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 

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© 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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© Ron Johnson

• Architects: Dynia Architects
• Location: Boulder, CO, United States
• Architect In Charge: Stephen Dynia, FAIA
• Area: 2500.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2009
• Photographs: Ron Johnson, Kimberly Gavin

• Contractor/Builder: Rosewood Construction Inc.
• Landscape Architect: R Design Land Architects and Nettle Landscaping
• Structural Engineer: K L & A Inc
• Mep Engineer: ME Engineers

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This 2,500 square foot residence sits atop a precipice with views to the metropolitan Denver valley to the east and the iconic Flatiron peaks to the west.  The interior spaces are austere, reflecting the disciplined lifestyle of the homeowners.  

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The two sides of this linear scheme respond independently to the site conditions.  The east has a high band of glass for morning light infiltration, with a thick zone of storage, including custom built-in shelving, below.  Dividing the storage areas, intermittent windows provide views to the entry court and distant city.  Upon entering the home from the east, amazing mountain peaks are revealed.  Sliding glass panels extend the length of the house embracing the unencumbered mountain views on the west side of the structure.  

Floor Plan

For this residence, simplicity and restraint are the innovation.  Led by a desire for economy and sustainability, materials are limited to wood structure and ceilings, concrete floors, and weathering steel cladding.  The roof extension provides sun shading for the west facing glass and shelter for the terrace.  

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Embedded in Boulder’s culture is a strong consideration for the environment.  The owners hold to these principles and supported the efforts to quietly place the house within the site, minimize the need for energy, and minimize material waste.  The house size is well below the allowable area on the 35-acre property and special attention was paid to the landscape during construction – it immediately re-vegetated with native wildflowers and grasses.  The house’s modest form and palate of materials place it unpretentiously within its surroundings, allowing the natural environment to carry the day.

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Dynia Architects received an Award of Merit from the Wyoming Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2009 for Boulder Cabin.  

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Product Description. At the core of Dynia Architects design philosophy is our understanding of how a structure interacts with its surroundings.  At Boulder Cabin the poured in place concrete slab of the interior flooring extends to the exterior, creating an outdoor entertainment area surrounded by dense woods.  The dramatic wood and steel roof overhang defines this outdoor room as a seamless extension of the residence.  

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View of the "Long Room". Image © Mecanoo with Beyer Blinder Belle

The New York Public Library has revealed the first renderings of Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle’s renovation of the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan Library at the corner of 5th Avenue and 40th Street, diagonally across from the library’s main branch, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Bryant Park. The $200 million project will increase seats, expand services and add public space to the building, which receives 1.7 million annual visits and constitutes the NYPL’s largest circulating branch.

“New Yorkers will soon have the central circulating library that they need and deserve,” said NYPL President Tony Marx. “This library will transform lives by providing books, classes, and programs for New Yorkers of all ages, and it will transform our city – as it will be a model for how libraries can strengthen communities.”

Section. Image © Mecanoo with Beyer Blinder Belle

Founded in the 1970s, the Mid-Manhattan Library occupies a building originally designed to house a department store, resulting in a facility that lacks the combination of open and intimate spaces common to history’s most successful libraries. Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle worked for over a year analyzing library usage data and conducting interviews with the staff and public to determine what changes were necessary to best meet the needs of library patrons and update the facility for the 21st century.

Key to the renovation will be the significant increase in public space – the design will add 35 percent more space for the public by moving multiple floors of back-office staff to adjacent facilities, adding an additional floor on the roof, and opening up the lower level to the public through the introduction of natural light.

The project’s signature element will be the “Long Room,” a five-story open structure of book stacks and meeting rooms that will unite the central floors of the building. To further open up the space, shelves have been pulled off the windowed walls of the building, allowing natural light to penetrate further into the space than ever before.

On the building’s top floor, formerly unused space will be redesigned to hold meeting space, a cafe and an outdoor area, which the library claims will be “the only rooftop terrace in midtown that will be free and open to the public.”

Additional facilities will include an adult learning center, a Science, Industry and Business library, a full-floor employment skills center, a new full-floor children’s library, and over 11,000-square-feet of multipurpose space for events and classes, as well as hundreds of new seating options throughout the building.

The NYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch in 2007. Image © Flickr user wallyg. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

“The building that was originally designed in 1914 to house the Arnold Constable department store will now really become a library,” said Francine Houben of Mecanoo, the project’s lead architect. “By creating the iconic Long Room for the circulating collection, dedicated spaces for children and teens, an adult learning centre and business library, plus a rooftop destination for multipurpose use, the building will inspire serendipity and the discovery of all functions of a modern library.”

The Mid-Manhattan Library will close for construction in late 2017 and is expected to reopen in 2020.

Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle were selected for the commission last September after ambitious renovation plans of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building by Foster + Partners were scrapped in the face of public controversy.

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As the second chapter in his series, Iconic Norway, Alejandro Villanueva has released a time-lapse of the Trollstigen Visitor Center, a project by Reiulf Ramstad Architects for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in Oslo, Norway.

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Designed to “enhance the experience of the Trollstigen Plateau’s location and nature,” the Center utilizes water as a dynamic element and rock as a static element, in order to “create a series of prepositional relations that describe and magnify the unique spatiality of the site.”

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Experience the beauty and nature of the Visitor Center by watching the video, above. 

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• Architects: Federico Marinaro
• Location: Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
• Area: 2300.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Walter Gustavo Salcedo , Gonzalo Viramonte

• Constructor: CyE Construcciones
• Engennering: Ing. Luciano López
• Graphic Representation: Eduardo Martinelli
• Collaborators: Gerónimo Bolsán, Manuel Giró, Rodrigo Cisneros, Federico Iocco, Florencia Allende, Bruno Turri
• Plot Area: 500 m2

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From the architect. At the end of 2009 comes the order to realize a multi-storey building in a lot with 8.66m width in the southern of Echesortu neighborhood in Rosario. It is located within the urban fabric of the city near the bus station and in the geographic center of the city. The assignment is done by a marketer of products derived from aluminum (profiles, lines of timber, steel-frames, sheets, etc). The premise of the commission were fully exploit the constructible area according to the Urban Code of Rosario and use aluminum products.

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The initial intentions were:
-Reformulate the compact building between medians.
-Reformulate the building between understood as a single extrusion.
-How should it relate to the block shape? Mainly its solid, closed and compact solution.
-Reformulate the building between the mass built for vertically also leave your empty log vertically on the solid mass of the block.
-How they should dwell, to live and interact with the people inside and outside of it?
-Orienting the building to the north and east accompany the sun path.
-Generate an architectural piece where the void generated tension same as does the constructed mass.
-Think each department as a house in height. Inquire about the experience that this means in concrete inhabit.
-Explore the use of aluminum, its scope and possibilities of both industrial and artisanal use.
-Link the building with the public space of the sidewalk and the street, while maintaining visual continuity and material.

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Section

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Investigation
the problem of only using one of the medians and work on the dividing north and east in order to achieve a vertical gap in the batch accordance with the rules established 3m to ventilate and illuminate and 1.15m to illuminate local departments was raised. At the same time it seeks to obtain natural lighting and ventilation as much surface of the east-north main facade. The building is conceived as two “towers” together by a circulation / open mode high path corridor, eliminating the idea of ​​closed bearing. Thus always enters the houses through an open space turned to the vertical void and the inner courtyard facing north and east. The intention was that each housing unit building is individual and unique, without repeating any distribution. Lighting and natural ventilation articulated with different spatial distributions are the conditions that make each unit has a unique character.

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Matter + System
Skin. To form the outer closures, as the aluminum supplier customer, they had available approximately 10 coils of aluminum sheet of 500 micron were stored since the late 80 deposit. It was decided to make use of them, but their use was necessary to submit to a process of adaptation and panel manufacturing.

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Mounting system and attachment
The mounting system is similar to traditional steel frame, but has no less variant, the first anchor is made of slab to slab and this work is done anchoring slab window sill. Modulation for assembly and manufacture of framing and other modulation for carpentry and empty was used, allowing open bays desired size without relying on strict modulation frame. Thus the struts that traverse the woodwork and released modulation which determines the shapes of their openings and their visual deleted.

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Detail

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