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PHOS, Greek Restaurant in Mykonos, Greece

PHOS is a new Greek restaurant designed by lmarchitects in 2012 and located on the Greek Island of Mykonos. As any other project designed by lmarchitects team, PHOS restaurant expresses the designers’ belief that tradition and new technologies can coexist at a trancedental level. The Greek light was the source of inspiration, which gave also its name “PHOS” (the Greek work for light) and shapes the identity of this beautiful restaurant area. The project distinguishes throught the use of traditional elements displayed in a contemporary view which creates a great modern look and feel.

All design elements convey a sense of serenity and calmness, a very romantic place where you can have a wonderful dinner experience. White dominates the color palette of this lovely Greek restaurant, where the decor pieces’ arrangement is simple and stylish. Pretty nice is also the combination of semi-open ceiling with lighting system, while the refraction of light and shadow creates a charming and romantic feel.

We can’t imagine how bright would be during the day with the sun beating down and reflecting, but we can surely say that as it look from these pictures night time would be a perfect time to eat there. We like it’s overall appearance and feeling, especially the way it honors the original character of surrounding buildings.

Photos: © Vaggelis Paterakis.

Project details:

Name: Phos restaurant
Location: Mykonos, Greece
Design: 2012
Construction: 2012
Design Team: Lila Galata, Mariza Angelidi, Ariadni Kafetzi, Bettina Velliou

June 28, 2012
Write a Bike by Juri Zaech

When creativity meets design happens amazing things! One example is “Write a Bike”, a truly wonderful concept which promotes a never seen model form for bikes. The clever idea belongs to Paris-based designer Juri Zaech who has thought to personalize bikes in an ingenious way: spelling out people’s names using the bike frame. How does it sounds? Well, his collection of these absolutely unique bicycles designs is funny and original and certainly will be amazing if such bicycles concepts are possible to achieve in reality.

These illustrations show awesome typographic bikes executed beautifully and makes everyone wonder if designer has thought already to produce a prototype of one of the bikes. For someone who love biking we think would be a perfect gift as an alternative to those which are right now on the market. Would you love to have one as a real bicycle?

Photos: © Juri Zaech.

June 27, 2012
Contemporary Apartment in Spain: Sleek Penthouse With 3 Terraces

Urgell apartment is a rental apartment from destinationbcn. It’s a perfect location with multiple terraces, being located high above the intersection of three distinct districts: Example with great elegance, Plaça Espanya with remarkable grandeur and Raval. Urgell apartment reflects a perfect location in a unique location.

At the end floor, the windows offer a remarkable panoramic views of the city until the Palau Nacional with Magic Fountain of Montjuïc.

Terrace gives us a look at Plaça Catalunya, while the courtyard reveals a warm intimacy of a terracotta terraces.

If you climb on the roof you can enjoy a unique splendor offered by Barcelona, with 360 ° views of the city. All terraces are complete with showers and sun beds. The living space feels the pulse of the city but also maintaining a sense of tranquility.

White interior, cold is highlighted with bold black details, wood floors are warm terracotta walls, which has a modern design that highlights the city’s greatness.

Panoramic windows extend the feeling of space, both rooms have bathrooms equipped with rain showers, so this make you feel like you’re part of the outside while being inside the apartment. Urgell plan can be adapted to your needs when you’re in holiday with friends or want a relaxing holiday with your family. Sliding doors allow one of the bedrooms to be private. Terrace is the ideal place for children to play in the fresh air. Mini pool on the roof is perfect for children to swim. Bedding chair allows you to tan pleasant or cold drink cocktails with friends under the sun before going to take the dinner.

June 26, 2012
Wall Mounted Magazine Rack Inspired by City Structures

For all of you magazine lovers who still buy magazines often, here we show you a simple, yet very interesting magazine rack designed by Ingrid Svensson and Olle Wingård, the founders of Minus tio. Entitled City Sunday, this magazine rack displays an eyecatching minimalist design inspired by real as well as utopian city structures which makes it a beautiful home decorative item that promises to store your magazines in style and keep them in an organized manner.

City Sunday a wall mounted magazine rack displaying colorful units made of steel wire (charcoal, red, green, yellow, blue, white) that can be used separately or combined to create big, delightful cityscapes. It’s modern appearance make it a perfect addition wherever you are: at home, in the office or at the library. What do you think? Do you find this design as interesting as we do?

Photos: © Minus tio.

June 26, 2012
Media Extender with the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Creative Center at City University of Hong Kong by Studio Daniel Libeskind provides facilities that allow the university to give a high level of education and training in Asia, in areas of chalk media. The building houses the School of Creative Media and will also provide an Department of Computer Science, Department of English, Media and Communication Department and the Applied Computing Center and also interactive. The special design lens, constitutes an extraordinary range of spaces rich in form, light and materials who together create an interactive environment for searching and creativity.

Many facilities also include:
- a multi-purpose theater,
- sound stages,
- laboratories,
- classrooms,
- exhibition space,
- a café and a restaurant.
Landscaped gardens in the north building are accessible to students and general public of a suit. Inside the new floors, 263,000 square feet for the structure, which houses about 2,000 students and staff outside didactic but for various events. Each room, whether alone or space or open has a unique shape. Windows are cut asymmetrically in the interior walls of the amphitheater, the classrooms and computer laboratories. Around the building, you can see several buildings that facilitate a variety of activities, sound stages, recording studios, screening rooms, theater and other discrete spaces, which are interactive spaces. These seats are designed to encourage the exchange of words improvised and spontaneous collaboration. The abundance of light further enhances spontaneous spirit and limitless possibilities for thinking different.

Photos by:© Gollings Photography PTY Ltd.
June 25, 2012
Corner Light Illuminates Beautifully Your Interior Spaces

Sometimes the simplest objects are actually those with the greatest visual impact. Corner Light is one of them, a unique lighting source that interacts with the architecture of the room in a pleasant way. The intersection of walls and ceiling in your room can be from now on a place for Seattle based designer Peter Bristol’s Corner Light to sit perfectly. Designed for British company Established & Sons, this lamp has a clever execution which makes it a contradictory statement that is both inherently iconic and minimalist at the same time.

Taking the form of a glowing equilateral triangle that fits in the corner of the room, the light features a steel bracket of an aluminum structure, a diffuser magnetically attached and a visible power cable. Corner Light seems to blend-in and stand-out in a simultaneous way due to its striking minimalist design and the novel idea of putting it where the lines of the walls meet. Available in two sizes, the lamp is appropriate for any design style.

Photos: © Peter Bristol, Established & Sons.

June 25, 2012
Sculptural Vase Designs For Modern Spaces

Consisting of rings of Silestone slipped over a simple metal bracket, these sculptural vase designs are interesting enough to stand out between similar decorative artwork. Stockholm based design studio Form Us With Love collaborated with Spanish stone company Cosentino Group to create these splendid vases. which explore the quartz surface Silestone in a new manner. The brilliant idea of using natural materials like Silestone, which are normally used for bathroom and kitchen surfaces, appears to be of great impact for a vase design.

The defining Silestone Slab Vases’s feature is a mixture of effective and unique design and versatility. Ideal for small to medium flower arrangements, the handmade Silestone Slab Vases can be reconfigured in different shapes due to the Silestone’s rings which has various sizes. Having Iberian and Scandinavian origins, the material from which they’re made come in a wide range of colors, that allowed designers to combine different shades of grey with hot red and orange.

Photos: © Jonas Lindström.

Silestone Slab Vase Designs

More designs from Form Us with Love Studio.

June 25, 2012
Fabulous Knitted Stools by Claire-Anne O’Brien

Knitted stools like any other incredible handmade goods that uses traditional craft techniques and skills seems to be very popular and appreciated in recent years. Thus, textile designers have brought in the spotlight old activities like knitting, sewing, crocheting and embroidering from which have emerged amazing products. They were able to bring fabrics to life and put them into a new light, giving them a modern twist suitable for any contemporary interior.

As a textile designer specialising in knitting, Ireland based Claire-Anne O’Brien have a sculptural approach to textiles and likes to explore the relationship between form, furniture and textiles to create playful and tactile fabrics for our homes. Knit Stools are a serie of unique and charming knitted stools designed by Claire-Anne O’Brien which are a great solution for informal seating, adding a burst of colour to the room.

To add originality to these products, the designer exaggerates the scale of the structures made of Lambswool and Sheeps wool and add them bold and textured forms. It was used a mix of hand and machine knit stitches to construct such beautiful structures inspired by elements of the knitted stitch itself such as rings and loops. Knit Stools look very cozy and comfy and add texture and warmth to a room, especially in winter season.

Photos: © Claire-Anne O’Brien.

June 24, 2012