Alia Akkam

3 days ago | architecturaldigest.com | Alia Akkam

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. With the aid of intuitive, user-friendly landscape design software, exterior architects and designers can easily streamline the time-consuming practices that threaten to bog down projects.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Lexi Dwyer |Alia Akkam

Photo: Stephen KarlischIf you’re a new homeowner dreaming about overhauling your outdoor space, or want to spruce up your backyard but haven’t had time, maybe you’re ready to hire a landscape designer. Like an interior designer, a landscape designer or landscape architect has the knowledge, training, and resources to help you realize your vision for a space or, if you need some inspiration, guide you towards one.

1 week ago | hospitalitydesign.com | Alia Akkam

With its floating staircase and stately dome, the Printemps flagship is as much a historic Parisian monument as it is a beloved department store. The luxe retailer’s arrival in New York’s Financial District is also momentous. Situated within the Art Deco skyscraper One Wall Street, the 55,000-square-foot, bilevel space was imagined by Paris architect and designer Laura Gonzalez as an inviting apartment, with interconnected rooms fusing fashion, beauty, and food and drink.

1 week ago | architecturaldigest.com | Alia Akkam

Every year, designer show houses are a bastions of brilliant design ideas, serving as a bellwether for emerging trends and the references inspiring design pros right now. Sprung from scratch and full of pattern, color, and imagination, these interiors bring designers’ creativity to light—sans client input. Here are six standout settings from this season’s designers show houses across the country that we can’t get out of our minds.

1 week ago | hospitalitydesign.com | Alia Akkam

MGM Resorts International is deeply entwined with Las Vegas cultureThe hospitality, entertainment, and sports behemoth spans 31 properties in Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio, as well as China, with projects underway in Dubai and Japan as well. But the lion’s share of its developments is found in Las Vegas, the city the brand was born in. Today, MGM, which traces its roots to the late 1960s, is Nevada’s largest employer.