Transforming Your Home, Office and Garden
DNA Design Lab is a study that combines rigorous design work with a constant quest for creative materials in order to turn your house, business, or garden into a harmonious environment capable of establishing a suggestive mood around visitors. They step in to solve various problems, both public and private. Instead of just offering the best furniture accessories, they also provide the customer with unique solutions.
They function in a variety of settings, both public and private. In addition to having the best furniture, they also provide customers with original solutions. This ability, along with a comprehensive design analysis, enables them to produce genuine works that are meant to last over time or add value to your site; the end result will be a special setting that may genuinely fall in love with its visitors.
They gather and restore minimalist, industrial, and antique-style decor items in order to give these genuine pieces a new life while placing importance only on the necessary. They enjoy designing both indoor and outdoor areas, and one of their special goals is to evoke feelings that last. The furnishings from DNA Design can be found in residences, clubs, restaurants, and workplaces, where they can play a significant role in establishing new interiors and exteriors.
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Havelock One Interiors, a leading turnkey fit-out contractor and manufacturer in the Middle East, implemented the interiors for the Hilton Garden Inn, an upscale yet affordable business and leisure hotel, nestled in the heart of the Bahrain Bay.
“Having completed the Hilton Garden Inn – Kuwait in 2019, we were very keen on the award of the fit-out packages for the property in Bahrain. The brand is young, vibrant and has a playful undercurrent, which allows us to be innovative with the specified materials and design features. Fortunately, our off-site mock-up rooms convinced all stakeholders, so we were recommended to manufacture the custom joinery, to carry out the finishing of the hotel’s interiors, as well as to coordinate all MEP works integration with the interiors,” says Jihad Raad, Division Director, Hospitality Manufacturing and Fit-out Bahrain at Havelock One.
“One of the eye-catching installations in the Hilton Garden Inn is their rickshaw (Tuk-Tuk) food truck located in the Together & Co Lobby Café. A Bajaj rickshaw was sourced by Havelock One and fully customised into a service station. This feature demanded our setting-out experts to develop a 3D digital design to fully understand and cater to the needs of the operator and to integrate the exact MEP requirements. The scope of the project also featured additional decorative items, such as a custom beam ceiling installation in the all-day dining area and customised operable partitions with pass doors in the meeting rooms,” adds Raad.
Danube Home, the leader in home furnishing and home improvement industry, is inviting everyone to live a little bigger outdoors, to weave a little piece of heaven in the urban jungle, with the launch of its new Garden Collection in stores in the UAE, Oman, and Bahrain and online at www.danubehome.com. With over 2500 outdoor furnishings, themed furniture pieces, and garden accessories – Danube Home is the ultimate winter weather destination for your front-yard, back-yard, terrace, and balcony needs.
A four-bedroom home in midtown Toronto designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, Garden Circle House is a response to the client’s desire for a sustainable home inspired by nature, connected to the outdoors and awash in daylight.
The house is imbued with wellness features, including a palette of natural materials, lush landscaping, and water features that offer both visual and auditory effects to enhance a sense of calmness. It also uses spatial strategies to maximise natural light and to visually connect to the outdoors through ample fenestration and elevated vantage points. Upon entry into the house, a direct view to the backyard lap pool and landscaping is visible through a tall, narrow window on-axis.
Looking back toward the front entry, a double-height space dramatically showcases the home’s dynamic spatial qualities, enhanced by the light that pours in from the tall windows and the abstracted shadows cast by the triangular light fixtures overhead. Views are primarily oriented to the rear yard, with access through wall-to-wall sliding doors in the kitchen. A hot tub built into the hard-wearing Cumaru outdoor decking and firepit on the small patio transforms the backyard into a relaxing oasis for three out of four seasons.
Inspired by the client’s love for Prairie Style architecture, the exterior of the house incorporates horizontal planes and overhangs, and an earthy, natural material palette of brick, wood, and stone. Buff and grey-toned brick convey a sense of solidity while Western red cedar boards and mahogany-framed windows complement the warmth of wood. Green roofs are integrated into each of the overlapping roof planes on the front and back of the house, while their soffits are detailed with Brazilian massaranduba. Integral to the front of the house is the pear tree that was retained on-site; located in front of the large dining-room window, its foliage casts an animated play of shadow and light year-round, while the scent of blossoms in spring and ripe fruit in autumn wafts through the open window.
Complementing the home’s biophilic design strategy is the prioritization of sustainability approaches and systems such as radiant in-floor heating, efficient high-velocity cooling, thermally superior wall assemblies, operable windows and skylights for natural ventilation and daylighting, LED light fixtures, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and durable, hard-wearing and low-VOC materials.
The 2020 edition of the International Garden Festival at the Reford Gardens was a discreet event in this very special year, which will remain anchored in our memories, both individually and collectively. Although the five design teams, chosen from among 200 following our international call for applications, were unable to travel to Grand-Métis in June, the Festival team nonetheless built their installations so that visitors of the Reford Gardens could enjoy the “métissages” they had imagined.
Now the lockdown in Kuwait has eased, the new Hilton Garden Inn Kuwait is welcoming guests again. Strategically located, adjacent to The Avenues – Kuwait, the hotel is popular with business travellers and families alike.
Blurring the boundary between the external and the internal environment, the design for this hotel is natural, fluid and welcoming, evoking a feeling of being surrounded by a contemporary interpretation of a garden. The unique interiors are designed to channel a sense of place with traditional Middle Eastern influences through the use of locally inspired colours, textures and materials.
The guestrooms and suites have a contemporary feel with clean lines and fresh interiors complemented by comprehensive state of the art technology. Carefully selected artwork throughout the property captures beautiful and interesting elements of the local flora and fauna.
To make GAJ’s design vision a reality, Havelock One combined its expertise in interior contracting and manufacturing for the fast-track project. While the factory in Bahrain supplied juice bar counters, banquet seating and guest room millworks, as well as the ceiling panelling, a pattern that is repeated across different public areas, the local fit-out team provided the finishing works, including regular and acoustic ceilings, corridor wall cladding, painting, screeding, wallpapers, tiling, carpets, glass, and movable partition works.
Bringing nature back to the city although not a new idea it is a growing imperative especially for cities like Nicosia IN Cyprus, which has failed to make greenery and communal public areas a priority in its urban planning.
A house that brings nature back to the city, promoting shared spaces and social dialogue between its residents is what inspired them to design the ‘’garden house’’. The design emphasises the potential for private urban gardens and the microclimates they create to improve living conditions within cities and slow global warming.
Not hiding behind fences and fully glazed on one side, our proposal aims to form a physical continuation of the adjacent public green area. The house seeks to establish a unified relationship between the neighbourhood, the private garden and the public park. Urban elements such as building, street and public space are not treated as absolute activities in isolation but as one single homogeneous configuration as the house becomes part of the park and the park is included in the house.
The integration of green areas into the house incorporates the planting of gardens on 60% of the ground floor, the use of green terrace on the first floor, the provision of bee-friendly landscapes and 40 kinds of native wildflowers. All areas inside flow on the outer spaces and are organised around a green central courtyard placed in-between two white cubic volumes. Making space for nature in the city not only brings beauty to the urban fabric but encourages the return of local bird species and bees maintaining thus urban biodiversity; furthermore, it promotes human health and well-being.
At the heart of the pavilion’s orthogonal lines stands out the bathroom. Awarded a prize at the 13th edition of the Grand Prix du Design, this cylindrical bathroom elegantly combines beauty and functionality. Clad in red cedar cleats, this relief column looks like a sculptural element in the pavilion. The warm character of the wood contrasts with the pure and bright interior of the white mosaic. Particular attention has been paid to the furniture and the finishing details that follow the rounded or cylindrical shape, helping to create a singular and harmonious space. The circular opening in the ceiling from which a shower of natural light springs up reinforces the intimate and exotic character of this daring powder room.