TABLEAU Flower Shop in Copenhagen by Studio David Thulstrup.Set within a 19th-century building on Store Kongensgae in the heart of Copenhagen is TABLEAU, an ambitious, gallery-like space where flowers are arranged as sculptures, falling out of bespoke vases or poured over custom-made...
Iranian Abandoned & Overgrown Homes Captured by Gohar Dashti.Wartime and the displacement of people from home and landscape permeate Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti's images. Her most recent series of work is Home—a collection of abandoned spaces now taken over by nature. Taken in her native...
This House with Plants in Japan by KamakuraStudio Is Not What You’d Expect.Indoor plants have loads of health benefits. As well as looking pretty nice, they’ll reduce carbon dioxide levels, diminish levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and benzene, and even keep air temperatures down on warmer days. The...
Portraits of Indian Flower Men by Danish Photographer Ken Hermann.To most of us, fresh flowers are a short-lived pleasure—a simple luxury that tends to fade away a little too quickly. In India, flowers are loaded with meaning, tradition, substance, and spirituality. From the symbolic lotus to ribbons...
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....
Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy: Romola Restaurant in Madrid by Andres Jaque.Bursting from the former garage space of a 40s-era Luis Gutiérrez Soto building in Madrird, Romola Restaurant immediately reminds me of the jade powder room in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. Its futurist...
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...
The Botanist Restaurant in Vancouver, Canada by Ste. Marie.Designed by Vancouver-based Ste. Marie, The Botanist is Grande Cafe by way of the Pacific Northwest – a place where one can take breakfast, lunch, dinner or drinks. With an overall sense of refined conviviality being the end-goal of the...
Ownerless House nº 01 in Avaré, Brazil by Vão Arquitetura.Single-family housing projects usually respond to desires and objectives of specific clients but in this case, the client was only a middle-man for the unknown future residents. Vão’s approach was to deliver a series of spaces flexible...
