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February 18, 2021
February 18, 2021 Los Angeles-based artist Rob Ley, has recently completed ‘Pangaea’, a large artwork that was commissioned for the NCR Headquarters in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The art installation is made from a series of layered aluminum ribbons that interact with a field of points located throughout this exterior wall, creating a collection of interconnected […]
February 17, 2021
Woodendot, a design studio and furniture maker from Spain, has created Alada, a wall-mounted shelf that transforms into a desk. The design of the shelf was inspired by the movement that birds draw on the sky when they move their wings up and down. This simple movement enabled the designers to seamlessly transform the furniture […]
February 10, 2021
Architecture firm Etea has designed ‘Estancia Lago’, a boutique hotel in Mexico, that consists of three small cabins distributed around a lake. The hotel was created as part of a complex called Amalia, which is a project that integrates forestry and agriculture through an organic, sustainable, social, and environmentally friendly system. The hotel rooms have […]
February 10, 2021
February 10, 2021 Designer Anton Brunberg has created a unique and sculptural chair named ‘Pallet Thief’, that uses recycled pallets as his chosen material. With a background in fine woodworking, furniture design, and conceptual design, Anton set about trying to find the answer to the question, “How to still celebrate the pure joy of making […]
January 17, 2021
January 17, 2021 MYTO design d’espaces vivants designer Martine Brisson and landscape architect Roxanne Miller have collaborated to create a rooftop garden and lounge area for this home in Montreal, Canada. The flat roof of the home has been transformed into a space full of plant life, which measures in at 1965 square feet (182 […]
January 17, 2021
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter in collaboration with ASP Architecture has designed the Breitenbach Landscape Hotel. Located near Alsace, France, the ecotourism hotel design has been inspired by Scandinavian traditions, the meeting of two cultures (French and Scandinavian), as well as nature and architecture. The main building of the hotel, whose exterior is wrapped in Alsatian chestnut […]
January 16, 2021
January 16, 2021 Nestled in a forest of Ohia trees and located in Volcano, Hawaii, the ‘Kuono‘ tiny home is an oasis just five minutes from the nearby national park. Eye-catching floor-to-ceiling 14 foot windows connecting the interior of the tiny home to the outdoors, while the warm wood exterior and architecture are inspired by […]
December 1, 2020
Architecture firm Green Advisers AS has designed the expansion of the Øyna Cultural Landscape Hotel in Norway, which features an impressive green roof to make it fit with the surrounding landscaping. Photo © Green Advisers AS The expansion of the facility with 20 hotel rooms was the result of a steadily increasing demand for overnight […]
November 17, 2020
‘Casa La Tigre’ is the latest instalment by The Cool Hunter’s favourite digital artist Massimo Colonna. In this newest work, a continuation on the theme of that penultimate symbol of wealth and status, the luxury pool, Colonna has created an Escher-esque tropical fantasy replete with stairs ascending and descending to everywhere, and nowhere. With dappled golden […]
November 9, 2020
November 9, 2020 As part of the design of the ‘Ohana Floor’ at the top of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, Habitat Horticulture transformed 24 columns that surround the circular floor and created eye-catching vertical gardens. Aiming to create a tropical atmosphere, the vertical gardens are 13 feet high and use approximately 25,000 plants to […]
November 3, 2020
November 2, 2020 Canadian design firm NÓS has created a large mural for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts that lines the Avenue Du Musee in Montreal. Titled ‘Moving Dunes’, the mural manipulates the street surface and creates the illusion of large ripples that have been designed to recall the features of a body or […]
August 18, 2020
August 18, 2020 Walking through the trees is one way to relax on a nice day, and this ‘Canopy Walkway’ designed by Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects makes it easy to do. Located within Serralves Park in Porto, Portugal, the wood walkway rises through the trees and then weaves visitors through the treetops. A wood […]
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