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Mobile food and services are the norm these days. While groomers come to our door for our pets and great food can be on every corner, it’d be nice to have some beauticians on wheels too. In France, such a thing exists with ‘Le Nail Truck.’ The interior of this little manicure spot is sweetly designed…

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India may not be the most proficient countries in terms of technological advancements– but the people sure are intelligent, and resourceful. Manasaram Architects created the Bamboo Symphony office building out of natural materials in Bangalore, India. For a small office that looks like a sustainable home, this place looks like a serene dream to work out…

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Underground spaces don’t typically get enough credit for their inventiveness and exploration of wayfinding, lighting solutions and the fact that you really don’t always know that they are there. This particular underground space is a converted garage that has a few natural light sources with above ground windows that are level with the outside ground (think…

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There are constant conversions of barns, churches, warehouses and more into residences. But what about converting someone’s former home into a museum? And we’re not talking an Andy Warhol preservation or anything of the sort. Architects Yuko Nagayama and Associates took a quaint little home and created a museum with an underlying theme of life and…

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It’s always nice to see a project or initiative that extends well beyond what it set out to do. Chicago’s City Hall is an eleven story building in the ‘loop’ that began with the idea of a green roof as a lead by example type of project. With the planning and thought of adding a luscious…

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There’s never a dull moment when it comes to art, art installations and combining the two with a retail storefront. Much like the department store windows that can be so sought after with each turn of the season, this particular bicycle shop begs for a double take, if not a trip inside. Located in Altlandsberg, Germany,…

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Libraries tend to be your average, mundane space where you plough up and down massive aisles of towering books, scour the spines by ISBN numbers and check out your books then head home. Well, for the kids of Monterrey, Mexico that’s not exactly the case. The Council for the Culture and Arts of Nuevo León (or…