Exhibition: Industrial Facility at Design Museum London

“Industrial Facility is the London-based design office of Sam Hecht, Kim Colin and Ippei Matsumoto. A studio primarily designing mass produced goods, Industrial Facility take pleasure in the anonymity of everyday items, applying intellectual rigour, high design values and vision to products such as coffee makers, stationary and kitchen utensils.”

Industrial Facility (09 May – 07 September) at the Design Museum
via: Designboom

Amaison Gourmet Shop in Amsterdam

As a caterer for upmarket parties, Maison Van Den Boer, is one of the best known in Holland. The Amaison shop is conceived like grandma’s kitchen, sample the flavours as you watch food being prepared. We like the way in which a single geometric element is repeated throughout the Shop.

Amaison, Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Concrete

CaixaForum Opens in Madrid

Madrid’s latest art museum, the CaixaForum, has opened in the heart of the city’s cultural district near the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museums. Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the museum is housed in a converted 1899 power station. The building — one of the city’s few remaining examples of historically significant industrial architecture — was acquired by the foundation in 2001.

CaixaForum, by Herzog & de Meuron

Enjoy Pearls & Caviar in Abu Dhabi

An interesting blend of the traditional and current objects like Tom Dixon lamps and Bisazza mosaics.

Pearls & Caviar, Abu Dhabi, UAE, by Concrete

Icon: Torre de Collserola

More a Marvel of Engineering, Torre de Collserola functions as a highly adaptable communications tower and an innovation for an entirely new structural concept: a hybrid concrete and steel-braced tube. This required a base diameter of only 4.5 metres, dramatically minimizing its impact on the mountainside.

Torre de Collserola, Barcelona, Spain by Foster and Partners

Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Spa Hotel

New hotels in Japan are meeting the demanding expectations of the modern traveller by taking a cue from the country’s traditional ‘ryokan’ or traditional inn. Architects and designers have to incorporate modern comforts into the existing structures of Japanese-style accommodation. Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Hotel is perhaps one of the finest examples of combining old and new Japan.

Ginzan Onsen Fujiya, Yamagata, Japan, by Kengo Kuma & Associates

FlipSticks Folding Chopsticks for Camping

FlipSticks Folding Chopsticks, $32.80, from Brunton

Hotel Anemi at Folegandros Greece

The Anemi Hotel is located on the Island of Folegandros, Greece. With respect for traditional Cycladic architecture, this hotel maintains a very nordic style.
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Anemi Hotel, Greece (nordic room rates), Link: Anemi

Travel: Thailand Design Hotel

X2 Resorts - Thailand first chain of design hotels. X2 KUI BURI is located on the Gulf of Thailand, approximately 3 hours drive from Bangkok, a fresh change indeed.

 X2 Resorts , Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand.

Therme Vals Spa Switzerland

The remote alpine village of Vals is best known to the world at large as the home of Switzerland’s popular Valser mineral water. Since 1996, though, architecture fanatics and spa connoisseurs have known Vals as the home of Peter Zumthor’s Therme spa, an ultra-modernist design statement in grey Valser quartzite, a place that somehow crafts a near-religious experience out of little more than stone, water and judiciously applied light. The combinations of light and shade, open and enclosed spaces and linear elements make for a highly sensuous and restorative experience.

Therme Vals, by Peter Zumthor,
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