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The United Cycling LAB & Store is a retail space that fosters knowledge, learning and innovation and perhaps even more importantly, inspires people to dream.   The showroom is designed to elevate the displayed Argon 18 bicycles and to interpret their sovereignty. It is a chapel for the bicycles and offers an invitation to admire the products for their technical superiority, to inspect and to touch them.   All the included design elements serve this purpose: bicycles floating in the air, a ceiling height of almost 6 meters, illuminated display furniture and mirrored glass that gives the illusion of an infinite lines of bicycles floating in the air. “The store of the future will be a cultural catalyst”, says Bran... More

The Empire Riverside Hotel and the “Brauhaus”, an office and business complex, is located in the centre of Hamburg on industrial land formerly occupied by the Bavaria brewery. The buildings lie between two widely divergent areas of the city: to the east are striking townhouses, commercial buildings and banks, and to the north and west, provincial St Pauli with its preponderance of four- and five-storey buildings built in the 19th century. Both the facade and the interior were designed by Berlin-based David Chipperfield Architects.The building complex is made up of three structures: The 327-room hotel consists of a tower over an L-shaped low-rise section which is adjacent to the “Brauhaus”. The space between the Brauhaus and the low-rise par... More