Phathom-1: the 80m superyacht concept conjured up by Phathom Studio
Phathom Studio began by deconstructing a typical 80m layout to uncover the core components that truly improve lifestyle aboard before putting it all back together.
The extensive main and upper deck interior offers loft-like proportions and a flow among public spaces. An unprecedented two level Owner's Apartment follows suit with its double-height lounge and mezzanine sleeping area and private exterior oasis.
In rethinking the general arrangement, new areas were added and traditional ones repurposed. The guests cabins, typically clumped together, are spaced apart to ensure privacy. Each cabin is also equally sized, which does away with hierarchy.
The foredeck was dug-out to enable a private Owner's Terrace with a sunk-in pool. The aft main deck was transformed into a pool-side resort deck that benefits from its close proximity to the sea.
London’s first office building to deliver an urban forest rooftop
A 1.1 acre rooftop forest of more than 100 established trees and 10,000 plants has been granted planning unanimously by London Borough of Southwark as part of Roots In The Sky, a radical reimagining of the former Blackfriars Crown Court as a next-gen workspace.
Led by Fabrix, Roots in The Sky will be London’s first office building to deliver an urban forest rooftop with extensive access for the local community and the public, with community gardens and collaborative neighbourhood uses, a rooftop restaurant, bar and swimming pool, and private terraces and for the office space below.
Set to be one of the largest urban roof gardens in Europe, the building will make a significant contribution to London’s ambitious targets for greening, biodiversity and sustainability; with just under 385,000 sq ft of contemporary and sustainable office, commercial and community space.
Concrete and containers for London’s King’s Cross creative quarter
Squire & Partners complete Rolling Stock Yard, a new development, providing 57,500 sq ft of workspace for creative small to medium sized businesses.
The design concept draws on the area north of King’s Cross St Pancras, historically characterised by transport, freight and industry, and now an emerging creative quarter.
Converging railway lines and shipping containers are referenced in the nine storey building, expressed as a series of stacked elements with a black profiled steel structure emulating parallel railway tracks running horizontally across the facades.
Within this horizontal grid, full height glazing is softened by a layer of vertical solid oak sleepers and sinusoidal perforated metal screens to offer privacy and shade during daylight hours, and emit a diffused glow at night.
The building animates the street with bright entrance signage behind a corrugated metal screen. Internally, an industrial palette of exposed concrete, blackened steel and perforated aluminium is balanced by a pair of timber-lined recesses for the reception and café. Unifying the space is a pale grey poured resin floor with inlaid track patterns which define routes from the entrance to the reception, lifts and café.
Le Monde Group’s Parisian HQ designed by Snøhetta opens
With its bold new plaza and semi-transparent outer skin, the building creates connections to the general public and surrounding transit while also offering citizens respite in the city.
With the completion of its new headquarters, the 1,600 employees of the Le Monde Group have been brought together under the same roof in a generously arching building on 67-69 Avenue Pierre-Mendès-France in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
The journey through the Le Monde Group Headquarters commences at ground level where visitors are greeted by a broad public plaza with integrated vegetation. The plaza invites passersby to linger and interact while also creating connections to the cityscape on each side of the building. From 2021, this physical connection will be further enhanced with the introduction of a new bridge that will span across the neighbouring railways of the Gare d’Austerlitz.
Edition and StudioAC pioneer Canada’s luxury cannabis shopping experience
The cannabis retail destination is located at 270 Dupont Street in The Annex neighbourhood of Toronto.
Unlike conventional design concepts used in cannabis retail stores, StudioAC took a sophisticated, yet minimalist, approach when creating Editions’ design aesthetic.
A sleek front-of-house gallery hides the retail area, in line with Canada’s regulations and restrictions around cannabis branding. Customers enter the narrow space and are met with elongated tables and ceiling made from off-the- shelf industrial grating. The monochromatic interior allows for tastefully curated and cannabis products and accessories to become the focal point for the shopper.