PROJECT: Retail
Umdasch re-designed and built the Barcelona Cruise Port Terminal, with the new concept aimed to break up the passenger flow and create a more immersive experience. In-fitting with the character of the vibrant city of Barcelona, the design concept reflects the identity of the city.
PROJECT: Corporate
Red Bull Office in Egypt is styled to accommodate the brand’s diversity and colours. Designed by Eklego Design, the interiors reflect the brand’s young lively feel.
ARTICLE: Events
Downtown Design, the region’s leading design fair, is now open for registration. And while we cannot wait for this creative extravaganza to unfold, we thought to give you a little teaser of what to expect.
PROJECT: Other Industry
Designed and built by Broadway Interiors, the brief was to create an office for a fast growing, energetic team that needed a platform to work efficiently and creatively in a multi-functional capacity, promoting the charitable work of HIPA on a global platform.
PROJECT: Retail
Located in the Onyx Tower in Al Barsha Heights, 1004 Gourmet is a modern day take on an ethnic food market. Dubai based practice Studio EM delivered the project with fit-out executed by 6 Inch Interior Decoration. What started as a Korean and Japanese grocery concept, evolved into a multipurpose retail space that houses a grocery, homeware department, beauty store (Lamise) and a café concept.
ARTICLE: Events
With the 2019th edition of the Middle East Design and Hospitality fair a week away, we thought to give you a sneak peak of some of the highlights of this mega show – the exhibits, installations and trending talks. Here’s what’s not to miss…
PROJECT: Corporate
Designed by Paragon Interface, this modern, forward-thinking and professional looking space was designed to encourage closer interactions between teams, and a move towards a future vision of Sage.
PROJECT: Healthcare
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Capital Health is a private integrated healthcare group that currently operates two separate healthcare facilities, the Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital and the Health Shield Medical Center. The Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital provides acute and long-term rehabilitation care, along with inpatient, outpatient and Home Health capabilities.
PROJECT: Hospitality
The Seafood market, Dubai wanted to renovate their space to expand their food offering while keeping the essence of the old space and its self-service experience.
ARTICLE: In Review
For our review, we invited designers Dragana Cemalovic from Bluehaus Group, and Wassim Jammal from JPA Design, to Shaw Contract’s brand new showroom in d3, where Samatha Dawe, Marketing Manager EMEA, gave us an introduction to the product, followed by a bit of play and experimentation. Here are our thoughts…
PROJECT: Film/Media/Publishing
Designed and built by Inner Space Interior Design, the client brief was to fabricate a high-performance office-cum-studio that was not only inspiring and trendy but lively and collaborative as well.
PROJECT: Residential
The new Cheetah Plains game lodge in the Sabi Sand Each Plains House has a private arrival courtyard with Game Reserve in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
PROJECT: Hospitality
A flowing, ribbon-like wall has been installed in the new Istanbul Airport that unites a suite of lounges, forming an intuitive route through the space. Designed by Softroom for Turkish Airlines in collaboration with MNG Mapa, the Flow Wall is over a kilometre long, making it one of the longest parametric interior forms and weaves through six new lounges, creating a series of unified areas.
PROJECT: Hospitality
The interiors of Seven Heights Restaurant at Rixos Bab al Bahr, Ras Al Khaimah, was refurbished to fit the theme of the hotel. Designed by LXA, the space is styled in a Arabesque theme albeit in a modern setting.
ARTICLE: In Review
Dyson’s latest product, the LightCycle, is a beautiful blend of cutting edge, lighting technology and human-centered design, both in form and purpose. Together with designers Adriana Grauer of Perkins+Will and Ahmed Saliem of Nulty, we reviewed this impressive combination of engineering and design at Dyson’s Dubai offices.
PROJECT: Residential
Located in one of Dubai’s busiest residential neighborhoods, this private residence is designed to exude understated grandeur within the highest level of privacy.
ARTICLE: Events
The SBID International Design Awards generally create quite a stir in the global design industry. This year, we thought to highlight the superstars from our region that made the coveted list of finalists that were recently announced.
