The new Ace Hotel is offered with a mix of old and new: mid-western craftsmanship and utilitarian design. Check it out here at Dezeen.

A new project in the British city of Hull has brought Chilean duo, Pezo Von Ellrichshausen and Swedish Felice Virini, together to generate a massive, experiential sculpture in the city square. Constructed of sixteen, two meter wide by six meter tall, steel tubes, the public is invited to enter each tube and inhabit space within a city in a new way. See full article here