Gandel Wing, Cabrini Hospital – Melbourne, Australia
We wouldn’t wish illness on anyone, but if one must stay at a hospital, we wouldn’t mind if instead of the run-of-the-mill scary infirmary, we’d…
T. Taller De Cocina, Culinary Workshop – Seville Spain
Sharing a meal and preparing food together are tactile and intimate acts. In the most humble of shelters as in the most luxurious of residences…
Books Above The Clouds , Duoyun Books -Shanghai, China
Shanghai-based Wutopia Lab, founded in 2013 by architect YU Ting and MIN Erni, has created a 2,259 square-metre (24,316 sq. ft) flagship store for Duoyun…
Shanghai Metro Line 15 Wuzhong Road Station, Shanghai, China
Whether you know them as metro, subway, U-bahn, skytrain or tube, underground railways have existed for a long time. The oldest, the London Underground, opened…
Bananananana Coffee, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Instead of going for cozy or comfortable, the designers of Bananananana Coffee went for shock value in their design concept for the 60-square-metre (646 sq.ft)…
Art Gallery 19C, Beverly Hills, California, USA
This past summer, Los Angeles based architecture and design practice Arshia Architects received two awards for its interior design work for Gallery 19C, a project for…
NICE Hair Salon, Jieyang, Guangdong, China
Space is the operative word in more ways than one in the design of NICE Hair Salon in Jieyang by local design firm Double Good…
Zhongshuge Bookstore, Ningbo, China
We have so far covered five massive Zhongshuge bookstores in China, all designed by Shanghai-based X+Living: Beijing, Chongqing, Guiyang, Chengdu and Shanghai. The most recent…
K11 Art House by UA Cinema, K11 Musea, Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong
Who knew we would be thinking of the ordinary pleasure of going to a movie in our own city with almost the same desperate longing…
Prime Seafood Palace, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto-based restaurateur Matty Matheson is known for many things but subtlety is not one of them. He swears, huffs and waves his hands, and his…