Category: Loft

KSA Kurt Salmon Associates Headquarter

Swiss architects ern+ heinzl Architekten believe an open office creates a learning atmosphere. They feel this approach is great for bouncing ideas back and forth.

ern+ heinzl Architekten designed the KSA Kurt Salmon Associates, headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany. You could be chilled by the coldness of the minimalist concept. Or you can be inspired by a large, open white space that encourages people to experiment. As creativity does not always happen at a desk, the space is comprised of a seating activity area and a standing activity area.

I imagine myself walking through an office that radiates white. A zone that captures light and holds it for your emotional senses and delight. A living thing. Is light the most sensous perception of space in architecture?

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Loft in Como by Jacopo Mascheroni

Stairs can speak louder than words about a house‘s style intentions. Something like a grand staircase of marble steps in monumental homes. I am thinking about the exhaustion people feel going down those stairs.

Modern stairs are less about circulation. They are more about occupying minimal space and becoming abstract objects. Architect Jacopo Mascheroni, designed the loft in Como’s staircase as a great opportunity to make circulation free floating. A feeling of weightlessness with a skin and bone structure of open treads covered in maple wood.

The loft in Como, Italy is an old monastery put to new use: a dream minimalist loft. Maple hardwood floors with custom floor planks; a video projector that plays images on the kitchen wall, hidden cabinets, open spaces, pure white; did I mention everything was custom designed?

I oohed and aaahed at the Jacopo Mascheroni project. It comes pretty close to a dream I can aspire to, when I finally get discovered.

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Olympic Tower Residence

Mostly a white palette; polished white quartz floors and a glossy white ceiling. Then there is the clutter – no room for clutter and uncluttered access to views.  Once you are in this ultra minimalist apartment, you leave stuff behind.

Wayne Turett of Turett Collaborative Architects, considered a white quartz stone floor to open up the ceiling space. Christopher Coleman, interior designer, utilized furniture to the bare minimum for the 3,400 square-foot apartment, on the 39th floor of the Olympic Tower, in New York City.

Brilliantly bright white. It’s beautiful! But where to place the ugly stuff? It requires non attachment to clutter and a ‘chilling out’ minimalist approach. You wish stuff becomes invisible and it seems to matter less. That’s a kind of minimalism we can appreciate.

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Chelsea Loft

We just received an email from Stephen Roberts, an Australian designer based in New York.

He tipped us about the Chelsea Loft, also known as The White Loft. This is a 3,000 square feet loft in Chelsea, New York, which he redesigned completely, together with his team at Stephen Roberts inc. .

The gorgeous loft is bathing in light, with white terrazzo floors carrying the light from the windows through the entire space. The ceiling is almost completely free of lighting, sprinklers and other systems.

The result is a beautiful podium for the furniture set, which was built up around a small vintage Scandinavian collection already owned by the clients. Roberts added classic design objects such as  two vintage Jacobsen Egg chairs in tan leather, and a 1950′s Murano glass light fixture.

Photography by Greg Delves.

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