Commercial Design
'Pooch Hotel' Offers America's Most Expensive Doggie Suites
The Pooch Hotel in Sunnyvale CA is the nation's most expensive dog hotel, with their priciest "Palace Suites" coming in at a steep $100 per night per pet. Even if they share a room.
Mexican studio Anagrama have created the interiors and branding for the first shop in Mexico dedicated to French macaroons.
The first-ever ceramic company to be certified in energy management, Ceracasa is marketing a revolutionary system of 1 square meter tiles to build air-cleaning, plant-bearing, vertical garden walls that could make a serious dent in pollution – tha...
London studio Gundry & Ducker have completed the interior for a Thai restaurant in Soho, London, featuring moulded oak panelling.
Armani Hotel Dubai Opens In Burj Khalifa, World's Tallest Tower (PHOTOS)
Giorgio Armani's Armani Hotel Dubai opened in the Burj Khalifa tower today. Armani said, "Yesterday when I arrived and saw the hotel, I felt really emotional. After five years of working on this project, I finally saw how it all came to life. Work...
Smart-ologic Corian Living by Karim Rashid
During Milan Design Week 2010, the Corian design store featured the “Smart-ologic Corian Living” exhibition that was designed by Karim Rashid.
The Mandarin Mandate
Patricia Urquiola has earned boatloads of critical and commercial success. Ever prolific, she's tried her hand at an astonishing range of products, from outdoor furniture in an overblown wicker weave to a bathtub aerodynamic enough to fly. Her cli...
Silk Boxwood Panels In Underground Lounge
This underground secret urban lounge inspired both by English sculpture gardens and turn of the century brasseries of Paris has been reinvented; entrance to the pub is down the basement steps through the hidden door clad in silk boxwood that is su...
Plans for the final museum on the National Mall in Washington D.C. are beginning to fall into place! Yesterday the Smithsonian Institution opened an exhibit of the six architectural designs being considered for the new National Museum of African A...
Indigo Pearl, the distinctive lifestyle resort situated on Nai Yang Beach in the tropical island paradise of Phuket, was announced winner of the Hospitality Asia Platinum Award 2008-2010 for the "Best Design Concept Hotel & Resort in Southeast Asia".
Freedom in design: Scott Whittaker is happy to be in a place where clients allow creative energy to flow
In the world of interior design, Thailand offers professionals a welcoming environment to express their creativity, says Scott Whittaker, executive director of DWP Cityspace Group, adding that this approach contrasts with that of Hong Kong and Sin...
Tunnel with 40,000 LEDs Is the Closest You'll Ever Get to Light Speed
I've never traveled through space at light speed, but I imagine that standing in this LED tunnel is pretty close to the dizzying experience. The video is just plain awesome.
Heineken The City by Tjep
What do you do when Heineken asks you to design their first shop? Do you place furniture and displays into a given space? Tjep thought it would be rather more appropriate to pour furniture into the six monumental buildings located in the heart of ...
Ever fallen asleep alongside a good glass of French wine? How about inside a cask of good French wine? The De Vrouwe van Stavoren Hotel in the Netherlands salvaged four wine casks from Switzerland and converted them into rooms.
The Standard Hotel, New York - Opening Soon
Hotelier Andre Balázs is putting the final touches on his latest hotel, The Standard Hotel in New York is now taking reservations, and will likely open just before Christmas.
Nobu Restaurant in Dubai by Rockwell Group
Nobu have opened their first restaurant in the Middle East. The restaurant is located in Dubai’s Atlantis Resort on Palm Jumeirah, and was designed by Rockwell Group.
Where Mother Nature gets her hair done
Thailand's estimated 100,000 hair salons sure use up a lot of electricity, water and chemicals treatments, so what about patronising a "green salon"? No, you're hair doesn't have to be green.
Los Heroes Building Gets Modern Transformation
In Santiago, Chile, the 38 years old Los Heroes Building has been renovated into a very modern office building that will turn heads when walking by. Murtinho Y Asociados Arquitectos have been in charge with the change and I must say they did a gre...
Crystal clear view of Thai design
To make an object out of glass is to work with a molten mixture with an intermediate state between wobbly liquid and steady solid. A slight miscalculation of timing can cause serious defects, or, worse, shattered fragments. And as glass is transpa...
Amazing Swarovski Store in Tokyo
The store better known for its Crystal Forest has been designed in collaboration of Swarovski and famous Japanese designer Tokujin Yashioka. What’s interesting is that the walls of this store are textured with reflective white relief prisms of va...