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Opening originally in 1884 this beautiful Victorian building, next to Liverpool Street Station, houses 5-star luxury. Andaz London is a spectacular 5-star boutique hotel that enjoys a unique location. Stay here guests are steps from the financial district but within easy walking distance of the attractions such as St. Paul’s Cathedral, the London Bridge, the Bank of England and the Tower of London. A central location in the heart of the city makes the Andaz Hotel an ideal accommodation for leisure and business travelers alike.

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Cafe Kureon is a small cafe designed by Tokyo-based architectural design firm Kengo Kuma and Associates located in Toyama, Japan. It has its own uniqueness with shades amid vacant lots that have a beautiful lawn. The whim was ‘to create a building like a forest by piling up pieces of wood, rather than joining them together’. This beautiful wooden design is a testament to the sophistication of that Japanese architecture.

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Tori–Tori is considered as one of the best Japanese restaurants in Polanco, a group of seven official neighborhoods in Mexico City. Designed by Mexico City-based studio Rojkind Arquitectos and Industrial Designer Hector Esrawe, the interior receives and follows the outward with subtle contrasts. Each room has its own disposition and shows a clear relationship with its function. The furniture was inspired and made for Tori Tori and developed with a clear direction through each space. During more than eight months a complete collection of chairs and tables where created, for both exterior and interior use.

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Sydney  is littered with Thai restaurants but Nok Nok Thai Eating House sets itself apart from the rest with a gorgeous, elegant fit-out, overlooking the playground of Darling Quarter. Nok Nok is named after the owner and translates as “little bird”, which is then as visualised in the graphic identity. It is playfully used in signage and draft on menus and cards along with the play on the words as “Nok Nok”.

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Ubon is a Thai bistro specializes in curries, rice & noodles located in the heart of Kuwait city. It overlooks Fahad Al salim street, a street well prized for its commerce back in the days. The opening program of this bistro requires an efficient design for all of the kitchen, storage, further toilet areas; allowing for a spacious dining place. Thanks to this to be executed, the interior works where to integrated with the existing structural elements network a harmonious manner.

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This is an unusual designed restaurant located in Bergen, The Netherlands. The Restaurant Fabricca is very cozy and, even though the interior is original and not the traditional typical decor, it’s still elegant and stylish but in a different way. Industrial area, the elements of glamor, minimalist and high-tech, mix, comic shaped styling, causing a lot of unintentional associations. The big dining pods of the restaurant are very cozy and especially inviting, offering a unique dining experience to anyone who enters. The second you enter the restaurant you get a strange feeling that takes you back in time.

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This unique idea – to make a cafe from scaffolding and shipping containers was brought to light by Paris studio 1024 Architecture. Les Grandes Tables is located on an island on the Seine in Paris – on the Ile Seguin, where architect Jean Nouvel is currently converting a car workshop into a museum. The project is an architectural combination between an agricultural greenhouse, a barge and a timber-frame house covered beneath a see-through umbrella.

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Paris architects Nadau Lavergne have completed a round wooden theater and matching circular restaurant for a campsite in the south of France. The campsite of La Rive is located in the Landes, bordered on the west by Lake Biscarosse. The site is characterized by a flat-type heath pine forest. A strip trees surrounded the beach and works as a visual screen and it saves the natural landscape around it. Zigzagging columns support the projecting facade of the eight metre-high theatre, creating a surrounding arcade that shelters the entrance.

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Architects: Park Associati , Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi
Location: Milan, Piazza Duomo, Italy
Client: Electrolux Home Appliances Emea N.V
Design team: Lorenzo Merloni, Alessandro Rossi, Alexia Caccavella, Alice Cuteri, Fabio Calciati_Rendering
Area: 140 sq. m
Photographs: Andrea Martiradonna, Carol Kohen

The concept is to build a small piece of architecture, a cabin, perhaps a nest, on high, at the top of a cliff, on a monument, on a public building, it doesn’t matter where but in a resplendent location and with an original and spectacular view. The idea is to create a restaurant that offers its clients an enchanting, unique atmosphere with sophisticated dishes cooked in Electrolux kitchens. The idea is to keep it open for six months and then change location on top of important monuments and amazing locations, change city, nation, continent and reinstate this restaurant-type object on some other roof for new surprises, in addition menus, new clients.

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The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel USA is a restaurant-bar, wellness-spa and a conference-meeting venue. Situated atop a 150-foot bluff, this tranquil sanctuary complements its refined comfort and fine atmosphere with perfect service. Located halfway between Los Angeles again San Diego, this sport hotel in Laguna Beach has catered to the world’s most discriminative guests for 26 years. Discover a time-honored haven, which has raised the traditional standard of hotel service to an entirely new level, blending unexpected luxuries tuck away the timeless elegance of the sea.

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