Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Bella Sky Comwell by 3XN

Bella Sky Hotel
Bella Sky Comwell located in the middle of Ørestad, a green neighbourhood built around nature and water , is a striking piece of architecture designed by the Copenhagen-based architecture firm 3XN

Bella Sky Comwell is the largest hotel in Scandinavia with  23 floors, 812 designer rooms and 30 flexible meeting and conference rooms located in two oblique towers. It is also the first hotel in Europe with an entire floor (named Bella Donna ) dedicated to women.

In 2011, Bella Sky was named the Commercial Building of the Year in Denmark, and recently it won the “Best Architecture in Europe”  award at the International Hotel Awards in London.

DESIGN
Bella Sky Comwell’s two towers stand close to each other and leans away from each other, creating an opening that ensures all guests fully enjoy the wonderful view over Amager Common and the vast Copenhagen skyline.  The angled facades and tilting buildings are also an expression of efficient and optimized utilization of standard hotel logistics.

Kim Herforth Nielsen, founder of 3XN and Creative Director, explains:
“The challenge was to build two towers with a single origin, so a common foyer was possible.
Designing a sustainable building was also vital to us. This includes insulating the building from solar heat and heat loss, which meant that the facade could not be comprised of more than 50% glass.
The facade’s pattern provides this insulating effect. And the pattern, which is formed by diagonal and vertical lines, enhances the building’s look by following the turning of the towers.”

Bella Sky Comwell follows the tradition of renowned Scandinavian design and is decorated with simple components in stylish materials that reflect the hotel’s exclusivity. The vision is to create a modern hotel that reflects the city’s pulsating energy while providing space for intimacy.
The entrance features a specially-designed light installation and furniture upholstered with textiles that discretely resemble the structure of the building’s facade. The foyer features a room in the room and incorporates materials from the hotel’s natural surroundings, creating a soft and intimate contrast to the city.
The lounge and restaurants feature plant walls, the lobby’s fireplace area is surrounded by reeds and the wall behind the reception is a woodpile. The classic, stationary desks are replaced with mobile elements that ensure personalized service.
The architectural design creates more than 200 different combinations in the 812 rooms. The pure lines are broken by natural materials such as ash and smoked oak, as well as red, purple and green nuances, and specially-designed rugs and furniture.  

Rooms
Bella Sky Comwell’s ultramodern Scandinavian design permeates all of the 812 unique rooms, all of which are decorated with designer furniture and equipped with individual ceiling to floor windows in varying trapezoidal forms, providing spectacular light in every single room.

Bella Donna
Located on the 17th floor, the Bella Donna with 20 rooms, features a modern design based on a Nordic theme styled in white surfaces and white-stained ash combined with furniture in classic, organic soft shapes and colours. Only female guests with key cards and hotel staff are allowed to enter here
The furniture includes Hästens queen-size beds, Arne Jacobsen lamps, Bang & Olufsen flat screen LED TVs, Vitra lounge chairs as well as marble bedside tables and desks from Hay.

The Balcony
The restaurant, which has room for 65 guests, has an open kitchen with a view to the renowned Molteni stove, so guests can watch as the chefs work in the kitchen. 
Sky Bar 
Sky Bar is Bella Sky Comwell’s exclusive bar and lounge located on the 23rd floor and has a fantastic view of Copenhagen’s skyline, Amager Common, and the Oresund Bridge . With champagne, caviar and cocktails as the main elements of the menu, Sky Bar is the more luxurious choice.


Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Marchi Mobile’s eleMMent Palazzo Motor Coach - Luxury on the go

The 40 foot long marvelous Mobile Home from Vienna based Marchi Mobile includes a master bedroom that can house a 40 inch flatscreen TV, and a pop-up sky lounge rooftop patio.

The  palazzo unites characteristics from motor, yachting and aviation sports such as a sports car rear diffuser, the business jet gang way or the motor yacht flybridge. The interior is minimalistic and modern shapes fused with classy and antique design elements embedded in timeless ambiance.

Amenities include the mini-kitchen , the integrated communications and location system, satellite television along with internet and can be configured with mobile internet, a working fireplace , streaming video surveillance, heated flooring and rainfall shower.
A house on the go, the  eleMMent Palazzo Motor Coaches are powered by a  6-cylinder and 4-valve turbocharged diesel engine that peaks a maximum of 530 hp and rests on DAF XF 105 chassis. It also sports a  package XXL with a dual sport exhaust system, Carbon rear diffuser, eleMMent design wheels 28 inch front axle, and a single-arm windscreen wiper with rotor drive. Partially based on the Colani design, fuel consumption has been reduced up to 20% by its trendsetting aerody- namics.
 
Three Marchi Mobile Motor Coaches (2 in Russia and one in Europe) are already being used by MM Promotions to publicize the Winter Olympic Games to be held in Sochi, Russia in 2014.  

Friday, 23 December 2011

Architecture/The A House , Copenhagen, Denmark

The project was undertaken by Danish firm Holgaard Architects. 

Although the building also contains commercial space, the structure contains mostly residential housing complexes.
The architects were required to construct a new glass facade framed in bronze aluminum. The apartments are fully furnished and include amenities that range from cleaning and laundry to breakfast and a fitness center. The apartments can even be rented on a day-to-day basis.
Black and white interiors always have a strikingly beautiful appearance. When done right, the sharp contrasts accentuate the good and conceal the bad. Another aspect of this interior that is loved is the amount of natural light that floods the space due to the sprawling floor to ceiling windows.

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