High Design: Alchemy Cannabis Dispensary in Toronto by Studio Paolo Ferrari.Alchemy is transforming the future of cannabis with the opening of Canada’s first highly immersive cannabis retail store in the heart of downtown Toronto. Designed by Paolo Ferrari, Alchemy’s innovative licensed flagship rejects staid...
Drunk on Materiality: Inns Whiskey Bar in Chengdu, China by Wooton Designers.Behind the sleek and mysterious entrance on an unassuming street in Chengdu, China an absorbing whiskey bar transports visitors to the inside of a copper still. Sinuous walls and curved arches in amber hues engulf patrons in the cavernous...
Pintor Pahissa Residential Entrance Lobby Refurbishment by Miel Arquitectos.We love a good "spatial underdog", like this previously daggy 70s residential lobby that didn't have much going for it in terms of volume or ceiling heights, but Miel Arquitectos still managed to create something fun and memorable without...
Breaking Away from Display-orientated Retail: J1M5 Boutique by Various Associates.Various Associates have designed the J1M5 fashion boutique in Qingdao around the idea of the suitcase – the interior combines movable, flexible features of a suitcase manifesting as a multi-brand retail interior. Ultimately, the store...
Highlighting Natural Materials: Restaurant Nómada in Lisbon by Spacegram.Otherworldly and experiential, Spacegram’s design for Restaurante Nómada captures the ethereal energy of travel and nomadic life, while highlighting natural materials in a surprising way. The studio has reinvigorated a barren and...
Meunier Tech Beauty Concept Store in Shenzen by DOMANI.DOMANI’s scheme for Meunier Tech Beauty’s Concept Store in Shenzhen is designed around the feel of water, while combining two contradictions – extreme thickness and lightness, with extreme strength and softness. A series of...
French Exit by Tadao Cern is an Ode to Ghosting.Tadao Cern has used dried grass in his suspended art installation entitled, French Exit. The artist has utilised the most basic and accessible material to create a fully immersive, visually arresting viewing experience, transporting...
Surreal Classicism: Maó Space by One Fine Day Studio & Partners.Projects that strike me the most are the ones that manage to masterfully shift our perception of time. Spaces that feel unique because they look like they don’t belong in the present, nor the past. They feel fresh and familiar at the...
Church of Beatified Restituta in Brno-Sever, Czech Republic by Atelier Štěpán.With minimal use of religious ornamentation, Atelier Štěpán’s Church of Beatified Restituta in the Czech Republic distils kaleidoscopic rainbow-colours into a brutalist scheme that also feels entirely heavenly. Regardless of whether...
