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Paris
After a 10 month, €20 million renovation, most venues would expect a little pizazz - the gloss and glamour of shiny steel, glass and architectural wonder. Paris' Palais de Tokyo is not most venues. "Nothing is perfectly clean, nothing is...
Journal
Situated in a decrepit old shopping arcade, Granada's Afterbang - designed by Serrano + Baquero, the architectural duo of Paloma Baquero Masats and Juan Antonio Serrano García - may not enjoy the most exceptional of surroundings. Shutters, taped up...
New York
Reach for your canes and iron your morning coats, thanks to The NoMad Hotel - Manhattan just got a whole load of European neoclassical glamour. Forget what we said yesterday about less is more - it's all a load of rubbish, we've always said that. Is...
Publications
Its author Philipp Meuser calls it The Illicit Guidebook, and its pages give a unique insight into one of the most fascinating cities you may never visit. We all know of the dark undertones to the elaborate communist architecture that swamps the...
Journal
Awkwardly jarring with the dingy looking side street it inhabits, Hong Kong concept store Konzepp is an inexorably showy little affair. Its asymmetrical façade is like the result of a pixel explosion, garishly yellow, unwieldy but elegant - it's...
Journal
Looking somewhere between the chaotic remnants of a particularly wild party - you know, the sort the kids on Skins throw weekly - or a deeply unsettling supernatural intervention; LAST NEW YEAR is a bewilderingly brilliant series of installations by...
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We've featured shanty-towns turned multicoloured visual banquets before - here and here - and you'll no doubt be familiar with German designer Axel Peemoeller's Felice Varini-inspired anamorphic wayfinding system for Eureka Car Park in Melbourne....
Los Angeles
Everyone loves cupcakes. Since their revival began in New York at Bleecker Street's Magnolia Bakery in the mid-90s, the 21st century cupcake phenomena has swept the globe with calorie-laden abundance. We simply can't get enough of diving face-first...
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Floating curiously, high above the hustle and bustle of downtown San Francisco - almost like a human-sized birdhouse - Manifest Destiny! is a charming, yet provocative, statement on the arrogant perseverance of the city's early settlers. Named after...
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The most important thing for me about design is its capacity to make people’s lives better. This can be something really little, like well-designed hangers that your clothes don’t fall off. And that’s important – it’s all the little things...
Journal
That moment when old and new meet; get on like a house on fire, get married, have kids, grow old together... well, that. When spangly, super-modern and 16th century Baroque marry so consummately, so effortlessly in tune with their own present and...
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Dystopian fantasies of apocalyptic architecture, Jim Kazanjian's unsettling images may look like hyper-real paintings - such are their intricate surrealism - but, with an archive of over 25,000 high-resolution photographs at his disposal,...
City Notes
In the heart of downtown Zapopan, a neighbouring city of Guadalajara Mexico, Zorra Zapopan is the second outpost of Cervecería Zorra, a stunning project brought to fruition by esteemed studios Taller Dinamita and Taller Binario that combines a...
City Notes
Soft-launched 15 March, following an intensive restoration, Barcelona’s Grand Hotel Central has emerged as a triumph of contemporary luxury; a homage to its own weighty history and grandeur, yet breathing the fresh air of modern Catalunya....
City Notes
Opening just last month on Barcelona's Via Laietana, the road that separates the city's El Born and El Gòtic neighbourhoods, restaurant Can Bo completes the reimagined Grand Hotel Central; the street-level gastronomic concept focussing on tapas and...
City Notes
From first stepping into the kitchen aged 10, to creating supper club 'Eureka' in the family home, Flynn McGarry went on to open his first permanent fine dining restaurant, Gem, in New York City's Lower East Side at 19 years old, before going on to...
Dispatches
Picture sitting in a plush seat, looking out at the clouds, while a private chef prepares your favourite meal. The scent of freshly baked bread fills the cabin. A glass of perfectly chilled champagne is set before you. Then, your main course...
Dispatches
In the ever-evolving world of architecture and construction, choosing the right materials plays a critical role in both aesthetics and functionality. One of the most sought-after solutions today is the aluminum composite panel, and STACBOND stands...
Dispatches
Over the years, lottery advertising has changed from plain promotional efforts to big campaigns that capture worldwide audiences. These campaigns use design to get into our hearts and make us want to take action. Let’s explore the traditional...
Dispatches
If you’re making some improvements to your bathroom space, and you’re looking to have the vanity replaced, then you will most certainly have to think about the depth, and the overall size of this item. Of course, among other options, you will...