Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s newest Apple store opened on July 10. A fantastic glass cylinder leading down to an open expanse of store. Photographer Roy Zipstein has been documenting the opening of the store. See more of his fantastic photographs on Arch Daily.
For the business woman who has everything, Oscar de la Renta introduces the iPad Clutch embroidered leather pouch, available in limited edition from Oscar de la Renta.
The Mountains and Opening House by Eastern Design Office is one of the most stunning residential and design spaces we have seen this year. It is a design room for a Japanese sneaker brand as well as a residential house and is in the Takarazuka-city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Located in an exclusive residential district, it commands an entire view of the Osaka Plain and is built on the slope of a hill with an elevation of 330 meters, combining architecture with engineering to create a building with a level difference of more than 8 metres.
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The latest installation by Arne Quinze is Camille and spans the Seine in Rouen. Stretching across the Boieldieu bridge, it divides the city and consists of an entanglement of colourful wooden beams and slats that are meant to 'provoke dialogue and bring people together'. At 120 metres long and 110 tons it is supported by eighteen concrete footings and has been erected for the summer festival Rouen Impressionnée.
The private members club Soho House has recently opened its latest club and hotel in Berline. Located on Torstraße in Berlin's hotspot Mitte district, the House has all the standard amenities, as well as a rooftop pool, a 30-seat cinema and vintage record players in most rooms. The new club is house in a building that was opened as a department store in 1928 and then became the Communist Party's archive.
Italian designer Giancarlo Zema has created a fantastic collection of stools and coffee tables combining wood and light to great effect. The Bright Woods collection for the Avanzini Group is a limited edition of 120 stools and 60 coffee tables.
The Fish House is a modern tropical bungalow designed by Guz Architects to accommodate the essence of living in the hot and humid climate of Singapore by creating open spaces which encourage natural ventilation and offer residents views to the ocean.
Have a look at this great cup and saucer - spilt your coffee? Well now you can make use of that spill by working your way around the maze in the saucer.
Nicolas Fayad, is a recent graduate of Harvard and has been awarded the Boston Society of Architects’ James Templeton Kelley Prize. This prize recognizes the most successful graduating project. Arch Daily explains, 'Fayad’s “Brittle”, a School of Arts, is an exploration of responsive and adaptive form. Fayad’s programmatic elements have been organized and molded in response to the changing typography of Chongqing, China – making the design quite flexible as it can easily adapt to any change of land within the city.'
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This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by French architect Jean Nouvel, was unveiled yesterday in London’s Hyde Park. Previous designers have included Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, and Toyo Ito. Nouvel has also been designing other structures in London with his One New Change office building almost complete.
A coffee table that is hungry for your rubbish - Turn your junk mail into recyclable mail. The Papervore is wants all of your printed leftovers. With a turn of the crank you too can put that gas bill off until next month.
The “Time Travels” clock by designer Katie Hatz is a timezone clock with a difference. It lets you go through the time of virtually the whole world. Comprising 24 clocks, each representing a 15-degree slice of the earth, in a 7-by-70-inch piece, the new timezone clock makes use of a color-coded system to indicate time of day in every part of the world in relation to the local time.
Aimee Wilder is a designer based in the Bronx in New York. Her wallpaper designs are unique and according to her web site she 'draws inspiration from contemporary graphic art and the design world. Influences include typography, logo design, illustration, textiles, urban toy design, rock poster art.' Aimée’s current projects include designs for home textiles and accessories, fashion and print, including an exciting collaboration with Netto Collection.
The Cliff House, by Khosla Associates, is perched 200 ft. above a stretch of green along the Arabian Sea coast. Its most prominent feature is an asymmetrical sloping roof set against the fronds of a coconut plantation. A skewed 45m long sheer concrete wall supports the single lightweight triangulated canopy roof and the external and internal finishes are polished cement, concrete and rough slate juxtaposed against warm slatted timber and natural local kota stone.
The Rapha Cycle Club has opened in Clerkenwell opposite The Think Tank's offices. The Club is 'A unique combination of gallery, shop and café, and a meeting place where riders can share their passion for road racing.'
Tthe world's tallest tensile structure is now complete and has been designed by Foster Partners.
Golf is coming to Clerkenwell again this summer, with the Clerkenwell Open set to tee off on 26th August. 
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