of 2016. Announced at the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors in Berlin, which took place alongside the World Architecture Festival, the winner of the prize was selected from among 9 category winners, which in turn were picked out of a shortlist totaling 62 projects. The Black Cant System was also the winner of the retail category.

Described by the designers as a “glum interior” with a “futuristic melancholy atmosphere” for the retail brand, the centerpiece of the design is a large, dark wedge housing many of the store’s functional components such as fitting rooms and staircases.

Read on for more images of, and for the full list of category winners.

Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System – HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System – HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System – HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors

CATEGORY WINNERS

Bars & Restaurants: Rachel’s Burger (Shanghai, China) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Rachel's Burger (Shanghai, China) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office. Image © Dirk Weiblen

Civic, Culture & Transport: York Theatre Royal (York, UK) / De Matos Ryan

York Theatre Royal (York, UK) / De Matos Ryan. Image © Hufton+Crow

Creative Re-Use: Baradari (City Palace Jaipur, India) / Studio Lotus

Baradari (City Palace Jaipur, India) / Studio Lotus. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Display: The Cut, stand design for Kvadrat (Milan, Italy) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

The Cut, stand design for Kvadrat (Milan, Italy) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Health & Education: Emardental Clinic (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/ Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab

Emardental Clinic (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/ Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Hotels: Puro Hotel (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/ Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab

Puro Hotel (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Offices: Paramount by The Office Space (Sydney, Australia) / Woods Bagot Architects

Paramount by The Office Space (Sydney, Australia) / Woods Bagot Architects. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Residential: Indigo Slam (Sydney, Australia) / Smart Design Studio

Indigo Slam (Sydney, Australia) / Smart Design Studio. Image via World Festival of Interiors

Retail: Black Cant System – HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design

Black Cant System – HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors

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© Sam Tsen

• Architects: Waterfrom Design co. Ltd. / Nic Lee
• Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
• Designer: Karen Lin, Richard Kuo
• Area: 462.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Sam Tsen

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From the architect. Located at Tamsui City overlooking the estuary of Tamsui River under Mount Guanyin and featuring a private home spa pool in each unit, this famous luxury residential tower manifests a housing concept comprising pool views, river views and sea views. To extend into the interior magnificent scenes of colorful water ripple reflections during Tamsui sunset, a creative design approach has been adopted with Italian Memento antiqued-effect porcelain tiles paved on the floor in great areas interpreting genus loci, a pervading spirit of the place, while handmade faux stone uneven finish echoes the ruffling tiny waves on water surface. With magical power exerted by time, all activities and moods in this vacation residence seem to be slowing down. Things though sharing the same space and time, illusion of time dilation appears.

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A distinctive atmosphere of frozen timelessness in the place is what we aspire to catch with the flowing river in front and the passing sun overhead left as the only moving things.  Neutral colors and earth tones, such as beige in the leather main wall, beige grey in floorings, light brown green granite back wall and off-white in travertine main wall have been used to convey moods of placidity and steadiness of the space, while the shared feel and warmth of these grained materials as well as the perpetualness communicated by their being simple and unadorned respond to Piet Mondrian’s usage of primary colors. Colors help set boundaries to a space rather than decorate it.

Pattern of manifestation is based on De Stijl, or Dutch neoplasticism: pure abstraction and simplicity with appearances reduced to essentials of forms but ignoring curves and natural forms while visual balance is attained via precise manipulation of planes, lines and rectangles. Inspired by works of Piet Mondrian and eliminating colorfulness, the design of back wall in living room creates rhythmicity with asymmetry bringing equalitarianism and dynamic equilibrium into the picture. Constructivism has been employed in shoe cabinet design near the entrance. Instead of building one bulky cabinet, it is deconstructed and reorganized into four separate cabinets allowing light with rhythmic feelings to come in between introducing the space layout. In contrast to the open river view, interior of the apartment is a comparatively closed space and an approach has been attempted to create outward oriented openness in all directions producing an effect of extending to infinity. Hence, all activities, including cooking and exercising, have been guided to be conducted facing the Tamsui River. Broadened passageways and free-standing furniture, including sofa, kitchen islands and exercising equipment, ensure continuous traffic flow without blocked views in any direction.

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Photographer: Matt Emmett – Building: Covered Reservoir, Finsbury Park, London, United Kingdom / East London Water Works Company 1868. . Image via Arcaid Images

Matt Emmett’s photograph of the East London Water Works Company covered reservoir in Finsbury Park, built 1868, has been named the winner of the 2016 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award. Announced on the final day of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin, the image was notable for being the first winner to feature a historic location as its subject, and drew comparisons to a Piranesi print.

Each shortlisted image was judged on the merits of the photography for composition, sense of place, atmosphere and use of scale. Emmett received the most total points across each category.

“The breadth of architectural photography presented to us was amazing. With their own distinctive view, the photographers opened our eyes for a second time and helped us to discover things we hadn’t previously appreciated. I found this extremely enriching,” commented Judge Ulrich Müller, Architect and Director at Architektur Galerie Berlin.

Emmett will take home a $3,000 prize for the win. All of the shortlisted images will appear in the upcoming exhibition, ‘Building Images’ at Sto Werkstatt, London in February 2017.

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© João Morgado

• Architects: Ana Coelho Arquitectura
• Location: Porto, Portugal
• Architect In Charge: Ana Coelho Arquitectura
• Design Team: Ana Coelho, Marta Martins
• Area: 550.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: João Morgado

• Investor/Client: Baumhaus Serviced Apartments
• Contractor: BGM – Engenharia e Construção

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The project started with a traditional bourgeois house built around 1850, in Oporto, Portugal. Although being used initially as a family house and after as a school, what implied certain transformations, the structure of the building was in perfect conditions as well as the traditional materials and techniques preserved – granite masonry, wood joinery, and traditional ornate decorative ceiling plasterwork. 

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Therefore, the raw-building presented most of its original XIXth century features, without major transformation from the original. 

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The challenge was to respect the building genesis installing nine comfortable apartments, combining the ancient building charm with a contemporary design, while keeping a restricted budget. 

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All the elements that were in good condition and fitted the new layout were carefully restored and integrated with the new architectural features. The new items, in their turn, were designed in full respect to the ancient ones, in order to get a mutual enhancement. 

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Old wooden floors were removed to allow insulation of the slabs, which provided magnificent raw wood to use in built-in furniture and architecture details. 

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Floor Plan

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A centenary Lebanon Cedar is the centrepiece of a lengthy garden, designed for joyful use, low maintenance, as well as to provide a pleasant landscape background to the apartments during day and night, with its carefully designed lighting. 

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Portuguese traditional materials were selected to warm up the minimal design: Portuguese white marble and colourful cement tiles match the kitchen and bathroom clean style.

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© Alexandre Petzold

• Architects: Ateliers Bauhinia
• Location: France
• Architect In Charge: Claude Pasquer
• Area: 400.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Alexandre Petzold, Claude Pasquer

• Other Participants: Corinne Détroyat

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With the ChampiCabanes, Claude Pasquer and Corinne Julhiet Détroyat invent a new garden vocabulary that speaks to the inner child in all of us.

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With the changes of scale, the garden get into the world of childhood: the ChampiCabane, with its small circular bench and tables, both ChampiCachecache the ChampiCachette and ChampiCoffre (toys!), Functional and aesthetic sculptures .

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Each sculpture ironwork, woven rope, making the invisible visible and converts this work in a Nature observation  temple and the surrounding biodiversity.

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For several years, Corinne and Claude Julhiet Détroyat Pasquer are united by the passion of the garden project. Today, this new set of sculptures catalyzes the balance of their work: the Nature and Artifice, aesthetics and functionality, the magic and biodiversity 

© Alexandre Petzold

© Alexandre Petzold

Product Description. The hexagonal mesh, the chicken wire, is a rustic material, amazing, very simple, almost old-fashioned at first glance. Coming from the world of industry, it paradoxically emphasizes sustainable development through its presence in the garden. For the hats of the mushrooms, it is reinforced with fiberglass to ensure a tight fitting cover and to retain the transparency of the material with regard to the sun. 

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From left, Viñoly’s Three Waterline Square, Richard Meier’s One Waterline Square, and KPF’s Two Waterline Square.. Image © Noe & Associates with The Boundary

Rafael Viñoly Architects, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) have been tapped to design towers for “Waterline Square,” a new luxury residential development located along the Hudson River in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The three buildings will fit into five acre masterplan between West 59th and West 61st Streets on Riverside Drive, just two blocks north of BIG’s recently completed VIA 57 West.

From left, KPF’s Two Waterline Square, Viñoly’s Three Waterline Square, and Richard Meier’s One Waterline Square.. Image © Noe & Associates with The Boundary

“Waterline Square brings together three of the world’s most prominent and respected architects to create a world-class destination for residential living,” said James Linsley, President of GID Development Group. “Together, we are transforming one of the last remaining waterfront development sites on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, into a new, vibrant neighborhood.  This design and development team has created the most innovative, comprehensive, and cohesive residential experience in New York City.”

The three buildings, One Waterline Square by Richard Meier and Partners Architects, Two Waterline Square by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and Three Waterline Square by Rafael Viñoly Architects, share a common aesthetic, complementing one another with articulated facades, outdoor spaces and faceted crowns.

Also on site will be more than 100,000 square feet of sports, leisure, and lifestyle amenities, as well as a 3 acre landscaped park connecting to the adjacent Hudson River Greenway, which will encompass tree groves, a great lawn, walking paths, a playground, fountains and waterfalls.

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Developed by real estate group GID, all three buildings will be constructed simultaneously, allowing future residents to enjoy a full, completed neighborhood upon moving in.

The project was spawned from previous plans for the Christian de Portzamparc designed “Riverside Center,” which stalled after receiving planning approval in 2010.

Construction on the project began in 2015, with closings expected to begin in late 2018.

You can check out the development’s teaser site, featuring a fly-through animation, here.

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