The Japanese capsule hotel concept, where guests literally sleep in a space about the size of a single bed, has been given a classy make-over by Cubic Corp, who have recently opened a new style capsule hotel called 9 Hours.
9 Hours and the reinvention of Japanese capsule hotels
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 9 February, 2010 to the design and art subset
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The new ivory tower, stackable uni container homes
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 12 October, 2009 to the design and art subset
Self-contained, container like accommodation is winning support from a “new generation” of uni students who would rather forgo the antics – and shared shower blocks – of residence halls.
”The students … are changing,” said the director of accommodation at ANU, Marie Wensing. ”A lot of students … have never shared a bathroom. When [...]
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Any hotel room is a room with a view
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 1 December, 2008 to the photography subset
Commercial photographer Andrew Hetherington has taken photos of all the hotel rooms he stayed in over a four year period. I’d love to have the same travel allowance as he does…
Hotel rooms have always fascinated me, ever since I was a child. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a seedy motel by the side of a [...]
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Designer treehouses
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 3 June, 2008 to the comment subset
Having seen some of these treehouses I think I could quite happily live in one.
Some of us think that our far off ancestors lived in the trees – and during our childhood, when our thoughts and memories are most pure, we yearn to climb trees growing in our gardens, in our parks, in our [...]
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