Mancini Design has created an amazing LEGO-like interior for a coffeehouse called Mocha – Mojo, located in Chennai, India.

Considered one of the best Japanese restaurants in Mexico City and due to its remarkable success, Tori-Tori is now moving to a bigger location in the same area of Polanco, Mexico City, where Architect Michel Rojkind and Industrial Designer Hector Esrawe teamed up to make it happen.

At the residential area in Polanco that has seen changes in its zoning, houses have been transformed to office spaces or restaurants.
Sometimes things happen so unnoticeably, that just a small sign appears where a new space has been developed with a completely different program inside, while preserving its exterior. Aware of this, Rojkind and Esrawe wanted to give enough strength to the new program that they proposed to transform the space inside out.

Taking advantage of the plot’s conditions, the parking space will be left where it is, to use the budget mainly for restructuring and renovating the house, stripping the residential interior and removing all familiar features to produce an entirely different environment.

Via Contemporist

Zaha Hadid Architect and Roca announce the opening of the Roca London Gallery – a design inspired by the power of water as a transforming element to carve a sequence of dynamic, porous spaces for the gallery. Fissures and slices in the walls give permeability consistently throughout the gallery. The design theme of water extends to the facade, which appears as a set of ripples in movement across the exterior.

Via: Yanko Design

The Art Museum of Berkeley University in California has a new social seating installation merging multiple disciplines including art, architecture, and furniture. BAMscape is a free-form seating environment commissioned by the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Installed for a two-year duration, it’s a place where visitors can lounge and watch film screenings, live performance and multimedia events. The seats are made of laminated playwood.

Set in the heart of the city overlooking Pattaya Beach in Thailand and the Bay, the stunning Hilton Pattaya hotel is situated above the new Central Festival Pattaya Beach complex – a 250,000m² center which has over 300 international shops and restaurants, a 10-screen cinema and a bowling alley.

www.hilton.com

The Tree Restaurant in Sydney Australia by Koichi Takada Architects was created recreating the traditional Hanami festival in Japan and the Cherry Blossom in bloom.

The timber profiles have been cut using CNC technology, minimizing waste and allowing accuracy and detail in the design. Gaboon Marine Plywood, brings the warmth of timber to the interior, which compliments tie texture of the rendered walk. The contrast of these elements highlights the central TREE and the Sushi Train below.

From the architects: “We wish to emulate the comfort and tranquility .he canopy of tree can create. Timber profiles create the branches of the tree, transforming the Sushi Train restaurant into a place of nature. Dappled light filters between the timber branches. The flairs of light change as you move throughout the restaurant, mimicking the Irregularity of natural sunlight, while highlighting the path of the Sushi Train.”

www.koichitakada.com

Wanderlust Hotel in Singapore is a left-field and totally experimental boutique hotel set to draw madcap voyagers and curious travellers to its doorstep. Located in Little India – a bustling cultural enclave where Indian immigrants once settled, and the building was originally an old school built it 1920s.

With four thematic levels of 29 rooms by award winning Singapore design agencies, each group was given full creative freedom.

Lobby Level: Industrial Glam by Asylum
Level 2: Eccentricity by phunk Studio
Level 3: Is it just Black and White by DP Architects
Level 4: Creature Comforts by fFurious

2 Dickson Road, Singapore 209494

www.wanderlusthotel.com

The IBM Executive Briefing Center, located in Rome created by Iosa Ghini Associati and completed in 2010, was inspired on the “strips” of the IBM logo.

Via Design Milk: The IBM briefing program is designed to provide professionally managed events and to maximize the value of time that customers spend in IBM. Any “briefing” usually includes presentations and demonstrations to bring customers to run events which they participate. Listening, discussing and illustrating how the new IBM technologies can be helpful in facing and resolving technical and business issues, make people away from the traditional concept of communication, to get closer to a place of useful comparison: a new agora. Using technology, Iosa Ghini is able to communicate that this is a place in which ideas for the future of technology and business are being discussed and presented.

www.iosaghini.it

Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture have designed the Shimura Branch of the Sugamo Shinkin Bank in Tokyo, Japan.

A rainbow-like stack of 12 colored layers, peeking out from the facade to welcome visitors. Upon entering the building, three elliptical skylights bathe the interior in a soft light. Visitors spontaneously look up to see a cut-out piece of the sky that invites them to gaze languidly at it. The open sky and sensation of openness prompts you to take deep breaths, refreshing your body from within. The ceiling is adorned with dandelion puff motifs that seem to float and drift through the air. Three long glass airwells thread through the first and second levels of the building, flooding the interior with natural light as well as “blowing” air through it.

www.emmanuelle.jp

Raiffeisen Bank in Zurich was designed by Nau Design Studio.

From Nau: Raiffeisen’s flagship branch on Zurich’s Kreuzplatz dissolves traditional barriers between customer and employee, creating a new type of “open bank,” a space of encounter. Advanced technologies make banking infrastructure largely invisible; employees access terminals concealed in furniture elements, while a robotic retrieval system grants 24 hour access to safety deposit boxes. This shifts the bank’s role into becoming a light-filled, inviting environment – an open lounge where customers can learn about new products and services. This lounge feels more like a high-end retail environment than a traditional bank interior. Conversations can start spontaneously around a touchscreen equipped info-table and transition to meeting rooms for more private discussions.

www.arch.nau.coop