Design of a boxing court for the Temple Noble Art club.
Materials>
Boxing court : light oak mosaic wood floor, molded concrete, black terrazzo, stripped mirror, neon lights
Cloakroom: bespoke white terrazzo wall cladding, black terrazzo floor, stained solid oak, black steel ironworks
Floor area: 565 sqm
Client: Temple Noble Art
Design: ciguë
© photo: Maris Mezulis
The Temple | Noble Art Boxing Club stages decisive and improbable encounters between boxing coaches from gritty local neighbourhood boxing halls and an exacting community of members, taking place somewhere between the heights of pugnacity and the secret underbelly of the capital. To stage these encounters, ciguë has neutralised the showy ostentation expected from an exclusive sports club, instead highlighting the authenticity of the venue, people and instant.
For Temple | Saint-Lazare, nestling under a 1930s building, ciguë highlights Art-déco codes referencing an old boxing club in Pigalle. A discreet off- centre entrance and a steep uplit staircase lead straight to the ring, which is lit by a huge neon light fitting. The bar, with its pleated cast concrete skirt, is preceded by a velvet sofa set off by the pale oak mosaic parquet floor. For the rest, the materials form a common thread, the edges are underlined, the kickboards are highlighted, and a ribbon of black Terrazzo runs from the steps to the bar and on to the changing rooms, as ineluctable as the minutes that tick by on the imposing match clock keeping time in this timeless space.