Hiding in plain site within the nondescript commercial husk of a former Melrose dry cleaner can be found Blue Bottle Studio. The coffee brand’s first residency in the United States, the intimate Los Angeles space… Read More »Blue Bottle Studio by wrk-shp Serves as a Sensorial Stage
If the best tools are the ones that you use, it’s also true those very tools should be conveniently at hand – a perspective complicated when it comes to robot vacuums. The cleaning appliances are… Read More »iRobot’s Insun Hong Wants Their Roomba Vacuums to Feel Right at Home
In 2013, Ugo Rondinone’s 20-foot stone figures took over Rockefeller Plaza. In 2016, his 35-foot towers of fluorescent-colored boulders landed in the Las Vegas desert, and now this month at Gladstone Gallery in New York,… Read More »Solid Lightning: Ugo Rondinone’s Stunning New Sculpture
Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. Located in Holzmarkt 25, a former lumber port… Read More »Office ParkScheerbarth adds bright red-timber building to compact Berlin site
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the Sanya Wellness Retreat hotel on the Chinese island of Hainan, with public spaces arranged around a central water courtyard. Located in Haitang Bay, Neri&Hu designed two L-shaped buildings with wood-clad upper levels… Read More »Neri&Hu wraps South China Sea wellness retreat around “water courtyard”
Design student Willem Zwiers has salvaged second-hand books and used them to form a small furniture collection, currently on show at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week. Under the title Transformed… Read More »Willem Zwiers melds second-hand books together to form marbled furniture