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I wish I could type out the sound Homer Simpson makes when thinking about something he really wants to eat, because that's the sound I was making looking around Pizza Brain in Philadelphia. I'll give it a go anyway. Gaaaaarrrrllllllllgggghh. Add...
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A quick disclaimer before we start. We Heart does not condone the killing of animals for the purposes of room decoration, so here's hoping much of what you see here is byproduct or faux. Having said that, the various skulls and skins do add a...
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The newly-refitted Claude's in Woollahra (a suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, has been divided into two distinct dining areas, the result being a dazzling if somewhat dizzying dichotomy. Interior architect Pascale Gomes-McNabb was given the task...
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Plug into the mainframe baby, and download data pack FutureIsHere™ v3.0 - here's a behemoth of a structure that is likely to cause irreparable heart damage to anyone who still wears denim jackets with heavy metal patches. For many years,...
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There's nothing hipper right now than chucking some vintage chairs and tables, a kitchen and some staff into an untouched former warehouse - and it would seem that nobody, nobody, is doing it better than those terribly hip Dutch folk. Amsterdam's...
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Stark minimalism is taken to the nth degree at this Osaka hair salon. Continuing the trend for hairdressers you could easily mistake for art galleries; this little treasure - located sans façade on the second floor of a building in the city's...
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They say men and women are two different species, and at this second shop from denim vendor Tenue de Nîmes, the designers have approached the task at hand with that very tenet in mind. The team - architect Pim van Lingen, interiors man Jacob...
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The owner of Chesa Wazzau, Christian Kueenzi, talks about the first time he came across the place as though it was an epiphany. “About 30 years ago I was standing in the barn completely by chance. I hadn’t even set foot in the house and already...
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Kluchi, a must-be-seen-in new club in Moscow, is a real mixture of styles, partly owing to the turbulent history of the building and partly due to its protected status. Built in the 18th Century, the property was reduced to a stone skeleton by...
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* Please note: Catch has now closed. Catch possesses an invigorating mix of old and new. Baroque framed mirrors, and stained glass windows grace the walls of the restaurant, black chalkboards and large jars of preserved goods continue the olde...
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We love a good Mexican, but the surroundings at the Tacofino Commissary in Vancouver elevates this to a great Mexican, and that's before we've even tasted the tacos. Beginning in 2009 in Tofino, British Columbia, as a food truck, the rapid growth...
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What we have here then is an eye-catching installation inside an extraordinary building – and you don't even have to enter the premises to view it. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, is a shimmering polyhedron of mirrored black steel...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Most families don’t begin with a grand financial plan. It’s usually smaller than that. A random conversation on the couch. Someone asking, “Hey, are we actually saving enough?” And then… silence for a second. Because no one really knows...
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Scheduling problems rarely show up all at once. It starts with one double-booking. One technician running late. One patient showing up for the wrong time slot. Somebody shrugs, fixes it, moves on. No big scene. At least not yet. Then it keeps...
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Ten kilometres west of Dubrovnik’s Old Town, on the south-facing flank of Koločep Island, there is a sea cave that briefly — and only briefly — turns the colour of liquid sapphire. The effect is physics, not folklore. For about three hours...
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Hospitals and medical staff are held accountable for anesthesia errors through medical malpractice laws, internal reviews, and professional standards. When a mistake happens, the key question is whether the provider failed to meet the accepted...