Alvaro Siza Vieira’s New Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande in Rennes, France.Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira has designed a beautiful, light-filled church for Rennes’ outer suburbs. Alvaro Siza Vieira's Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande will be the first church built in Brittany, France...
CASAPLATA Restaurant & Cocktail Bar in Seville by Lucas y Hernández-Gil.CASPALATA in the heart of Seville suggests a new kind of vision and future for restaurant and cocktail bar design. Madrid-based studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil have purposefully sidestepped tried and true nostalgia in favour of creating...
Cookers Cafe in Moscow by VETER DESIGN.Cookers Gourmet Café by Moscow-based bureau Veter Design and Architecture, probably wouldn’t look out of place on Flinders Lane, but all the while it is still rooted in its Russian...
Sony Music Entertainment Amsterdam HQ by Space Encounters.Of course Sony Music’s Amsterdam HQ needs a vinyl boardroom table that doubles a DJ booth, and a stairway that is also a bar. It’s work made a bit more entertaining, and I for one, would not mind that meeting being added to my diary....
Hotel National des Arts et Métiers, Paris by Raphael Navot.New among Paris’ boutique hotels is Hôtel National des Arts & Métiers. Set somewhere between the Marais and Montorgueil quartiers in the third arrondissement, the hotel takes its design cues from the Centre National des Arts &...
Campamac Osteria di livello in Langhe, Italy by Fabio Ferrillo of OFF Arch.Fabio Ferrillo typically plays in the high fashion world, but this time the Milanese architect has lent his knack for emotive interiors to an osteria in the heart of the Langhe region in his native...
Stage of Forest: Ski Pavilion at Songhua Lake Resort of Jilin, China by META-Project.Designed by Beijing-based META-Project, this mountainside structure looks like a villain’s secluded lair in a James Bond film. Its purpose in reality, however, is a lot less foreboding. Peering over the icy Songhua Lake from a distance,...
Bentwood Cafe in Fitzroy, Melbourne by Ritz&Ghougassian.Ritz&Ghougassian have shared with us their latest hospitality project, Bentwood café, set within the old Thonet showroom at 237 Napier Street in Melbourne’s Fitzroy. Bentwood café’s interior pays homage to the old custodians of...
Villa Cheshm Cheran in Minudasht, Iran by ZAV Architects.Tehran based studio ZAV Architects have created a minimalist home outside of Minudasht in Iran's Golestan Province. At first glance, you’re likely struck by the surrounding scenery with its rolling hills, barren fields and vast, rural...
