Olivomare is a restaurant serving seafood in London, reason why Pierluigi Pui used such peculiar decorative language using more or less clear references to the sea world and environment.
The wide wall that characterizes the main dining room is entirely covered by a large cladding featuring a pattern inspired by the works of Maurits Escher. To counterpoint it, in the same room, there is a sequence of tubular luminescent tentacles evoking a stray shoal of jellyfishes or sea anemones.
In the small dining room, the cladding is characterized by a wavy relief meant to evoke the sandy surface of the beach when moulded by the wind, while in the toilets lobby the intricate branches of a coral reef closes in around any visitor.
Nendo designed another office near the Meguro river in Tokyo.
The Tokyo-based design company wanted the several spaces to be separate, but also to maintain a sense of connection between them.
To achieve that effect, they divided the space with walls that seem to sag and flop, enclosing the various spaces more than the usual office dividers, but less than actual walls.
Employees can move between the various spaces by walking over the lowest parts of the walls. Spaces that need more sound-resisting are enclosed with plastic curtains so that people can work without worrying about noise but also don’t feel isolated.
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Here’s video of “Casulo,” the much-hubbubbed-about “apartment in a box” from Marcel Krings & Sebastian Muhlhauser, who won the Abraham & David Roentgen Award with it in November of last year. Young, solo, female apartment-dwellers take note: with everything you need in this 31-by-47 inch box, moving’s a snap and boyfriends are about to become obsolete.
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