The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan is a life-size rendition of a banyan tree. The restaurant offers locally grown and organic harvested foods fresh from the farm stands out amongst the surrounding businesses, drawing attention with its extraordinary design. The restaurant can be reached by customers either by climbing the winding staircase in the […] More
Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce turned a mid 19th century water tower into a lavish and eccentric home. Located in central London, the tower was an architectural remnant of the 19th. Built in 1867, the water tower was in disrepair when restoration work began. “It was like a horror film,” said Leigh. Osborne and Voce […] More
Studhorse, located in Winthrop, Washington State and designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig is family home for the adventurous. It is composed of four buildings, centered on a central courtyard and pool. “It’s like a little campground, and you go tent to tent. The materials are tough on the outside, because of the high-desert climate, […] More
Encore Heureux designed the Circular Pavilion, a temporary building in Paris, made with recycled materials.It will host exhibitions, workshops, lectures and debates on the parvis de l’Hôtel de Vill. At the beginning of 2016, the pavilion will be dismantled and reinstalled permanently in Paris’ 14th district as a sports association’s clubhouse. More
Take a sneak peek inside the newly opened Ice Hotel, located in the small village of Jukkasjärvi in the north of Sweden. Every winter the hotel is built again, and features suites from various artists. This year, 19 individually designed ice suites carved from over 1,000 tonnes of ice are being showcased.Have a look at […] More
The Stony Island Arts Bank , designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, was once a vibrant community savings and loan. But by the eighties, the branch had closed and the building remained vacant and deteriorating for decades. Chicao Artist and urban planner Theaster Gates purchased the rundown bank building for just $1.00 […] More
A masterfully designed hotel project in Portugal created by studio FAT | Future Architecture Thinking houses the elegant Sobreiras Alentejo Country Hotel on a 25 ha property. The design is by architect Miguel Correia, along with its multidisciplinary team from FAT – Future Architecture Thinking, with about 30 members between architects, planners, landscape architects and […] More
IBIS Hotels around the globe are known as both comfortable and affordable getaway, the latest address in the hotel chain opened up its doors in Lviv (Ukraine) with its interior space shaped by EC-5 Architects. The hotel’s emphasis on design puts in in hotel group’s IBIS Styles Hotel niche, a new sub-group of the hotel […] More
Mexico based architecture practice SPACE shares with us their latest project, an impressive design of the new Red Bull office space in Mexico. The corporate offices of Red Bull México are located on a single floor of approximately 1000m2. Previously, the company occupied a floor and a half of the same building, but with better […] More
Digital sculptor Janne Kyttanen known for creating sculptural furniture pieces with 3D printing is showcasing his latest designs in collaboration with Gallery ALL (Los Angeles) and Galerie VIVID (Rotterdam) at Design Miami. Gallery ALL is to present METSIDIAN (image above) Janne’s latest design uniquely merging furniture with sculptural where as Kyttanen says “the prehistoric evolves into […] More
The Old Clare Hotel has with ease filled up the pages of design magazines around the globe, rightfully so it is the part of the famed Design Hotels. Opened in Sydney in a striking space, it has kept an inspiring touch of industrial yet retro sentiment, shaped masterfully by the talented creatives from the Architecture practice of Tonkin […] More
Fontevraud Abbey, a striking complex from the Middle Ages is now a hotel a restaurant, and a vibrant hotspot of cultural events scheduled around the year. Built initially as a monastery, the now redesigned space honored the tradition emphasizing the existing architecture with a touch of modernity. “What we wanted for Fontevraud was not the classic […] More