Category Archives: Hotels

Tree House Hotel

By Chungaiz | Published: August 13, 2010
I love tree houses. Nothin makes me happier than sitting up in the canopy with a new perspective on life. I also love the eco-awareness that’s meant lots of legitimate tree houses have been made around the world. For my next holiday, I may well head to Sweden to check out the Tree Hotel. ‘Why [...]
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LSN Global and The Future Laboratory

By Chungaiz | Published: March 28, 2010
At the LSN Global trend briefing last week I noted down the following: The rise of the MAVIN nations (post BRICs, we’ll have Mexico, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Nigeria as emerging global powerhouses) 42% of businesses see the recession as an opportunity not a hinderance, and that businesses will change for the better. They see [...]
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Space Invading – Architecture Blog

By Chungaiz | Published: January 20, 2009
Space Invading has been set up by Archinect, the cool resource for all things architecture. A very cool collection of beautiful living spaces – mostly real, but some imagined – for your perusal. I think it’s fed in by RSS feeds, but in the future I’d not be surprised if they went for a NotCot [...]
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The Cool Hunter Launches Hotel Guide

By Chungaiz | Published: October 28, 2008
  TheScrapBook favourite, TheCoolHunter, launches a hotel guide that allows you to book too. Sensible. And sexy. In 09, we’ll launch The Cool Hunter Hotel booking service, an online store, global job lists, Cool Hunter TV, magazine, retail stores and some major offline events. We’re eager to see our efforts translated into major global markets [...]
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I met the Walrus

By Toms | Published: July 23, 2008
Don’t know about the rest of you but, when I was 14, I was trying to perfect a 180 heel-flip whilst slowly beginning to realise that there was this whole bunch of people that I had not really noticed before but, who were now omnipotent and strangely appealing…yep: – girls. What I was NOT doing [...]
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Interesting Outdoor Advertising List

By Chungaiz | Published: June 24, 2008
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The Trend Hunter (yes, I do read such blogs!) has a great roundup of interesting outdoor media and advertising. From Kill Bill to McDonalds, laser tagging to outdoor noise activation with Skol, there are some interesting and award winning examples of great outdoor [...]
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Saville Apartment

By Andy | Published: March 10, 2008
Ben Kelly has designed some amazing spaces - Fallon, The Hacienda and as pictured above, Saville’s apartment in Mayfair.  An enigmatic figure in the design world, Art Director Peter Saville asked friend and collaborator Ben Kelly to turn a seventies-chic Mayfair apartment into a suitably ambiguous live/work/gallery space, using minimal intervention. Boasting an original Verner Panton floor-to-ceiling light fixture, [...]
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Underwater Hotels

By Chungaiz | Published: February 19, 2008
Ever since Dubai started building “The World” hotel complex and archipegalo (I heard Rod Stewart’s already bought the UK) I’ve been hearing about underwater hotel complexes. Trendhunter Magazine has an underwater hotel for Istanbul, due to open in 2010. Fiji’s Poseidon complex is possibly more beautiful, given the local animal and vegetable population, and that [...]
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