Craig Tan Architects & Brand Works Bring HWKR to Life in Melbourne’s CBD.Torn from the pages of the real deal in Singapore and Malaysia, HWKR in Melbourne’s CBD is a futuristic and fresh hawker-hall concept, pieced together by Craig Tan Architects and Brand Works....
Layering Courtyard in Beijing, China by ARCHSTUDIO.Pierced with sunlight and armoured with bamboo and natural timber, Layering Courtyard by ARCHSTUDIO is the modern reinvention of a traditional industrial building and quadrangle near Beijing’s historic Qianmen gate. In the first half...
Hi-Lo Hotel Lobby in Portland, Oregon by Jessica Helgerson.Back in 1999, Alex Calderwood opened the Ace Hotel in Seattle and forever changed our notion of what a luxury hotel could be. Another recent edition to the category is Hi-Lo Hotel in Portland, which promises a comparable sort of cool,...
110 Rooms: MAIO Architects’ Jaw-Dropping Apartment Building in Barcelona.Some projects just make you sit up straight in your chair, stop whatever else you were trying to do at the time, and pay close attention. This is exactly what happened when I first came across this residential building in Barcelona...
CASAPLATA Restaurant & Cocktail Bar in Seville by Lucas y Hernández-Gil.CASPALATA in the heart of Seville suggests a new kind of vision and future for restaurant and cocktail bar design. Madrid-based studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil have purposefully sidestepped tried and true nostalgia in favour of creating...
#YellowtraceTravels: Katamama Bali.The 1.5 million special Indonesian bricks that make up Katamama all seem to converge at the entrance. The arrival feels as though it was designed to literally pull you into a mini textural vortex. But of course, these are no ordinary...
Cookers Cafe in Moscow by VETER DESIGN.Cookers Gourmet Café by Moscow-based bureau Veter Design and Architecture, probably wouldn’t look out of place on Flinders Lane, but all the while it is still rooted in its Russian...
Sony Music Entertainment Amsterdam HQ by Space Encounters.Of course Sony Music’s Amsterdam HQ needs a vinyl boardroom table that doubles a DJ booth, and a stairway that is also a bar. It’s work made a bit more entertaining, and I for one, would not mind that meeting being added to my diary....
Hotel National des Arts et Métiers, Paris by Raphael Navot.New among Paris’ boutique hotels is Hôtel National des Arts & Métiers. Set somewhere between the Marais and Montorgueil quartiers in the third arrondissement, the hotel takes its design cues from the Centre National des Arts &...
