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Nightingale restaurant – Mayfair, London
Many restaurants in London have the word nightingale in their name but the latest addition to the offering in Mayfair, called simply Nightingale, is not…
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Van Stapele Bakery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In 2013, after several months of experimenting in her small kitchen, Vera Van Stapele decided that she had created a cookie that was special. The…
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GIGI Studios Eyewear Head Office – Barcelona, Spain
Spanish eyewear brand Gigi Studios – formerly known as GIGI Barcelona – is a family-owned business established by Fulgencio Ramo in 1962 in Poble Sec, Barcelona….
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Trattoria del Ciumbia, Milan, Italy
Those heading to the Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile Milano will experience Milanese abundance when pondering their dinner options as Milan claims to…
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Bar Prima, Queen West – Toronto, Canada
Bringing to life the darkly shiny opulence of dining rooms of the past was the goal of chef-owners Craig Harding and Julian D’Ippolito when they…
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Casadonna Restaurant – Miami, Florida
Known for staging outlandish events and creating lavish interiors for a client list of celebrities, business tycoons and socialites, Ken Fulk has left his extravagant…
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The Power of Color
Black and white are the safe choices in the design world. The colour of luxury is elegant and subdued. Yet, at the same time, even…
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Medibank Building – Melbourne
What kind of society would we live in if architecture and design were merely just jobs instead of expressive art forms that articulated the beliefs…
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Ford Models Agency – New York
When Eileen and Jerry Ford established Ford Models Agency in their New York City home in 1946, they created a new kind of global beauty…
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Piano House – Chisinau, Moldova
May we just move in, please? This super-sleek, one-storey residence is rather close to a perfect minimalist house. It fits in its surroundings and manages…
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Voodoo Ray’s Pizza – London
It’s yet another example of the worlds of food, design and architecture colliding as this clever modern adaption of the pizza parlour has forever changed…
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INCH Hair Salon and Spa, Oslo, Norway
Blame us, Norwegian designers and/or their possible dislike of communication, or a slight language barrier, but Norwegian design is not often seen in design media….
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Shanghai Film Museum
Should you be so lucky as to be asked to design a Film Museum, how would you feel? Most likely, overwhelmed. The many juicy aspects…
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Club Lexy – Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland-based Dryer-Smith Fray have recently completed the concept and interior design for Club Lexy, a cool new nightclub located at Militärstrasse 84, the rough…
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The Power of The Box – Powerful Packaging Design
Packaging has power – enormous power – over what we buy. The fashions we wear express who we are. Packaging does that for products. We…
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Club MASCARA, Sofia, Bulgaria
The designers of the Mascara nightclub in Sofia, Bulgaria, took their cues from the whimsical story of Alice in Wonderland and from the storied building…
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Feng Shui-inspired Fort Swimming Pool, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
In 2012 Parisian Mikou Studio submitted the winning proposal for the competition to design a swimming pool complex for the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. The…
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Flying Through The Sky
With a budget of more than 8 million Chinese Yuan ($1.25 million US), a time frame of two years and an existing building of 20,440…
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A Concept Yacht Fit For Bond
We will most likely never lease or own anything as grand and suave as the Symmetry super yacht – in fact, we may never even…
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A Sweeping Glass Pavilion, Park Groot Vijversburg, The Netherlands
A large swath of sweeping parkland, a protected heritage building, a beloved cultural and outdoor destination of locals. These characteristics – plus many other structural,…
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Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
The incredible work of Dublin-based O’Donnell & Tuomey Architects for the Central European University can be fully appreciated only by first viewing the schematic drawing…