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Out with the New, In with the Old
Here’s a basic truth about architecture: It is almost impossible to build something as well today as it was yesterday. It becomes more..
An Old Cowshed Becomes a Charming House in Sydney
In the Sydney suburb of Glebe, an old cowshed was partially preserved and brought back to life by Carterwilliamson Architects to become a..
Columbus, Indiana announces biennial design exhibition to begin in fall 2017
Columbus, Indiana is known as the “Athens of the Prairie”: a mecca of midcentury modernism in an idyllic, small midwestern town...
Innovative Braille LEGO-Style Bricks Help Blind Children Learn To Read While Playing
The Braille Bricks project, co-founded by the Dorina Nowill Foundation For The Blind, helps blind children learn to read through play...
Véronique Vienne The Invention of Desire
Designers are jinxed. They are victims of a spell cast on them in the middle of the last century. This curse is the work of three people:..
Heatherwick’s Pier 55 to begin construction over New York’s Hudson River
British designer Thomas Heatherwick‘s elevated park over the Hudson River has been given the go ahead by planners and will start..
Santiago Calatrava wins in Dubai
Santiago Calatrava has won the international competition to design the UAE Pavilion at Dubai World Expo
Following a seven month design..
My Surreal Illustrations Portray The Relationship Between Humans And Nature
I’m a Polish graphic designer, illustrator and set designer. Presently, I focus on mixed media graphic art, based mainly on photo..
“Beauty” Pleases All Beholders, Pushes Few Boundaries
“Touch and smell me,” the white wall of the elevator lobby at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhorts visitors. On my visit,..
Toshiko Mori–Designed Glass Houses Dot This Incredible Hudson Valley Compound
People who live in glass houses need to do their homework. Take it from Bob Greenberg, a media executive, and his wife, Corvova Lee, an..
rocker lange architects links apartment renovation to hong kong’s landscape
rocker lange architects links apartment renovation to hong kong’s landscape
(above) living room towards kitchen
all images courtesy of..
The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs (1962)
In 1962, experimental designer Ken Isaacs imagined and constructed a ‘knowledge box’, a compressed environment for experiencing..
Delicious Lego Art by Japanese Artist
A Japanese LEGO creator has been frustrating Twitter and Flickr users with his tantalising LEGO-food creations. Going by the name Tary,..
Adrian Shaughnessy Innovation in banality
Studio Zero85 recreates outlines of Tokyo market stalls inside Italian sushi bar
Diners at this sushi restaurant on the Italian coast sit inside house-shaped booths, based on the angled silhouettes of stalls in Tokyo’s..
Motown Meets Venice
When he was named director of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena asked curators to focus on..
Federico Babina’s ARCHICARDS Reimagines Architecture’s Famous Faces as Playing Cards
“I always liked play as a form of learning; toys are often a prelude to serious ideas,” says Federico Babina about his latest series of..
lamphouse installation projects spatial structures and warm energy after dark
lamphouse installation projects spatial structures and warm energy after dark
(above) the installation uses wooden sticks to enclose the..
OriMetric – new rubber origami driven material exploration // by Mads Hansen
By successfully blending old with new, Danish Designer Mads Jeppe Hansen, has found great inspiration in the art of traditional Japanese..
Normann Copenhagen to launch Daily Fiction range of accessories and stationery
Denmark’s Normann Copenhagen is set to become the latest furniture brand to launch a range of stationery and accessories, echoing..
6 Designers Exploring Strange – and Sustainable – Materials
Packaging made from algae, bowls shaped from sugarcane, chairs crafted from artichokes – these sustainable material explorations by AMAM..
Ruin Revived
Modernist architecture, it used to be said, was inadequate because the machined materials of modern buildings wouldn’t lend themselves..
Aston Martin Unveils Design for Its First-Ever Superyacht
A recent trend seems to be making waves in the world of yachting: luxury carmakers designing superyachts. Late last year, Bugatti teamed..
Modern Australian architecture with an Asian twist
The minimalist white exterior of this home makes a surprise transition to the exotic at the entrance: we are welcomed by a Balinese..
This Urban Artist Creates Amazing Rainbow Colored Art Around The World
French urban artist Mademoiselle Maurice, has traveled the world adding colorful artistic installations for everyone to enjoy.
After..
John Foster Made for Walking
Gothenburg Public Sauna
William Siesjö sweats it out in Raumlabor’s new project, a “bastu” inspired by the harbour’s industrial past – and a place to discuss its..
The L.A. Design Gallery That Bridges Experimental Design on Both Sides of the Pacific
Gallery ALL, cofounded in 2013 by architect Qinqyun Ma and designer Yu Wang, is the sum of many parts, perhaps more transnational design..
torafu architects wraps aesop NEWoMan shinjuku in limestone
having already designed other aesop stores in japan including one in kyoto and osaka, torafu architects have completed the recent fit-out..
