Gallery architecture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about gallery architecture
Project • By Echo: Design + Architecture, P.C • Apartments
Soho Gallery Residence
This airy artists loft was converted from a rustic, vintage studio into a lavishly furnished gallery inspired residence.
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Long walls and high ceilings provided the perfect opportunity to showcase the owner’s many original works of art, while also having a sprawling living room, kitchen, and parlor. Centering the open space is a large stone plinth that is both a sculpture in itself as well as the kitchen island. The island, made entirely of stone slabs, has both integrated storage and sink, to be as functional as it is beautiful.
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The linear kitchen runs the length of the open area, providing ample area to prepare food and entertain guests. Storage at the edge also incorporates a coll... More
Project • By Echo: Design + Architecture, P.C • Housing
Dubai Hills Ultra Modern Residence
The sprawling interior creates several gallery areas for the owner’s expansive collection of original works including many sculptures to be exhibited on their own.
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Each elegant and simple moment of luxury and opulence has its own impact without being overwhelmed or oversaturated by each other.
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In all this residence includes: 5 suites, live-in quarters, 3 lounges, dining room, custom marble stair, show and chef kitchen.
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The residence exterior also features a lap pool, outdoor dining, extended patio lounge, and a guest house in development.
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News • Specification • 25 Jul 2023
10 elegant galleries prizing architecture and art
In the contemporary art galleries featured here, the architecture is as much the protagonist as the art itself. A mixture of styles, these elegant galleries are examples of a more personable type of art space: smaller than the huge galleries found in many capitals, they are places for those who are curious about art and the architecture in which it is housed.
1. Suiyue Art
Su Shengliang
Su Shengliang
In Chengdu, China, the capital of Sichuan province is a hub of Sichuan-style art. DA Integrating created a new art space for Suiyue Art in a former 1980s office building. Blending old with new, the gallery’s white facade is a contemporary contrast to the original architecture. Its long and narrow interior is a... More
News • News • 27 Jun 2021
Matsunaga Kiln roadside gallery features a column-free double structure and feeling of floating lightness
A producer of traditional ceramic crafts, Matsunaga Kiln was previously located in Namie Town, Fukushima, Japan. Nine years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Namie Town is still designated as an ‘evacuation zone.’ The kiln company thus decided to relocate and engaged to-ripple Inc. to design this new roadside store in Nishigo Village.
Kenji Masunaga
Responding to the surrounding landscape and climate of the area, the new home for the manufacturer is a simple house shape with a gentle roof pitch that allows for snow to gently shed away. Two house-like forms are placed side-by-side and surrounded by a larger house form to create a double structure.
Kenji Masunaga
The entire house-shaped building is lifted 400mm to... More