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Koda Padel Is the Sports Club Montreal Didn’t Know It Needed

There are sports facilities, and then there are spaces that make you want to stay long after the last match. Kopa, a new indoor racket sports club in the Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood of Montreal, belongs firmly in the second category.

Set inside a freestanding single-story industrial building of roughly 20,000 square feet, the project is the work of Montreal studio Ivy Studio, and it arrives as something genuinely unexpected: a space that takes the utilitarian bones of manufacturing heritage and runs them through a hospitality lens so refined it feels more like a members’ club than a public sports venue.

The Cool Hunter Journal

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MIUS: Hong Kong’s Most Quietly Confident New Bar

Sixteen years of bartending experience. One first solo venture. Shelley Tai’s MIUS on Gough Street in Hong Kong’s Central district is already the kind of place people talk about, and it is easy to understand why.

Designed by Minus Workshop’s Kevin Yiu, the 1,400 sq.ft. space, a former home appliance store, has been transformed into something far more considered. The brief was simple: block out Soho’s neon chaos and create a sanctuary. Blackout glazing on street-facing windows seals the city outside while soft daylight filters in, shifting to intimate layered glows after dark. Warm rusty oak runs through the...

The Lake House That Lives Like a Camera

There’s a house on a peninsula in rural Alabama that watches the water from three sides. Its architect, Jeffrey Dungan, says he thought of it as a camera, a device for framing and cropping the world outside. Inside, designer Betsy Brown stripped everything back until only the essential remained. What they produced together is something rare: a family home that feels both deeply rooted in place and entirely its own.

Lake Wehapa isn’t a name you’ll find on many design world itineraries. That’s part of the point. Dungan’s Birmingham-based practice has long been drawn to the particular poetry of...

Ekiben South — A Japanese Lantern on the Athens Riviera

There is a moment, just after dusk, when a building stops being a building and becomes something closer to a promise. On a corner in Glyfada, the Athenian Riviera neighbourhood that has always had one eye on Tokyo without quite knowing it, Ekiben South has become exactly that: a glowing amber volume suspended between the architecture of two cultures, serving dinner to one and paying quiet tribute to the other.

The project comes from Flux Office, the Athens-based practice led by Thanassis Demiris, Eva Manidaki, Betty Tsaousi and Ilektra Naoum, a team whose portfolio moves fluidly between restaurant architecture, theatrical scenography...

Billie Billiards Club – Moscow

A billiard club, a cocktail bar, and a menu of sexy junk food inside a 19th-century building. Four rooms, each with its own character. This is not your grandfather’s pool hall.

There is a particular type of new venue that arrives not with a press release but with a mood. The kind that spreads person to person, neighbourhood to neighbourhood, until it simply becomes the place you go. Billie, tucked on Neglinnaya Street a stone’s throw from Trubnaya metro, is exactly that kind of place.

The founders are Oleg Tsoy, Pasha Nitsa, and Misha Pugachev, the same trio behind the...

Belgrade’s EJE Is a Futuristic Autonomous Station of Aesthetic Pleasures

Belgrade does something to you on first arrival. A few walks in and the city reveals itself as fascinatingly layered, neoclassicism colliding with Yugoslav brutalism, massive and intricate verticality sitting alongside futuristic block architecture that manages to be both unique and modular at once. It lacks only neon to read as cyberpunk. Paris-based art and design studio Supaform felt it immediately, and when the brief from their clients at Esthetic Joys Embassy landed, a design direction inspired by a spaceship and the Yugoslav K67 kiosk, it all clicked into place.

The result is EJE Belgrade, a 250 square metre...

Bar di Bello: La Dolce Vita Comes to Sunset Boulevard, L.A

There is a particular kind of bar that exists in old Milan, warmly lit, unhurried, slightly theatrical, where the aperitivo hour stretches luxuriously toward midnight and the Negroni arrives in a glass the size of a small fishbowl. Los Angeles, for all its gifts, has never quite managed to replicate that feeling. Until now. Bar di Bello opened at Sunset Row in Silver Lake this April and, from the moment you push through those deep maroon curtains, something shifts. You want a martini. You want to stay.

The name, as co-owner Alex Wilmot will happily admit, doesn’t quite mean...

Garden Terrace by Edition Office

Set on the northern bank of the Birrarung in Melbourne’s inner east (Kew), Garden Terrace by Edition Office is a house shaped as much by atmosphere as it is by site. Elevated above a floodplain and immersed in a dense riverside setting, the home moves away from the usual idea of a suburban residence and into something quieter, more elemental, more connected to landscape than object. Its presence is strong, though never overbearing. What stands out is not a desire to dominate the setting, but to disappear into it over time.

The approach is central to the experience. Raised...

Nervous System collaborates with scientists to create 3D bioprinted liver in ARPA-H award

Nervous System is part of a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers which recently received an award of up to $28.5 million to create a functional 3D bioprinted liver for people with acute liver failure from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)  Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT) program. The project, called LIVE (Liver Immunocompetent Volumetric Engineering), is co-led by Kelly Stevens of the University of Washington and Adam Feinberg of Carnegie Mellon University. The PRINT program is led by ARPA-H Program Manager Ryan Spitler, Ph.D.

About 100,000 organ transplants take place annually in the United States, yet just as...