Alila Yangshuo Hotel

Beijing-based studio Vector Architects, has transformed a 1960s sugar factory into a spectacular luxurious hotel in China´s beautiful Yangshuo county. Surrounded by the dramatic karst mountain landscape, the Alila Yangshuo Hotel is composed of restaurants, a library, spa,177 rooms, suites, and villas that occupy a number of heritage buildings among the vaulted mountains. The luxury resort celebrates the rich history of its industrial past while seamlessly blending into its stunning surroundings. Comparable but contemporary materials and construction methods are used in order to achieve continuity and complement the historic architecture. The end result is mind-blowing as you can see by the images below.

LUXURY ANANTARA KIHAVAH VILLAS | MALDIVES

The one and only Anantara Kihavah Resort in the Maldives, an island nation largely untouched, just over 400 miles from Sri Lanka. The resort is tucked away in Baa Atoll with a wide range of marine life and magnificent coral reefs. Each of the 78 villas by the sea or on the water have private infinity edge pools, wood decks to sunbathe and outdoor showers. The resort offers everything, from yoga to windsurfing, through cooking classes taught by local chefs, and a spe...
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GRAFFITI WORLD | STREET ART FROM 5 CONTINENTS

Now available in an updated version, Graffiti World by Nicholas Ganz is the most comprehensive and bestselling survey of graffiti art ever published. The book features more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists around the world, plus the latest developments in the graffiti movement and the artists biographies. If you´re a lover of street art you should definitely check this out....
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THINGS COME APART

If you have a child-like joy of taking something apart, we think you´ll enjoy this. The new book "Things Come Apart" by Todd McLellan, is a unique photographic vision of the material world, a teardown manual for modern living. The book is illustrated with inspiring and unique photographs of retro to modern daily items, in a dismantled, meticulously arranged form. Each photograph is itself a work of art, 181 color photos illustrate 50 design classics from ...
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