Panetteria Princi in Milan

... Especially as architecture and food are directly related here. This project fuses the life elements - water, air, fire and earth, which are crucial to cooking and baking, just as they are to architecture ... In principle the Panettria consists of a single, large, lucidly articulated room where all the activities needed to make bread - one of our staple foods - and other baked goods, including selling and eating them, take place at the same time. Rigorous geometry is paired with warm colours and sensual materials: rough porphyry for the floor, rough stone blocks as counters and shaped as tables to stand at, earth-coloured brass panes as wall cladding, fire for baking - visible from everywhere, presented as a focal point - and of course wood, for the place where the kneading and baking take place. Baking as elemental, primal activity, something that is normally kept from our eyes, is deliberately thrust into the foregound, spatially intensified. It happens behind great panes of glass, and can be seen both from outside and inside. The division between manufacture and selling is removed. Both take place in the same space, on the same stage. And just as all the activities are spatially linked, so are all the materials closely related to each other. 

-texts  Architectural Esssentials by Claudio Silvestrin, p126 The architect, the cook, and the taste Birkhauser

Just 5 minutes from Duomo, we could get this modern, crowded bakery. 

As the architect said, the space was for all social strata. It was a democratic space in which everyone feels good regardless of background or status. but you've got to dash to try their bread before lunchtime!

-photo July 2008 in Milan

www.claudiosilvestrin.eu

www.princi.it

Sometimes I want to go back to the time when I studied drawing and sculpture. As I have worked in the field of architecture, I seem to forget all of those art things. When I first saw David Chipperfield's projects in plans and photos, I just found it cool or cold. I haven't been any of his projects, but this picture came to me with its warmness, and story. Come to think of it, I think I used to draw indoor space, but I never drew pictures which were focused on any buildings or something like facade. Yes, actually there were no buildings to draw here, but the state of mind could be expressed well when it was described through space. Why I reminded the time is this photo looks like a painting, not an architecture photo. Soft wall finish like touches on painting, heavy concrete bench which doesn't have a headachy detail, and the sunshine... 

Museum of modern literature, by David Chipperfield 2008

This one is my smallest project since I've worked in 101arch, but my favourite when I look back on. It is a wine cellar for vintage wines in winetime, so it has sloping shelves, and indirect LED lighting. All the walls are covered with glass door to not touch, but have air circulation gaps.

Bar Atelier

The Cocktail Aalto and an Aalto candleholder.

This bar is on top of a five-star hotel, Hotel Torni in Helsingki.

Although I could not understand why there were the transparent chairs by Philp Stock, and there weren't anything connected with Alba Aalto apart from the cocktail Aalto and glasses, it was a enjoyable place with its great night view.

When we are travelling, it is necessary to go to toilets as often as we can, but I became to go to toilets everytime if I visit to designed buildings since I've worked at 101architects.

This picture is the interior of a toilet in Kiasma, designed by Steven Holl.

What was interesting is there were a shower faucet in every public toilet in Helsinki. They seemed like hand held bidets.