What We’re Reading on the Web

As usual, we’ve read the Internet cover-to-cover and rounded up some of the most interesting reads out there for your perusal. Enjoy!

One of the most fun parts of traveling is enjoying the chic temporary digs you get to call home enjoy vacation, with design inspiration coming in a close second. These beautiful hotel lobbies, the 15 hottest in New York City, have got this editor itching to hit the road.

One of the not-so-glamorous aspects of travel? The airport. These images, however, beg to differ. Check out Holding Pattern, a tumblr of airport views from (where else?) the sky!

If a vacation isn’t the cards for you anytime soon, take a little relaxing trip using calm.com. With its calming visuals, soothing music, and guided meditations, it’s a nice (and much less expensive) alternative.

Now to Compostela, a poverty-stricken area of Cebu in the Philippines. A project of former professional soccer player Bobby Dekeyser and his foundation, Dekeyser&Friends, the area has been turned into a low-cost housing and community enrichment project. Villagers who once survived by scavenging a nearby garbage dump are now living in well-built, sustainable structures and being provided with job training. It’s a truly incredible initiative.

Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia is one of the most famous (infamous, even) structures in the world. This post is a fascinating overview of the building’s history and the process of lighting one of the world’s architectural treasures.