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…
No Sunrise No Sunset, Art Biennale Pavilion, Krabi, Thailand
No Sunrise No Sunset is a spellbinding pavilion installation created by Kamin Lertchaiprasert, a Thai artist whose works are included, for example, in the Guggenheim…
Villa de Mûrir Beauty Flagship Store, Garosu-gil, Seoul, South Korea
Collective B, a brand and commercial design consultancy located in Seoul, Republic of Korea, has given a new beauty brand, Villa de Mûrir, its first…
Les Nettoyeurs White’s Dry Cleaners, Montreal, Quebec – Canada
Inexplicably, some aspects of the street-front retail scene seem forever doomed. Dry cleaners and laundry services are a perfect example of this. Yes, we have…
Blossom School Real Estate Sales Centre, Chengdu, China
Looking at the images of the sweet Blossom School, it is tough to believe that it is a key part of a real-estate sales centre…
Zhongshuge Bookstore, Chongqing – China
It seems that nearly every week, we discover another massive, new bookstore somewhere in China. Their size would represent mindboggling square-footage in any retail category,…
Cloud of Luster Wedding Chapel, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture – Japan
Tokyo and Himeji-based KTX archiLAB’s head architect and founder Tetsuya Matsumoto has recently completed a fascinating wedding venue. with key team members Motoaki Takeuchi and Farid…
Zhongshuge bookstore in Guiyang, China
A new massive, modern library or bookstore seems to be popping up in China every month, especially in the southwestern province of Guizhou and its…