Toronto-based Studio Paolo Ferrari has created cinematic interiors for a restaurant in the city’s Downtown area, combining influences from filmmakers that range from Stanley Kubrick to Nancy Meyers. Unlike a typical restaurant layout, Daphne unfolds… Read More »Studio Paolo Ferrari designs Toronto restaurant as a “world unto itself”
Chinese studio Lin Architecture abstracted and merged local architectural forms for the design of this angular pavilion in rural Yunnan, which is made from white-painted concrete. Simply named Concrete Pavilion, the structure is surrounded by… Read More »Lin Architecture designs Concrete Pavilion in China as “lighthouse” for farmers
From monolithic concrete pillars to ornately decorated columns, this lookbook collates ten living room interiors that embrace existing structural columns. It is not always cost-effective or practical for designers and architects to remove preexisting columns from… Read More »Ten inspiring living spaces punctuated by structural columns
Interior designer Isabelle Heilmann has used glazing and level changes to turn a former textile workshop in Paris into an open-plan apartment with a dedicated home office. The owners of the property on Rue Jean-Pierre… Read More »Isabelle Heilmann converts Parisian textile workshop into loft apartment
Brooklyn-based Home Studios has turned a conference centre in Northern California back into a luxury hotel, as originally intended by the property’s founder: the inventor of the radio. The Lodge at Marconi sits on a… Read More »Home Studios uses local materials to renovate Northern California hotel
A bamboo canopy modelled on stingrays tops Overwater Restaurant, which architecture studio Atelier Nomadic has added to a lagoon in the Maldives. The Japanese restaurant is raised on an existing jetty that extends out from the shore… Read More »Stingray-shaped roof crowns Maldives restaurant by Atelier Nomadic