Located next to a mosque in Almaty, TAL has long been known as a place for family gatherings, memorial meals, and large communal dinners. The renovation sought to rethink the space without severing its connection to the past — preserving its familiar atmosphere while introducing a calmer, more contemporary, and architecturally cohesive identity. From the …
Sitting beneath casuarina trees on Rayong’s main road from the city to the beach, SON Restaurant occupies a small garden surrounded by restaurants with ocean views, mangrove edges, and riverside terraces. Without a dramatic site to compete with, the project would fail as a business; instead, the restaurant creates its own environment. It’s own spatial …
A southern brand arriving on this northern shoreline offers more than the scent of coffee—it delivers an honest answer to the question of “how to belong here.” Confronted with a two-story volume, the design orchestrates a double-layered narrative space—bustling yet immersive—structured around spatial hierarchy, communal ties, and everyday poetry.
Harudot Khao Yai is located on a sloping site descending from the main road toward a large water basin, opening to a panoramic view of the Khao Yai landscape. The architect recognized the site’s potential not only as a café destination, but also as a public viewpoint—one that could be accessed independently by passersby without …
Origin Café & Roasters is located within the industrial fabric of JAX District in Diriyah, Riyadh, where a series of iconic warehouses have been repurposed into cultural and creative spaces. The project transforms one of these existing structures into a multi-functional environment that accommodates a café, roastery, and workspace, while maintaining a strong connection to …
Tuticorin, a port city, has been the center of maritime trade for the last 2000 years. The sheer number of shipping containers discarded in the city made us combine two materials that are usually not combined: steel and mud.
The Almaty-based studio breathes new life into a landmark pavilion, transforming 1960s nostalgia into a bold manifesto for contemporary commercial design.
TAKO Aurelia is a sushi restaurant and cocktail bar, a few steps from the Vatican, that interprets the Memphis movement as a design language for a new concept of urban hospitality. The project reinterprets 1980s aesthetics with a contemporary sensibility, transforming color, light, and material into narrative tools.
As a top-ranking global city, London has its fair share of everything that ticks our boxes, and that includes cool lodgings. As of late, the Nobu Hotel in the city’s Shoreditch area has changed ownership, and consequently, the property is now called Aethos London Shoreditch. Obviously, the premises have been redesigned, featuring new settings created …
Coffee culture continues to evolve across the planet, and especially in countries with the most disposable income we’ve seen the most interesting formats popping up, offering either specialty blends, alluring design-led settings, or simply both. Mind you, the coffee parlour has even become a gentrification or wealth indicator for many a neighbourhood. Straddling the expanse …
