South Korea is restricting operations of restaurants, bakeries and franchised coffee chains in the greater Seoul area in an effort to contain a new outbreak of Covid-19. Under the plan that lasts until next Sunday, restaurants and bakeries can operate until…
Singapore’s tiny Voids Cafe is carved out of a monolithic concrete block, reshaped to produce an operational space in just 28sqm. The design, by Studio SKLim’s and featured by online architectural magazine Designboom, was inspired by the “empty space in a…
VG Siddhartha, the founder of India’s largest coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day, has been found dead, in an apparent suicide. Siddhartha had been missing since Monday, last seen by his driver standing on a bridge. He had penned a letter to his board in which he…
Design firm Tropical Space has built a coffee shop inspired by a cuckoo clock in Vietnamese seaside city Da Nang. The design, featured by Dezeen, features a brick structure with a house perched on top, with the coffee shop forming a single-storey base and the…
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