Once Upon A Time

Redchurch Loft by Studio Verve Architects

Studio Verve Architects have designed the Redchurch Loft in London.

Project description

Located in the heart of Shoreditch, the Redchurch Loft is a mix of nine loft-warehouse-style apartments positioned enviably on Redchurch Street and Old Nichol Street. Studio Verve was commissioned to design the interiors of one of the largest apartments from shell in. Conceived as a swirling fluid progression of spaces enclosed by a rich yet subtle palette of materials; a series of cloud ceilings culminate onto a spacious open-plan lounge and kitchen which open out onto the terrace overlooking Redchurch Street. The sheer coldness and solidity of the bespoke pre-cast concrete wall panels contrast beautifully against the warmth of the white oak fin wall and floor cladding and the playful cloud ceilings and diffused pool of lights.

The lighting strategy was conceived integral to the flow of spaces and the materiality- with a linear skirting ambient light providing directional flow whilst ‘floating’ the concrete walls. The concrete walls double up as the curved backdrop against which a white stone bath is set; the sheer height and elegance of the concrete walls evoking a theatrical spatial experience.

Architect: Studio Verve Architects

Photography by Luke White

Higashihayashiguchi Dwelling with shop by ALTS Design Office

ALTS Design Office have recently completed a home with shop on the ground floor in Shiga, Japan.

Project description

This plan is a project of the store combination house which is not seized with the established concept such as “the Japanese food stores such as cafe” in “dwelling, such as a shop”. Because we were the land where a site was built along former Tokaido of the Minakuchi inn which was the 50th post town of fifty-three stages of the Tokaido, the building did it with the placement plan that we prepared in neighboring cityscape and did first floor region with simple space constitution to assume a store, second floor region a house.

From the desire to Japanese stores to put feel free to clients such as the cafe, and the spatial configuration of natural yet Japanese store, we designed aimed at stores that one women even put willingly store part of the first floor. Also, instead of putting up walls in a space itself sometimes wife would Employed in clothing store in the residential part of the second floor , it was thought that the partitioning to calm the space, such as clothes and furniture as shop.

Further, it is to display it in steps to become the bench and also become a desk floor we noticed. We direct the space attractive consecutive in a horizontal plane in which such different height difference.

Design: ALTS Design Office – Sumiou Mizumoto / Yoshitaka Kuga