New Pharmaceutical Office Makes Wonderful Redesign

When pharmaceutical company Roche, based out of Auckland, New Zealand, decided it was time to revamp their office space, they made sure to keep their European roots in mind.

Interior design company STACK made sure to take full advantage of the building space Roche offered.

The architectural geometry of the reception desk, lighting and other furnishings is inspired by the chemical structure synonymous with Roche medical science. The coral inspired feature installation to the waiting area, utilizes the same geometry with a decidedly more organic appearance. This look really drives the aesthetic and feel of the workplace.

Utilizing natural light and interesting and innovative fixtures, along with bold colors, really ties the final look of the office.

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WONDERFUL BOOKSTORE DESIGN ALL STORES SHOULD ASPIRE TO HAVE

As we move into 2016, numerous businesses are looking to improve on their pervious year. While not every business is ready to make a big design change, there are a few who are looking into expansion of a new location, or maybe a remodel of an old store. Despite what many think, the design of your store has a huge impact on your companies perception, the length of time spent in store, and even how much is purchased. With that said, here are a few store designs that we think deserved to be highlighted.

“Carousel of Light” Bookstore in Bucharest – Romania

Honor Store in New York City

Yan Ji You bookstore in Beijing – China

Aiva bookstore in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

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Bar Designs From Around The World

In case you haven;t noticed, there are a lot of bars out there. In our modern age, there are more choices for your local watering hole than have existed before.  If you are looking for a high end modern establishment that specializes in hand crafted cocktails, it exists. If you want a bar made of ice the exclusively serves vodka and allows everyone to wear parkas, it exists. With so many options at a designers disposal, it's not hard to see why standing out from the crowd can be good for business. Here are a few of City Lighting Products favorites from around the globe.

Meltino Bar & Lounge: Braga

Tazmania Ballroom: Hong Kong

CHAMBERS eat + drink: San Francisco

Zebar: Shanghai

Divino Wine Bar: Budapest

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6 Amazing Examples of Salon Design

Just as hairstyles change, so do the places where stylists can change a mop of hair into the hottest trend on the street. There have never been so many options when it comes to the type of place you can get your hair styled. From a very traditional shop, to modern salon, here are a few of the best designed shops around the globe as selected by City Lighting Products.

Barboss Barbershop and tattoo salon: Kiev – Ukraine

Akin Barber Shop: Dubai – UAE

Barber School Amsterdam: Amsterdam – Netherlands

Equip Salon: Osaka – Japan

Happy Hair Salon & Hair Spa: Taichung – Taiwan

Design Room Hair Salon: Seoul – South Korea

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FIVE SMART USES OF LIGHTING IN RETAIL DESIGN

Wonderful store design can be found all over, but not every store utilizes lighting in smart ways. Here are five examples selected by City Lighting Products.

Chicago Blackhawks Flagship Store

To obtain a high-end look, the design team sourced materials that looked authentic, but would provide extended durability and fit into their limited budget – for example, the porcelain tile that forges the crisp white flooring that resembles the sport’s signature icy rink. Fixtures and sculptural elements, including an ice-skate chandelier, were custom made to create one-of-a-kind memorable features.

YOGASMOGA Store

Translated as “the burning of Japanese cypress (sugi)” or yakisugi, and traditionally used in Japan as exterior siding, this ancient technique is gaining new life as a unique and modern interior and exterior wall cladding. The charcoal barrier created through this process preserves the wood, and is fire, rot and insect resistant. The burning process accentuates the wood grain and creates varying colors when viewed from different angles and in different light.

Euromar From the Future Showroom

In the showroom, training shoes and sports equipment, which were manufactured with injection technology, are on show. The place, looks like manufactured with injection mold pressing. In the manufacturing method of the place, pieces of furniture as if it were come together with manufactured in injection mold in order to generate the whole. The ceiling with oblique and circular form, which is focus on the middle of the ceiling, was generated with barrisol and led lighting systems.

Barçın Store

As being an essential part of the design concept, open ceiling system is used with a black paint. Lighting in the store is designed to be dimly lit yet product-oriented. General artificial lighting is track system and some decorative pendant lighting is chosen to create the aimed atmosphere. Concrete is the major flooring material through-out the store. With its plain and monolithic look, it helps display units and products to stand out. To soften the rawness of concrete flooring slightly, a double-smoked parquet is used at some spots in the store. Additionally, applied painted lines and writings on flooring refers to tartan tracks and help dynamize the overall scene.

Timberland Specialty Store

Timberland has planted roots in Philadelphia opening its newest location on Walnut Street this past October.  The new store brings to life the industrial heritage of the brand with its use of reclaimed and repurposed materials like factory windows, woods and metals. The original brick walls, steel beams and oversized skylight and repurposed tables/fixtures are all authentic details used to highlight the brands footwear, apparel and accessory collections for the season.

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Favorite New Lighting Fixtures By City Lighting Products

Here are a few of City Lighting Products favorite lighting fixtures for both home and commercial spaces.

 

Drop & Droplet Pendant Lights by Stuart Fingerhut

The Drop pendant features a double curved-surface arrangement which frames the bulb used for illumination. Drop features three sets of double-looped surfaces arranged around the center axis, while Droplet features five sets.

The Book Stork Lamp by Cristina Bulat

The Book Stork Lamp is the winning project of the Romanian design contest organized by ROD Cărturești, in the search for a fetish object created for avid readers.

Giffy 17,7” Table Lamp by Leanter

The design light project started from my own wish to get a desk lamp that I could use regularly and that would also truly stand out on my table. And because I also have always liked to create things I decided that I will create the lamp that I want.

Pendant Lamp Collection by Karman for Global Lighting

Global Lighting is introducing a new collection of lighting from manufacturing company Karman, that has been designed by a diverse group of Italian designers. Furthermore, each piece is fabricated in Fossombrone, Italy.

Oslo Wood Floor Lamp by Northern Lighting

With its sleek contemporary profile, streamlined tripod base and multi-directional shade, it’s easy to see why Oslo Wood has become Northern Lighting’s best-selling design so far. The shade is poised to project light upward, yet also diffuses it through the fabric to create a soft glow.

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FIVE WONDERFUL LIGHTING DESIGNS IN PHARMACIES

S´ana Pharmacy by Marketing Jazz, Madrid – Spain

Integral design of a new branding concept in the pharmacy world. The brand  S´ana comes from Ana, the name of the owner of the pharmacy, and from the natural approach of the project ( sana means healthy). The project aims to transmit, as a main characteristic that makes this pharmacy different,  the love and care with which Ana serves her customers.

Pharmacy Marienthal by Atelier st, Zwickau – Germany

Natural tones in combination with spot and hidden lighting give this store a fresh and clean interior.

Farmacia Concept Store by Omid Ghannadi, Bucharest – Romania

This project focuses on the metamorphosis of an image, that of the modern, everyday drugstore, into a new, friendlier and warmer environment. The client is a company that owns a drugstore chain in Romania, and their wish was exactly thus: to redesign and reimage the pharmacy, transform the drugstore into a richer experience for the customer.

Menegaki Helen & Moisaki Lida Pharmacy by Lefteris Tsikandilakis, Heraklion – Greece

The sectors for promotion and presentation of the products, which are enhanced through hidden lighting that is indirect and placed behind each group of shelves so that it discretely illuminates the products thus promoting them, are organized based on the location of the entrances of the pharmacy, while the organized drug-preparation laboratory is articulated next to the staircase.

Pharmacy in Omori by MAMM Design, Tokyo – Japan

This dispensing pharmacy is facing a street on which some competing pharmacies are located. So it was also requested to create a distinguished facade rather than its interior design.

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5 Unique Ways to Design a Hair Salon.

Just as there are multiple styles of hair, there are multiple styles of salons. From boutiques to high end luxury operations, each one can represents a certain style and brand recognition. Here are five salons from around the globe that do a good job of standing out from the crowd.

MOSS Salon by FAAB Architektura, Kraków – Poland

MOSS hair, nail and beauty salon is the compilation of two spaces, previously separated and located on the different levels. The lower level, accessible directly from the street, consists of main entrance/reception, hair salon and manicure/pedicure zone. The upper level, accessible via bespoke stairs, houses beauty salon/spa and relaxation zone.

Roji Salon by Craig Tan Architects, Canberra – Australia

Located in the celebrated NewActon Nishi development and affiliated with the award winning Hotel Hotel, this design attempts to celebrate the nature of the haircut ritual, and to heighten the revival of the senses.

Murdock Soho Salon by Erik Munro, London – UK

Murdock London, the British gentleman’s grooming brand, opens its new London flagship store this Autumn 2015 in the heart of the West End in Brewer Street, part of the popular shopping district of the Crown Estate’s Regent Street Quarter.

Hair Stylist Salon by STUDIO 06, San Maurizio – Italy

This project is a redesign of an existing hair salon. The project is characterized by a big open space. Some elements as bamboo or different false ceiling create different work spaces without divide the salon.

Black Beard Barbershop by B&V Studio, Moscow – Russia

The space of barbershop is open and separated on three zones: there are working area, chilling zone and stuff. Materials and elements of decor are unusual and unconventional for use in hairdressers at all. The accent is on untreated surface’s beauty, for example, rusty metal ceiling, factory floor tiles with texture concrete, unevenly painted walls with graffiti.

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CITIES TO INVEST $64 BILLION IN LED AND SMART STREETLIGHTS

The infrastructure of any city across the globe is an extremely important factor in safety and functionality. Citizens need to have safe roads, bridges, dams, and even street lights. Without them, our cities would have many issues that we see as formalities in our modern lives. However, what makes infrastructure and expensive and laborious task is the constant upkeep needed to prevent them from failing. While highways are of vital importance, streetlights are more of an annoyance to the average person.

However, these lights use a large amount of energy, and can be time consuming to replace as the burn out. That is why many cities are choosing to invest in LED lighting for their communities. “Currently, there are more than 2,000 LED and smart streetlight projects globally. By 2025, cities across the globe will invest $64 billion in LED lighting and ‘smart’ streetlights, with 84% of world’s streetlights converting into LEDs by 2025, and 37% networked, or ‘smart’.”

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Speaker Systems Can Now Be Found In LED Bulbs.

Recently, we discovered a new segment of lighting that had is scratching our heads at first. Lighting with built in speaker systems. While it seems like a joke, these bulbs do exist and are continuing to sell. These are connected light bulbs with embedded wireless powered speakers, and both elements can be controlled from a mobile device or a computer. Why would anyone want such a thing? Is this a solution that exists for no other reason than that it can be done?

Well, as we did some digging, there are some practical applications. The real selling point here is that LED bulbs do not take up any shelf space, they don’t require wires, and simply draw power from the light socket. This allows the speakers to be deployed as surround-sound channels in a home theater, or they can be a part of a whole-home audio system. All with the added benefit of zero wires to be strung around the space and wireless control. Pretty cool right?

The biggest drawback is exactly what you think it is, the sound quality. It is s speaker in a light bulb, and it sound is pretty good (For a speaker in a light bulb). But there is no way that these types of speakers can replace the speakers of a surround sound system, or even a higher end wireless speaker system. However, as we see technology advance, I wouldn’t be shocked to see this become a more common occurrence. The speakers are a great idea, but need a bit more practicality to have more universal appeal.

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