One of the city’s largest contemporary art museums is a converted industrial warehouse, located in Tophane near the Bosphorus.

The KOC family pretty much owns everything in Turkey, including a university. All we need is a golf course, and this school will earn its 5-star resort status.

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.

Also known as the Blue Mosque, Istanbul.

No not this site, but THIS SITE: Singapore’s first boutique property firm gets POSH’D.

On POSH’D,
“Ever visit other Real Estate websites for inspiration? Ever notice how many of them are VERY similar? We support those of you trying to break the mold and make the real estate sites on the web a better experience for everyone. We’re here to promote you and your fine work, but we also hope that up-and-coming site developers will be able to use Posh’d as a place for inspiration. We want to raise the bar for all Realtors and their sites. Submit your site, and if featured, be proud of your accomplishments! ”

May we have more hollywood-stunts and lush-neighborhoods to boast about.
As the Chief-Urbanite puts it, if we’re not having fun, don’t bother sweating over it.

A game studio in San Francisco had its interior steampunked!

Living in an age where the word boutique has engulfed itself, falling into the death trap of ubiquity, design needs a new noun. I found ‘SteamPunk’ and the revolution is here.

Check this out; it’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s actually a dell pc.

The quest to having a picture perfect body has been given a new twist in Tokyo. A Japanese design firm Nendo did a really neat job to those rock climbing walls in fitness centre Illoiha.

It’s high time someone shifts the emphasis on physical beauty to the gym itself, don’t you think?

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For those who are aesthetically incline, more so if you’re like me, wishing that someday a princess will come along and plant the battery-operated frog a deathkiss, turning it into a tech Beau charming Prince, then perhaps our fantasy might just come true because finally the competition is stirring up…
But what good is design if it surpasses functionality?
My vote goes to Makoto Saito’s Penck still.

I’m quite surprise why the pebble didn’t make it in the list…

India’s mystery to the “occasional” powercuts.

If there’s anyway to mark your territory (without the hassle of a govt. licence), paint it.

I love Indian Food.

Killer Kebabs!

Photos are courtesy of Popagandhi, whose now back in India covering the news in the world’s wettest place, Charanpunji.

In light of social entrepreneurship, designer Pedro Alegria introduced USB flash card design to the local craftmen in Sao Tome e Principe, a West African country. All of whom had never seen such gadgets let alone acknowledge the use of a thumbdrive. This is quite unlike the aged old quest to bridge the digital-divide, rather an innovative way to tackle some serious unemployment rate. Kudos to Pedro!

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Contemporary art has taken a literal seat in Gautam Rao’s studio. Decades down the road, these will go for vintage value!
It’s quite a beauty though some hard Van Gogh fans might beg to differ.

Quite an idea for my “Macbook Pro Fund”.