City Notes
How the heck does one cram a functional snack bar into a premises measuring just 11.5 sqm? If you'd asked us yesterday we'd have had no idea, but after seeing Kropka in Gdynia, Poland, the answer is clear. You call space magicians PB/Studio and...
The Edit
Two of We Heart's favourite colourful characters have been up to their tricks again this summer. When Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan arrive on the scene, people usually find out about it in a hurry thanks to the signature use of highly-coloured...
Journal
The heavens open as our tiny propeller-plane lands on Orkney's mainland, Kirkwall. Of Zeusesque force and with raindrops the size of bowling balls. We shelter at Lynnfield Hotel, with a pint of local Scapa Special and a plate of fresh scallops. The...
City Notes
Farmhouses like this one in the Somerset countryside often meet one of two ignominious ends. The first scenario is that they simply fall into disrepair and eventually become derelict ruins. The second is they are bought by Henrys and Jasmines who...
The Edit
When I need a new pair of shoes, I go to a shoe shop. Or if I'm not in a great rush and feel like a month-long back-and-forth exchange of parcels due to stupid sizing variations, I'll try online. I now realize this is very backwards thinking, and...
The Edit
This is an urgent warning for acrophobics. If you haven't already up-chucked at the sight of our first image, navigate away now or you may have to be given oxygen and helped from the room. South Korean photographer Jun Ahn has certainly got a head...
City Notes
Let's stick a couple of lighted candles in a whopping great cake for LIMA Fitzrovia to mark the Michelin-starred London restaurant's second anniversary. Happy birthday Peru, happ... no? Thanks to the skills of chef Virgilio Martinez (the main man at...
City Notes
Hauser & Wirth's stunning new gallery, part of an spectacular farm building regeneration in the Somerset countryside near Bruton, has opened to the public this summer after a major restoration project. The gallery is the focal point of the...
City Notes
It was a fortunate group of girls that wandered from third period history to fourth period maths along the corridors of this Art Nouveau treasure in Stockholm, although it would be understandable if they didn't fully appreciated it at the time. Most...
The Edit
A collection of photographs called Longboards, Tattoos and a Journey to Mars was always going to be a mixed bag, but Sonia Szóstak's work, while varying a lot in genre and subject matter, is of a uniformly high standard. The Polish artist has been...
The Edit
The National Portrait Gallery are 130 photographs to the good after Lord Snowdon donated part of his archive to the organisation. The artist known to his mates as Antony Armstrong Jones has timed his gift to coincide with the release of a book,...
The Edit
Myopics can leave their spectacles at home for the latest exhibition from in-your-face artist Barbara Kruger. A site specific installation covering the entire surface area of the Upper Gallery of Modern Art Oxford has been used to drive Kruger's...
City Notes
Salon Volta is a new barbershop in Laval, Quebec, that rethinks the familiar codes of grooming through a concept centred on craft and community. Moving away from the traditional model, the project positions itself as a space where barbering unfolds...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
Dispatches
Walk into a well-designed hotel bathroom, and something stops you. It is small, sometimes very small, but it feels considered. The tile choice is unexpected. The vanity has a presence. The mirror sits perfectly. You stand there thinking this feels...
Dispatches
Some people discover mixology behind a bar on a busy Friday night. Others come to it through years of hosting dinner parties, obsessing over flavor combinations, or spending too much money on bitters collections they absolutely did not need. However...
Dispatches
There was a time when wedding bar service meant a single bartender, a few bottles of wine, and maybe a keg if the couple was feeling casual. Those days are long gone. Today's couples are rethinking the bar as one of the most meaningful parts of the...
Dispatches
Do you want to give your bathroom a fresh, trendy look with new tile? Tiles in the bathroom do more than just keep water from getting on your walls and floors. They can also give your area a joyful, colourful, tranquil, or futuristic vibe. There are...