Motel Bones, Ibiza Spirit: Inside The Whale Narooma on the NSW Far South Coast.Some hotels are designed to be photographed. The Whale has been designed for the slower business of sitting still. Opened this June in Narooma on the NSW far South Coast, the boutique hotel pulls the spirit of 1970s Ibiza up against the...
CĂ´te Basque: A Melbourne Restaurant Defined by Everything Left Untouched.Melbourne's most-watched restaurant opening in years landed this month, and the most compelling thing about its design is everything Acme decided not to touch. Twenty-five Crossley Street has housed just three businesses in seven...
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...
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...
Studio Loho’s JonojĂ© is Strange, Sculptural & Impossible to Forget.Is it beautiful? Is it ugly? JonojĂ© refuses to settle the question — and that's what makes it so compelling. Studio Loho's new Bruges B&B runs on a push-pull between the simple and the sculptural: moments of quiet respite, then a hard...
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...
