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The Währing District in northwestern Vienna, Austria, is home to roughly 52,000 people and is captured in this Overview. It contains several parks including Türkenschanzpark, one of the largest in the city and the site of Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Währing is a predominantly residential district with a number of wealthy neighborhoods.

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48.233056°, 16.314722°

Source imagery: Maxar

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Cool as a cucumber, the FNL Apartment by Paradowski Studio drips in luxurious tactility. With a summer house attitude set amongst the city noise of Warsaw, Poland, the varied stylistic references – from the 70s, Hollywood regency, space-age and Asian culture – seamlessly blend for a residence rich in ease and comfort.

The somewhat unconventional abode was designed for a young couple with their personal character felt throughout. A certain austere charm and organicity are mixed with distinct colour choices and room dividers creating a sense of intimacy reminiscent of work by Italian artist Carlo Mollino.

A made-to-measure shelving system, executed in raw rolled steel and weighing over 600kg, lines the living room wall. A raw textural delight, the steel bones are bolstered by decorative wood and marble inserts. Styling adds depth with a screen reminiscent of Jean Dunards designs and a Japanese inspired solid oak coffee table. The Amura Lapis sofa in red pops against the subdued, earthy plaster walls and polished concrete floors. Together with a set of vintage easy chair armchairs upholstered in a cream boucle fabric their swelling, curvaceous forms are a contemporary take on classic design.

The kitchen has been designed with occasional use in mind. With a minimalist approach, it focuses on simple forms and high-quality materials. A stone travertine washbasin sits farmhouse style nestled in the complimentary countertop, a natural addition to the palette. Cabinets float above the ground, made from a structure of black lacquered steel profiles and clad in ebony creating a light expression in the space. A shelf in patinated bronze finish curves along the wall acting as a continuation of its much larger living room counterpart.

A custom-designed table made of blackened oak is the central fixture of the dining room. Flanked by Vitra Standard chairs by Jean Prouve its encased in a black partitioned glass box. A painting by Christophe Meyer contrasts with the white Diesel Foscarini floor lamp.

Related: Rozbrat Apartment in Warsaw by Colombe Studio.

The guest rooms are covered with veneer stylised from the 1960s giving it a “box” character. A red Verpan lamp standing on a custom-made small shelf in the same colour adds a flourish to the room while breaking up the simplicity. Small tumbled marble tiles and oak veneer in a golden shade feel resonant of a 1960’s sauna.

A decadent brass door antiqued with hand-applied patina leads to the master suite. The bed and wardrobe with a fabric finish and patinated brass legs sit upon a concrete platform. A custom wavy oak screen with matching nightstands protrudes from the back wall framing one side of the bed. Not to be missed, the drop-dead gorgeous bathtub covered in veneer on either side and a stone top that corresponds to the wall panel is comfortably in reach of the bedroom, just separated by a glass sliding wall.

Rich in materiality with a minimalist mindset this interior straddles the two worlds of utility and excess, proposing the case that it need not be one or the other.

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Hastings Island is one of more than 800 islands in Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago. Seen here with the smaller South Phipps and Barwell islands, Hastings is covered by dense mangrove jungle and has white sandy beaches on its western side. The Mergui Archipelago is one of Asia’s last virtually untouched island regions, sparsely populated by indigenous people and visited by only a couple thousand tourists per year.

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10.109656°, 98.296127°

Source imagery: Airbus Space
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Hundreds of pivot irrigation circles surround the town of Center, Colorado. Located on the border of Rio Grande and Saguache counties, about one-third of the town’s industry is based in agriculture or grocery wholesaling. The circles form when lines of sprinklers, powered by electric motors, rotate 360 degrees to evenly irrigate crops.

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37.751351°, -106.110195°

Source imagery: Planet

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Old and new come together in this collaboration between Argentinian multidisciplinary practice Chamber, design and architecture studio It-Met, and Giusto Van Campenhout architecture firm. By respecting the previous decisions made within the space, a ‘Less is more’ approach was taken for the new restaurant dubbed Asadero. Located in the historic seaside neighbourhood of Olivos, Buenos Aires, the design champions a minimalist approach with a focus on materials.

“Rather than adopting a tabula rasa approach, which would erase the inherited urban and commercial real estate decisions colliding at the site, Asadero’s design was conceived as a series of formal, material and programmatic corrections to the existing conditions,” says Juan Garcia Mosqueda of Chamber Projects.

With this decision to build on the existing architecture rather than renovating it entirely, the architectural intervention is subtle and considered. Described by Mosqueda as ”an ensemble of architectural elements”, the series of minimum interventions layer materials and moments, allowing a dialogue between new materials and old forms to be formed.

Related: Restaurant REMI in Berlin by Ester Bruzkus Architekten.

Cavernous in nature, the interior volume is accentuated by its polished concrete floors, rounded concrete columns and painted white walls. The restaurant occupies a ground floor unit with a double-height ceiling and mezzanine floor.

The warmth of the design is found in its fabulous furniture selection. Softening the distinctly industrial edge, all the pieces were custom designed for the project. A varied material palette spans the tactile and diverse choices, including high, veined-marble bar tables in rounded shapes; cedar tables and chairs; and copper, aluminium and stainless steel industrial ripostes. Homegrown talent RIES contributed furniture too, as did the unmistakably experiential Objects of Common Interest.

This additive process, which incorporated layers of objects within the space, resulted in a new dining experience that takes cues from the city of Buenos Aires at large, celebrating its rich architectural tapestry one layer at a time.

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Check out this awesome drone shot of the Grand Canal flowing through Venice, Italy. One of the major water-traffic corridors in the city, the Grand Canal is 2.4 miles (3.8 km) long, between 98 and 295 feet (30-90 m) wide, and has an average depth of 16 feet (5 m). Near the top of this image — where the canal bends — we can see the famous Ponte di Rialto, a 16th-century stone pedestrian bridge and major Venetian tourist attraction.

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45.438000°, 12.336000°

Drone photo by Sebastien Nagy

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You will be forgiven for mistaking this project for the inside of a dream you’ve had. Designed by Raúl Sánchez Architects, Impress Valencia harnesses the surreal and fantastical to redefine dental clinics for a young audience. Never ones for the conventional, this fanciful interior is breathtakingly original.

With special geometry to consider and little access to natural light, the design proposes two curves that interplay with each other. Orientated along the length of the space, the curves meet close in the middle and apart on either side as they enclose all functional spaces – dental boxes, sales spaces and toilets. In the space in between, there is enough room to sit turning the entire sprawling central area into a large waiting room. Blurring the classic approach to corridors and rooms, the curved shape also ensures light filters through the entire open interior from the street.

Related: The Urban Dentist in Berlin by Studio Karhard.

The raised space in the back is lined with red carpet and metal sheets of the same colour – a striking reference to Twin Peaks, it sits in dramatic contrast to the white lacquered curves and pinewood fixtures. Used for events, concerts or demonstrations, the two curved planes guide visitors towards it. As the darkest spot in the clinic, the designers managed to work this area to their advantage by creating something outrageously cool and undoubtedly the most special spot in the whole interior.

This clinic is all about the curves – pillars are treated with mirrors to erase the spatial barriers and add a dreamlike complexity through reflections. Pinewood boxes embedded in the curves act as doors to the functional spaces. Diagonal blue and white designs cover the dental boxes while the sale area take the same route as the stage, enveloped in floor-to-wall blue carpet and mass coloured fibreboard furniture to match.

This illusory interior drips with dreamlike visuals, heralding in Impress’ commitment to a new generation of dental clinics. The real question now is this: How will anyone top this?

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The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, situated on the border of Nevada and Arizona. Standing 726.4 feet (221.4 m) tall and 1,244 feet (376 m) long, it impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume. Construction of the Hoover Dam between 1931 and 1936 served as a massive public works project of the Great Depression, employing thousands of workers — in fact, when the dam was authorized, nearly 20,000 unemployed individuals flocked to Las Vegas (a city of just 5,000 at the time) in hopes of finding work.

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36.015844°, -114.738804°

Source imagery: Nearmap

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The Southern Alps (Kā Tiritiri o te Moana) is a mountain range that extends along much of the length of New Zealand’s South Island. This Overview, captured by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station, shows the range’s highest elevation areas including Aoraki / Mount Cook, the nation’s highest point at 12,218 feet (3,724 m) above sea level. To the east of the Southern Alps is a series of turquoise glacial lakes — the three seen here are Lake Tekapo (top), Lake Pukaki, and Lake Ohau (bottom).

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-43.595000°, 170.141944°

Source imagery: NASA Earth