The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle

The Forth is one of the pubs in Newcastle City Centre located on Pink Lane area which is owned by Mitchells&Butler along with O'Neill's,  All Bar One, Innkeeper's Lodge, Sizzling Pubs, Harvester, Toby Carvery and more. We have to come up with proposal design of the interiors of it. The bub will be closed for two weeks until it's updated. 

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Card Model of the bookshelf in scale 1:10

Bookshelf for Palais De Tokyo

My concept for this project is to design a piece of furniture that is original and interesting, suitable for a contemporary art museum. I have been playing with form and shape as well as proportions and use of space. My design for minimal clean-shaped bookshelf with built in light and a strip light at the back is a contemporary and could be a nice addition to the furniture in the shop, for instance. I think that the scroll shape curve on the shelf works great with the light and creates and elegant in a way feel to it, as well as the curves on the internal part of the shelf. It's made from white and semi-transparent polycarbonate and glued together.

Bespoke Piece of Furniture

BESPOKE FURNITURE
Brit.(interior) made to an individual order; custom-made; a bespoke piece of furniture

For this project I have decided to design a a bespoke piece of furniture for Palais De Tokyo in Paris, which will be a contemporary minimal bookshelf inspired by Scandinavian design. I have research some bookshelves and their methods of construction as well as materials.

Simple and elegant Loft contemporary bookcase in white lacquered embossed MDF. It is an interesting, contemporary design. You can arrange books in many different ways.
Dimensions in  inches: 79Wx13Dx67H
Structure: Wood/lacquered embossed

The oval-shaped shelf has an organic dynamic composition of the components, it is original and elegant.

Box Storage System
Material: painted ash, aluminium, industrial felt

This a piece of furniture aimed for storage and room dividing. It's built up by boxes you twist, turn and stack as you like. You decide what expression to create. This is a modern, functional and playful way to introduce some character and charm to a room.

Modular aluminium bookshelf - Airbook by Domodinsmica

Airbook is a shelf or a "wing floating on the wall". The combination of several such shelves allow you to get a vertical row which reminds of a flight of birds strengthen one another. the shelf is made by the folding an aluminium sheet of 3mm thickness that is later laser cut and transformed by twists ans turns. It is designed by Denis Santachiara for Domodinamica.

This is a design of a shelf for a library with an unusual, funny and bumpy shape and charming, modern, minimalist design. Called " Corrugated Shelf" by Kim Sang Hoon for Keame Design Studio in New York. The designer expresses the beauty of sharing shelf space on the system by providing vertical and horizontal geometric distribution on this furniture.

Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France

A world of contemporary art disguised a parking lot, the Palais De Tokyo amswers to contemporary art post-Pompidou. Housed next to the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Vile de Paris in an Art Deco building provided for Paris' International Exhibition in 1937, the space was with art critics Nicolas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans as co-ddirectors, creating a serious stir in the art world.

Architects Anne Lacation and Jean-Phillipe Vassalgave gave the then-direct building a much needed facelift in 2001 for the price of 4 million Euros, creating a sprawling and open exhibition space.

The architecture of the museum, which style is often associated with facist regime looks cold and strict but at the same time love is boldness, the sheer scale and the minimalism The interior too, with its concrete spaces with industrial and "unfinished" warehouse feel has become design statement. The lack of stiff formality from such an interior, along with the street graffiti and striker decoration makes it perfect for displaying contemporary art without the pretentiousness of the usual highly polished "white box" type galleries.

With no permanent collection and few solo exhibitions, the museum encourages creativity through short-term group exhibitions and jam packed agenda filled with lecture series, workshops, performance and on-side radio station. It can at times feel more like the world's most cutting-edge cultural mall, with a self-service restaurant, library and shop, as well as its midnight closing time.

Tate Modern, London

Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art that houses a collection British art from 1550's.

The gallery is created in 2000 from disused power station in the heart of London. The building's vast size becomes apparent when you enter via the dramatic turbine hall which is 152m. long. The collection of modern and contemporary art represents all the major movements from Fauvism. it includes masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse and many more. the displays of the permanent collection are complemented by a continues programme of contemporary exhibitions, exploring broad themes of British and international contemporary artists like Dorothy Cross, Gilbert an George and Susan Hiller as well as the work of individual artists. It also housed Turner Price many times.

Tate Modern is a powerful and dramatic combination of old and new architecture, providing 10,000 sq.m. of gallery space. The original Bankside power station was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott 1n 1947. It was closed down in 1981 and stood unused on the side of the Themes until 1996 when the Tate trustees saw it as a potential site for a new art gallery to house the Tate collection of international modern art from 1900 to present days. Out of the six finalist Herzog and de Meuron were the only architects to suggest leaving the original power station building largely intact. Their strategy was based on accepting the power and energy of the original building whilst fining new ways to enhance the utilize these qualities  - a conceptual rather than design-based approach. All of the original brickwork, windows and chimney have been renovated and retained. The original turbine hall has became the new entrance to the gallery as well as providing a vast exhibition space; visitors enter at one end and descent down a long gradual ramp before being carried upwards on escalators to the auditorium, shop, cafe  and three floors of galleries above. Light-fitted boxes attached to the sides of this huge space coincide with openings where visitors can look down on the turbine hall from the galleries above.

Internally Herzog and de Meuron have emphasized the industrial character of the building through their use of polished concrete, untreated wooden floors and plain light paintwork on the walls contrasting with black girders. Externally their major edition is the Swiss light, a two-story high glass roof beam that runs the whole length of the top of the building. This is the outward signal of the building's change in function providing excellent lighting to the top galleries. It also houses a cafe that has magnificent views across to St Paul's Cathedral on the other side of the river. At night this horizontal roof beam provides a destinctive addition to the London skyline.

The power station consisted of a huge turbine hall, thirty five meters high and 152 meters long with parallel to it, the boiler house. The turbine hall became a dramatic entrance area, with ramped access as well as a display space for very large sculptural projects. The boiler house became the galleries. These are on three levels running the full length of the building. The galleries are dispose in separate but linked blocks, known as suites on either side of the central escalators. The Tate collection of modern art is displayed on two of the gallery floors, the third is devoted to temporary exhibitions. Above the original roofline of the power station Herzog  and De Meuron added a two-story glass penthouse, known as the light beam. The top level of this house a cafe-restaurant with stunning views of the river and the City, The chimney was capped by a coloured light feature designed by the artist Michael Craig-Martin, known as the Swiss Light. At night, the penthouse light beam and the Swiss Light mark the presence of Tate Modern of many miles