Fabled Forest Retreat: Twisted Tea Tree House
(all images via: Dezeen) Ideally, a tea house is a place to which you can retreat from a hectic day. The calming ritual of preparing and drinking tea can balance out nearly any level of stress and ...
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.
Floating Cinema Deserves a Standing (or Swaying) Ovation
When the scenery is this beautiful, who could blame you for letting your attention wander away from the movie screen? Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren constructed a temporary floating cinema ...
Outside Offices: 14 Detached Work Pods, Eggs, Modules & More
Why settle for a cramped corner of a noisy house when your home office could be a separate unit tucked into the greenery of your backyard? Detached office modules, art studios, recording studios ...
Asymmetrical and Acid-Yellow Storefront for Konzepp
Walk down some steps into a nondescript alleyway in Hong Kong and you might just be shocked to find this bold, visually engaging storefront standing out in a sea of gray concrete. Hong Kong's new ...
Space Warps: 15 Buildings that Bend, Wrap & Curve
Folding onto themselves like ribbon and snaking along the grass, these 15 structures have barely a straight line in sight. From interiors that resemble honeycombs and cocoons to shell-shaped ...
Invisible Edges: 15 Death-Defying Infinity Pool Designs
The edges of these pools seem to just drop off into space, threatening to whisk swimmers off a cliff, into the sea or over the edge of a skyscraper. Infinity pools, also known as zero-edge pools, ...
A Moveable Feast: 14 Mobile & Pop-Up Restaurants
Do you ever get bored of your city's culinary offerings? What if they switched out on a regular basis, providing a never-ending carousel of dining experiences? In many urban areas, food trucks ...
McArchitecture: 10 Sizzlingly Odd McDonald’s Restaurants
I'm livin' it! McDonald's might be the quintessential symbol of “fast food nation”, serving millions of burgers daily in over 100 countries worldwide. Though Mickey D's brand identity is ...
Top Pop-Up Shops: 14 Temporary Retail Stores
Popping up in unexpected places overnight, temporary retail locations aim to dazzle shoppers with engaging visuals and alluring merchandise displays. They take over vacant storefronts, unfold ...
Korean Twin Towers Fail to ‘Cloud’ Memories of 9/11
Korean Twin Towers FAIL? It would definitely appear so, though Dutch architects MVRDV strenuously deny any connection, inspirational or otherwise, with New York City's lost World Trade Center ...
