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Juvia by alejandro barrios-carrera. Design miami 2012.

Juvia by alejandro barrios-carrera. Design miami 2012.

Jan 1, 2013

One of many highlights for the Herzog & de Meuron Building* during Design Miami was to visit Juvia, a recently designed pentouse eatery atop the building. Designed by Venezuelan architect and interior designer Alejandro Barrios-Carrero the restaurant straddles the 1111 Lincoln Road office building and a Herzog & de Meuron parking garage. The 10,000 square foot indoor/outdoor restaurant features an innovative trackless, retractable roof, and a 22-foot high vertical plant wall.

[DesignApplause] Alejandro, this project is being billed as Miami’s first restaurant where architecture and design collaborate to play a leading role. What was your vision for the restaurant and how did you achieve it?
[Alejandro Barrios-Carrero] Let me talk about the vision. I think that Juvia is Miami. For me I would describe it that way. Then we can ask, “What is Miami?” For me Miami is much more than its famous Art Deco. For me Miami is about nature, architecture, the sky, the plants.



With Juvia we had the opportunity to do many things, from converting an office space into a restaurant, to juxtaposing a high-end restaurant with a parking facility and taking advantage of the penthouse/terrace floorplan.

It was big challenge because usually restaurants are on top of office buildings or tourist attractions. The parking facility is indeed a wonderful architectural statement but it is still a parking garage. The idea and concept is you walk into a private entrance at street level and take a private elevator. The visitor is transported into this oasis that nobody expects and they experience the bringing of the outside inside and the inside outside.

Our philosophy is derived from a good balance of architecture, interior design and landscape. Our office, ABC, put together a good team. For the vertical garden we used acclaimed French botanist Patrick Blanc. The Amazonian-inspired plant wall is a soil-less garden wall, overflowing with greenery native to South Florida. This is his first project in Miami and he’s now doing the Miami Art Museum.

We brought in Thomas Patterson, an Australian designer, for the lighting. There’s a soft orange-amber built-in LED fixture in the ceiling. The kitchen was a collaboration with Russell Stillwell of Next Step Design, from New York.

We used a very limited materials and color palette. We used wood which is very homey and cosy. The wood is on the floor, walls, even the ceiling. The ceiling and some walls are whitewashed white oak. A special detail is in the extended mullions of both floor and ceiling. The illusion created brings the outside inside.

extended mullions of both floor and ceiling bring the outside to the inside

The color palette consists mostly of white with some light grey and purple. We chose purple, a color that shouts with great energy. Purple appears in the amethyst stone topped liquor bar.

For furniture we use a B&B Italia collection by designer Patricia Urquiola. This collection consists of eight elements and all elements are here in the restaurant. The chairs are rope-woven using string for inside and plastic for outside. Inside there are white oak topped dining tables with bases designed by Piero Lissoni. Outside there’s the 8.5 meter communal table with a petrified wood tabletop and a water fountain. On the terrace you have the small tables, also a banquette that surrounds the water feature. The water feature has a visual relationship with the structural columns: The silhouette and texture of the water feature and the structural columns are similar. Tabletops outside are limestone. A nice balance of stone and organics.

Another design element is wanting to have many Juvia’s in one. What does that mean? We created a restaurant where you can come to the same place four times and you can feel very different experiences. It’s very different experience to dine on the outside terrace versus eating inside.

Inside you have the experience of dining at the liquor bar. Another venue is a banquette table, another the central tables, and yet another tables next to the windows. Each location offers a very different experience. Also, there’s not one chair that doesn’t have a beautiful view.

Juvia is sexy, understated luxury, it’s relaxed, it’s what Miami exudes. Juvia brings identity to the city, personality, and much more the Art Deco heritage I love and respect. We bring something to the city that it didn’t have before.



[DA] You inherited a great space, a great vision, a great structure, and you’ve melded your vision together with the structure and enhanced this space. Totally seamless.
[ABC] Thank you. Exactly, the seamless connection with the old building and the new restaurant. I think it’s about understanding this space, the overriding energy we have talked about. It’s about our vision respecting the existing structure, the magnificent parking facility, the understanding of the architecture here as this is a very architonic restaurant. Now you can have a dialog about what is interior design, what is architecture.

[DA] When you came in, did you need to talk to Herzog?
[ABC] No. They sent us the drawings, they recommended Patrick Blanc. Patrick was very excited because it was his first time that he does a restaurant where he’s called in at the beginning of the project rather than at the end. We collaborated with the plant selection: There are over 200 varieties in this space. Juvia by the way is named after the indigenous Brazilian nut tree.


alejandro barrios-carrera

[DA] Not part of dialog but a comment: One of the things that’s so special about this project is Alejandro understands where it is. He understands that it’s part of Miami and it’s part of the Herzog de Meuron parking garage. And he takes as some of his inspiration some of Herzog’s lines. You can see it in the fountain, the angles and the silhouette of the structure, the concrete to engage in a relationship with the Herzog building.

There’s also a relationship with the 1970s building. For example the wood planks in the ceiling are similar to the concrete planks in the older building. You can notice that the planks widths are different and that’s similar to the detail landscape architect Raymond Jungles installs at street level in front of 1111. Alejandro cleverly and subtly captures the essence of the creation.

(*) formerly the SunTrust Bank building, purchased by developer Robert Wennett in 2005 who hired the Swiss firm, and effectively shored up the west end of Lincoln Road at Alton Road. [ juvia ] [ herzog &de meuron ]


outdoor furniture for mcdonald’s. patrick norguet.

outdoor furniture for mcdonald’s. patrick norguet.

Dec 2, 2012

photos courtesy of patrick norguet

Design Democracy – From Cappellini to McDonalds – Patrick Norguet doesn’t discriminate. McDonalds hires one of Frances top creatives, Patrick Norguet to design an outdoor collection. In collaboration with the producer Alias and the fast-food giant McDonald’s, designer Patrick Norguet has designed a line of outdoor furniture as part of McDonald’s “Come” project. The furniture collection will equip terraces and outdoor spaces McDonald’s worldwide. [ patrick norguet ] [ alias ]



The design solution responds to the ‘COME’ objectives – to design, engineer, develop and install a specific turnkey modular furniture system. The collection consists of 28 pieces made of steel, hand-sanded concrete and Corian tables, chairs, benches, lamps, planters, litter bins and screen. The introduction of the collection will be in Bordeaux and northern France.



Patrick Norguet says:

“For this project, like each of my projects, I wanted to give great attention to the final use. Draw a quality space that fits into the time that meets the demands and requirements specific to McDonald’s. Not all completely outside or completely inside the terrace is experienced as an extension of the restaurant, a separate space for a different experience. It is also a major project for me because we were able to connect two worlds around the project, and thus develop products of high quality. The association with Alias, I was able to reach the level of demand that I wanted for this set consists of 28 objects. A family of tables, chairs, low chairs, lamps, planters, benches, litter bins and screen.”


“I’m lovin it.”

Soft modular loungescapes by osko+deichmann.

Jul 23, 2012

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Berlin-based design group osko+deichmann recently released Plot, a padded, modular seating system for the contract market. Designed for Brunner, Plot is a versatile, customizable and easy to adjust lounge system “inspired by cascaded formations in nature.” Intended for use in hotels, lobbies and airports, the system is made up of add-on units that come in three height levels – low, medium and high. The base level acts as a low-lying side table to hold purses, drinks, etc. The medium level cushions act as seats and can be raised to the next highest level to form seat backs, arm rests and area dividers. The color-blocked units make this system much more attractive than your average contract commercial seating, too. Watch this short video to see how Plot can grow or shrink to fit your space.

From Brunner:

How do we sit down while we’re travelling? Do we wait or do we work? Do we meet other people and communicate? Do we take a time-out and relax ? How private do we want to be in public spaces?

plot from Berlin-based designer duo osko+deichmann provides a contemporary response to these questions. Building on a square base module with variable seating surfaces at three levels, plot fully reinterprets the roles of arm-rests and back-rests.

Every person uses furniture in their own unique way. While sitting down, people change their posture and furniture serves a different purpose for each of us – for some it offers a spot to rest or communicate while for others it provides a temporary office space or an oasis of tranquillity. With its multilevel seating, plot allows different seating positions and encourages informal communication. plot, the modular loungescape invites people to return and interpret seating in a new way.


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Moving cooper-hewitt's design library.

Mar 29, 2012

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The Cooper-Hewitt has had to make a lot of adjustments in its programming during the renovations of their Upper East Side location, which will be closed for the next two years. For starters, the Design Talks series hosted by the museum’s director, Bill Moggridge, are being held at WNYC’s Greene Space, and their upcoming exhibition “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” will take place on Governor’s Island.

The other consideration they’ve had to make is for their massive National Design Library. The library itself was established in the 1890s by the Hewitt sisters, and the collection has occupied the third floor of the museum since the it was obtained by the Smithsonian in the 70s. More than two years of planning has gone into moving the 80,000 volumes, 4,500 trade catalogues and several collections of pictures to two new spaces, the Miller and Fox House, a townhouse adjacent to the museum, and a conservation and storage facility in New Jersey.

Not to worry, two chandelier-lit public reading rooms at the Miller and Fox House will allow access to bound serials an reference volumes. There’s another space, too, a quiet reading room where serious researchers can pull volumes of magazines and exhibition catalogues from bookcases nestled into the wood-paneled walls. Most of the collection, however, is housed in a temperature-controlled facility in New Jersey.


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New installation hangs high in a church.

Mar 26, 2012

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You can’t tell from the image above, but these people are actually suspended in mid air inside a church in Pula, Croatia. It’s part of Tuft, an installation by the Croatian-Austrian design collection Numen/For Use, which will hang from the ceiling until the end of the month. From the outside the piece looks like an outdoor speaker system, the kind used in an air raid or, on the other hand, the kind used in Muslim countries for daily calls to prayer. Inside, however, the cozy, dimly lit carpeted play space looks more like a 70s-era lounge. But none of these ideas seem to connect, so I hunted down the artist’s statement.

“Tuft is an evolution of the tape concept into a more permanent, self-standing, transferable structure. Adhesive tape is used to generate the primary form of the object. The organic surface of the carpet is later achieved through precise division of the shape in two-dimensional segments, enabling traditional tufting technology. The development and production were executed in a Croatian factory Regeneracija, a former regional industrial giant.

“Rough, industrial surface of the back side of the carpet is deliberately exposed to serve as a counterpoint to the invitingly soft, carnal interior. The result is a surreal simultaneous feeling of anxiety and thrill whilst entering into the installation.”

I guess I couldn’t have been more off base, though I a dark red 70s lounge does have a certain carnal look. All interpretation aside, I’m most impressed by the fact that this installation was born from an investigation into adhesive tape.





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Greenzero chargers by bracketron.

Jan 22, 2012

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I always cringe when I visit a company’s website and read the words “eco-friendly” in their ad copy. The dubious catch phrase means everything and nothing all at the same time. I’ve even seen plastic bags advertised as “eco-friendly,” for chrissakes. But Bracketron, a company that makes phone accessories, may have actually produced a true energy saver in their line of GreenZero Chargers.

All three chargers (for home, travel and car) shut off automatically when your phone is fully charged, putting an end to phantom energy as well as ‘top-off stress’ on your phone’s battery (yes, even your phone gets stressed out). While it’s not the “most eco-friendly and efficient way to charge mobile devices,” as their site claims – my mom has them beat with her solar powered charger hub – it’s definitely better than the current energy sucking system, and at $22-$29, it’s affordable, too.



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The highline new york city. An aerial greenway.

Nov 28, 2011



The High Line is a 1-mile (1.6 km) New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) section of the former elevated freight railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. Phase 1 was opened in 2009, phase 2 in 2011, phase 3 most likely 2013.



Visiting the new phase 2 on Friday following Thanksgiving and with 64-degree weather it was wall-to-wall on the Highline and not many were thinking about holiday shopping just yet.



Above photo taken prior to development. Much of the naturalized plantings are inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the disused tracks.



Pebble-dash concrete walkways unify the trail, which swells and constricts, swinging from side to side, and divides into concrete tines that meld the hardscape with the planting embedded in railroad gravel mulch.



The project was designed by [ James Corner Field Operations ] and [ Diller Scofidio + Renfro ] and construction on phase 1 of the park cost around $172 million public dollars to build. This investment into the community has resulted in more than 30 different projects being proposed or constructed.
[ the highline ] [ the highline wiki ]

Marilyn monroe and her new tattoo.

Aug 30, 2011

[left] photo by brent lewis chicago tribune
Several weeks ago our post on pop artist seward johnson’s unveiling of “forever marilyn” prompted a comment “i give it a month before some vandals with brown paint give her a skid mark.” Well…



Everyone will react differently of course. Having just come from Portland where everyone sports a tattoo the tag brought a smile and I really like this sculpture.

[left] leo burnett world headquarters – architect kevin roche

When construction barricades were big in the early 90s I had two that prompted both developers to comment about the unique qualities of their skyscraper street art – no one vandalized the barricades. I am very surprised Marilyn got tagged.

[left] 181 west madison – the boys – architect cesar pelli

Chicago might be the most graffiti-free urban setting in the world. Past mayor Richard M. Daley created not only a graffiti task force but also makes it nearly impossible to get spray paint in the city. Unless you have a relevant business card the only paint store that has spray paint won’t unlock the glass-case-enclosed product. BTW – like a henna tat marilyn’s tag is now nowheresville.

[ forever marilyn unveiling ] [ marilyn tattooed ] [ sizing up public art ]

The stuhlhockerbank.

Nov 16, 2010

it may take you just as long to pronounce its name as it does to choose a seat on the long amalgam of chairs, stools and benches that make up the stuhlhocker- bank.

Acting more like a narrative structure than a traditional piece of furniture, the various positions of the chairs and chair backs and the way they’re integrated may force you to sit face to face with another person instead of side by side, prompting unexpected encounters with strangers.



While that may not appeal to everyone, the Stuhlhockerbank is at least universally pleasing in that, coming up on it in a public space, you can’t help but smile at the whimsical seating arrangement. Imagine chancing upon it Central Park. Even if you chose not to straddle the bench or knock knees with your seat mate, it’s obviously got a lot on the everyday park bench.

designer: yvonne fehling & jennie peiz


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Cool public furniture.

Oct 8, 2010

tasteful solutions for your sorry feet.

designer: pablo reinoso —huge sudeley bench



designer: pablo reinoso —spaghetti bale



designer: remyveenhuizen —the reef bench



designer: jangir maddadi —the union bench



designer: jangir maddadi —yacht bench




designer: alexandre moronnoz—muscle bench




designer: diamond teak —diamond teak bench




designer: rocker lange architects



designer: jeppe hein —loop bench

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