Jiunvfeng Study, Mount Tai, Dongximen Village Shangdong, China
Floating white clouds are a common sight on the flanks of Mount Tai, a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city…
E Pang Bookstore, Fengdong, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, China
A bookstore by definition is a store that sells books. And the traditional western retail thinking assumes that every square inch of a bookstore earns…
Restaurant Pavilion The Traveller, Amsterdam – The Netherlands
The Traveller is a pavilion-like 900 square-metre (9,687.5 sq. ft) restaurant in Amsterdam’s multicultural Zuidoost neighbourhood. Its façade is made of a curvy glass and…
Piazza Dell Ufficio School Administrative Office – Melbourne, Australia
Close your eyes and think of what a school admin office from the 70s/80s might look like – if you can remember that far back…
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…