Home to the Hadron Collider, the United Nations’ European headquarters and an historic finance sector managing assets worth more than one trillion US dollars, Geneva now also proudly boasts its own Aesop flagship store. Located on the city’s Rue de la Fontaine, the store is designed by Rodney Eggleston, of Melbourne's March Studios. Copper has been chosen as the interior's primary material, representing the vital role that the metal has played as a form of currency throughout the ages, and in particular, its importance to Geneva's wealth.

Jack Smylie

The concept behind POST NEW was to profile product, art, architecture, people that is beyond new, that wasn't to mean things which have just been released, launched or opened, but things that at anytime time were game changing or pioneering in their field.

2007 saw Tokyo's Takei-Nabeshima-Architects (TNA) architects design The Ring House, a mini-tower for a planned community in Karuizawa. Wrapped in rings of glass and wood providing a 360-degree view of its surrounding forest land.

Adam Bryce

Originally opened in 1962, the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy Airport is a brilliant - and sadly, often overlooked - piece of architecture, designed by Eero Saarinen. One of his last works, completed posthumously, the TWA Flight Center was happily saved from the wrecking ball in 2003 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The lines, curves and flow of the design provide a completely unique experience for visitors, one which can have the effect of transporting one to a different time - a time when the aviation industry was proud, optimisitic and exclusive.

Photographer - Michelle Young

Source - Untapped New York

Jack Smylie

La Nuvola (the Cloud), in the EUR district of Rome, is an ongoing project by Massimiliano Fuksas, an Italian architect known for his combination, and often contrasting, of architectural styles into a single structure.

Susan Strongman

Winding ribbonlike from the hills down to the craggy Arctic coastline, the new Havoysund Rest Stop in Norway is reason to stop in itself. Designed by Reiulf Ramstad, the rest stop is intended to enhance the walk from the roadway to the ocean below, with its interesting snaking structure providing another point of interest for visitors to the region. As well as operating as a walk way, the rest stop also offers a barbecue area where tourists and locals alike can pause for a picturesque picnic.

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Australian skincare brand Aesop has announced a physical presence in the Asian marketplace with stores in Tokyo and Yokohama, designed by Torafu Architects. The light and airy stores are designed to create an simple and natural experience for customers, who are welcome to linger and seek consultation on the wide array of available Aseop products.

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Architect Cheyrl Baxter has taken inspiration for her latest project from air dancers – those moving inflatable figures used to get your attention.

Named the Fantastic Trailer, this mobile structure is designed to elicit a connection between the architect and those experiencing the space in and around the formation, through highlighting sound, movement, texture and light, as well as a sense of transience.

Clementine Widdowson - de Pressigny

Designed by Pritzker laureates Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei, the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion officially opened to the public this month, the twelth in a series of pavilions to grace Kensington Gardens. Ai Wei Wei was conspicuously absent from the opening, currently barred from travelling outside his native China, and was represented by a pre-recorded video message in which he elaborated on the work’s conceptual “archaeology”.

Source - Architizer

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Born in 1942, Philippe Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he had moved to New York and was working as a draftsman in an architectural firm, before forging a career as an illustrator at the age of 30. His work has been acknowledged by and published in major American publications such as the New York Times, Time magazine and The New Yorker, amongst others. Weisbecker's work shifted gradually during the late 90's from commissions to his own original productions, which now exhibit in galleries worldwide.

Source - Nieves Books

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