BRUS | To Øl | Copenhagen (DK) | By Lee Fleming

As fond admirers of Danish craft brewers To Øl we're excited for our next Scandinavian tour to see their latest venture named BRUS (Named after the sparkling quality that liquid obtains when carbonated) in the fresh. BRUS combines brewing, dining and shopping under one roof in a former iron factory in the city’s multi-cultural Nørrebro neighbourhood, a beer enthusiasts dream we know.

Cleverly laid out in zones while maintaining an open plan feel the 750m2 space sees a centrally-located bar offering 33 taps alongside guest craft beers from he world’s best brewers. The in-house Restaurant Spontan is led by Denmark’s youngest Michelin-starred chef, Christian Gadient who serves up modern French, new Nordic- and Asian-informed dishes.

The industrial interior is a nod to the spaces past as a iron factory but offers a sense of warmth and comfort thanks to the oak tree nine metre-long bar, restaurant tables, lounge booths and stools. The bar area features fixtures and fittings straight from beer production to give a sense of being behind-the-scenes; 70 oak barrels are set up in the very centre of the building to store all of To Øl’s barrel-aged beer while three fermentation tanks with capacity of 19.000 liters are brewing in the back of the pub.

For more information on Brus check out their website.

AuthaGraph World Map | Hajime Narukawa | Kanagawa (JAP) | By Lee Fleming

We recently came across the AuthaGraph world map, designed by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa. Having broken the planet into 96 equal parts, Narukawa combined different projections of the Earth to create a globe-like tetrahedron that unpacks into a rectangular map. The AuthaGraph world map displays shape and size with the precision of the Dymaxion map, but remains rectangular, just like the Mercator.

To find out more check out Narukawa's TED talk and/or visit the AuthaGraph website.

Residents: Inside the Iconic Barbican Estate | Anton Rodriguez | London (UK) | By Lee Fleming

We're excited for the release of the Residents: Inside the Iconic Barbican Estate book by our good friend Anton Rodriguez. The London-based freelance photographer currently resides in the Barbican Estate, the perfect abode to document neighbouring residents in one of London's most recognised brutalist architectural sites. Located in London's financial district, the Barbican Estate was built during the 1960s and the 1970s and is occupied by over 4,000 residents alongside the Barbican Centre, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Having started photographing Barbican residents within the intimate settings of their own home as part of a VSCO Artist Initiative project, Anton's intriguing photo series has deservedly been published in the form a 160 page book. Featuring more than 22 Barbican residents and residences Anton encapsulates the incredible interiors and creative people who live in the iconic Brutalist estate.

Designed by Shoreditch-based design & brand development agency EACH London, the book features an essay by design writer Katie Treggiden who explores the history of the site and why there is such an interest in seeing ‘behind the scenes’. The book Is due to be released on the 10th October 2016 with pre-orders currently available on the Barbican website.

To read more on the Residents: Inside the Iconic Barbican Estate book visit the website.

Honda: Great Journey | Map Project Office | London (UK) | By Lee Fleming

London's strategy-based industrial design consultancy Map Project Office (MAP), founded in 2012 by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby with Design Director Jon Marshall have recently worked with Creative Director Morihiro Harano to imagine future vehicles for Honda that use their latest technology and capture the spirit of the brand.

Aptly titled 'Great Journey', the collaborative project looks to imagine a comfortable and modern exploration of the planet. Human beings are instinctively mobile. We can trace our roots to the continent of Africa, where, millions of years ago, our ancestors began what archaeologist Brian M. Fagan calls "The Great Journey." It was a migration north into Europe, across Asia, and on to North and South America. A journey of over 50,000 kilometers.

The goal of the Great Journey project is to reimagine this journey, and propose how it could be made today using the latest technologies for human mobility. It was conceived as a journey of adventure that would also allow for the development of prototype vehicles that could travel virtually anywhere on the planet. Mori and MAP identified that travelling through grass plains, deserts, mountains, sea, snow and jungle couldn't be achieved by one vehicle without compromises to comfort and pleasure. Instead the journey was separated into seven stages with respective vehicles for each; allowing Mori and MAP to tailor vehicle design for each terrain and consider the needs of the environment for pleasurable travel and living. Models were made by Letchworth-based Ogle Models brought the project's designs to life while Petr Krejci helped create film sets representing the terrains.

To view more of MAP's work visit their website. Photography by Petr Krejci.

Stacked | Malte Brandenburg | Berlin (GER) | By Lee Fleming

We recently came across the portfolio of self-taught photographer Malte Brandenburg who is also co-founder of arts collective Copenhagen Format. Copenhagen-based Brandenburg previously lived in Berlin where he completed 'Stacked', a visual documentation of post-war housing estates in Berlin. Often built in form of tower blocks and in a fairly identical fashion, Brandenburg's Stacked photography series looks closer at these affordable housing structures to find variation of sorts.

To view more of Malte Brandenburg Photography visit his website.