The Retreat Hotel at Blue Lagoon in Grindavík, Iceland by Basalt Architects & Design Group Italia.Retreat Hotel at Blue Lagoon is built directly into the 800-year-old lava flow at Svartsengi in Grindavík, Iceland. When looking at redeveloping the site, Basalt Architects and Design Group Italia have incorporated lava into their design,...
Door Frames Reimagined Into Furniture Pieces by Femme Atelier.Traditional door and window frames seem like a fairly humdrum source of creativity, but with a dreamy gelato colour palette, clean lines, and iridescent panes layered with gradient colour, Femme Atelier's Framemust series is anything but...
Student Housing Apartment Renovation in Madrid by Plutarco.Spanish interior design & architecture studio Plutarco was commissioned to renovate a building in Madrid for student housing. If student housing brings to mind institutional dullness and lack of individuality, you’re not alone. In fact,...
Bakken & Bæck Office in Oslo, Norway by Kvistad.Norwegian design studio Kvistad have recently completed a major upgrade of Bakken & Bæck’s HQ in Oslo, modelling the new office interior on that of a spaceship. And why not. After all, there’s nothing like a little fun and whimsy...
PandaDoc Office in Minsk, Belarus by Studio11.Studio11 has completed a new project in Minsk for PandaDoc and has structured the floor plan and circulation area around coffee points. Finally, an office design worthy of all the caffeine-dependent employees! The 1,200 square meter...
‘La Crepa’ Food Stall in Madrid by Plutarco.Housed within a neat 13 square metre shopfront, La Crepa is a little creperie and wine bar designed by Plutarco – a Madrid-based studio named after a Greek philosopher paraphrased by Shakespeare and admired by Francis...
His House And Her House in China by Wutopia Lab.Shanghai based architecture firm Wutopia Lab, were invited to transform buildings within the urban slum of Shenzhen for the seventh Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. The result is a cobalt blue cube and the...
TABLEAU Flower Shop in Copenhagen by Studio David Thulstrup.Set within a 19th-century building on Store Kongensgae in the heart of Copenhagen is TABLEAU, an ambitious, gallery-like space where flowers are arranged as sculptures, falling out of bespoke vases or poured over custom-made...
Knitted Camouflage by Joseph Ford.London-based photographer Joseph Ford seems to have a fondness for slightly surreal, offbeat sort of image-making. In the same vein as the great Salvador Dali maybe—he has set a crocodile on a pair of Lacoste sneakers, merged a railway...
