IAD Wins 1st place at the IIDA Student Design Charette

Congratulations to IAD BFA Student Nicole (Chia Chi) Chang for making it to the finals during the IIDA Student Design Charette in Chicago/NeoCon and WINNING 1st place! This is the second year in a…

Espresso Bar Inside an Art Deco Railway Station

This luxurious espresso bar located in the waiting room or “sala di attesa” inside the Santa Maria Novella railway station in Florence, Italy was designed by Italian architect Daniela Colli, the…

Tuesday Morning Photo(S) SF Edition

For today’s Tuesday Morning Photos we take you inside a newly renovated building by Stephen Phillips Architects, the ultra-modern black façade building is located in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley…

Inside NYC's 11 Howard Hotel

New York based design firm Anda Andrei and Danish studio Space Copenhagen did an incredible collaboration to create the 211-room Howard in SoHo. The warm, paired-back concept, part of the Design…

IIDA Pioneers in Design (Save the Date)

Can good design heal?  IIDA Northern California welcomes Michael Murphy, co-founder of Mass Design Group as our 2016 Pioneer in Design to inspire and engage us in that conversation.  In only seven…

Sculptural Ceiling in Shanghai

Interior Designer Alberto Caiola was in charge of the overall design of this coffee shop in Shanghai. The idea was to design something unique that would draw people into the space. The structural…

Nation Pink Day- London Edition

Interior designer India Mahdavi has designed a stunning monochromatic restaurant in London called Sketch, the multi-disciplinary hip restaurant-art gallery-place to be seen has also become a favorite…

Giant Xylophone at the London Festival of architecture 2016

Architecture firm pH+ has created an incredible pavilion in Greenwich that can be played like a large scale musical instrument, for this years London Festival of Architecture 2016. The pavilion…

Monday Morning Photo(S) NYC Edition

For today's Monday Morning Photo(s) we take you inside fashion designer Alexander Wang's New York City chic loft. The property listed on the market for US$3.75 million is located in a 1915 building…

Venus de Milo in SF

Know for his public art projects, British-born, Australian-raised artist Lawrence Argent is bringing his work to San Francisco. He has design a shiny, stainless steel statue that honors a modern…