“We wanted to challenge the prescriptive, almost clinical idea of what a spa should look like, so we simply ignore the precedent and went for something that’s far less monastic and minimal,” explains cofounder Shannon Shlom when asked about Duet's latest project, Comma Bath House and Day Spa, located in a commercial development in Byron Bay, Australia.
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From the curvy entry to the calm, sunlit backyard area, a refined but relaxed tactile experience carries through this all-day restaurant/café that was designed to take guest on a journey through the proprietor, Project Hum’s farm-to-table ethos. “The ‘farm-to-table’ concept is central to their philosophy, and we wanted the new space to reflect this in every…
For new digs at 45 Rockefeller Plaza, Confidential investment firm sought a workplace that would balance gravitas with employee comfort. In response, Gensler strategically excised portions of a floor slab to create grand double-height spaces. The intervention also accommodates a glass-box mezzanine library carpeted in plush rust-colored silk-wool broadloom. On the floor below is the reception…
2024 Best of Year Winner for Large Financial Office
A massive, twist of spray-painted, 3-D printed acrylic weaves through the seven-story, 102,300-square-foot workplace for ChangJiang Securities Company in Shanghai, which was designed by M Moser Associates. It begins on the lowest level, where an atrium contains reception, and rises, entwined with a staircase that connects the upper…
The art gallery ideal has long been a white box, but, for the Edes Building in Morgan Hill, California, KTGY was after something different. The two-story, 6,800-square-foot structure, which houses both Cura Contemporary, a gallery, and Véra, a wine bar and restaurant, leverages the visual and tactile warmth of wood to enhance the experience of viewing…
The scales of a living fish are not a typical starting point for a design concept. Yet this is an idea that underpins Wakuni Shoten, a café in suburban Tokyo by Japanese architect and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Kengu Kuma hat boasts a rhythmic three-dimensional facade of more than 700 verdigris copper plates…

