10 North American Coffee Shops That Are Distinctive In Their Design

May 19, 2017 Keely 0

  With several cities known for their coffee shop culture or famous roasteries, it’s no wonder that North America features some of the most unique coffee shops in the world. Today we’re sharing 10 coffee shops and cafes to inspire your next coffee driven adventure.   1. 3six0 Architecture designed Dave’s Coffee, an espresso bar […]

Stern McCaffery Architects converts entrance of old Massachusetts house into a gallery

May 19, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Boston-based Stern McCaffery Architects has overhauled a country home in Massachusetts, transforming the layout to showcase a collection of art work and expand the living areas into a bright annex. The residence was first built in 1905 as a mock-English riding house in Cambridge, Massachusetts – the seat of Harvard University. Owned by the president

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10 of the tiniest bedrooms from Dezeen’s Pinterest boards

May 19, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

This week’s roundup from Pinterest focuses on micro living spaces that show how to do a lot with a little, from a bedroom in a timber box to a studio in Poland measuring just 13 square metres. Flinders Lane Apartment, Australia, by Clare Cousins A timber box creates a bedroom inside this Melbourne apartment by Clare Cousins, which

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Friend & Company harnesses “robotic craft” to build new shop for V&A museum

May 19, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Robots were used to manufacture the components of these two pavilions, which form the new shop for the V&A museum in London. Designed by London studio Friend & Company, the shop is intended to pay tribute to the V&A’s first retail space, which functioned as a showcase for contemporary crafts from 1863 onward. This new space was

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Black & Milk creates understated bachelor pad in London’s Canaletto Tower

May 19, 2017 Ali Morris 0

British interiors studio Black & Milk has redesigned an apartment for a city trader in Canaletto Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper designed by UNStudio on London’s City Road. Black & Milk’s client asked the firm to create an interior with “a hint of understated luxury”. In response, the studio redesigned the apartment’s open-plan living room to accommodate a formal

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Black & Milk creates understated bachelor pad in London’s Canaletto Tower

May 19, 2017 Ali Morris 0

British interiors studio Black & Milk has redesigned an apartment for a city trader in Canaletto Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper designed by UNStudio on London’s City Road. Black & Milk’s client asked the firm to create an interior with “a hint of understated luxury”. In response, the studio redesigned the apartment’s open-plan living room to accommodate a formal

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This Edwardian Manor Received A Modern Extension And Reflection Pond

May 18, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Christine Francis   Nic Owen Architects have recently completed a modern extension on ‘Marrandillas’, a 117 year old Edwardian manor, located in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.   The house, untouched for over 50 years, was purchased by a family of five that had been dreaming of living on this street and in this […]

Luxury hotel opens inside Thomas Heatherwick’s converted grain silo in Cape Town

May 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The first part of Thomas Heatherwick’s renovation of a former grain silo building in Cape Town’s harbour has been completed, with the opening of a hotel featuring bulging windows. Heatherwick Studio is overseeing the conversion of the building, in which the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) will open later this year. Occupying six floors above the

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Concrete girders and glass partition walls carve up this broken-plan apartment in Bilbao

May 18, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Spanish architecture studio Pauzarq uncovered the original concrete girders of this apartment in Bilbao to map its new broken-plan layout.  When reconfiguring the 100-square-metre apartment, the architects paid close attention to its original features. They uncovered its original concrete structure that was used to create a broken-plan layout of partition walls that follow the line of the girders. The term

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