It is a tall order to restore a 1928 Spanish style cottage to meet current standards and modern aesthetics but without losing the heritage of the str...
The stone-clad street-front façade of this opulent residence in Munich appears mausoleum-like, impressive and enigmatic.
In contrast, the other side ...
There is no millennial pink nor other feminine pastels in the TriBECa, New York City clubhouse of female executives? private network, Chief.Â
Instea...
Too often, we see office, residential, hospitality and retail design where the designer seems to have been unable to stop.
Perhaps it is our minimali...
 If you have the opportunity to build your dream house with views of Sydney Harbour, you are extremely lucky.
A site at Kutti Beach in Vaucluse gav...
Architect Greg Truen, director at the Cape Town-based SAOTA talked with The Cool Hunter about KLOOF 119A, a residence SAOTA designed for a client he ...
We love it when designers flex their creative muscles in the transformation of spaces from one use to another. New and shiny is great, but there?s al...
In the case of a holiday residence project named SAJ III in Mexico, many things went right, both by plan and serendipitously, and incredible beauty r...
We are seeing arches everywhere. In newly built spaces, in restored hybrids and, of course, in a historical context.
Even more surprising, at least t...
The Sant Martí house may have started its life a long time ago as a fairly ordinary, sturdy three-story farmhouse built of local stone and situated i...
The sublime Casa C3 is located in Marina Lancheros in Ancon, a popular beach resort in the northern Lima province, Peru.
After nearly three years of ...
A professional Russian couple who have a crash pad in Moscow was looking for a main residence in Yaroslavl, Russia, a city located 250 kilometres (16...
There?s nothing new about dark wood, marble and leather-topped desks in lawyers? offices, but even the traditional approach does not need to be stuff...
A city crash pad for a busy internationally travelling bachelor. It could be tempting for a designer to go overboard with an opportunity such as this...
This sublime residence is located above the luxurious Benguela Cove Wine Estate in the Overberg region of the Western Cape in South Africa.
The house...
An impossible site in the steep hills over Cupertino. Deemed unbuildable for generations. Â It would have been built on if it were possible.
The sit...
Steven Harris Architects, the multiple award winning architectural firm established in 1985 and based in Tribeca New York, has been involved in numero...
Already in its second year of existence, Le Cabanon is looking more elegant than ever. Designed by the Tucson, Arizona-based Rick Joy Architects, the...
The Ideas Lab in Shanghai, China, is yet another bold project by architect-designer Li Xiang, founder of X+Living. Her team for this project included...
Unlike many pretentious and forced ?lifestyle? store concepts that attempt to combine products and services that do not feel natural together and/or ...
Young designers, Zhang Yufan and Ha Da, who established their interior design studio, NA-DECOÂ in Nanjing City, China, in 2015, took on a tough chall...
This four decades-old private summer villa has been transformed into an elegant expression of its location, Forte dei Marmi in Tuscany, Italy.
The re...
Between 2012-2013 Athens, Greece-based decaACHITECTUREÂ designed the concept and master plan for a stunning three-building compound, Galinis Gorges, ...
Offices are so last decade. Everyone is a free agent now ? especially in the so-called creative fields ? and telecommutes, works from home, at cafes ...
Manhattan?s Upper East Side with a view of Central Park ? these are not the typical location descriptions of a home for a family of five.
Unless you ...
Architects Alice Gardini and Nicola Gibertini of Rimini, Italy-based GGA Gardini Gibertini Architetti have created an elegant single-family home tha...
As banking has become just another online function, banks are no longer needed to house money or bankers. When postage stamps and telegrams have beco...
The town of Ascona by Lake Maggiore in Ticino in southern Switzerland is rich in Roman and medieval, and even prehistoric, history. Its architecture i...
Images of high cliffs rising from the blindingly blue sea with white-washed villages clinging to the edges ? these are the typical visions that come ...
Located in the Ladprao neighbourhood in the northern part of Bangkok, Thailand, where housing prices are about half of those in the downtown area, th...
We are not quite ready to announce that weathering steel is the new wood, but we are flirting with the idea.
We are suddenly noticing examples of wea...
In the 1990s, supermodels did not wake up for less than $10,000 per day. A few zeros have been added to that fee since, and the lifestyle of a superm...
It is tough not to end up elbow-deep in clichés as we attempt to describe this residence that feels like a work of art itself.
Located in Haitang Bay...
A large swath of sweeping parkland, a protected heritage building, a beloved cultural and outdoor destination of locals. These characteristics ? plus...
We find it slightly surprising that co-working spaces are still popping up all around the globe. But perhaps we should not feel that way. After all, ...
Three features attracted us to this multi-generational Northern California home. First we noticed the harmonious interplay of subtle patterns and tex...
An interior design project of a massive duplex space in Manhattan, just steps from the Hudson River, with a price tag we guesstimate to be somewhere ...
The soon 60 year-old Gonzaga-born, Milan-educated Italian designer and architect, Vincenzo De Cotiis, is a master of the kind of balance we love.
We ...
The incredible work of Dublin-based O?Donnell & Tuomey Architects  for the Central European University can be fully appreciated only by first viewing...
Scandinavian, mid-century modernist, minimalist. The style of Stockholm-based interior designer Louise Liljencrantz is all of these. As is the style ...
A private residence that reads like a Buddhist spiritual retreat. Not an easy synthesis to achieve as the clutter and noise of daily life tends to ta...
Even in the best of circumstances, transforming a large former factory into a functional and appealing office space is a tough prospect.
We have all ...
Pool Leber Architekten and Bleckmann Krys Architekten have combined 14th and 16th century structures, with modern concrete and brick volumes to create the Kult museum.
Designed as both a cultural hub and museum for the town of Vreden, Germany, Kult... -
Liminal
Inspired by Lake Tyrrell, this collaborative installation experiments with product design, visuals, soundscapes and materiality to explore and peep into a world where shifting moments reshape our design experiences.
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Designed in 2013 by Mork Ulnes Architects, this modern cabin is located in Ukiah, California, United States.
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Three locally known land formations can be seen from the site of this project: ?Eagle Rock?, a mountain... -
Modern single family house located in Montpellier, France, redesigned and extended by Brengues Le Pavec Architectes.
Description by Brengues Le Pavec Architectes
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A concrete staircase overlooked by a glazed showroom and library forms the centrepiece of this headquarters for a textile brand in Mumbai designed by SJK Architects.
The offices for Synergy Lifestyles are housed in a former warehouse in the mill... -
like two dancers, the two structures simultaneously lean into and away from one another.
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Dutch architecture firm OMA has updated the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Manhattan with a glass escalator that appears multicoloured from different angles.
OMA\'s stair connects the ground, first and lower levels of Saks Fifth Avenue and... -
This time-lapse footage shows the petals atop Atlanta\'s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which is hosting the 53rd Super Bowl game today, slide past each other to cover the American football pitch below.
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A 10 story luxury residential building designed by Aytac Architects in Erenkoy, Istanbul. Apartman 18 pays homage to Erenkoy?s completely destroyed vineyards due to densification of the city with concrete cookie-cutter apartment blocks after the... -
The artistic Namaste tower in Mumbai in this site can be seen from the exterior landscaping of this modern architectural building. This modern architectural building was covered with artistic flower pattern on the skin side of this building. The... -
