Teki Design creates Kyoto cafe as hub to "learn about the future of coffee"
2050 Coffee is a minimalist self-service coffee shop in Kyoto designed to raise awareness about sustainability issues surrounding the future of the drink. More
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Locally produced tiles clad walls and table in Blue Bottle Coffee shop in Nagoya
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design sourced local materials for the design of Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Nagoya, Japan, which features tiles across its surfaces and lamps made from pottery plates. More
EBBA references modernist architecture at WatchHouse coffee shop
Architecture studio EBBA has completed a store for coffee brand WatchHouse that draws on modernist design to provide a calming environment in the heart of the City of London. More
Colour-drenched coffee shop by Uchronia references "sunsets in the Tunisian desert"
Gradated lava stone flooring and suspended planet-like orbs feature at the Cafe Nuances coffee shop in Paris, which was created by Dezeen Awards-nominated studio Uchronia. More
Automatic coffee machine and electric outboard motor win the DesignEuropa Awards
Promotion: the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has announced the winners of the DesignEuropa Awards, including RemigoOne, an electric outboard motor for boats. More
G Architects Studio clad Kyoto coffee stand in rapidly oxidised copper
Japanese practice G Architects Studio used soy sauce and ammonium chloride to rapidly oxidise the copper cladding of this coffee stand in Kyoto, giving certain areas a distinctive blue-green finish. More
Fourteen Stones Design revamps Tokyo warehouse into "coffee gastronomy" cafe
Tokyo-based Fourteen Stones Design has designed the Koffee Mameya Kakeru cafe for barista Eiichi Kunitomo in a former water transportation hub in Kiyosumi Shirakawa. More
Lilienthal Berlin uses beans to creates Coffee Watch with "subtle coffee aroma"
Berlin-based watch brand Lilienthal Berlin has designed a watch with a case made from recycled coffee grounds, which the brand says makes it smell like coffee when worn. More
Renesa uses contrasting terracotta and terrazzo materials to create all-day cafe in New Delhi
New Delhi-based architecture and interior design studio Renesa juxtaposed terracotta and terrazzo materials to design a space that acts as a cafe by day and a bar by night. More
Rosana Escobar finds new potential in the humble coffee bag
An agave plant fibre used to produce coffee bags could be repurposed in the furniture industry, according to Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Rosana Escobar. More
Albert Kuip Coffee chair by APE presented at Maison&Objet
Dezeen Showroom: presented at Maison&Objet, Dutch furniture brand Zuiver has released a new version of its Albert Kuip chair by APE, with a brown textured seat made from used coffee grounds. More
BLUE Architecture adds rectangular coffee shop to red brick building in Aranya
Beijing-based BLUE Architecture Studio has inserted a rectangular volume down the middle of an existing building in China to form a cafe that juxtaposes old and new. More
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YOD Group installs pixel-like mosaics inside Kyiv coffee bar
DOT Coffee Station in Kyiv by architecture and design studio YOD Group features an interior with "weird, sincere and universal" mosaic tiles arranged to look like pixels on a screen. More
Taste Studio pays tribute to the art of coffee roasting with Paga cafe
Interior design studio Taste Space designed this roastery and cafe in Bangkok to take customers on a journey from coffee bean roasting to cup. More
Precht forms counter and stepped seating from handmade bricks in Bangkok cafe
Austrian architecture studio Precht has used more than 7,000 handmade bricks to create the floors, walls and stepped seating in this Bangkok cafe for coffee brand % Arabica. More
Kogaa uses construction waste to build community coffee shop in Prague
A translucent structure made from salvaged waste materials sits at the heart of this coffee shop and roastery in Prague, designed by Czech architecture studio Kogaa. More
Roar Studio decorates Dubai cafe with terrazzo flooring and broken ceramic tiles
Design office Roar Studio combined industrial materials such as concrete and stainless steel with decorative terrazzo and broken ceramic tiles for Drop Coffee, a cafe in Dubai's Dar Al Wasl Mall. More
Sky-blue cafe in Buffalo features "Alice in Wonderland" staircase
Canadian design duo Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster have created a playful all-blue cafe in a century-old house in Buffalo, New York, with an optical illusion staircase. More
Ménard Dworkind creates retro coffee bar in downtown Montreal
Canadian studio Ménard Dworkind has unveiled a retro-themed coffee bar featuring Rubik's Cube mirrors and a floor tiled to look like checkerboard Vans shoes. More
Giorgi Khmaladze Architects encloses Tbilisi coffee factory in folded concrete
A coffee factory and offices in Tbilisi, Georgia, has been built in a geometric concrete shell topped by a green roof by local studio Giorgi Khmaladze Architects. More