15,000 square feet freestanding Dior Boutique at Highland Park Village Dallas’ shopping center.
It features two sprawling retail floors containing all categories of Dior Women’s and Men’s universes.
The store has a large CAFÉ located on the second floor, with windows overseeing the mall.
The exterior existing historical building shell was enhanced, preserved and merged into the design.
The store is the largest at the center and opened its doors Q4 2024.
Louis Vuitton’s second freestanding men's retail store worldwide in Miami Design District.
We are very proud as Architecture firm for collaborating and implementing this special project for Louis Vuitton.
The design raised the bar for Miami Design District that is known for outstanding architectural creations. The store consists of signature exterior metal-panel façade, custom monumental curved stair and two floors of vibrant Miami-esque retail interiors.
Dior Boutique at Bellagio Casino and Hotel, Las Vegas.
Project included a long stone facade with shop windows at Bellagio’s casino floor. The vertical stone-fins at the facade, were designed and backlit for the effect of lightness, movement and translucency.
The interior salons and VIP areas for women and men, provide highly designed Dior experience for world traveling casino visitors.
Store opened in 2023.
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Located on the second floor or the Iconic Bergdorf Goodman Men’s Store, this luxury bar inspired by Art-Deco Design and Parisian brasseries, creates a warm and uplifting New York setting for Michelin starred food, treats and cocktails.
Two level boutique behind a Historical Façade on Madison Avenue New York City.
Concept Work.
This 500-foot high skyscraper designed for the northwest corner of Union Square in New York City. It is made of twin towers that are held together by space-frame, super-structure arms. The volume of space between the towers is equal to the volume of each of the towers. The towers are the same in design, with a spacious 50-foot long floor-through residences on east side and hotel suites on west side. Public space designed as an urban destination weaves around the bases with a ground-floor restaurants. The top of the towers is crowned with a five-story bridge approximately shaped as a circular pod. Its interior is subdivided between amenities for residents: a hotel lounge, bar and restaurant space with spectacular 360-degrees city views.
Concept Work.
A high-rise building design for a center of an emerging town. It houses 14 floors of office space and a penthouse restaurant behind the glass wall of the clock’s face. Its design is meant to baffle stylistic interpretation. It blends traditional iconography with contemporary urban structures.
First Jacquemus Store in the US, located in the heart of SOHO NYC, at intersection of Spring and Wooster.
AGA implemented this beautiful project as Executive Architect, with the concept developed by the Client and OMA Architectural Office.
The design was integrated into and existing landmarked building shell that had many lives and uses and was originally erected in 1818 as a three-story frame house for working-class families.
The store opened its doors Q4 2024.
Single level Louis Vuitton Boutique at Short Hills Mall, one of New Jersey’s most luxurious destinations.
Completed in Q1 of 2022.
Two Level Dior Boutique at River Oaks District, Houston TX.
Concept Work.
Vegetable market building inspired by Parisian markets and works of artist Lucio Fontana.
The first inspiration used on the outer shell of this structure are the Parisian markets and Parisian train stations with soaring ceilings and stained glassworks. The building’s geometry is linear and close to the ground. It resembles a rolling landscape, loaf of bread or canvas stretched over unseen limbs.
The second inspiration, and the building’s namesake, are the leaf-shaped windows, resembling the cuts and fissures perpetrated into the painting canvas by Lucio Fontana. With the final motif of the cloud windows, positioned across the roofs.
Multi level luxury retail store for Louis Vuitton in City Center, Washington DC, one of the most stylish destinations in our nation’s capital. Completed in early 2023.
Concept Work.
A study for a high density, mixed-use residential building on a one-city block portion of land belonging to Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This design intended to establish an iconic landmark from the outset. Its form resembles a woven skyscraper, creating unique urban areas, passages and evocative spatial conditions. The sun-path and shadow are designed to relate to seasonal activities on the landscape below.
Concept Work.
A lifeguard station overlooking a mountain lake near Geneva. It contains several live-in units for the caretakers of the lake as well as public rooms, a tanning area and a visitor center.
Concept Work.
Two residential buildings on the periphery of an Asian city. Sculpted building masses and roofs echo the gestures of vernacular architecture, particularly fishermen’s villages where homes are erected on boats or stilts. They begin with smaller footprints and terminate with larger roofs, which are sometimes connected.
Concept Work.
High-rise office building with eclectic copper roof and floor-through outdoor terrace just below the crown. At ground level the skyscraper is set off from the street level by a raised stone pad to allow clearance for flooding hazards of up to one floor.
Concept Work.
Concept design for one of four floating hotels in the South Mediterranean Sea.
Concept Work.
Skyscraper design withing an existing city site. Surrounded by artificial body of water in order to add spatial clearance and provide quality of contemplation and variety for occupants of the tower.
Concept Work.
Design for a visual monument within a city, this is a 310-foot high office skyscraper intended for a flood-prone area of an existing city site. The entrance positioned at the ground floor, is designed to accept high flood. Pedestrian bridges can be connected to any interval of its vertical base. The windows are cast across the facades relative to interior use, the window shapes are: rectangle, square and triangle.
Concept Work.
Designed during a trip to Milan, this is a prefabricated skyscraper made of four shifted volumes containing office spaces. The curved concrete wall facing an adjacent property encloses public open-air protected areas.
Theoretical Work.
This design is a tribute to, and a variation of, Le Corbusier’s design for Villa Savoy, a house entirely raised off the ground floor on pilotis (concrete columns).
Furniture Concept - table for a lobby or entry foyer.
Concept Work.
Variation on a design of an Italian country villa in Vicenza, near Verona. The house is fronted by a shallow stone pool with lights and sculpted pulpit endings. The roof structure is stretched out in the direction of the pool, like a brim of a hat or golden copper wing. The roof is intended as a vast usable outdoor area to soak up the rural landscape views and the sky.
Interior Renovation of Battery Park City high rise apartment.
This residence project included design of wall millwork fixtures based on modern paintings. The entry wall design was based on one of Piet Modrian’s compositions.
Simple interior renovation and upgrade to Upper West Side Residence within a pre-war masonry building.
Concept Work.
Volumetric simplicity and contrast of the material to the natural ground plane, give this house an appearance of a ship that moored in the landscape.
The shell is made of smooth, gently curving glass skin that encloses airy residential volumes. Interior spaces are large, open, washed with diffused daylight and vibrant colors of garden landscape. The roof hosts a swimming pool with guest room.
Theoretical Work.
Design for a tower that collects, filters and stores rain water that is intended for crowded, public- event areas. At its base, concession stands serve pure or flavored water and other refreshments.
Theoretical Work.
Shop-fabricated, four-level house clad in insulated stained-galvanized metal panels. Its long side elevation roughly resembles a silhouette of a dog, with a head, torso and tail.
Furniture Concept For Coffee Table.
Concept.
Design for a monument embodying the essence of Venice. It represents the interaction of a hard object with a soft, coiling body of water. A gondola’s hull against the sea waves. Sea water against the stone pier. Such interactions are prevalent in Venice, yet each is uniquely beautiful.
Theoretical Work.
A five-story apartment building with an adjacent bocce ball court and seating.
Concept Work.
This is a very small, one-family house for a tight, urban site. It is designed as a cube with its corner geometries manipulated to appear as if it is “peeling” out of the ground. The space underneath the house can be used as garage or work studio.
Concept Furniture.
Theoretical Work.
Single family house and a vacation retreat on the Andalusian coast. House features a poured-in-place concrete roof akin to the curves of the Andalusian landscape.
Theoretical Work.
Grand entry into a city transportation hub, this is a monument of a hollow skyscraper shell made of two vertical walls braced against each other. Positioned directly over the piazza and exit doors of a large underground train station, its vertiginous hollow space creates an iconic setting for arrivals, departures and thoughts in the city.
Theoretical Work.
A museum building with a permanent shadow on the ground composed of black stone paving slabs. The shadow does not resemble the shape of the building, but emphasizes the mystery of the building and the art within. The museum is intended for large-scale sculptures and installations. The roof-scape hosts outdoor exhibit spaces, a café, a restaurant and play areas.
Dinning Table.
Christian Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics, at Bergdorf Goodman New York City
Concept Work.
The pursuit of purity, perfection and playful innocence is presented entirely through the art of the curtain wall and coloration of the glass. Two types of curtain-wall modules are used, spanning six floors vertically in alternating positions. The building evades dull repetition and remains in exciting visual tension, although the variables are few. A modular skyscraper theme where the modules can repeat by design.
Furniture Concept.
The first ‘Colour Studio’ prototype built in the US for Christian Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics at Sephora in Aventura Mall, Florida.
Concept Work.
Design for a custom glass curtain wall for a high-rise building in NYC. The design takes inspiration from the leaves of a papyrus plant, both in shape and layering. The areas of glass that overlap and the thickening at the edges of the glass panels create a playful distortion of vision and light.
Theoretical Work.
This villa was inspired by the life of actor Steve McQueen and his hobby of off-road motorcycle racing. The villa is fronted by a walled courtyard intended not only as a parking area, but a dusty. exquisite display box for his trophy vehicles. The outdoor terrace and many windows are in constant visual connection with the outdoors, underscoring the passion of a car and motorcycle enthusiast such as Steve McQueen.
Celine Boutique, Highland Park Village, Dallas, TX.
Dior Boutique Holt Renfrew Montreal.
Concept Work.
Kindergarten building that resembles an open piano. A large portion of its north wall located directly under the raised roof is composed of a glass curtain wall to suffuse the atrium and interior floors with light and visual connection to outdoors. The metaphor of a “piano” also suggests that harmonic vibes are made on the inside.
Theoretical Work.
Concept design for one of four floating hotels in the South Mediterranean Sea.
Furniture Concept. Writing desk and coffee table.
Custom Coffee Table.