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Vincent Fournier’s ‘The Man Machine’ photography series presents robots in innocent everyday situations that provoke sympathy and emotion in the viewer. The final images are absurd, probable, disconcerting, and kind of cute all at...

Forming part of luxury hotel brand Aman, Amanemu takes cues from traditional Japanese ryokan, comprising a series of pavilion structures, housing 24 suites and four villas—each with a private hot spring bath. Amanemu onsen resort...

This hole-in-the-wall style espresso bar and mini roastery might feel at home down a Surry Hills alleyway, or tucked into an empty loading dock in the Melbourne CBD. It is, however, located in Kobe – the Japanese city on Osaka Bay, best...

Rust Harvest by Japanese designer Yuma Kano is a fascinating experimental materials project that really caught my attention during our visit to Salone Satellite 2018. Young Japanese designer Yuma Kano highlights that the prevention of...

Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...

Would you tuck into a 2x1m fiberglass box for a night’s sleep? Capsule hotels—where rows of single-bed-sized rooms are stacked on top of one another, were born out of Osaka in the late 1970s, and are a part of a sort of bare...