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...
Studio Karhard Takes Club Culture to the Swiss Alps with Play at Chalet African, Gstaad.Studio Karhard has taken its club DNA—honed across decades of nightlife design, including Berlin's legendary Berghain—and transported it to the Swiss Alps. Play at Chalet African is a nocturnal laboratory where architecture, light, and...
Inside Marlowe, J.AR OFFICE Lets a Heritage Brisbane Building Do the Talking.Jared Webb has a particular kind of creative intelligence that's hard to articulate—the sort that pulls together unrelated genres, eras and references into something that transcends the sum of its parts. Something we now lazily shorthand...
A 19th Century Pub Transformed into Seven Layers of Atmosphere.Eleisha Gray's creative direction of The Waterside Hotel is rooted in production design thinking—atmosphere and sequence first, materials second. At Past/Port restaurant, colour became a shared language between Executive Chef Sarah...
Volcanic Stone and Aztec Mythology Define This Rooftop Bar in San Miguel de Allende.This Mexico rooftop bar functions as both a gathering place and cultural statement—ancient wisdom translated into contemporary form through material, shape, and thoughtful...
