Voice of Coffee in Kobe, Japan by Yusuke Seki.This hole-in-the-wall style espresso bar and mini roastery might feel at home down a Surry Hills alleyway, or tucked into an empty loading dock in the Melbourne CBD. It is, however, located in Kobe – the Japanese city on Osaka Bay, best...
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...
Lifestyle Academy in Shanghai, China by Mur Mur Lab.Shanghai-based studio Mur Mur Lab seems to have a fondness for futuristic, ultramodern retail spaces. Their work is centred on creating playful shopping destinations, which capture a sense of theatre and escapism – those elements of...
Minimalist London Home Extension by Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects.Positioned along the Regents Canal in Islington, this London property has been reinvented as a contemporary, energy efficient and spatially generous three-storey abode....
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Studio11 Design Their Own Office Space in Minsk, Belarus.Studio11's new office is a reinterpretation of modernist movement with a contemporary twist, complete with curved shapes and deliberate colour...
LIFEwithBIRD Store in Sydney’s Bondi Junction by Studio Wonder.Referencing principles of architectural modernism, Studio Wonder’s store design for LIFEwithBIRD combines layered volumes, clean lines & textural...
Vizor Gaming Company HQ by STUDIO11 in Minsk, Belarus.When designing the offices of Vizor games, a development company in Minsk, Belraus, STUDIO11 took the bull by the horns and, instead of shying away from the harsh aesthetic of the Soviet era of the 70’s, they revelled in it. There...
FedEx Works by Walead Beshty: Shipped Glass Boxes Become Shattered Sculptures.London-born, LA-based artist Walead Beshty describes himself as a photographer, although his practice is far more extensive than that. He often works with processes that mirror photography, beginning with a blank medium and allowing a...
