INTERIORS: Interior Design

CombiniCo Cafe

Award

Splintr created a minimal and sleek interior for CombiniCo at their new St Andrews café, giving customers in the coastal town a new environment to experience the best of Korean and Japanese tea and coffee. With a keen eye for detail in everything they create, CombiniCo briefed our team to design an interior that embodied their brands’ core values; convenience, functionality, beauty and environmental impact. Using locally sourced timbers, compressed paper worktops and lime plaster finish we created a simple, […]

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The Portobello Bookshop

Commendation

New to the Portobello high street, The Portobello Bookshop has opened its doors for the first time after a lengthy refurbishment period undertaken by SPLINTR. The independent bookshop stocks over 8,000 titles and hosts a vibrant programme of events. In very early 2019, SPLINTR were approached with the brief to turn the site on Portobello High Street, Edinburgh, into a truly special and unique place for locals to come and spend time. A place to find books, for kids to […]

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Made in India: The Story of JCB India Customer Experience

Nomination

Located within the new JCB India headquarters in Ballabhgarh, this 900m2 state-of-the-art customer experience was designed to showcase the company’s full range of machines that are ‘Made in India’, as well as act as the start and end point of a customer visit to the new headquarters and factory. The offering includes a dynamic customer reception zone, 250 seat theatre, VIP dining and the immersive Story of JCB India experience.  Space allowances meant there was no requirement to house any […]

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Ka Pao Restaurant

Nomination

MOSAIC Architecture + Design has given Ka Pao, the new restaurant housed in the basement of the recently converted Botanic Gardens Garage on Vinicombe Street in Glasgow’s West End, a distinctly South East Asian look and feel to complement its menu. Run by the company behind the popular Kelvingrove restaurant Ox and Finch, Ka Pao, which accommodates 120 covers with a separate bar area, has been designed by Stuart Black, Head of Interior Design at Mosaic, who was also responsible […]

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RHSC+DCN: Art + Therapeutic Design

Nomination

Our brief for a ‘Therapeutic Art and Design Strategy’, developed by Ginkgo Projects and NHS Lothian, asked to enhance a series of key spaces within the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh (designed by HLM architects). The Interview Rooms, Sitting Rooms, Waiting Areas and Drop-in Centre all aim to provide distraction and relief from the clinical environment.  To fully understand who and what we were designing for we took long walks with nursing staff through the hospital and […]

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