LINE Architecture / weblog

with offices in Münster and Liepzip, this award winning firm has an interesting portfolio that spans urban, commercial and residential design

With offices is Seoul, Beijing and New York, this firm feels that it is not only imperative to do more with less, but also to perceive modern design issues under a new perspective

at their best this Alexandria, Virginia based firm produces some elegant neo-Bauhausian homes with idyllic settings

Chicago based firm, female led and a rising international practice whose work confronts pressing contemporary issues. Conceived as a collective of architects, designers, and thinkers, the studio acts as a lab for testing ideas on varying scales: from cities to environments to individual buildings’ unique material properties.

talented Tucson based architect who takes some cues from Wil Bruder’s palette and sensibilities, which have become synonymous with the South West, but adds flair and a contemporary twist that are all his own

Born in Taiwan, raised in Singapore and gaining his Masters in Architecture from the University of Hong Kong, each of these culturally diverse yet artistically vibrant cities have played their part in fashioning this designer’s unique persective

Nightlife entrepreneur Olaf Krohne bought the run-down, 32-room hotel two years ago and gut-renovated it to create a stylish, hipster-approved respite with Belle Epoque architecture, modern touches and some of the original furniture, like the ornate, gold Venetian beds… The Regina Skybar, pictured is 2161 meters high

this San Francisco based graphic designer has made a reputation for himself through his traditionalist style which conjures memories of Hergé

a highly interesting firm that is working in Portland and NYC to discover and distill the elemental principles that drive each building project. They feel it is this essence, revealed in the architecture which resonates within a culture, creating new experience and understanding which endures through time.

Two young Mexican architects, who are doing some very interesting stuff south of Mexico City and especially in Puerto Escondido where I had the pleasure of staying in a house they designed and touring another they recently completed