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- Inside Snøhetta and DIALOG’s Calgary Central Library November 12, 2018Early this month, the Snøhetta– and DIALOG-designed new Calgary Central Library opened its doors to the public. “We wanted to make a library that was absolutely intuitive, one where you could understand its entire floorplan as soon as you walked in the door,” says Craig Dykers, founding partner at international architecture firm Snøhetta and lead […]
- ACDF Architecture’s Hotel Monville Opens In Montreal November 12, 2018Using monochromatic palette both inside and out, Canadian firm ACDF Architecture has recently completed Hotel Monville in Montreal. Monville – a tongue-in-cheek Anglophone mix-up for the French words meaning “my city” – is one of the hotel’s many subtle cues that express a contemporary flavour of Montreal. Established by the owners of Old Montreal’s Hotel […]
- Junzi Kitchen Opens In New York’s Greenwich Village November 12, 2018Junzi Kitchen is at the forefront of a new wave of Chinese cuisine in the US. Launched in 2015 by a couple of Yale students, Junzi Kitchen has opened a new venue designed to embrace the all-time dynamic street life of New York‘s Greenwich Village, which was once regarded as a paradigm of urban dwelling. […]
- Meet CHEW, The First Chewable, Reusable And Pocketable Straw November 12, 2018Three young Singapore-based designers, Lim Jing Jie, Tommy Cheong and Kevin Yeo, have created a one of its kind reusable straw. Instead of having what looks like a long, metal pole sticking out of your pockets, this new type of straw can be taken apart and reassembled for easy storage. “We want CHEW to encourage […]
- OMA Inaugurates Norra Tornen’s Innovationen Tower In Stockholm November 9, 2018OMA has completed the first of two towers the comprise ‘Norra Tornen’ – a residential complex designed by OMA / Reinier de Graaf and located in Hagastaden, a new district in the north of Stockholm. Titled ‘Innovationen Tower’, the building’s design is the expression of a modular system of precast exposed concrete elements. The […]
- Bike Builder Biomega Unveils Electric Crossover Utility Vehicle SIN November 9, 2018Denmark’s e-bike maker Biomega has unveiled its first four-wheel electric vehicle at CIIE in Shanghai. The concept car has been developed to take Biomega’s principles of social innovation, design thinking and urban mobility and apply them to the automotive industry. Biomega bikes are each named with a three-letter abbreviation of a city that has inspired […]
- 4 Stylish Cities For Your New Restaurant November 9, 2018In today’s world, it is almost impossible to spend a day without looking at incredible eating online. While lots of people are happy to try recipes at home, others take their passion to the next level by opening their own restaurant. This can be a tricky business venture, as there are countless obstacles to overcome […]
- Bio-digital Urban Curtain By EcoLogicStudio Fights Global Climate Change November 9, 2018London-based architectural and urban design firm ecoLogicStudio, led by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, unveils Photo.Synth.Etica, a large–scale installation, designed for their first collaboration with Climate-KIC, the EU’s most prominent climate innovation initiative, which aims to accelerate solutions to global climate change. Conceived as an “urban curtain”, Photo.Synth.Etica, presented in Dublin during the week of Climate […]
- Are Halls of Residence the Best Student Accommodation? November 9, 2018One of the most important choices that new students have to make when they are heading to university is deciding what type of accommodation they will stay in. The new university students of today have spent the majority of their lives under austerity. They are among the first generation expected to have lower living standards […]
- RNDSQR Brings The Outdoors Inside Devani’s Home In Calgary, Canada November 9, 2018This home was built and designed by the current homeowners, Alkarim and Majida Devani. The President and Creative Director of RNDSQR took inspiration from their daughter’s love for play and enjoyment of the outdoors and applied it to the whole home. The goal was to bring as much of the outdoors inside as possible and […]