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Stylish and spacious, Hotel Palomar Washington DC’s accommodations define urban luxury. Hotel Palomar Washington DC is a spa hotel in the area of Dupont Circle, Washington. Staying here, you will be near White House, United States Capitol and Supreme Court of the United States. The Hotel Palomar Washington D. stands close to Dupont Circle, Embassy Row, and the Phillips Gallery. The Smithsonian Museums are located within two miles, and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is only five miles away.

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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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Only 2 hours from Los Angeles, 15 minutes from Palm Springs and 30 minutes from Joshua Tree National Park exists one of the greatest natural geothermal mineral springs regions in the world. Set in the foothills of Joshua Tree family Park, Miracle Springs Resort & Spa features a dramatic view of the Palm Springs Valley. This beautiful resort boasts 8 natural hot mineral water pools, 110 large elegant rooms, a full equipped spa, restaurant and lounge.

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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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