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Bold colours

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about bold colours

Project • By ZALEWSKI ARCHITECTURE GROUPOffices

TECH OFFICE BUILDING

Form  This contemporary office building has been conceived as a refined yet highly functional workspace, where clarity of form meets a carefully crafted user experience. From the outside, the architecture presents a calm, monochromatic volume—precise, restrained, and confident in its simplicity. Clean lines and a disciplined material palette emphasize the building’s technical character, while meticulous attention to detail reveals a deeper layer of design sophistication. Caption Large-scale glazing plays a key role in shaping the building’s identity. Generous glass façades draw attention from afar, creating a dynamic interplay of light and reflection throughout the day. They also act as a visual bridge b... More

Project • By MASTERSTROKE ARCHITECTS AND INTERIOR DESIGNERSPrimary Schools

spm english medium school

New SPM English Medium School, a redevelopment  project, is designed to be an introvert building due to space constraints. We envisioned the spaces to be well ventilated  and receive ample light. Few rooms  were deliberately eliminated on the First Floor to create an indoor play area for Nursery Students. The Play Area creates an uncluttered look and also adds openness to that particular floor. KAAUSTUBH BAWDEKAR KAAUSTUBH BAWDEKAR The exterior  of the building is a juxtaposition of multiple colour tones and different materials such as brick cladding highlighted by dark tone rcc boxing, multi-coloured window rcc boxing, combination of coloured panels and jaali panels in Fibre reinforced plastic wall whose mai... More

Project • By Gunz & Künzle Architekt*innenAuditoriums

Vocational school for construction trades

The new vocational school for construction trades is located in a central area of Zurich, Switzerland. Gunz & Künzle Architects designed the building to maximize the number of classrooms while also creating valuable public spaces for the neighborhood. The slender building follows the street and creates a spacious courtyard that connects to the public functions on the school's first floor. Federico Farinatti Federico Farinatti Federico Farinatti Federico Farinatti Federico Farinatti Federico Farinatti Federico Farinatti Federico Farinatti This piano nobile, which acts as a truss frame structure, is suspended over the gymnasiums that extend from the basement to the ground floor.  While th... More

Project • By ardor-studioOffices

Acoustic wall panels

From Sightunseen.com: “Three years ago, Korean graphic designer Dongyoung Lee and Dutch artist Michiel Hilbrink moved to a “woon/werkatelier,” a living and working studio for artists in Amsterdam — not originally built to live and work in — and became greatly inspired by their undefined situation. Their new collaboration, Things of Morel, developed at the intersection of interior decoration, object design and sculpture, and the latest collection, called Sun Fluid, stems from their own experiments with raw materials — raw felted and boiled wool for the center designs and frames made from pine. The strong felted forms, with bonus acoustic qualities, are comprised of large, wavy-edged forms in rich grays, r... More

NewsNews • 31 Mar 2023

Studiotamat unveils a vividly hued vinyl boutique for Roman record label Sounds Familiar

Nestled within a tiny space in the heart of Travestere in Rome, Roman record label, Sounds Familiar opens its storefront dedicated to vinyl lovers, celebrating ten years of the brand. The boutique transforms an old garage into a hip records emporium by local architecture practice, Studiotamat. Seven H. Zhang The limited footprint of 40sqm demanded flexibility while disallowing any major masonry interventions. An open layout creates space for a vinyl-listening booth during the day that transforms into a meeting point and stage to host performances and DJ at night. Seven H. Zhang The solid walls of the former garage were investigated to reveal large wooden beams behind the false ceiling, restored and cleaned to their forme... More

NewsNews • 10 Mar 2023

Office S&M designs their vibrant workspace with a signature display wall of material samples

Inhabiting a former paint-making workshop inside the Bootstrap Workspace in Dalston, London, Office S&M retrofits the existing structure as their new workplace with well-being, sustainability and people-centric design at its core.  Ellen Christina Hancock With experimentation and communal design as the central idea, the office has crafted an entire wall displaying material samples and distinct breakout areas for discussion, sketching and modelling. The office seeks to function as a laboratory experimenting with textures and materials.  Ellen Christina Hancock Bold, colourful walls of blue, yellow, red and green wrap the workspace exercising contrast, vibrancy and energy. The electric blue tones down the... More

NewsNews • 10 Mar 2023

Studio Infinity converts an old, dilapidated house into a playful pre-primary school in Pune

The Out School is an adaptive reuse of an old, dilapidated house in a residential neighbourhood of Pune, into a pre-primary school run by two dynamic ladies and designed by Studio Infinity. The studio seeks to explore new design vocabulary for pre-primary schools.  Photographix I Sebastian Studio Infinity Given the constraints of complying with the existing, odd structural layout, the spatial planning involved eliminating unwanted walls and toilets to make the space available for a multifunctional setup, allowing the teachers and students to interact at diverse levels regardless of spatial constraints.  Studio Infinity Photographix I Sebastian In line with the existing column grid, a central c... More

Project • By ater.architectsApartments

NIOLA APARTMENT

The 85 sq.m apartment for a young family with a child has an open living area with a kitchen-dining room, a spacious hallway, two bathrooms, and a sleeping zone. ater.architects The bright space of the apartment is saturated with warm pink and green accents, plants, and modern art – the works by Ukrainian artists Oleksandra Tokareva, Max Zabrodskyi and Andrii Samarin spice up the interior harmoniously. The kitchen combined with the living room into a studio gives the feeling of lightness and spaciousness to the central part of the apartment. The capacious kitchenette and the kitchen island with semi-bar seating formed the cooking and dining area. This unit is made in black acrylic stone and complemented by veneered elements of... More

Project • By GAO architectsApartments

Apartment in Izlake

We designed the apartment measuring 73 square meters with young clients in mind by intertwining a stylishly furnished, multi-layered mosaic of inspiring ideas that predominantly consist of carefully curated decorative elements standing out from the balanced whole. Upon entering the apartment, the visitor’s view travels all the way to the end of the lengthy dark-blue wall where the space also expands and dynamically shifts from terrazzo ceramics to elegant parquet carpet flooring. All the elements in combination with various colour shades create a soothing ambience - by positioning all the functional elements along the load-bearing walls, the ambience breathes, which adds it the feeling of openness and freedom. Miran Kambič Mir... More

Project • By A.J ArchitectsApartments

Modish Hue

Modish hue is an interesting amalgamation of functional and aspirational requirements of the client and the ideology of the design team to play with neutral and vibrant color palettes, within a modest budget. The apartment is located in a bustling neighborhood of food street, V.V Puram, Bangalore. The inside out façade and the strategically placed openings, allow the sunlight to veil the house for most part of the day and this feature has allowed the design team to experiment with darker and bold color hues, though maintaining the unity and harmony with neutral hues, leaving a mesmerizing taste of aesthetics.  The intrinsically carved curves on the main door delightfully welcome the guest. The pencil ribbed storage unit in the... More

NewsInnovations • 27 Jul 2020

Bold and colourful elementary school additions are playfully incremental

Since 2013, a former Baroque rectory has been home to a primary school and daycare centre. Public Atelier and FUUZE architects have most recently contributed to the project, adding several bright and bold classrooms in the summer of 2019. Adding much-needed space to meet growing school capacity demand while also preserving the decaying roof trusses of the Baroque complex, the project is an example of incremental development. Credit: BoysPlayNice The project emphasizes the interconnection of individual parts so that their historical value is preserved and the users of the school and daycare feel comfortable and free to use all parts. Though intertwined, the newly implemented and original historical elements are clearly distinguishable... More