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...
A Sun, Underground: Mecca Coffee Foley Street by Killing Matt Woods.Is this outer space or red earth Australia? Familiar or futuristic? At Mecca Coffee Foley Street, Matt Woods has made a room that declines to define itself. Part Coober Pedy dugout, part moon landing, entirely cocooned beneath...
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...
Vyrao and AMO Transform Scent Into Space at New York Pop-Up.Architecture meets fragrance at Vyrao and AMO's collaborative Soho pop-up, where spatial design explores emotional wellbeing through scent. The installation features totemic sculptures representing energetic frequencies, flowing curtains...
MillĂł Restaurant by AÉ02 Features a Show-Stopping “Volcano of Light” Ceiling.Bucharest's dining destination transforms a 500-square-metre ground-floor space into a study of geometry and light. Architects Anda Zota and Elena Viziteu created a dramatic ceiling installation that anchors the main dining area, while...
A.B. Lafitte Creates Moody Fig-Toned Sanctuary for Tulsa’s Silk Salon.TJ Woodberry isn't messing around. Her new Silk Salon in Tulsa's historic Greenwood District is a 204-square-metre statement that luxury beauty spaces can—and should—centre Black women. Located where Black Wall Street once thrived, the...
Underground Glamour: Shenzhen’s Garage Reimagines Car Culture.An underground car culture paradise emerges in Shenzhen as DDDD Creative Company transforms 6,900 square meters beneath Poly Theatre into Garage—a retro-futuristic complex celebrating vintage and modified...
A Floor Lamp Inside a Pizza Box by Kazuhiro Yamanaka.Japanese designer Kazuhiro Yamanaka has designed Pizza Box Lamp, a polyester floor lamp that nods to Ingo Maurer’s 1980 Lampampe. Made out of 100% recycled polyester fibre, each layer is crinkled to create a unique pattern and add...
Futurism and Footwear: Ura Tokyo by Insideout.An innate sense of tranquillity comes to the fore at Ura Tokyo. A veil of fluorescent lighting, pierced by a mirrored obelisk-like mass breaks the boundary between inside and out. Insideout’s key consideration was playing with extreme...
