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FILTER RESULTS ►Artistry: The Most Hipster of Mobile Homes Wheels Around Europe
Photo via My Modern Met Have a look at Wheel House, the avant garde home-in-the-round designed and built for a pair of globe trotting acrobats and their ultra hipster, steam punky circus performance. The Wheel House—a 25-minute show produced by...
Globe Trotting: Will Supermarkets Soon Sort of Resemble Machu Picchu?
Rendering via Co.Design Co.Design recently featured the oddly genius scheme by the Amsterdam-based firm NL Architects to break apart the lusterless "big box" design standard of the standard supermarket. Their plan? Replacing the boring, customary form with a structure that...
New Web-based Game Ideal for Geography and Travel Fans
Globe trotting ©Moby’s Photos If you’re the kind of person visually stimulated by geography and have a knack for identifying far off locations, GeoGuessr is the game for you. Using Google Street View and Google Maps to plot location images around the world at random, the player is tasked with “pinning” their guess for the [...]
Globe Trotting: Count the Wegner Chairs in This Stunningly Minimalist Salon
Photos via Design Milk Modern architecture can be found in all corners of Japan, from Starbucks to micro homes, perfume factories to earthquake-relief shelters. Add this to the mix: End...Link, an incredibly sparse (and rather intriguingly named) Osaka hair salon...
Globe Trotting: Five Cool Riads, Villas & Flats from Perpetually Sunny Tangier
Last Sunday's episode of the new Anthony Bourdain vehicle Parts Unknown centered on the Moroccan city of Tangier, a surprisingly permissive corner of North Africa. A city rife with expats, Tangier is...
Globe Trotting: The Swiss firm Herzog & de...
The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has been tapped for a new building on the Oxford University campus in England: the £30M ($45.8M) Blavatnik School of Government "will appear as stack of discs decreasing in size, unevenly aligned to...
Globe Trotting: Berlin's 'Home of the Future' Has Textile Tubs, Mini-Farms
Photos via Studio Aisslinger Berlin-based designer Werner Aisslinger has taken over the city's Haus am Waldsee contemporary art museum, transforming the space into his—far-fetched, sure, but that's the fun of it—vision for the home of the future, complete with a...
Globe Trotting: Five of the World's Most Beautiful Hypermodern Wineries
Photos: Contemporist Probably commissioned and built to distract serious oenophiles from the questionable terroir of smog-choked Beijing, the Asterisk winery, restaurant, and wine showroom was designed by the Japanese firm SAKO Architects. A...
Globe Trotting: Buy the Second Tuscan House Restored by Frances Mayes
College professor and author Frances Mayes became a household name in the late 1990s for her fantastically successful memoir Under the Tuscan Sun, which relayed the tale of restoring Bramasole, a 16th-century...
Globe Trotting: This Modern Pad Embedded in a Cliff is Actually a Firehouse
Photo via Inthralld Playing off the now familiar trend of carving modern, yet rugged, space from cliffs, Italian architecture firm Bergmeister Wolf built this sleek firehouse by digging into a cliff in Margreid, Italy. The 7,400-square-foot hub, which includes two...
Globe Trotting: This Zig-Zaggity Spread Houses a Library With a Slide
Photo via Design Milk Commissioned to build a "playful" home for a large family in Chungbuk, Korea, Seoul-based architect Moon Hoon, the very same eccentric brain behind South Korea's most cartoonish suite of vacation homes, designed an asymmetrical, jagged sprawl...
Globe Trotting: Barcelonians Lose Socks in the World's Slickest Laundromat
Photo via Design Milk With steel cladding, concrete, and sunset lighting, Barcelona-based designer Frederic Perers has created a laundromat that may rival any number of the planet's swankiest penthouses or sushi restaurants. Splash, in Barcelona, the latest in a long...
Globe Trotting: In Switzerland, Spiked Spa Building Mimics the Mountains
Photo via My Modern Met For the wellness center of Switzerland's high-brow Tschuggen Grand Hotel, Swiss architect Mario Botta aimed to "build without overbuilding," dreaming up incandescent barbs that mirror the structure's jagged natural soundings, or, as he writes, the...
Globe Trotting: Tour Amazon's Warehouse, a Paradigm of Sterile Efficiency
Photo via Architizer For its "Amazon Unpacked" series, UK's The Financial Times Weekend Magazine got photographer Ben Roberts a pass into the hyper-systematized environs of one of Amazon.com's ginormous—roughly the length of nine football fields—fulfillment warehouses. The facility in Rugeley,...
Globe Trotting: Five Dream Summer Getaways in the Hills of Idyllic Provence
A land of fine weather, timeless architecture, and ample natural beauty, the French region of Provence has been drawing summer residents from far afield for centuries. Impressionist painters Paul Cézanne, Vincent van...
Globe Trotting: Park-Front London Mansion Listed Privately for $380M
If the sales at One Hyde Park hadn't yet convinced the world that London's property market was running wild, then the rumored listing of 18 Carlton House Terrace should do the trick. The 50,000-square-foot limestone townhouse, said to be...
Being Black in China
Heather Greenwood Davis blogs about her family's year-long trip around the world at Globe Trotting Mama. In an article at NatGeo's Intelligent Travel blog, she tells what it was like to be a black tourist family spending a month in Beijing. Show More Summary
Globe Trotting: Crazy Pile of Houses is Actually a Tokyo Apartment Building
Photos via Dezeen Spotted over on Houzz: a Tokyo apartment building by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto that looks very much like four quintessential single-family houses suspended in the middle of the telophase of mitosis. Strange? Undoubtedly, but the project—perhaps a...
Globe Trotting: For $12.8M, a French Isle Like an Impressionist Painting
Over in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France, sits Île de Boëdic, a 17.3-acre private island with all the usual fare found in idyllic historic properties: a gatehouse, a chapel, sweeps...
Globe Trotting: Rem Koolhaas' OMA has just been...
Rem Koolhaas' OMA has just been tapped to design a development south of Bordeaux, and Bjarke Ingels' BIG has just been tapped to design EuropaCity, a retail development located between Charles de Gaulle International Airport and Le Bourget Airport near...
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