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Upon integrating Blue Bottle Coffee –– coming from America’s West Coast culture –– with the machiya (traditional townhouse) located along the approach way to Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto, we continued to focus on our design concept for all of the Blue Bottle Coffee shops we designed, which is to “create equal relationships” throughout the space.

The old town of Lijiang in Yunnan province, where tradition and modernity, tranquility and hustles co-exist, produces an elegant and creative gathering place for homestay hotels. Among the scattering design practices, Li Man·Shen Mi Ji hotel is a special isolated existence. Its modern ink painting style brings the most poetic and innovative annotation for a renovation space.

S Ocean Tower
Space and landscape of Simple urban architecture pine for Sea and Nature. The result processing of construct in these urban landscape is making urbanites exclude to imagination. ‘Vertical Ocean’ which builded imagine of Ocean landscapes was began to public value of Urban architecture. Also, landscape of architecture which unexposing resident’s life is severance of surface not communicated with city. Maaps architect’s expected the facade of “Vertical Ocean” is revealed out the life of the residents to the outside, and imagined the “scenery of life” which this facade interacted with the surrounding buildings and people in street. 

Phoenix Rooftop is a green refuge in the unlikeliest of places – 30-storeys high, on an exposed, yet spectacular site in the heart of Melbourne. This garden in the sky allows two down-sizing professionals to retain the joy of outdoor living as they transition from the suburbs to the city.

designboom spoke with the french architect who explained more about the project’s challenges and its sculptural presence on the skyline.

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