ADC on November 24, 2022
Aesthé, Marais, Paris, France – ADC
Aesthe is a Parisian aesthetic medical centre that is minimalist to the extreme yet it also exudes warm and inviting elegance. It is a fully custom-tailored project by architects Romain Freychet and Antoine Prax co-founders of Paris-based GRAMME. Aesthé was founded by CEO Anne-Charlotte Rousseau with Baptiste Lestienne and Arnaud Lambert in late 2021....
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ADC on April 5, 2022
BIBU Pet Store, Gaode Mansion, Guangzhou, China – ADC
Although BIBU is promoted as a “pet store” it is really much more. It is an entire pet-care and pet-pampering environment, strategically answering the call of the younger generations to provide the services and products their pampered pets need. In addition to retailing pets, pet supplies and food, BIBU includes...
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ADC on November 19, 2021
The Municipal Baths of Strasbourg, France
The recently reopened Municipal Baths of Strasbourg really must be addressed as ‘Baths.’ It would not seem right to call the complex just simply a swimming facility or an aquatic, wellness or community centre. It is all of these but its grand architecture and interior design, both now elegantly restored...
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ADC on September 1, 2021
Ruixiang Dental Clinic, Wenzhou City, Zheijang Province, China
The need to upgrade the design of medical and dental offices has been talked and written about for at least three decades. Yet real change has not taken place. Certainly not in the non-luxury world. From the customer perspective, most are still boring, bland and decidedly “medical.” Yes, we understand...
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ADC on August 22, 2021
Warehouse Gym, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Those endless rows of black equipment. The overall feel of a gym. We are hoping that one day, someone will disrupt this segment and decide that not all exercise equipment has to look like oil-rig machinery channelling destruction and torture, not health and well-being. Maybe we are the only humans...
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ADC on June 21, 2021
AHC Waterful Desert Spa, Gangnam, Seoul – South Korea – ADC
AHC Waterful Desert Spa is the new flagship location and a renewed spa brand of the Korean beauty brand AHC. The soft-hued, open and airy spa provides an antidote to the endless hustle of the 9.8-million-inhabitant city’s Gangnam (Gangnam-gu – South of the River) district that is the capital’s modern...
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ADC on May 26, 2020
Les Mills Fitness Club, Auckland City, New Zealand – ADC
Last year, after having been in business for more than 50 years, the New Zealand fitness powerhouse Les Mills completed the design of an additional facility across from its flagship location on Victoria Street in Auckland City. The addition is a thoroughly re-configured industrial building that now houses three new...
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