Koko interior designer Pirajean Lees looked to the sultry, saturated colours of director Wong Kar Wai's films when renovating Hong Kong's Dragon-i nightclub. More about Dragon-i nightclub renovation captures "rebirth of the romantic side of Hong Kong"
Audio streaming service Spotify has opened a listening lounge at its London headquarters, featuring a bespoke speaker system and a material palette chosen to enhance the room's acoustic properties. More about "Technology and craftsmanship align" at Spotify's immersive London listening room
New York clothing store Colbo has expanded its Lower East Side space to create a wine and vinyl bar, which design studio Of Enso has wrapped in stainless steel and stained wood. More about Of Enso adds listening bar to New York boutique Colbo
Local outfit Formant Studio has transformed an office space in Mexico City into the hi-fi listening room Modular, centring the wood-and-steel-lined room around a custom-made social sofa. More about Formant Studio highlights "timeless elegance of birch" in Mexico City listening room
Hackney restaurant and listening bar Bambi has been doubled in size with a revamped interior and a custom-made stainless-steel-and-wood wall cabinet for vinyl records. More about Nicola Weetch designs London Fields record bar "to feel lived-in"
Brooklyn-based audio designer Devon Turnbull has installed a listening room in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, placing massive speakers and fine-tuned DIY equipment in the Carnegie Library. More about Devon Turnbull brings "DIY audio" installation to the Cooper Hewitt
Designers George Vlasis Pakalidis and Artemis Valyraki drew on the industrial origins of a tyre workshop when designing the Voulkanizater listening bar and restaurant in Athens. More about Athens' industrial Voulkanizater restaurant features wheel rims and car parts
Speaker design studio Silence Please has created a showroom for its bespoke speakers outfitted with a tea room, record store and listening space in a New York City loft. More about Silence Please creates "giant living room" for New York showroom and listening space
From a communist-era apartment block in Bucharest to a hot pink Australian bar created to emulate the inside of a jumbo speaker, our latest lookbook collects atmospheric listening bar interiors from around the world. More about Seven listening bars that are easy on the eyes and ears
Ambient lighting brings warmth to a pared-back interior scheme inside the Bar Ton listening bar in Bucharest, Romania, created by local designers Anda Zota and Muromuro Studio. More about Bucharest listening bar created in "landmark of Romanian modernism"
Swiss studio Leopold Banchini Architects used natural materials when creating the interior of the Goodbye Horses bar, with the bar, chairs, lights, handrails and changing table all made from a single tree. More about Leopold Banchini creates "all the elements" of London bar from one oak tree
Warm adaptive lighting, acoustic panelling and woodblock columns cocoon Space Talk, a listening bar in London designed by local architecture practice EBBA and designer Charlotte Taylor. More about EBBA and Charlotte Taylor design London listening bar "dedicated to sound"
Pink plywood and exposed insulation combine in this monochrome bar in Sydney, designed by local architecture office Akin Atelier to evoke the cosy feel of Tokyo's mid-century listening bars. More about Akin Atelier designs JAM Record Bar to feel like being "inside a giant speaker"
Studio Pirajean Lees paired oxblood tiles with intricate wooden joinery at the Kioku sushi restaurant and sake bar, within central London's OWO hotel, to reference the head chef 's travels. More about Pirajean Lees draws on Japanese and Spanish design for Kioku restaurant and bar
Glass screen doors, bespoke furniture and natural textures draw on the waterside location of Locke at East Side Gallery hotel in Berlin by architecture studio Grzywinski+Pons. More about Grzywinski+Pons designs Locke at East Side Gallery to "capture the strange magic" of Berlin
Public Records co-founders Shane Davis and Francis Harris have added a bar and lounge on an upper floor of their multi-purpose creative venue in Brooklyn. More about Upstairs lounge with "DIY" design approach opens at Public Records