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Kunihiko Hayakawa, House at Minami-Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, 1981

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Hair Salon, ‘Contemporary Details’ - Kanie-cho Kaifu-gun Aichi 

Designed by Katsuhiro Hane & Hideo Nagaya

2001: A Space Odyssey inspiration 

Scanned from ‘Beauty Salons & Fashion Boutiques 2′

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Butterfly House - Surrey, UK - Laurie Chetwood (2000-2003)

“Butterfly House, a remodelled 1930s timber-clad family home, is an architectural study in zoomorphic design, a sculpture inspired by the life cycle of a butterfly to demonstrate experimental environmental design on a liveable scale.”

The composition seems similar to the Metalheart & Vectorheart styles

Scanned from ‘Architecture in the United Kingdom’ (2006)

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Media Plaza - Utrecht, Netherlands (May 1997)

Designed by Sander Architecten 

“Media Plaza is a futuristic government information centre in Utrecht aimed at making senior decision-makers in Dutch industry more aware of the importance of the information superhighway. Designed by Ellen Sander of Sander Architecten, its purpose is to take managers out of their every-day working lives and encourage them to stop and think about the technologies of the future. Media Plaza’s location in a small hall within the extensive and rather unattractive Jaarbeurs trade-fair complex made it imperative that the interior should deliver an out-of-this-world experience, and that is precisely what Sander has achieved. 

Industrialists enter the showcase by walking through a giant tube clad with stainless-steel mesh. Its laminated glass-bridge walkway is lit from below by glass fibre cables. This is not a passage entered lightly, and it gives a sense of encountering a different future. The tube leads visitors into a great hall in which there is a deliberate sense of movement achieved with running neon in the flooring, shifting lights, and a stainless-steel ceiling shifting slowly through space in a wave. Even the toilet block is an experience in itself, as glass elements, stainless-steel washbasins, internet screens set into the floor and water reflections on the wall indicate that this is no ordinary corporate office facility. 

The technical nerve centre of Media Plaza is a sculptural ‘highway shuttle’ designed to accommodate business presentations to small groups (20 people maximum). The idea is of a space shuttle making a quick trip to another galaxy. Visitors emerge from the shuttle to encounter a virtual marketplace offering hands-on display of the wares of the electronic superhighway within 'cells’ of stretched transparent rubber. An oval-shaped skybar with padded walls of blood-red velvet provides a sanctuary to relax in after the exertions of the imagination. This is a scheme that pushes hard at the spatial and technological boundaries in a bid to open minds to new opportunities. As Ellen Sander argues, 'architecture is not a way of building, but a way of thinking.”

Scanned from International Interiors 7 (2000)

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JNCO Store on Melrose Avenue, L.A. (1999)

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‘W&LT Shop Concept’ by Marc Newson (1996)

“Approached by clothing designer Walter Van Beirendonck to design a shop concept for his W.&L.T. brand, Marc decided upon a modular system, made up of easily portable items that could work as shops within shops or for pop-up events and trade fair booths. Marc designed a series of colored plastic display modules made from indestructible polypropylene that could be used and fit together in a variety of ways.” 

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Interiors by architect/designer Fabio Novembre (1994-2001)

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Marni London by Future Systems Architects (1999)

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Lenny Kravitz’s house in Miami, designed by Architröpolis (1999)

1960s & 70s space age/disco aesthetic had a strong influence on Y2K design, especially in this example (eg. the homage to Verner Panton). There are some 90s cyber-updates, like $30,000 automatic sliding glass doors, and the bathroom ‘mirror’, which is actually a “camera & video-screen that records everything to videotape”. The music video for his 1999 single, ‘Black Velveteen’ was filmed in the home, featuring lyrics like “The 21st Century Dream”.

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NASA Nightclub - Johannes Torpe (1997)

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Sound Club Phuket by Orbit Design Studio (Phuket, Thailand) (2009)

“The interior design of the club inspired by human ear, with everything inside the club being rounded, curved and tubular. The intense audio and visual effects at the club offer a surreal, out-of-body sci-fi experience. The innovative light design includes a bar decorated with 19-meter graphic equalizer LED screen, which is the central attraction in the bar. The screen is synchronized to the music that ranges from electronic music and hip-hop to house, depending on the DJ and the theme of the night.”

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Fornarina London, designed by Giorgio Borruso (2006)

“The space is icy and blue – almost as if you’re traveling through a frozen cavern in the Antarctic. A molded, liquid-like material covers the entire space, flowing across the ceiling and down to the dressing rooms, creating protruding ice blocks for seats and product pedestals. Giorgio went for the effect of clouds billowing against a blue sky. “I love London—but not its gray weather,” the architect says. “This luminous membrane makes customers forget for a moment that it’s raining outside.” Borruso achieved that effect by covering portions of the ceilings and walls in the two-level space with 1,000 biomorphic pieces of molded polycarbonate and backlighting them with color-changing LEDs that shift from blue to white. Thanks to metal strips, the pieces are attached magnetically, allowing them to be rearranged at any time.” 

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