One Plus Partnership
GEMDALE MELLON TOWN, SHENZHEN, CHINA
Meghan Edwards -- Interior Design, 12/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
The lobby to this mixed-use apartment complex takes everyone's favorite rapidly renewable perennial to a whole new level. "Bamboo is symbolic in Chinese culture," says One Plus Partnership design director Ajax Law Ling Kit. "Its form and color were the foundation of our design." Clusters of towering metal rods sprout resident mailboxes at varying heights, like a thicket of branching bamboo. It's all powder-coated a saturated lime, as is the ceiling. Tall plastic-laminate light sources, also rodlike, introduce "modern emotion," says codesign director Virginia Lung. But the scored cement flooring randomly embedded with rounds of stainless steel reminds us of dominoes.
Slade Architecture
project Avalon Bowery Place II, New York.
standout The lobby of the 90-unit rental apartment building features pops of orange, walls clad in satin-finished mirror glass, and a cascade of ball bearings in nickel-plated steel.
project Two Adams Place, Boston.
standout A floor-to-ceiling grille of vertical I-beams and white acrylic panels transforms an elevator bank into the billowy showstopper of this 1980's office building's atrium.
project Columbia Center, Washington, D.C.
standout Thanks to the glass facade of this office building's four-story, 4,220-square-foot atrium, strips of backlit laminated glass and a grove of internally lit polycarbonate rods glimmer for blocks.
We would love your feedback!
VIEW ALL GALLERIES