Shell-Shaped Shoffice: Backyard Shed/Office Combo
Part backyard office, part storage space, part sculpture: the 'Shoffice' by Platform 5 Architects is a multi-functional pavilion that curls over itself like a shell. The architects created this ...
Category: Offices & Commercial
Love it or hate it, work is what we do during the day most of the days of the week, but it sure is nicer working in something like one of these stunning offices, stores, hotels, restaurants and bars from around the world. From cozy artist alcoves to lofty open offices, here are some of the most amazing places you could hope to get the job done.
Japan’s Urban Spaceship: The Omiya Rocket Building
Let's do launch! The shiny, streamlined, sc-fi styled Rocket Building dominates an otherwise unremarkable downtown street near Omiya Station in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, Japan. Home to rental ...
Urban Suburbs: 4 McMansions Atop Chinese Shopping Mall
It sounds like a hoax at best, an architectural student thesis gone wrong at worst ... yet it is entirely real: a series of conventional-looking, a-frame abodes atop a gigantic mega-block ...
19 Crazy Offices That Think Outside The Cubicle
Reader beware! These offices will make anyone jealous. For anyone viewing this from inside the felt-covered walls of their cubicle, take hope in the fact that the office environment is slowly ...
Cool Beans: The World’s Most Startling Starbucks Stores
As global gourmet coffee giant Starbucks prepares to open its 20,000th store, the world's largest coffeehouse corporation finds itself torn between the need to support its hard-earned brand ...
Boutique Comic Shop Panel-Style Displays Pop Off the Page
Comics have come a long ways since the early days of Marvel and Detective Comics, but though tone, genres and superheroes in some cases have changed, one thing remains remarkably the same: the ...
Volumes of Vertigo: Crazy Sideways-Library-Shaped Cafe
Walking into the Manhattan espresso bar D'Espresso, you would be forgiven for doing a double (or triple) take. Because this is no ordinary café - this place looks like a library that has been ...
Modular Madness: 23 Diverse Deployments of Cargo Containers
Portable, durable, stackable and readily available all over the world, shipping containers are the ideal building blocks for smart structures of practically every variety. Some require just a ...
Vertical Strip Tease: Upside-Down Las Vegas Skyscraper
Vegas is a strange and sometimes-seedy speck of civilization with virtually nothing nearby of note ... save perhaps the massive Hoover Dam and its associated geology, that is. ...
The Candy Room: A Store Delicious Enough to Eat
Some candy shops are so colorful and chaotic, you're not sure where to look. That kind of wild Willy Wonka-esque environment can certainly be fun, but sometimes, simplicity is what it takes to ...
