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How Two Designers Built a Furniture Line From a Dead Relative's Woodcarving Obsession
Pierce & Ward's latest West Elm collaboration channels 19th-century tramp art, proving that the best design often starts with what you inherit, not what you intend.
28 Jul · 6 min read
How Engineers Are Reviving Montreal's Most Notorious Concrete Tower
After fifty years of technical failures and public frustration, a steel-and-glass solution finally addresses the structural ambitions Roger Taillibert's 1976 stadium never quite achieved.
28 Jul · 7 min read
When Hardware Becomes Experience: Bankston's Transatlantic Campaign to Reclaim Touch
Across New York and Copenhagen, a hardware brand and design critic challenged the industry's most overlooked interface - the moment your hand meets the door.
28 Jul · 7 min read
Coastal Quang Ngai - A Community By HAUS: A Community Designed For Generations
Coastal Quang Ngai - A Community by HAUS
28 Jul · 5 min read
Japan's 250-City Digital Twin Library Could Reshape How Architects Work
PLATEAU's open-access urban models turn scattered government data into a unified platform for design, resilience, and experimentation.
28 Jul · 7 min read
When Festivals Become Laboratories: Public Space Experiments in a Spanish Wine City
Concéntrico's twelfth edition turned Logroño into a testing ground for architecture that refuses to sit behind velvet ropes.
28 Jul · 8 min read
Can Infrastructure Architecture Decentralize Power?
AtkinsRéalis's Manchester Digital Campus tests whether purpose-built government facilities can reshape how nations govern from the ground up.
28 Jul · 8 min read
When a Pavilion Becomes a Landscape: Reactivating a Former Landfill Through Student Design
Kaiserslautern students collaborated with Innsbruck collectives to create a 16-square-meter hybrid structure that blurs the boundaries between furniture, installation, and gathering space.
28 Jul · 7 min read
How a Modular 1970s Sofa Became a Pop Culture Symbol
Hans Hopfer's Mah Jong seating system has traveled from radical domesticity to the lyrics of contemporary music, proving that adaptive design outlasts trends.
28 Jul · 6 min read
Stacking Mountains: How Shenzhen's New Library Negotiates the Line Between City and Nature
Luohu's 77,000-square-meter cultural complex translates topographic logic into urban form, creating a permeable civic threshold at the edge of dense urbanism.
27 Jul · 7 min read
Three Towers in One: How RSHP Translated Shanghai's Laneway Fabric Into a Vertical Form
The 186-meter One Shanghai skyscraper reinterprets the city's Shikumen heritage through massing, material, and an elevated public realm.
27 Jul · 6 min read
How Lisbon's Gulbenkian Museum Recovered Its Modernist Soul
A meticulous restoration peels back six decades of incremental alterations to reveal the original dialogue between collection, architecture, and landscape.
27 Jul · 7 min read
How a Forgotten Corner Building Became a New Retail Model
Sò Studio transforms a 38-square-meter back-of-house space in Qinhuangdao into D+dd Friendship Bay Store, where community memory and contemporary commerce overlap.
27 Jul · 7 min read
Sacred Architecture Meets Contemporary Practice in Benin's New Cultural Sanctuary
Maison Bignon Sossou's Mami Dan Temple reframes Vodun heritage through material innovation and spatial ritual, proposing a path forward for culturally grounded design in West Africa.
27 Jul · 7 min read
When a Baroque Estate Becomes Infrastructure
Openfabric, caarpa, and FM Ingegneria reimagine 25 hectares in northern Italy as a public landscape that bridges heritage and ecology.
27 Jul · 6 min read
When a Restaurant Becomes a Journey Through Layers of Tradition
Inside Casa Baruk, Memola Estúdio transforms 700 square meters in São Paulo's Higienópolis into a study of spatial sequence and sensory immersion.
27 Jul · 7 min read
When a Roof Bends by Design: Timber Deflection as Poetic Principle
At a Japanese zoo entrance, Yano Aoyama Architecture Design turns structural imperfection into the organizing idea of a public restroom.
27 Jul · 7 min read
Heritage in Translation: Five Studios Redefining American Design
From Vietnamese ceramics to Polish still life, a generation of designers is weaving cultural memory into contemporary practice.
27 Jul · 9 min read