Armadale Residence in Melbourne, Australia by b.e architecture.Armadale Residence is a stone paradox. This three-storey home in Melbourne has a rough, scale-like exterior skin made from 260 tonnes of bubbled dove grey granite ā but even so, thereās still a resounding cloud-like softness to the...
Mitchelton Winery Hotel in Nagambie, Victoria by Hecker Guthrie.The Mitchelton Winery Hotel is one of a number of new, luxury lodgings colouring Victoriaās quiet, sunny wine country. In Central Victoria (apparently Victoriaās best-kept wine secret), itās also the second historic regional hotel by...
Exclusive Beijing Members Club by Superimpose Architecture Accommodates Tea-House, Wine Cellar & Office Space.Designed by New York-based practice Kohn Pedersen Fox, the new Genisis Beijing building is impressive for a list of reasons. Conceived of and led by academic and social policy expert Dr. Whitney Duan, the buildingās greater mission is to...
Kloke’s Brutalist-Inspired Melbourne CBD Store by David Goss.Put simply, Kloke's new Melbourne store has a gentle brutalist sort of feel. The pale grey stucco finish across the walls and ceilings conveys a sense of mass, as if the space had been carved out as a single, sculptural...
House of Many-Worlds in Oslo, Norway by Austigard Arkitektur.Sam Merwin Jr.ās 1951 science fiction novel The House of Many Worlds is arguably his best workātelling the tale of a creepy West Virginia mansion thatās also a portal between parallel time streams. Whether this classic account of...
Lindenderry Hotel in Mornington Peninsula by Hecker Guthrie.A little village in the hinterland of Victoriaās Mornington Peninsula called Red Hill may not squeal design hotspot, but a few recent additions to the regionās accommodation options may be changing that...
Chalet in the Swiss Alps by Pierre Yovanovitch.Imagine a warm, cosy timber-clad ski chalet, with a picturesque vista across the snowy Swiss Alps. Now imagine if the chaletās interiors had been designed by a former Pierre Cardin menswear designer with a keenness for luxurious, storied...
Sweet Storage Dreams: Playful Barcelona Apartment in Born by CaSA.Colombo and Serboli Architectureās recent apartment refurbishment in Barcelona could be filed under āstorage pornā. Itās a playful modification to a 65sqm flat set within a historic 13th-century building in El Born. The client, a...
Caravan 2.0 Restaurant in Seoul, South Korea by Flack Studio.One of the many very cool things about Caravan Hapejong restaurant in Seoul are the rows of powder blue Featherston Scape dining chairs. I love this iconic Australian early 60s-era chair, its brass circle feet, and its inimitable curve...
