LAGO Italian Family Kitchen by Vari Architects
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Palace Coffee by Kerry Kounnapis Architecture Practice
Blink, and you’ll miss it. It’s 8:25 am on a Thursday, and there’s a line of people pouring out of Palace Coffee. Located down a Melbourne laneway at the base of Monaco House, it faces the Melbourne Club’s fortress-like brick wall. It’s an espresso bar, no seats, standing room only.
La Naya Restaurant by WOFF
La Naya sits along a lively stretch of road in Seminyak, its rear façade opening eastward to greet Bali’s golden sunrise. The architecture is shaped by light — shielding from the glare of the west while embracing the gentle warmth of morning. A deep, layered roof faces the street, filtering daylight into the interior and …
SAANCI Coffee by NUC Studio
A southern brand arriving on this northern shoreline offers more than the scent of coffee—it delivers an honest answer to the question of “how to belong here.” Confronted with a two-story volume, the design orchestrates a double-layered narrative space—bustling yet immersive—structured around spatial hierarchy, communal ties, and everyday poetry.
Origin Cafe and Roasters Jax by S.DA
Origin Café & Roasters is located within the industrial fabric of JAX District in Diriyah, Riyadh, where a series of iconic warehouses have been repurposed into cultural and creative spaces. The project transforms one of these existing structures into a multi-functional environment that accommodates a café, roastery, and workspace, while maintaining a strong connection to …
TAKO Aurelia sushi restaurant by COLLIDANIELARCHITETTO
TAKO Aurelia is a sushi restaurant and cocktail bar, a few steps from the Vatican, that interprets the Memphis movement as a design language for a new concept of urban hospitality. The project reinterprets 1980s aesthetics with a contemporary sensibility, transforming color, light, and material into narrative tools.
Casa Giardino by Claudio Larcher Design Studio
Set within the vast urban regeneration of Scalo Farini, Casa Giardino is a temporary restaurant and social space that transforms a former railway depot into an unexpected oasis of conviviality in the heart of Milan. Designed by Claudio Larcher, the project reinterprets industrial heritage through a contemporary, nature-driven lens, offering a spatial narrative that balances …
ROOST Rainey hotel
Continuing its nationwide expansion, the ROOST apartment hotel chain has now planted a flag in Austin. Here in the Texan capital, the hospitality company has secured a location on the premises of Paseo, a modern, 48-storey apartment building in the city’s downtown area. The newly opened ROOST Rainey, designed entirely by Method Studios, the in-house …
Tanpopo Restaurant by TRAIL [practice]
Tanpopo is the Japanese word for the dandelion plant and the title of a cult Japanese film from 1985 that follows the story of a young mother who takes lessons from a truck driver on how to make the perfect ramen. It is also a Japanese restaurant located behind Klafthmonos Square, where food is served …