Shanghai Metro Line 15 Wuzhong Road Station, Shanghai, China
Whether you know them as metro, subway, U-bahn, skytrain or tube, underground railways have existed for a long time. The oldest, the London Underground, opened...
Design
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March 27, 2021
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January 16, 2021
Bananananana Coffee, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Instead of going for cozy or comfortable, the designers of Bananananana Coffee went for shock value in their design concept for the 60-square-metre (646 sq.ft)...
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October 2, 2020
Art Gallery 19C, Beverly Hills, California, USA
This past summer, Los Angeles based architecture and design practice Arshia Architects received two awards for its interior design work for Gallery 19C, a project for...
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August 31, 2020
NICE Hair Salon, Jieyang, Guangdong, China
Space is the operative word in more ways than one in the design of NICE Hair Salon in Jieyang by local design firm Double Good...
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August 24, 2020
Zhongshuge Bookstore, Ningbo, China
We have so far covered five massive Zhongshuge bookstores in China, all designed by Shanghai-based X+Living: Beijing, Chongqing, Guiyang, Chengdu and Shanghai. The most recent...
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July 18, 2020
K11 Art House by UA Cinema, K11 Musea, Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong
Who knew we would be thinking of the ordinary pleasure of going to a movie in our own city with almost the same desperate longing...
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July 7, 2020
Zhongshuge Bookstore, Galeries Lafayette, Beijing, China
Nothing seems to slow the expansion of massive Chinese bookstore chains. Once more, we are left slightly stunned by the ambition and scope of the...
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June 21, 2020
Buff Nail Studios, Brighton – Melbourne, Australia
Buff Nail Studios is located in a non-descript commercial building on Church Street in Brighton, an affluent coastal suburb of Melbourne about 10 kilometres from the...
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June 12, 2020
Audemars Piguet Showroom, East Hampton, Long Island – New York
Architect and designer Lula Galeano, founder of New York-based Studio Galeón was no stranger to the Swiss luxury watch brand, Audemars Piguet when she was asked to...
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May 5, 2020
The Trim Hair Salon – Prague, Czech Republic
Small is beautiful and minimal is just perfect. It is always great to see retail design that has definite character yet lets the service or...
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February 24, 2020
Sinan Books Poetry Store, Shanghai, China
Blending The Old with the New has long been our favourite topic. We love projects that respond to the challenge of restoring, re-using, re-organizing and...
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December 16, 2019
Jiunvfeng Study, Mount Tai, Dongximen Village Shangdong, China
Floating white clouds are a common sight on the flanks of Mount Tai, a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city...