The Braunschweig palace in central Germany is an imposing building dating back to the 18th century. It's got columns and statues of royalty on horseback, but walk inside and instead of suits of armor or priceless tapestries, there's a Starbucks.

It is suggested Berliners nickname the building by California architects Moore Ruble Yudell the "Pancake," in reference to the main-road side that tourists will pass on their way to the Holocaust Memorial. deutsche welle

the city council of kent is planning on suing snohetta to recoup design fees spent after the project nearly doubled from £30 million to £50 million. kcc spent nearly £6 million for the original proposal, which was scrapped due to

What makes a logo design great and famous? Some will say its design while some will reason its conception. But in this case, its neither design nor conception but Michael Jordan. There are very few people who do not recognize

1967's "Toy of the Year" was the embodiment of controlled emotion in the face of that decade's social unrest and conflict: John Bowers remembers The Spirograph.

Kera is a solid brass rhino, plated in polished chrome by Scott Wilson (MNML) in conjunction with Kohler. This 27lb piece is part of Humanscale's Faces in the Wild live and online auctions that take place May 13 to raise

Takumi's popular line of humidifiers gets compact with the new Mini Chimney AM.+ Elecom commemorates the 20th anniversary of its original egg-shaped EGG MOUSE with this latest model (M-EGUR series).+ Tokujin Yoshioka's Heaven chair for Cassina was introduced during the

This week's MoCo picks.+ The Hanger Prefab Group's Joshua Tree, "a steel skinned prefab with a wooden interior described as a 'mountain refuge', presented at the recent Milan Furniture Fair.". Via materialicious via Judit Bellostes.+ ... and Hangar Prefab above

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