Tom Dixon furnishes penthouses in One Park Drive skyscraper

British designer Tom Dixon’s Design Analysis Studio has furnished the interiors for 2 duplex penthouses that Herzog & de Meuron has created inside its cylindrical Canary Wharf skyscraper.

Structure studio Herzog & de Meuron designed the seven penthouses within the residential One Park Drive skyscraper, which had been the final a part of the undertaking to be accomplished, to distinction the industrial buildings that encompass them.

“We had to consider what it means to stay vertically and create a powerful distinction between one thing that’s industrial and one thing that’s residential,” Herzog & de Meuron’s UK studio director John O’Mara mentioned on the penthouses’ opening.

Positioned on the 56th and remaining flooring of the 205-metre-tall One Park Drive constructing, the duplex penthouses function balconies overlooking Canary Wharf. To present them a extra residential really feel, Herzog & de Meuron added an uncommon element – hidden inner courtyards.

The wood-clad courtyards open up in the direction of the sky through D-shaped ceiling cut-outs and performance as a “again backyard,” the studio mentioned.

Every of the penthouses, which vary from 152 to 362 sq. metres, additionally function a press release spiral staircase constructed from concrete poured in-situ. The staircases all have completely different designs.

Design Analysis Studio furnished the interiors for 2 of the duplex penthouses in One Park Drive utilizing a mix of furnishings by Dixon’s studio and handpicked classic furnishings.

Among the many classic items used for the design had been chairs by Danish designer Verner Panton and lamps by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Dixon additionally custom-made massive artworks for the house.

Dixon’s studio used the theme of House of the Collector to think about what the interiors of the penthouses ought to really feel like.

“Every room has been meticulously curated – we wished each single object to really feel as if it has been made particularly for this house or that it has been fastidiously chosen for it,” Dixon defined.

“It ought to really feel private, convincing, compelling and aspirational – we did not wish to design a typical luxurious condo,” he added.

“The gorgeous, fluid areas function excessive ceilings and huge expanses of wall and home windows and the artworks create the sense of a non-public gallery.”

Arising with an idea for an imaginary home-owner was an gratifying facet of the job, Dixon added.

“It is truly actually good enjoyable to try to invent a character and try to work out what they might truly do,” he mentioned, explaining that he had envisioned the flats being crammed with artwork items and furnishings that had been picked up on travels.

The flats in One Park Drive are all designed by Herzog & de Meuron with a tactile materials palette that helps to attract consideration to the interiors.

Wooden was used to create hanging particulars for the inside structure, together with the wardrobe doorways with leaf-shaped openings.

The studio used Tadelakt plaster to create sand-coloured loos with globe-shaped lights and rounded mirrors, whereas flooring are concrete or pale wooden.

The duplex penthouses are the final a part of One Park Drive to be accomplished. The skyscraper, which comprises 484 flats in whole, kinds a part of developer Canary Wharf Group’s plan so as to add properties to the predominantly industrial Canary Wharf neighbourhood.

Different current initiatives by Tom Dixon embody a twentieth-anniversary exhibition that featured mycelium towers and Design Analysis Studio’s design for restaurant The Manzoni.