Imagine instead of spending your work hours in boring boxed spaces, your office looks more like a zen garden. You would want to spend more hours there and look forward to heading to work every day. Nicolas Laisné Associés (NL*A Paris) revealed plans for new Offices With Terraces. This awesome idea will feature natural light and plenty of …
Paris is an exciting city of infinite possibilities and, if elected, its mayor candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, from the Union for a Popular Movement (UPM) party, promises to make it even more thrilling. Kosciusko-Morizet has commissioned local architects Manal Rachdi and Nicolas Laisné to come up with an idea of how to turn the city’s abandoned …
Located in the heart of the city, the Buddha-Bar Hotel Paris astonishes with its elegance and warmth. It is actually a renovated 18th century Particulier Hotel which is now a combination of neo-Asian style and elegant French design. Surrounded by Paris’ famous attractions – the Louvre Museum, the Tuileries Gardens, the Grand Palais, the Champs-Elysées, …
The Everland in Paris must be the hotel with the “ultimate room with a view”, and probably the only mobile hotel in the world that has just that – one room – which can be booked for one night only. The room resembles more a capsule, or a pod, or a modern tree-house, or even …
Studio apartments are usually very small and there is not enough room for any special interior design features, but having a problem of insufficient natural light further increases the amount of difficulty when it comes to organizing such a space. Architects Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Raphaël Bétillon, from the architectural studio BETILLON/DORVAL-BORY, accompanied by interns Federica …
In the days when the largest cities of the world are becoming increasingly overcrowded and the living space is getting harder and more expensive to get, the concept of micro homes and tiny-living techniques seem to have come straight from Heaven. Architects Marc Baillargeon and Julie Nabucet have developed a very cool, uncluttered and modern …