City Notes
Dishing up healthy fare alongside inviting sweet treats, Saint Petersburg's Futura Bistro is a popular spot at the city's Lenpoligraphmash factory; a creative haven also home to an array of restaurants, cafés, concert venues, coworking spaces,...
City Notes
Grounded in an East-meets-West design philosophy, the doors have opened on Ace Hotel Kyoto; the hip hotel chain's Asian debut a 213-room hotel built in homage to the city's creative spirit. Longtime Ace partner Commune Design have combined natural,...
City Notes
Disrupting the world of childcare, Brella—located in the Los Angeles Playa Vista neighbourhood—is an on-demand childcare provider which is designed to be responsive, rather than restrictive; challenging the current childcare paradigm by...
The Edit
A way to express our personality, character and the way we live, our private living spaces shape our everyday routines (more so now that many of us continue to work from home due to the current pandemic) and affect our wellbeing; many homes...
Stuff Crush
Raising funds for the RCN Foundation COVID-19 Support Fund, collaborating with a series of brilliant creatives along the way, TIME ON OUR HANDS is an inspired 110-page publication compiled by London-based producer/director Jackson Payne and...
City Notes
Combining art, design and retail, Gallery Gif—put together by Miyao Design Studio—is a place for creatives and the curious to hang out, discover young local brands and exhibit wherever possible their own work; the former cafe encouraging...
Dispatches
In a bid to highlight Mental Health Awareness Week, which starts today, a collective of 21 foodies, artists and bartenders will share their hopes, dreams and fears to help improve understanding and raise funds for charities, The Drinks Trust and...
Dispatches
With its minimal aesthetics and unique charm, Casa Plenaire looks like the type of escapist architecture you'd find on Greek Islands such as postcard-perfect Santorini and Mykonos. However, conceived by Child Studio as part of a collaboration...
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Whilst the world around us may be looking very different at the moment, there's at least one constant throughout these unprecedented times: the A’ Design Award and Competition. Having wrapped up another year—the 2019-2020 edition now...
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We talk a lot about change. Changing ourselves and changing what exists around us; changing mindsets and making positive change. And then, out of nowhere, the world changed completely. And what about a global pandemic to help us begin to start...
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What started with a billboard takeover at Leeds’s Hyde Park Corner has become a much grander initiative, local street art project In Good Company now counting 150 sites across the city that renowned designers and artists have given a splash of...
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Back when we in the West couldn't conceive the staggering impact of a new coronavirus, Max Siedentopf courted controversy with his series How To Survive A Deadly Global Virus; little did we know how foreboding it would be. Using his subsequent time...
City Notes
Bringing understated Scandinavian elegance to the edge of Warsaw’s historic Old Town, PURO Warszawa Stare Miasto is the latest addition to the design-led hotel group’s growing Polish portfolio, and possibly their most considered space...
City Notes
In Milan’s ever-evolving Isola district, MOGO has arrived on the scene, offering a destination where music, mixology, and modern Japanese cuisine come together in a high-design setting that will have aesthetics addicts frothing at the mouth. A...
City Notes
Opening its doors in February 2025, Ned’s Club Washington, DC marks the second collaboration between Soho House’s luxury brand and the design and architecture experts at Stonehill Taylor. Set across the 9th to 12th floors of two historic...
City Notes
After a century spent as apartment residences, and following a meticulous two-year transformation, Hotel Granada reopened its Spanish Colonial archways to guests in August 2024. Located at 1302 West Peachtree Street NW, this 120-room property now...
Dispatches
The first impression of your home isn't simply a matter of architectural design or interior decor. Curb appeal, the undeniable charm and allure of a property as viewed from the street, has an inexplicably powerful influence on property value....
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In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
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Hard water. It's one of those household nuisances everyone talks about, but what exactly is it, and why is it such a big deal? Essentially, hard water is water that contains high levels of dissolved minerals, primarily calcium and magnesium. These...
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For those designing the future, few accolades carry the weight of the A’ Design Award & Competition. With the submission period for the 2025—2026 edition well under way, this international juried competition calls on designers, innovators and...