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Venus, our sister planet, share striking similarities to those we call home: they are both rocky planet with comparable orbits, and both shine as sacred in the night sky. Still, Venus is also extreme – his atmosphere is the oldest in the solar system, a combination of carbon dioxide, which Cloud’s cloud clouds were stifled. While immossible for life as we know, Adam Sokol Architecture Architectureor ASAP /found a way to channel her second air aura into a terrestrial placement with Venus Salon.
Located at the 55th floor of one of the highest housing towers in Beijing in Jianguomena / CBD, Salon Venus turns only 250 square meters into entertainment and gathering space unlike any other. He ordered to repeat the existing interior, the goal of the project was a landscape craft so unknown to evaluate expectations, sparking new forms of social interaction and unexpected outcomes.
The central part is 16 feet striking photograduri From Venus artist Paul Taylor from RenaissanceExecuted using copper techniques of nineteenth century practices rarely can be seen in this scale. It is considered that the largest species like this has ever been produced, and its purely presence dominates the salon.
Inspired by the principles of astronomy and physics, space plays by perception and gravity. White arches, thrown in small corners, a room frame with a deliberate feeling of imbalance, encouraging visitors to feel the same lightness and disorientation can imagine in space. The guests are welcomed with the entrance of the red color flowing into the sculptural pit to talk. Upholstered in riplin, organic curves for Stitch NicSeating evokes lava flows or planetary terrain, modern download retro space-age design.
The invited schedule not only is not just a heavenly aesthet for the heavenly room, but also maximizes seating configurations. By avoiding static arrangements, the design encourages both intimate exchanges and greater social gatherings – whether for occasional scale, private events or film projections.
Even as scientists in 2024. They found signs of recent lava streams on Venus – evidence that the planet remains active – here on Earth, the salon of Venus serves as a reminder on our restless restless measure, search of nature. It is a space that celebrates the community and relationship, while hinting the possibility of how we can gather at other worlds.
The founder and director of Adam Sokol Assap / had the opportunity to study with renowned historians and curator Barri Bergdoll and theorist and criticism of Kenneth Frampton at his time in Yale. This historic perspective offers a more holistic and informed view of the principles of design, which is displayed in its body work. Master New Yorker, his unique insight into the systems that maintain the swing of the design carries with him in Los Angeles, where his studio is based. There are passengers of good designs, past and present – as soon as / reminds us of those timeless bases.
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Photography Jonathan Leijonhufwood.