The beautiful and soothing Don Café House by Innarch is inspired by coffee beans inside a coffee sack. From the architects: "The walls of the bar are organically shaped and colored like coffee sack made up of "Plywood" type of wood, whereby the pillars in between are coated with textile coffee sacks. Tables and hanging chandeliers represent the coffee grains lined up asymmetrically in order to generate the impression of being inside a coffee sack." The cafe is located in Pristina, Kosovo

"These are the offices of Animal Music, a music recording studio. The main idea was to clean the chaotic space of the common areas and create a new space that invited open exchange of ideas, and lots of room to foster creativity.

Sirocco Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand is the world's highest al fresco restaurant, It's colorfully illuminated Sky Bar changes colors, hopefully to match the mood of the diners. If you were there now, you'd be eating at the highest point in the world where you can still have your meals catered. How cool is that?

The Westbourne Grove Church, which dates back to 1853 as a Baptist chapel, was completely renovated by DOS Architects, which turned the place of worship into a loft called home, at least to some lucky person. The church's incredibly high ceilings, tall windows, and beautiful pillars make this rather an easy place to spruce up.

This colorful, modern maisonette located in Gothenburg, Sweden is young and spacious, and for sale. The interior makes the most of both modern and rustic elements of architecture, with exposed brick in some parts, and stark white walls throughout. Tall, elegant windows bring in lots of light, and each room is designed to maximize the space while maintaining a totally comfortable feeling of home.

The SF MoMA honored legendary architect and engineer Lebbeus Woods with a show of his drawings and models, which display an incredible dedication to design. Woods' work is beautiful and timeless, and invites ideas of architectural creatures coming to life. Of his own work, Woods once said, "Architecture and war are not incompatible. architecture is war. war is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms."

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James Gulliver Hancock is an Australian–turned–New Yorker who has set about to draw every building in New York City, a truly daunting, but extremely intriguing task. James keeps track of his illustrated census on his beautifully maintained website, All The Buildings In New York. His work has been turned into a book, All The Buildings In New York (That I've Drawn So Far). The really cool part of James' site is that you can search for illustrated structures by both borough and building type.

The awesome Fusillo bookshelves from And Vice Versa are comprised of modular elements that you can twist and turn to your own literary or storage-based needs. Each module rotates from a central axis point to provide support, and you can combine them however you like. 

The Brown Residence by Lake|Flato Architects is located in the Arizona desert, and the home's earthy palette makes it the perfect sunbaked living space. The Brown Residence is protected from the sun's harshest rays with broad overhangs that provide welcome shade.

Architect Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez took on the small attic and turned it into several layers of space by building by establishing levels to each room. Architectural nooks and crannies abound, turning what would be a very limited living space into an expansive home.