Shinji: A Toronto Steakhouse Built on Denim, Indigo Limewash & Restraint.Odami's Shinji is a Japanese steakhouse in Toronto's Financial District that reaches for cultural identity through material and atmosphere rather than motif—starting, unexpectedly, with...
Three Generations, One Nervy Brief: Hannes Peer Reimagines Merano’s Aurora Hotel.Aurora has anchored Merano's Passer Promenade for almost sixty years. Now the third generation of the Aukenthaler family has handed the 59-room hotel to Hannes Peer Architecture and Feld72, with a brief of unusual nerve: don't erase,...
Ivy Studio Drops a Lesson in Japanese Restraint into a Raw Concrete Shell in Downtown Montreal.Occupying the ground floor of a Montreal's downtown high-rise, Minnibar by Ivy Studio is a restaurant and café that pairs a contemporary Italian menu with the atmospheric principles of Japanese minimalism. Concrete floor, columns and...
Two Worlds, One Warsaw Apartment, and a Bar Worth Building a Home Around.This Warsaw home is built around a split-level concept: a light, easy daytime zone upstairs, and a moody, glamorous evening world below. The standout is the basement bar, a patinated, backlit showpiece inspired by The Great Gatsby, paired...
A Permanent Sunset Crowns Plutarco’s Myo Hand Roll Bar in Madrid.Golden hour never ends at MYO. In Madrid's ChamberĂ, Plutarco have engineered a permanent sunset—a warm, backlit glow that crowns the bar and refuses to fade. Raised on an oak platform and finished in nori-green stained wood, the bar is...
Clocking Off: Lève Office Bar in Turin by Fabio Fantolino.Once upon a time, the office borrowed its warmth from hospitality and home. Now the favour's being returned. With Lève Office Bar in central Turin, architect Fabio Fantolino raids the 1960s workplace for its chrome, stainless steel,...
Yugoslav Modernism Meets Japanese Listening Bars at Esthetic Joys Embassy Belgrade.There's a special kind of thrill in watching design pilgrims swerve away from the usual capitals toward cities with grittier stories to tell. Belgrade has been accumulating exactly this kind of momentum, and Esthetic Joys Embassy...
Audo Turns the Volume Down with Quiet Grandeur at 3daysofdesign.Quiet Grandeur argues that grandeur and calm aren't opposites—that an enduring idea of contemporary living can be grounded, graceful and quietly self-assured. After Monuments, it's a clever next move from Audo: less spectacle, more...
A Sydney RSL Institution Reimagined Without Losing Its Soul.After more than 75 years of service to veterans and the Rose Bay community, Club Rose Bay has reopened following its first major transformation since 1979. Led by Merivale with architecture and interiors by Akin Atelier, the project...
