It is no surprise, then, that tourists flock there from around the world to spend leisurely days indulging in the good things in life. While some may be content to spend a lazy night dozing on the beach or in a humble bungalow, others demand the height of luxury, even when on vacation. The Reflection Condominium development, from the Major Development company, is specifi...
Created for the designers’ dear friend who decided to venture out and open his own business, RE-EDIT is a daringly minimal yet eye-catching salon situated on a street corner, lined with large windows all across its facade. In order to soften the interior’s relationship with the busy street outside, very thin curtains were hung along the windows, thereby creating a soft, ...
Situated on St. Mary Axe, the very first 1Rebel gym occupies an approximately 745-square-meter (8,000 sq. feet) former office area which has been stripped down and reconfigured into an urban, energetic space by the young London-based architecture practice Studio C102. ‘‘Our brief was to design a gym where each class felt like a night out,’’ Kyriakos Katsaros, founder of ...
Mei architects and planners designed this new McDonald’s pavilion on Coolsingel Rotterdam. The former kiosk was once voted the ugliest building in Rotterdam and no longer reflected the wishes and ambitions of either McDonald’s and the city of Rotterdam. The new building volume has been carefully detailed and articulated by Mei to open up views of the monumental post off...
Designed by Elmar Ludescher Architekt, this architectural masterpiece in Germany shelters a wine cellar and bar with stunning views into centenarian vineyards and orchards. Its glazed skin is wrapped in vertical wooden ribs that passively filter the sun protecting its interiors. Although the same family has run Vineyard Schmidt for generations, this stunning wooden bu...
The eatery, famous for their yakitori, is located in a Western Tokyo suburb and is now one of the most popular spots in the area. But this isn't just because the quality of the food is so great, the place also looks amazing inside thanks to the thousands of multicolored LAN cables and acrylic byproducts recycled inside. Tetchan is located in Kichijoji, a suburb in Wes...
The design, conceived by Italian architect Antonino Cardillo, eliminates all sensory stimuli, focusing the attention of potential buyers on the olfactory qualities of the brand's 37 different scents. The project, named “Colour as a Narrative,” occupies a 13.5-square-meter room nestled inside a Georgian building on Dover Street in London. The rugged walls are coated in...
The buildings acquired the status of a national monument and are one among several other renovation projects in the Netherlands done by cepezed. The three halls on the Ezelsveldlaan were built at the start of the twentieth century as a laboratory for the department of Mechanical and Marine Engineering, to teach the workings of steam and combustion engines to students....
Designed by a team led by Aaron Taylor Harvey and Rachael Yu, the Portland call center comprises a variety of workspaces to cater to different staff preferences and needs. Like Airbnb’s other offices, the creative CX center includes small-scale replicas of apartment listings from around the world. Harvey and Yu’s design team spent one month researching the preferences...
The children had gotten older outgrown the lawn and the parents wanted a backyard office and a tranquil zen location for the couple's plants, so they decided to overhaul the backyard structure which had once been the shed, and turn it into a lush garden art studio, which is ticking all the boxes on our home workspace wishlist! Filled with some of the owners' favorite tre...
Topped with a sprawling park-like green roof, the 430,000-square-foot LEED-certified headquarters, known as MPK 20, will house 2,800 employees—just under a third of Facebook’s global team. Though the exterior of the large angular campus is much more tame than some of Gehry’s famous deconstructivist works, the building’s open-plan interior is vibrantly decorated with eye-...
The client rents the space for an exorbitant fee, so the brief called for a flexible renovation that accommodates a range of uses and which is easily undone and moved elsewhere when the lease ends. The ultimate solution? Shipping pallets. Hiroki Tominaga Atelier used 130 pallets of varying quality for every aspect of the renovation, Dezeen reports. The cheaper boards ...
Created as a charming respite from the city’s hustle and bustle, the wood-lined structure houses Frudisiac, a contemporary juice bar and cafe. Not a Number Architects designed the black metal-clad building, starting with the renovation of the site’s derelict shed. Clad in standing-seam black sheet metal, this urban cabin has a monolithic and low-key appearance during ...
The building is comprised of two structures, the smaller of which acts as a "vehicle" that can be attached to the bigger one. Both were built by 24 students in two months, working on a budget of around 14,000 € ($15,700). Two non-permit building types were the inspiration for the new studio space. When moved, the “Frigg” is considered a vehicle by the officials and on...
Located in a small town in South Korea, the Cafe of Wind was named after the breeze that flows freely through its new shell made from fast-growing bamboo. Its charm resides in its unique unfinished aesthetics, a result of the modest but modern redesign. The cafe’s house was part of a dozen of abandoned homes left behind after families fled the small town of Kasang-ri ...
Nicknamed the “Pinkest Shop and Cafe in Poznan,” the Rozove Café is committed to only selling pink items. What caught our eye however, was the architects’ creative use of modular moveable furniture and plywood shelves and ceiling elements to maximize the store’s small 45-square-meter footprint. The client wanted a space that would evoke a cozy and welcoming home-like ...
This 23-floor building combines an elegant monolithic design with sustainable design strategies like natural ventilation, reused materials and daylighting. The building is located on Av. Barbacena, in the Santo Agostinho district, in the central region of Belo Horizonte. It is meant to establish an aesthetic relationship with the neighboring current headquarters of CE...
STGM Architects designed the building as their own headquarters and made sure to create spacious and comfortable work spaces without compromising on their green features. With a low ecological impact, reclaimed furniture and wide spans, the building is a perfect example of the architects' design attitudes. The STGM head office is located in in the Beauport borough of ...
Now called La Kagu, the industrial warehouse is met with a massive timber and steel staircase that is peppered with growing trees, which connects visitors to varying levels of the building. The new store creates a modern vision for the disused warehouse, offering guests an open shopping plan with plenty of natural light. The former 1960s book storage warehouse has now...
The former warehouse club was transformed by local studio Sasaki Architecture into a bright minimalist space with high ceilings and walls that look like they're floating. Named Wall Cloud, the offices make use of the existing partitions and have an abundance of natural light that goes through the lower glass parts of the walls to illuminate the entire floor plan. The ...
The interior design was carefully crafted by Cut Architectures to evoke 80s Miami: “a sober style with flashy colors, neons, cactus and minimalist diner booths. This new design is not the usual PNY black and white identity however it matches perfectly with the neighborhood way of life.” say the designers. The menu also differs slightly from the other PNY restaurants w...
Originally from Buenos Aires, and having lived in Prague for some time, the owner of the restaurant Juan Cruz Pacin decided to bring a piece of Argentina to the heart of Europe; South American cuisine, cocktails and evenings with Argentinean tango. Architects Dagmar Stepanova and Katarina Varsova designed the interior, divided the space into two main parts, each in di...
The country inn, bar and restaurant is in the historic town of Wellington in Prince Edward County, an area known for its artisanal foods, new wines and freshwater beaches. Hotelier Jeff Stober hired original Drake designer John Tong and his design studio, +tongtong, to help him and the Drake team reinvent a circa 1800 foundry as an 11-room and two-suite inn. The inn is ...
Located in British Columbia, Canada, the complex rises to eight stories, making it the tallest all-timber office building in the world. At 97 feet, the gorgeous building celebrates the diversity of timber with structural design and ornamental features both inside and out. WIDC was designed as both a functional center, but also as a showcase of the durability and desig...
Located in the Nordhavnen area in Copenhagen, the contemporary cargotecture project minimizes energy usage and is built to withstand the Scandinavian climate’s harsh extremes. The architects describe the cost-effective project as “an experiment in prefab architecture that challenges universal waste issues and traditional building techniques.” Arcgency constructed Unio...
Nicknamed the “Corner of Hangzhou,” the green-roofed urban high-rise is located at the corner of a major highway intersection. The building’s wedge shape maximizes views of Hangzhou’s famous West Lake as well as natural daylight and ventilation. The 120,711-square-meter office headquarters’ placement and shape were influenced by the need to maximize building views tow...
The Dongfeng Shopping Mall features incredible indoor and outdoor landscapes, from an elevated fountain plaza and indoor canal, to a huge vertical aquarium located in the center. The unusual building, located in Zhengzhou, China, is meant to generate myriad social activities and create a setting for an interconnected community rooted in tradition. Its 350,000 square m...
The new headquarters of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology and the Institut Català de Paleontologia (ICTA-ICP) in Barcelona encapsulates that belief with its energy-efficient LEED Gold design. Designed by Spanish architecture firm H Arquitectes and dataAE, the ICTA-ICP building is wrapped in a bioclimatic and responsive outer skin that reduces energy c...
Josep Camps & Olga Felip, the talented duo behind Arquitecturia, were eager to minimize disturbance to their client, who asked for a small studio in which to paint, so they opted for a prefabricated structure that they managed to install in a short three weeks. Comprised chiefly of wood and glass, the garden studio preserves a giant Ash tree, which in the elevation pl...
But a look at the extensive wiring on the walls and ceiling tells another story, that of Karlin-born tech hero Frantisek Krizik, an electrical engineer and entrepreneur who in the late 1800’s invented an automatic electric arc lamp and eventually electrified Prague. The decor, and the coffee, gives old meanings of ‘wired’ new life for the next generation of technology en...
An extensive new facility for such an enterprise has just been completed in rural Guanajuato, near León in central Mexico, and features at its heart a modern office designed by local firm C.C Arquitectos. Arranged in a way that promotes interaction between different departments, the offices also provide direct sightlines from employees’ desks into the surrounding five...
The designer’s description The concept is based on the idea of creating an office with signs of nationality of people who works in this office. We designed few of them that says the office is in Poland in Warsaw and the nationality of coworkers is from east Europe. Typical blue color for Facebook is the background of graphics which where designed and painted by Acapulc...
Description from the designers: The design concept was created in relation to the distinctive shape of the space — irregular hexagon. We set one of the room’s axes as dominant by opening a corner (two window displays) to the terrace, extending the space and giving it a desired proportion and connecting the interior with the exterior. We mastered the disordered hexagon t...
The designer’s description Visitors to the newly-opened Classified at The Pulse, Repulse Bay will notice a marked difference from its other locations. Classified Repulse Bay represents a change in direction for the homegrown brand, with new interiors, an extended menu and a revamped identity. Classified’s first outlet, which opened its doors on Hollywood Road in 2006, ...
The architect’s description Inspired by the fusion of cuisines represented on the menu, José invites guests into a space that blends Peruvian, Chinese and Japanese cultures. With a design motif that separates itself from traditional folklore, José reimagines China Chilcano with a contemporary and personal take on a large, grand dining room- a welcoming and popular spac...
The architect’s description The Little Man Cafe is located along the main community strip in the quaint part of Seddon. The neighbourhood in this area has undergone a shift in pace over the last few years of a gentrified nature which sees more cafes and small businesses sprouting up accompanying the influx of younger families moving into the area. The cafe occupies a c...
