Hotel Mera Brasserie by LOFT Magdalena Adamus // Sopot, Poland.Hotel Mera Brasserie is located in a seaside town of Sopot in Poland. It was designed by a Polish studio LOFT Magdalena Adamus. What I really like about this place is the way it balances the serious with the casual. It is sharp and...
Konstam Restaurant by Heatherwick Studios // London.I've seen some vamped up pubs in my time but none quite as theatrical as this. The clever crew at Heatherwick Studios have created one epic ceilingscape at the Konstam Prince Albert. They’ve used the site conditions to generate a...
Hotel Lautner // Desert Hot Springs, California.Situated in the middle of the Californian desert, Hotel Lautner is a recent conversion of a striking mid-centrury residence designed by an influential modernist architect, John Lautner. Originally created as a home for a film producer,...
Comfort Hotel Grand Central // Oslo, Norway.Well, well, well... I never thought I'd be sharing a chain hotel interior with you guys. A budget one at that. But as they say - never say never. The new Grand Central hotel in Oslo, Norway breaks all the boring, super-safe, baige-on-baige...
Wythe Hotel | Brooklyn, NYC.Located in Williamsburg, neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, recently opened Wythe Hotel offers up a huge dose of amazeballs with its superfine clash of vintage industrial and sleek modern. This 72-room hotel retains...
Lolita Cafe | Ljubljana, Slovenia.Although this space is certainly not my usual style, I am really taken by the flirty feminine aesthetic which is nicely balanced with a muted palette and bold accents of black that somehow manage to tone down the "sickly-sweet girlieness"...
Hotel Fasano Boa Vista | Sao Paolo, Brazil.Boy, oh boy, oh boy... Isay Weinfeld, one of Brazil’s most renowned architects, sure knows how to put together a smoking hot hotel! You may recall that I recently blogged about another fine example of Weinfeld's many awesome design...
The Slow and Green: Yoyogi Village by Kurkku.'Retail villages' have been an emerging occurrence in Tokyo as of recently, and Yoyogi Village is one such concept which integrates a green, slow space/ sanctuary with an exclusive retail experience for the sophisticated urban crowd. The...
French Folds.UK Restaurant & Bar Design Awards are on for another year (eagle-eyes amongst you would have notice that I blogged about one of the entries already this week). While I'm not here to talk about these awards in general (you can do your own...
