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Located in the stylish St. Martin’s Lane Hotel in the heart of London’s Convent Garden, this vibrant restaurant and bar serves an unusual fusion of Asian and Latino food. The entire space covers two levels and accommodates around 165 customers.
At the entrance to the Rum Bar – one of the few overt references to Cuban [...]

Auguststrasse, in Berlin’s Mitte District, is rapidly becoming gentrified, attracting artists and cultural institutions. One, the Café Bravo, has settled in the courtyard of an old margarine factory and is based on an idea of American artist Dan Graham.
This construction of shimmering greenish-silver, mirrored glass and highly polished steel lies in contrast to the classicist [...]

The first impression of this bar/restaurant perched on a wooden gangway jutting out over the water, can be misleading. The structure is simple enough: a single-story rectangle clad in dark wood and somehow reminiscent of a seaman’s bar on some desolate wharf. Closer inspection, however, reveals a subtle combination of sleek design elements, such as [...]

With the LoftCube, the architect and designer, Werner Aisslinger, from Berlin has created an ideal concept for big city nomads. Studio Aisslinger’s LoftCube combines the appeal of rooftop living with three other emerging trends: smaller living spaces, portable architecture and prefabrication. Essentially a square, caravan-like structure. the lightweight LoftCube is described as a ‘mobile home [...]

The building is a five-storey corner development with the rounded edge typical of this quarter.
It features an unusual mixture of basic classical elements and the Art-Deco forms found in this area and uniquely incorporates them into a large corner building. The facade’s basic architectural pattern is unpretentious. The ground level, clad in stone and with [...]

The Mystic Age in the history of Architecture is the birth and development of the Gothic in Europe, 1130-1240. Around 1130 a significant change occurred in the Christian religion. The Virgin Mary was gradually introduced as the intercessor in Church stories of the soul’s Judgement, thus bringing an element of feminine sympathy and forgiveness [...]

LOT-EK’s best-known rooftop project is the Guzman Penthouse in midtown New York. Constructed partly from a reclaimed truck container, it is an iconic image of Modernism returned to its industrial roots mixed with the spirit of Post-Modern reappropriation and New York’s famously bohemian loft culture. The project included extensive technological gadgets, most notably a vertically [...]

The Complex belongs to a shooting range and is located next to a sand dune.
It includes offices for personnel, technical services for the shooting range, public areas, shops and a restaurant.
Three blocks are brought together on one side by an open terrace. Glazed passageways connect the bright-red wooden structures with one another. The visually [...]

What most distinguishes Italian neo-classicism is its lack of a unitary character, a result of Italy’s political fragmentation, the absence of a central state, and its domination by foreign powers. Even so, all of the European neo-classical movements drew their inspi – ration from Italy. Its many works of classical Greek and Roman art – [...]