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 …
This project is a hall set quietly within the forest of Karuizawa, a renowned summer retreat. The facility is the result of a project that has been cultivated collaboratively with the client and contractor over a period of approximately ten years.
Set within the vast urban regeneration of Scalo Farini, Casa Giardino is a temporary restaurant and social space that transforms a former railway depot into an unexpected oasis of conviviality in the heart of Milan. Designed by Claudio Larcher, the project reinterprets industrial heritage through a contemporary, nature-driven lens, offering a spatial narrative that balances …
The Seventeen Teahouse is located on the second floor of a street corner in Nanjing’s Caozhi Alley, situated between the bustling Xinjiekou commercial district and an old residential area, with no direct street-level interface. The design responds to its condition of being “present yet unseen,” while creating a tea space suited for contemporary socialization, balancing …
Continuing its nationwide expansion, the ROOST apartment hotel chain has now planted a flag in Austin. Here in the Texan capital, the hospitality company has secured a location on the premises of Paseo, a modern, 48-storey apartment building in the city’s downtown area. The newly opened ROOST Rainey, designed entirely by Method Studios, the in-house …
Building on the success of the second branch located in front of Jungang-dong’s iconic 40 Stairs, this third location is set near Busan Station, in the heart of a district densely lined with office buildings. By day, the street is alive with the flow of commuters, but once evening falls, it becomes strikingly still. As …
As the capital of a former Soviet Union republic, the city of Tbilisi has its fair share of Soviet architecture, such as the central post office and telegraph office of Georgian architects Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili and Teimuraz Mikashavidze. Situated downtown, the 1970s Brutalist-style building, now owned by Georgian industrial conglomerate Silk Road Group, has been thoroughly …
There may be a lot going on in Kyiv, but luckily, there’s still room to enjoy the good life. Embedded in Seven Lakes, a hotel complex with landscaped gardens in the Petropavlivska Borshchahivka suburb of the Ukrainian capital, the Farm Table restaurant totally lives up to its name and dining concept. Occupying a standalone low-rise …
Coffee culture has increasingly manifested across the planet by way of design-led coffee parlours in leading cities across the planet, including Montevideo. Since a few months, the leafy seaside neighbourhood of Nuevo Pocitos is home to a Brutalist-style café which pairs good quality coffee with matching lunch bites, tasty dishes and pastries. Called Gutiérrez Café, …
