Stuff Crush
The seventh North American architecture and design map from Blue Crow Media takes us to the West Coast city of Los Angeles—celebrating the famously sprawling metropolis as a city of distinctive concrete architecture and, in a departure from...
City Notes
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Juliet Kinsman revisits Sri Lanka in search of a fresh, more sensitive approach to hospitality, a world away from international chain hotels and traditional five-star luxury… Sri Lanka has done a lot of growing up in the last decade. It’s...
Stuff Crush
Dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, this is a collection of Soviet-era postcards showcasing brutalist concrete hotels, statues, monuments, and striking tower blocks—each giving viewers a peek into the former Eastern Bloc at a time when its...
City Notes
The design elements of Little Green on Chapel Street, South Yarra—all lively and popping with vibrancy—feel every bit as natural and fresh as the healthy food on offer at this cute little Melbourne vegetarian café. Benjamin...
City Notes
Located among the hustle and bustle of Linz's creative hood, in the former workers’ quarters of the tobacco factory known locally as 'Tschickbude' (ciggy hut), etagerie—a brand that stands for authentic, temporary living—have opened the doors...
City Notes
A self proclaimed 'shrine to pasta', Melbourne eatery Pentolina—meaning little saucepan—serves honest and authentic grub, unpretentious food that goes back to basics and champions simple flavours that speak for themselves. Run by head...
Journal
Juliet Kinsman revisits Sri Lanka in search of a fresh, more sensitive approach to hospitality, a world away from international chain hotels and traditional five-star luxury… Sri Lanka has done a lot of growing up in the last decade. It’s...
City Notes
The Carpenter Hotel Austin is the latest offering from hospitality group The Mighty Union. Housed in a concrete and terracotta block building a mere five minutes walk from Zilker Park, home to Barton Springs Pool, the hotel features 93 guest rooms...
Stuff Crush
Dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, this is a collection of Soviet-era postcards showcasing brutalist concrete hotels, statues, monuments, and striking tower blocks—each giving viewers a peek into the former Eastern Bloc at a time when its...
City Notes
Let's get this out of the way first: Hamburg's Broscheks Sea to Table isn't the most stylish looking dining room. Occupying a space on the ground floor of the Renaissance Hamburg Hotel, this is a formal, businesslike affair. But that's before you...
City Notes
Airy and urban, the loft style spaces at SACO Manchester are a fine alternative to the city's hotels, providing guests a home-from-home experience combined with convenience and thoughtful design. And at the price point of a no-frills chain, with the...
Stuff Crush
"I'm not a real person. I'm a legend," Jean-Michel Basquiat once proclaimed. A showy exhibit of self-confidence from the famously outgoing artist at the time, 30 years since his untimely death, his quip would prove prophetic. Basquiat is a legend,...
City Notes
Inspired by the neon signage and hanging lanterns of kitsch 1970s Chinese-American restaurants, with a few days spying the modern day Chinatowns of San Francisco and Vancouver thrown in (side note: this podcast on the birth of the modern Chinatown...
City Notes
From the city's lifeline of transported goods—namely the eight million tonnes of coal delivered to the capital each year—to the nocturnal stomping ground of ecstasy-fuelled souls some 140 years later, today the industrial Victorian arches at...
Stuff Crush
Photographer Peter Steinhauer has made a job out of snapping all from urban architecture to natural landscapes mostly in Asia since 1993. When arriving at Hong Kong's old Kai Tak International Airport in 1994, the photographer's attention was...
The Edit
Considering Charles M. Schulz would proclaim his iconic comic strip was "about nothing", the influence of Peanuts on popular culture has been—and continues to be—nothing short of monumental; Snoopy and his human friends inspiring artists to...
Dispatches
As the East Fremont area of Downtown Las Vegas began a cultural transformation, a festival celebrating creativity and difference was born. Called Life is Beautiful, it would grow to become a three-day extravaganza for likeminded people to immerse...
Stuff Crush
When a chance meeting led Fleet Street photographer Derek Cattani to cross paths with Australian-born John Rendall and Anthony (Ace) Bourke, little did he know that he'd become a trusted member of a lion cub's human pride. It's a story...
Journal
The fifth edition of D.A.T.E.—Discover Antwerp Through Experience—was hosted by This is Antwerp during an inspirational five days between 27 September and 1 October, where eight creative tech entrepreneurs from varying reaches of Europe and...
Dispatches
Websites have grown bland in the contemporary digital age. Template-driven and generic, homogenised by the frameworks of big-name content management systems. The internet is a place of dry technicality; portals seeking to convey information or to...
Dispatches
It's easier than ever to be green, as healthier alternatives have finally found the acclaim they deserve. Matcha tea has become a commonplace flavour in the dessert world, including those of famed Belgian chocolatier Godiva. And this is a trend that...
Dispatches
As the East Fremont area of Downtown Las Vegas began a cultural transformation, a festival celebrating creativity and difference was born. Called Life is Beautiful, it would grow to become a three-day extravaganza for likeminded people to immerse...
Dispatches
One of the things to admire most about those behind the A’Design Award is their sheer commitment to recognising new talent across an exhaustive spectrum of design. In fact, with some 100 categories, plus many more sub-categories and...
