*️⃣Prada Aoyama

Architect #HerzogdeMeuron #HdM #Herzog #Meuron
City #Tokyo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤The crystalline tower, evoking the shape of a bag or a traditional house, is essentially a logical consequence of the complex local building regulations.

The building is located in a heterogeneous district of predominantly low-rise buildings.

"We decided early on to focus on vertical volume containing the maximum permitted gross floor area so that part of the lot acreage can remain undeveloped. This area will form a kind of plaza, comparable to the public spaces of a European city."

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Colour #teal
Material #glass or #curvedglass
Function #retail #shop
Feature #nightlight #adminvisited
Address: Japan, 〒107-0062 Tokyo, 5 Chome−2−6 Minami-Aoyama
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*️⃣Tiffany & Co. Beijing flagship

Architect #MVRDV
City #Beijing
Country #China #AP

🔤The store is located at the Taikoo-Li Sanlitun, where luxury brands predominate (like previously shared Louis Vuitton by Jun Aoki seen on the right side of the first picture). To take advantage of its location, the façade is adorned with translucent, textured #glass fins.

With their gently curved edges, these responsibly recycled and locally manufactured fins give the façade an elegant, fluid form. In order to design this shape, MVRDV took cues from the Bone Cuff bracelet by Elsa Peretti.

At night, the naturally #teal-toned glass is illuminated in Tiffany & Co.’s iconic colour, giving the store a soft, diffuse glow. The lighting is integrated into the custom brackets holding the glass fins, minimising visible hardware and preserving the subtle light effects of the glass. #nightlight@simoderna

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Function #retail #shop
Address: China, Beijing, Chaoyang, 幸福村锦锈园A座7层701号

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*️⃣Apple Central World

Architect #Foster #NormanFoster
City #Bangkok
Country #Thailand #AP

🔤Enveloped by this dizzying urban spectacle, is a 24.4 meter diameter two-story glass drum with a beautifully crafted conical support with a concave vertical surface that stands on its apex.

Clad in warm timber, the central support is formed of 1,461 European white oak profiles. #wood@simoderna. A carefully crafted edge detail on each slat allows air to be extracted out through the central structure with an absorptive acoustic backing layer.

The fully glazed drum surrounding both floors provides dramatic 360-degree views, juxtaposing the intense urbanism with the quiet greenery of the new landscape.

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Function #retail #shop
Feature #interior
Address: 4, 4/1-4/2, 4 4 Ratchadamri Rd, ห์ Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

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*️⃣ Henderson Cifi Tiandi / The Roof

Architect #AJN #JeanNouvel #Nouvel
City #Shanghai
Country #China #AP

🔤The Former French Concession has long put its stamp on this part of Shanghai, and it's obviously an honour for a French architect to design an urban space here in tune with its urbanism, its plane trees, narrow streets, and inhabited landscapes. "Between Ma Dang and Dan Shui streets, it was tempting to create a shortcut that would be an urban and commercial passageway, a sequence evoking vanished surroundings that have been completely reimagined and are new and modern; a high, narrow street that's covered and protected..."

The exterior, in a greyish-beige colour, offers glimpses through the two entrances on Ma Dang and Dan Shui streets, of a surprising array of lights, colours, and vegetation. A shopping street on two levels, sequenced by overhead walkways and small bridges, is submerged between two flowery walls made up of rows of earthenware jars planted with different species, both green and coloured.

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Colour #red
Material #steel
Function #mixeduse #office #retail #mall
Feature #interior
Address: 31.2121, 121.4750

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