Bang & Olufsen is a renowned Danish company that has been manufacturing superior quality audio and video products for decades. For instance the Beo Play A9 is one of their finest designs that was intriguing not only because of its ...
Capsule hotels are pretty much the accommodation counterparts to sushi; both help us foreigners in appreciating the prevalent essence of ‘minimalism’ present in Japanese culture. In that regard, we have come across the starkly conceived sci-fi wonderland of the Nine Hours ...
More often than not cat owners are confused when buying cat furniture for their faithful feline companions. If you are a cat owner wanting to improve yours as well as your kitty’s quality of life, then take a look at ...
While many contemporary architectural projects deal with the imposing side of affairs, it is the scope of spatial efficiency where the expertise of an architect truly shines. This is quite evident from the aptly (an rather unpretentiously) christened Small House ...
Here is a double duty chair, which doubles not as a furniture item, but as a protective hard hat. Now you must be thinking how a furniture unit is linked with a protective hat? Well, to explain this just consider ...
The virtue of ‘openness’ is sometimes relegated to lesser importance in many instances of contemporary architecture. Quite fortunately, that is not the case with the Caban beach house designed by Japan based architect David Guarino (from ‘A Zillion Ideas’ studio) in ...
Japanese tea aficionados certainly have a cause for celebration with Nestle announcing its decision to introduce their Special T tea maker for the first time in Asia. Based upon their highly successful Nespresso business model (which accounts for a whopping $4 billion ...
When it comes to architectural residences in forested sites, the general trend is to fell some trees for the core structure of the project. However, architect Keisuke Kawaguchi has taken the bolder and more conscientious route by creating the Daisen residence ...
Contemporary Japanese architects surely have a penchant for renovating old homes into modernistic habitable spaces. Previously, we had harped about Keiichi Kiriyama’s remarkable warehouse-residence conversion, and now we have come across Yasunari Tsukada’s project of completely refurbishing a 2-generation family home situated in ...
Last month, the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition finally concluded, with USA’s Harvard University coming up with the winning entry among twelve designated universities from eleven different countries. Designed for a site in Memu Meadows (Taiki-cho, Hokkaido), their design ...
