This bar design takes on multiple-colored discotheque inspired by natural cave-like formation. This is a Portuguese nightclub installed with layered lacquered MDF ceilings that was designed specifically to imitate the natural formations of a cave. More on...

Architect Frank Gehry has completed his first building for Make It Right, the charity founded by Brad Pitt to rehouse families made homeless in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Designed to be both sustainable and affordable, the two-storey building contains a three bedroom...

  The initial approach was to single out and magnify the experience of walking from the roadside down to the seaside at this very special place. Therefore a main concern was to slow down this movement and make the path itself a means of refocusing the experiential mode: a measured,...

‘Mahina‘ is a a proposed for a dream house…This modern residential architecture with its totally white interior and exterior looks sumptuous, creating a strong visual contrast with the remarkable surrounding landscape of the Pacific Ocean. Take a seat and let me present the ocean dream...

Studio Opa‘s design for Israeli pizzeria Shumis has turned entire walls into fascinating works of art. There’s fabulously gaudy neon too, reminding me a little of Tracy Emin’s neon works. Then there’s the oriented strand board, a much underused material that gives the place a nice...

Jingzhou Sports Center in the downtown area of Jingzhou city, China, will be designed by the collaboration of Chinese practice DUO and China National Sports Group. The center will feature spiral-like rooftops linked together by a roof canopy and will sit on an area of 550 by 470 meters,...

Via the Cool Hunter, Bangkok University has been branding itself as a Creative University during the past few years. One method they have chosen to do this is to re-imagine and re-allocate the space so that the students will want to spend time on the campus, not just studying but enjoying...

ChicTip has collected hundreds and hundreds of images of interior design for home design inspiration since they started. They have compiled it for you and sorted it Room by Room. Now they’d like to share them with us. Today they present to you 10 beautiful...

One man’s junk is Glore Store’s treasure thanks to Marcos Aretio and Udo Kloos, whose Stuttgart-based retail design utilizes recycled bicycles and boxes. Glore – a retailer who stands for sustainable design and global responsibility – sells garments from companies that not only...

Bubblegum hues, bulging balloons and contrasting textures comprise the new Melissa shoe shop in Melbourne, Australia. ‘The need was to create another world, a sensory delight,’ say designers Juliet Moore and Ben Edwards who were commissioned to realize the Brazilian shoe label’s first...

The Piano House is a unique design that looks like a giant transparent violin sitting next to an enormous piano. The building was made by the local government in Huainan, China to increase tourism to the newly developed area. It also serves as a place where local college music students can...

Would you like to swim in a pool like that? I must be honest it’s a little scary for me. The new Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao features a one of a kind swimming pool,located on the 24th floor of the hotel, the 30 meters long swimming pool is in suspension over the edge. Hotels...

Located in Fukuoka, Japan, it stands harmonically with the rest of the architectural forms surrounding it. Considering that this has been the first time that Starbucks outsourced its design project, it is indeed successful and very attractive and at the same time share common attachment with...

Joel Allen is a former IT guy turned carpenter that’s built his own secret hide out the HemLoft, a small tree house in the backwoods of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. It hangs on a precipitous slope in a towering stand of Hemlocks, bout a 5 minute walk from the nearest road. Read more...

Canteen designed by Esudio Nomada for Galicia’s City of Culture Building. The tree structure references Spanish holiday picnics and communal gathering under...

Designed by Fantastic Design Works Co. the restaurant Alice of Magic World – the fourth in a series of eateries based on Lewis Carroll’s creation – is a decidedly trippy affair, complete with custom made heart shaped chandelier and table, playing card tables and its own forest,...

The Burj Al Arab in Duabi is one of the famous hotels around the globe. Boasting a 7 star rating, this hotel also measures in as the fourth highest hotel in the entire world. The hotel took the liberty of transforming the helicopter landing pad into quite possibly the world’s most beautiful...

Ministry of Finance of Georgia has recently commissioned J. Mayer H. Architects to build their customs checkpoint on the Georgian border to Turkey. The newly completed project turned out to be a thin, curvaceous, building used as a viewpoint for the coast of the Black Sea. “The tower...

The city of Ordos, nestled in the sandy deserts of Inner Mongolia, is home to a dramatic new museum designed by Chinese architectural firm MAD. Drawing on the image of “the ever rising sun on the grassland,” the Ordos Museum’s polished metal facade rises fluidly over the new...

Belgium- based architecture firm dmvA has recently completed ‘extension vB4′ an addition to an A-frame house within the countryside of Brecht, Germany. Considering the strict building regulations of this municipality this former holiday  cottage was transformed into a...