The Fondazione Prada is located in the south of Milan, Italy, and was conceived by architecture firm OMA which is led by Rem Koolhaas. The new venue combines seven existing buildings with three new structures (Podium, Cinema and Torre) and is the result of…
Brook&Lyn is the Los Angeles based creative studio of husband-and-wife team, Mimi Jung and Brian Hurewitz. Founded in 2009, they produce original objects, furniture, and interiors that express their personal vision of beauty and simplicity. Mimi and Brian draw inspiration from fashion, art, and…
I think this is already the third Barcelona located project I featured on the blog – perhaps I should move there? In Barcelona it is quite typical to find these incredible beautiful tiles in old flats from the end of the nineteenth century and…
The conceptual pop up store The Loft by The Playing Circle is located in an apartment above Amsterdam’s Vaudeville theatre. The special thing about it is that every single piece you see is up for sale. The goal is to create a unique shopping…
Carrer Avinyo by David Kohn Architects is what you can call an homage to Barcelona. It is an apartment in the Gothic Quarter (Catalan: Barri Gòtic) of Barcelona where it is situated on the corner of a significant local crossroads. Comparable with the Flatiron…
In 1973 the architect Ricardo Bofill found a disused cement factory, an industrial complex from the turn of the century consisting of over 30 silos, subterranean galleries and huge machine rooms. He decided to transform it into the head office of Taller de Arquitectura.…
El Pintón Restaurant is located in lovely Seville, Spain and is known for its outstanding interior styling. The restaurant was designed by Lucas y Hernández-Gil Arquitectos, an architecture studio based in Madrid. What fascinates me is how well they linked the traditional architecture of…
Katsutoshi Sasaki’s House in Yamanote is located in an area just outside the city centre. The need for natural lightning drove the design of the building as a six-storey apartment block throws a shadow on the property. A double-height corridor is the intelligent solution…
Usine is a 2,000 square meter venue in the heart of Stockholm combining various gastronomic concepts under one strikingly high roof. Once it was a former sausage factory, but after an extensive renovation the new space is divided into three rooms, all revolving around…
The Finefood restaurant and coffee shop in Hammarby Sjöstad (an exciting new district in the south of Stockholm) was redesigned by Swedish design studio Note. Note is a Stockholm-based design studio founded in 2008 working within the fields of architecture, interiors, products, graphic design…