The 9 Hours is the brand new capsule hotel unveiled by Tokyo-based Cubic Corp.
Designed in a collaboration with designer Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S, it looks nothing like its predecessors and represents a revolution in the capsule concept.
Floors and elevators are separate for Ladies and and for Gents, and the price per night is 4,900 yen, all year round.
Read the original blog post here on Daily Icon.
A new hotel room design aims to solve the problem of restricted urban spaces.
‘The concept room’ at the Hoxton Hotel in East London, designed by architecture and design firm Project Orange, measures just 15 square meters. Despite the tiny area, a double bed, desk and shower fit into the room.
The materials used intend to reflect the rough and ready nature of the city’s location. The carpet, for instance, has been deliberately distressed and the bed is constructed from reclaimed floorboards.
If you want to book the room, check the hotels website.
Read the original blog post here on LS:N
Any city dweller of reasonable sensitivity will acknowledge that a prolonged stay in the modern metropolis can be taxing on the spirit.
As the march of commerce increasingly fills every corner of the globe with blaring adverts, bleeping cellphones and queues of tourists, getting away from it all is the ultimate luxury.
At the Esalen Institute, on the coast of Big Sur, California, laptops, car keys and wallets are traded for therapeutic workshops, mandatory gestalt practice and philosophical seminars.
Founded in 1962 and built on the sacred grounds of the Native American tribe and perched on a vertiginous cliffside, the retreat is inaccessible to the white noise of the city and 3G signal.
The general public, too, are partially barred-the only way to gain entry is to attend one of the institute’s workshops, or to give up your normal life and become part of its self-sustaining, soul-searching community.
Read the original blog post here on Nowness.
For all you global nomads our there…
Wallpaper* and Fortune magazine have come together to mark the best new business hotels around the globe.
The shortlist ranges from grand luxury openings to inspiring relaunches of old favourites and contemporary openings in up-and-coming destinations.
Have a look at the shortlist:
The final 10 hotels chosen from the above shortlist can now be found in the latest issue of Wallpaper*.
Read the original blog post here on wallpaper.com
Don’t say we don’t try and teach you something…
The traffic signal was first invented in 1912 - by a Detroit policeman named Lester Wire - as a two-color, red-and-green light with a buzzer to warn pedestrians ahead of the impending transition. In 1920, this basic design was modified (by another policeman named William Potts) to include the tri-colored red, amber, and green lights widely used today.
This simple, three-color icon has endured for nearly a century with relatively little change, save for the incorporation of modern technologies such as automatic timers, diode lights and motion sensors. The core of the three-color traffic remains true to the initial vision of two smart American policemen.
Read more on the story of the traffic signal here on The Design Observer.
Source: The Design Observer.
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