New on Hospitality

While on past years it seemed that every week or so a new restaurant had to open a new branch, in the present crisis is now stay quite but do it grate. Budgets for new restaurants and hotels etc, are now really tight. So designer are now put to the test to do the best with less, which has come to the more friendly and familiar trends that we are seeing on restaurants, les generic and more specific.

Hotels are changing rapidly, hotels today are the city itself, and your room is your temp house. If before visitor went to a city, it seems that now they are visiting a specific hotel. Where you can invite friends, and instead of having a bath on a tiny corner of the room, now you are having a shower with a view that takes your breath. Everything is a lot more personal and again les generic.

As well on the future of retail (we have to do this Retail issue on its own) or market places, it might shift to the idea of no more massive retailers and adding smaller one s where the lease might be longer

Next on Preservation

It seems that the Word itself is now a day’s more complex than ever before, is not referring to a green issue is, preservation of old building with a high sentimental or aesthetic value, or is it to reinforce existing buildings for the next earthquake or tsunami.

On preservation historic buildings it seems that there are two thing that actually are happening, one is that many technologies (material) are being forgotten by de masonries, if 20 years ago everything was brick base now is gypsum board, so restoration or the action of preserving an historic building is starting to really specialize at all the range of the activity. Two, in a plus side, with a laser scan that actually marks the difference between the construction drawing (if there are some) to the existing building, showing exactly if a wall is shifted or not.

new decade

First days of a new decade, let’s start imagining what’s is going to be new trends and pads that architecture is going to take due to scientific advances and willing of always having to use the newest thoughts.

So during these next days we are going to try to foresee what going to happen in a year, 5 years and 10 years in different topics concerning architecture.