A Designer’s Dream Hotel
From gel pens and dotted notebooks to transparent toothbrushes and perfectly tailored shirts, MUJI has been an integral part of my life and many others…
Architecture
Arts School that’s as dynamic as the art form!
Standing out wonderfully against the otherwise traditional neighborhood of Noisy-le-Sec is the bright green building of the Conservatoire, a Music, Dance, and Drama school in…
This house fits in a car-park
A rather bizarre experiment in minimal living, the Tikku is a full fledged home that fits into the space occupied by one car. Meaning ‘stick’…
Most Buzzed Designs of October 2017
Below you’ll find the most popular designs we’ve tracked over the last 30 days – an overview of designs you shouldn’t have missed in October…
Not Your Daddy’s Farm
When you imagine a farm, this is probably the last thing you’d think of… and that’s precisely its appeal! Called Lotus, this floating architecture is…
Seek Refuge in this Blossoming Oasis
It was in the 1950s that Malcolm McLean developed the shipping container which went on to completely revolutionize the transportation industry. It was the structural…
Building Blocks of Power
What if the very materials used to construct a building could be used to power that same building? That’s the idea behind Solar Squared –…
Eccentric Establishment!
Crazy on the outside, yet classy on the inside, the Solo House project by TNA Architects for Matarrana, Spain looks highly unstable, but one must…
An Office That’s Like Living Inside a Smartphone!
Droids on Roids is a team of programmers, so making their new office seem familiar made perfect sense to the designers at Mode:lina. Navigating the…
Toronto and the beanstalk!
“Our cities are a assembly of steel, concrete and glass,” says Penda partner Chris Precht. “If you walk through the city and suddenly see a…
The house that wears a sweater!
It looks like the Swahili Gem Tudor apartments in Mombasa have been crochet-bombed! The architects decided to clad the building’s outside with a ‘moucharabiah’ inspired…
Home, spiky home
Hostile (read: edgy) looking on the outside, but designed to be equally homely on the inside, the Cactus towers currently being planned in Copenhagen will…