SHH – News

December 2008 ICIAD.ORG

 

SHH are celebrating the end of a great year of awards success with no less than three further wins at the prestigious ICIAD (International Council of Interior Architects and Designers) ‘Ring’ Awards, held on December 2nd in Guangzhou, China.  The awards were hotly contested and featured submissions from major practices from all over the world.  SHH’s Managing Director Graham Harris was on hand to receive two category awards: a gold award for champagne bar Dion in the ‘Best Bar’ category and a silver award for St Petersburg cafe concept Teaspoon in the ‘Best Restaurant’ category.  The evening did not stop there, however, and, at the end of the night, the Silver Grand Award for the runner-up best project of the whole evening was given to our recent office project, Manchester Square. 

The ICIAD began as an independent design movement in America to promote the awareness of art, design and the appreciation of aesthetic beauty and now ‘sets the global standards for the design industry’.  Judges at the awards included the President of the French FNSAI, the President of the American International Interior Design Association, the MD of the German iF (International Forum Design), the Principal Partner of DEGW (Australia), the Principal Partner of Figure 3 (Canada) and leading academics from Ireland, Austria and Germany.

 

November 2008 NU ASIA BAHRAIN

 

SHH have completed a stunning new-build, three-storey, 300-seater restaurant in Bahrain called Nu Asia for client Al-Hilal Enterprises Group.  Aimed at both a family and young adult demographic, Nu Asia offers a selection of four leading Asian cuisines: Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Thai.  The building has been designed as three elegant interlocking volumes, each one larger than the last and variously clad in timber, glass and stone.  SHH also created the restaurant’s identity and all 2D graphic applications on the project, including menus, placemats, chopstick packets, serviettes and a set of postcards, which uses close-up photography of ingredients, underlining the high-quality of all sourced products. 

‘SHH have been inventive and creative at every stage’, commented client Hamad Isa of Al-Hilal Enterprises Group, ‘and have created an exciting environment with great cuisine and a great atmosphere.  Most of our customers will not have seen anything like this before!’

~ by shhdesign on January 16, 2009.