tiki room: Messy Nessy Chic treats us on a tour of one of San Francisco’s last bastions of kitsch and abandon, the Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar

potemkin village: a global tour of the fronts and façades (previously) of artificial urban environments
°c: ageing but iconic capsule hotel in Tokyo is retrofitted and revitalised
composite-artist: Microsoft neural network draws realistic, imaginary birds based on vocal commands, via Fast Company