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You might think that February 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be the worst time for Nanaimo, a small port city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to open a 16,000-square-foot expansion to its airport. Nick Foster, a principal of the Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers (OMB), the Vancouver-based firm that helmed the $13-million project in association with Checkwitch Poiron Architects, disagrees.  ..read more

You might think that February 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be the worst time for Nanaimo, a small port city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to open a 16,000-square-foot expansion to its airport. Nick Foster, a principal of the Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers (OMB), the Vancouver-based firm that helmed the $13-million project in association with Checkwitch Poiron Architects, disagrees.  ..read more

Is it a work of art—or an acoustic treatment? Scanlines is a bit of both. Turf’s patent-pending technology transforms a customer-supplied image into a sound-absorbing dimensional feature crafted of PET felt ..read more

Set in Tegnergatan in central Stockholm, Banacado, a new breakfast-all-day cafe, evokes a dreamy sense of escapism with unusual references: filmmaker Wes Anderson and Cuba. It’s both Anderson’s curious and colorful worlds that blend with the sunny, exotic feel of the southern destination to create the idea of the restaurant “being a fragment of a different reality, a place where time stands still,” remarks ASKA co-founder Madeleine Klingspor.  ..read more

“Designing Women III: Mother,” an exhibition at and by Egg Collective in New York, critiques the “motherhood penalty,” which can negatively affect a woman’s professional life ..read more

From spas to lounges to fitness studios, these health and wellness spaces call for pause ..read more

A new post-pandemic restaurant archetype emerges around the globe, from Turin to Bangkok ..read more

Through a series of sensual design elements, a boutique hotel in Yan’an, China, designed by Aurelien Chen of Zhijian Workshop, envelops guests in the process of making the region’s traditional liquor—shan bei jiu or “North Mountains Wine.” In the lobby, visitors encounter an art installation featuring tubes filled with cereal seeds from which the liquor is made, which is meant to evoke “the sight of colorful fields in the countryside,” says Chen ..read more

Tucked away in the windowless underbelly of a mall in Beijing, China, a raw commercial space presented a welcome challenge for LUO Studio, tasked with transforming it into bookstore and exhibition space. For Mumokuteki Concept Bookstore, the designers used the existing industrial elements in the space to their advantage, drawing focus to the exposed pipes and cement features ..read more