FRANTZéN/LINDEBERG

2009.12.9　 Text: Victor Moreno

"We let the nature create". In barely 2 years, Björn Frantzén has established himself as a worldwide referent in Scandinavian cuisine. Winner of Michelin star among other important awards during 2009, generates...

GM TEN

2009.11.23　 Text: Mariko Takei

Opened in October 2009, gm ten is an office, gallery and shop space for gm projects that consist of 7 members who work on various projects in various environments of different professions. Photo: Takehiro Goto (Y...

BAISHINKA

2009.11.13　 Text: mina

A new creation for Japanese culture. Confectioneries in ancient times must have been prepared from nature using fruits and nuts. Reflecting the roots of such sweets and exploring new possibilities for Japanese styl...

ICEHOTEL

2009.10.16　 Text: Victor Moreno

A 20-year journey from a 60 cubic meter igloo to the world’s largest hotel of ice and snow. 62 rooms and cover an area of 5,500 square metres. The building material, 21,500 cubic meters of snow and 900 tonnes of ice,...

DUDUA

2009.10.2　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Living in a big city like Barcelona that has being banalized by the design boom, its difficult to find someone who stands up and takes the risk of giving the opportunity to show or promote the most interesting proposa...

SML

2009.9.27　 Text: Justin Tsui

Usually, when ordering food in a restaurant, you get the choice of which food you eat, but never how much ends up on the plate. Now, a new chic restaurant SML is opened on August 2009 in Times Square at Causeway Bay a...

SALON 91

2009.9.8　 Text: Bertina Appel

Housed in a Victorian/Georgian styled building in Cape Town, South Africa, Salon91 looks to make contemporary fine art more accessible to the public. Besides being an art gallery in developing and showcasing young...

GALLERY DE VIE

2009.8.24　 Text: Justin Tsui

For locals or visitors in Hong Kong, you will never find it hard to fulfill your shopping desires in this city. There are thousands of places for shopping and numbers of brands that you can choose from. However, t...

ECOLS

2009.8.3　 Text: Justin Tsui

Make the world to a better place by shopping green. Shops and designs that dedicated to green can be rarely found in Hong Kong. Fortunately, a new eco concept lifestyle shop ECOLS have been opened at Gough Stre...

FOTANIAN

2009.7.31　 Text: Yuka Nakamura (ARI)

Located in the south of the city center Hong Kong, Fotanian used to be one of the major industrial areas in Hong Kong, and is now becoming a live/work place for artists who look for a huge space to make their works in...

THE HIGH LINE

2009.7.21　 Text: Carlos J. Gómez

I still remember the day in 2002, while taking the subway with my friend Brendan Fitzgerald, he showed me one of the photographs he took on the High Line. It was a mesmerizing image of industrialist melancholy: a ...

NO ONE

2009.7.17　 Text: Sayaka Kishi

Shoreditch, in East London, has boomed to be the one of the trendiest areas in London in the last decade. Cafes, bars and boutiques are busy with stylish youth on the street. In 2003, 'No-One', a creative store with f...