Figueras Polo Club at El Yacaré, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina
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…
No Sunrise No Sunset, Art Biennale Pavilion, Krabi, Thailand
No Sunrise No Sunset is a spellbinding pavilion installation created by Kamin Lertchaiprasert, a Thai artist whose works are included, for example, in the Guggenheim…
Villa de Mûrir Beauty Flagship Store, Garosu-gil, Seoul, South Korea
Collective B, a brand and commercial design consultancy located in Seoul, Republic of Korea, has given a new beauty brand, Villa de Mûrir, its first…
Les Nettoyeurs White’s Dry Cleaners, Montreal, Quebec – Canada
Inexplicably, some aspects of the street-front retail scene seem forever doomed. Dry cleaners and laundry services are a perfect example of this. Yes, we have…
Blossom School Real Estate Sales Centre, Chengdu, China
Looking at the images of the sweet Blossom School, it is tough to believe that it is a key part of a real-estate sales centre…
Zhongshuge Bookstore, Chongqing – China
It seems that nearly every week, we discover another massive, new bookstore somewhere in China. Their size would represent mindboggling square-footage in any retail category,…
Cloud of Luster Wedding Chapel, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture – Japan
Tokyo and Himeji-based KTX archiLAB’s head architect and founder Tetsuya Matsumoto has recently completed a fascinating wedding venue. with key team members Motoaki Takeuchi and Farid…
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…
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…
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…