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3 hours ago

FELT's Home for Life Centers Dignity in Ageing-in-Place Design

Accessibility is embedded through spatial generosity and adaptable design, supporting aging in place with beauty, autonomy, and emotional comfort.
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fromDesign Milk
8 hours ago

MUHLY Celebrates Texture At Afternoon Light

Texture is treated as a design element that can be perceived through sight and translated into crafted forms using materials and pattern-inspired shapes.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
15 hours ago

reflective steel volumes reinterpret the pour-over dripper for kurasu's beijing pop-up pavilion

A pour-over dripper-inspired pavilion for Kurasu uses two folded volumes, reflective materials, and an operable glass roof to connect interior service rituals with street interaction.
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fromArchDaily
15 hours ago

Designing with Sound: How Audio Shapes Residential Architecture

Sound shapes how homes feel by influencing privacy, concentration, rest, and emotional comfort through materials, geometry, and layout.
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fromDesign Milk
5 hours ago

Playinghouse Presented the Tete-a-Tete Exhibition at MDW 2026

Site-responsive domestic staging shows how contemporary works can fit existing spaces while balancing playfulness with practical rigor.
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fromFast Company
10 hours ago

Ikea's newest furniture makes Scandinavian design fun again

Ikea’s PS collection uses experimental design to extend Scandinavian style through playful, functional furniture and recurring product drops.
fromArchDaily
17 hours ago

Dogtrot House: Vernacular Knowledge and Climate-Responsive Design

The dogtrot house emerged across the South of the United States during the late nineteenth century as a direct response to humid climates, material availability, and patterns of rural habitation. Found throughout the Appalachian Mountains, coastal Carolinas, and lowlands of Louisiana, the dogtrot house appeared in numerous regional variations, yet its fundamental spatial logic remained remarkably consistent. Two enclosed living masses are separated by an open central passage and unified beneath a continuous roof, creating a dwelling that is simultaneously economical and responsive to long, hot summers.
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fromArchDaily
1 day ago

How Waterways and Memory Shape Bathroom Design

Water functions as both material and medium in architecture, shaping perception, memory, atmosphere, and symbolic meanings across cultures.
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fromDesign Milk
1 day ago

The Nimbus Vase Bridges Art, Light, and Design

Light and faith symbolism are reinterpreted through a halo-shaped vessel that frames flowers with reverence and soft reflections.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
1 day ago

Studio ALT / Rushnaiwala Architects

A layered design gallery on an organic farm balances exposed industrial materials with internal lightness for ceramics and bespoke speaker practice.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
3 days ago

Kawagebo Snow Mountain Hotel / Moguang Studio

A hotel pavilion at Meili Snow Mountain National Park creates calm by directly responding to tourism clutter and construction constraints rather than recreating an imagined Tibet.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Dorte Mandrup's The Whale Advances Along Norway's Arctic Coastline

The Whale by Dorte Mandrup is a site-responsive cultural facility under construction in northern Norway, emphasizing integration with the coastal environment.
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fromArchDaily
1 day ago

ParkTEA: An ArchDaily Student Project Awards Winner Reimagining the City for Cognitive Diversity

ParkTEA rethinks public space by designing for diverse sensory and social experiences through care, infrastructure, and urban coexistence.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 days ago
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This NYC Restaurant Was Built From Materials Other Designers Threw Away - And It Looks Stunning - Yanko Design

Interior design often builds waste into the pursuit of perfection, while a zero-waste restaurant reframes imperfections as luxury through material honesty and historical atmosphere.
fromArchitectural Digest
5 days ago
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Little Legs on Furnishings Are the Trick to Making a Tiny Room Feel More Expansive

Furniture with small legs preserves sight lines, making rooms feel airier and tidier while improving the visual flow across space.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 days ago

This NYC Restaurant Was Built From Materials Other Designers Threw Away - And It Looks Stunning - Yanko Design

Interior design often builds waste into the pursuit of perfection, while a zero-waste restaurant reframes imperfections as luxury through material honesty and historical atmosphere.
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fromArchitectural Digest
5 days ago

Little Legs on Furnishings Are the Trick to Making a Tiny Room Feel More Expansive

Furniture with small legs preserves sight lines, making rooms feel airier and tidier while improving the visual flow across space.
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fromArchDaily
2 days ago

Furniture as Architecture: Micro-Modernisms Inside the Home

Modernism spread through furniture that functioned as portable, reproducible architecture, reorganizing everyday life via standardized, mass-produced objects.
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fromFast Company
2 days ago

10 beautiful, unexpected, and downright weird takes on the lamp

Lighting designs in the Head Hi Lamp Show feature unconventional forms that reshape space and atmosphere while remaining functional and for sale.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 day ago

This Sculptural Glass Object Makes Flowers Feel Like a Van Gogh Painting - Yanko Design

At its heart, Violet Frosted is a geometric glass object that plays with flowers, light, color, and texture. What makes it interesting is the way it changes how we see what is placed behind it. The frosted, patterned glass softens the flowers, turning bright petals and stems into blurred fields of color. A flower becomes a shadow, a brushstroke, a violet glow, or a faded green line depending on where you stand.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 days ago

seamless architecture book explores continuous surfaces through bio-inspired design research

Seamless Architecture treats walls, roofs, and sometimes floors as continuous surfaces, using bio-inspired, parametric, and computational methods to unify structure, material, and environment.
fromArchDaily
4 days ago

The Spatial Continuum / Abin Design Studio

Rooted in calm, the office translates the ethos of minimalism into a warm, human-centered workspace.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
5 days ago

ukrainian designer victoria yakusha seeks softness through memory and material repair

Thick, tactile materials preserve visible labor and cultural continuity through “live design,” linking interiors and furniture to landscape and long-term inhabitation.
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fromDezeen
5 days ago

SO-IL completes "clean, precise, audacious" Issey Miyake store in NYC

A Brooklyn studio redesigned a neo-gothic New York Life interior into an Issey Miyake flagship that keeps architecture subtle and lets changing garments lead.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
5 days ago

grohe spa rethinks the bathroom as a space for ritual, expression and personal wellbeing

GROHE SPA presents bathroom design focused on wellbeing through water, using organic forms, advanced production, and sensory technologies for personalized self-care rituals.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
6 days ago

Detached House in the La Reserva Neighborhood Bahia Blanca / Vagon Arquitectura

A residence on a north-oriented corner lot uses intermediate spaces to connect collective and intimate areas through a continuous spatial experience.
fromwww.archdaily.com
5 days ago

Qinling Museum / CSADI

Qinling Museum: A Cultural Landmark Amidst Mountains and Rivers----Spanning China's heartland, the Qinling Mountains bridge north and south, serving as both a geographical divide and a vital ecological sanctuarythe nation's lifeline of water and biodiversity. In Shangluo, Shaanxi, the Qinling Museum emerges as China's first comprehensive space dedicated to the range's natural wonders and cultural legacy, its architecture speaking directly to the surrounding landscape.
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fromArchDaily
6 days ago

Buildner Launches Unbuilt 2026 and Reveals Unbuilt 2025 Winners

Buildner’s Unbuilt Award 2026 offers a 100,000 EUR prize fund for global small, medium, and large unbuilt architectural proposals across professional and student categories.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
5 days ago

Casa Pinhal Proves the Best Brazilian Architecture Barely Touches the Ground - Yanko Design

Deep in the Serra da Mantiqueira, where the air is thin and the forest floor barely registers sunlight, Cornetta Arquitetura has completed Casa Pinhal - a 690-square-metre residence in Santo Antônio do Pinhal, São Paulo, that reads less like a building dropped into nature and more like one that grew out of it.
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fromArchEyes
1 week ago

Designing for Fluid Living: How Architecture Is Adapting to a Fully Digital Lifestyle | ArchEyes

Digital technology and remote work are fundamentally reshaping residential architecture, requiring homes to serve multiple functions beyond traditional living spaces.
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fromArchDaily
6 days ago

Designing for Time: Material Aging as a Design Strategy

Permanence without change becomes a burden, as seen in Tithonus's story.
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fromArchDaily
6 days ago

A Cultural Center in the Arctic and a New Look at Croatian Modernism: This Week's Review

Architecture must evolve to address climate change and social inequality by focusing on what design can accomplish rather than what it creates, incorporating sustainability, community engagement, and adaptive reuse across diverse scales and geographies.
fromwww.archdaily.com
6 days ago

Qingdao Science Technology Museum / von GerKan, Marg and Partners Architects

Cultural facility in Qingdao Science & Technology Museum on Hong Island, part of gmp, promotes urban development and marine research.
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fromDesign Milk
6 days ago

Issey Miyake's Milan Shop Transformed Paper Into Marble

Compressed paper rolls from Issey Miyake's pleating process are transformed into furniture and sculptural installations through various treatment techniques.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
6 days ago

bamboo, rattan, and seagrass solutions by caneplexus for climate-responsive architecture

Caneplexus translates natural fibers such as bamboo, rattan, and seagrass into active elements across hospitality and residential architecture. The natural ceilings, partitions, and shading elements become tools for shaping nature-friendly atmospheres, functioning as breathable layers within a space.
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fromItsnicethat
6 days ago

4Creative cuts out visuals from the UK's most iconic TV shows to make its new identity

4Creative isn't one thing, and it never has been. It's rowdy, collaborative, unpredictable and proudly Channel 4. We needed an identity that actually reflects that. Something built from our people and our work, that can keep evolving as we do.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
6 days ago

Harudot Khaoyai Cafe / IDIN Architects

A sloping site in Khao Yai is developed as a dual-purpose cafe and public viewpoint, allowing independent landscape access without cafe entry.
fromOpen Culture
6 days ago

Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965

We are all astronauts, and yet we refuse to see the long-term consequences of our actions on our specialized craft. One of the reasons why we are struggling inadequately today is that we reckon our costs on too short-sighted a basis and are later overwhelmed with the unexpected costs brought about by our short-sightedness.
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fromMedium
6 days ago

What is DESIGN.md and How To Use It

DESIGN.md is a markdown file with instructions that explain your design system to an AI agent, ensuring consistent UI across your project.
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fromMedium
5 days ago

The prompt is not an interface

For the last forty years, the entire trajectory of interaction design has been a movement away from the command line and toward direct manipulation. We moved from typing instructions to pointing, clicking, dragging, and seeing the results immediately. We built interfaces that showed us what was possible rather than demanding we memorise a syntax.
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fromMedium
5 days ago

How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

Claude Code can now write directly to the Figma canvas through Figma MCP. You describe an interface in natural language; it builds it. Visually, the result can be pixel-perfect. But click into any layer and you'll find #5C6AC4 where color/brand/primary should be, 14 where text/body-sm is defined, a freshly minted one-off component where an existing Button instance is sitting right there in the library.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
6 days ago

LEGO Icons Road Bike is an intricate 1,015-piece buildable set for grown-ups - Yanko Design

This set comes just in time for the summer sporting season, as cycling enthusiasts gear up for adventures unknown. Indeed, a true replica bicycle to build from scratch and place on their living room shelf to go with the mood. Just like with other LEGO Icons models in the lineup, the set captures every little detail of the real thing, and when completely put together, it stands at 24 inches long and 14.2 inches tall.
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fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Mary Ratcliffe Studio Presents the CARVER Collection

Surfing and skateboarding inspire the CARVER Collection, blending movement, memory, and playful design into sculptural furnishings.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago

Shoreline Studio / NORM Architects

Shoreline Studio rests as a retreat for artistic immersion, conceived as a space apart from yet connected to the rhythms of a family summerhouse.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago

KinderKunstLabor for Contemporary Art / Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten

KinderKunstLabor is a unique building for children to engage with contemporary art through workshops and exhibitions, designed from a child's perspective.
fromApartment Therapy
1 week ago

The Retro Lamp Trend That's Taking Over Homes in 2026

"I think craftsmanship is being more appreciated, almost like a lost art, in this growing technological climate," says designer Hollie Velten, owner of the design firm SPACES.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Smiljan Radic to Lead 2026 Pritzker Laureate Lecture and Panel on "Architecture: Distraction and Knowledge"

The jury highlighted his 'unorthodox approach to design,' which 'may initially appear unusual, unexpected, even rebellious; yet, far from producing alienation or estrangement, his anti-canonical stance feels fresh and unprecedented.'
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 week ago
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Deniz Aktay Just Built a Side Table from a Single Tube Bent Twice - Yanko Design

The Whisk table by Deniz Aktay redefines side tables by using a single continuous tube for structure and stability, emphasizing fluid design over decorative elements.
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fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Arieto Studio's ILO Lamp Is Ready to Rally and Beautiful at Rest

The ILO Lamp from Arieto Studio offers portable, aesthetically pleasing lighting for social gatherings, enhancing the atmosphere with its soft glow and customizable colors.
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fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Arieto Studio's ILO Lamp Is Ready to Rally and Beautiful at Rest

The ILO Lamp from Arieto Studio offers portable, aesthetically pleasing lighting for social gatherings, enhancing the atmosphere with its soft glow and customizable colors.
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fromTravel + Leisure
1 week ago

Milan's Biggest Design Week Moments Took Over Palazzos, Hotels, and Historic Courtyards-Get a Peek Inside

Milan's Salone del Mobile showcases luxury brands and innovative design, evolving into a significant cultural event in the design world.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

From Lighting to Modular Systems: ArchDaily's Selection of 13 Architect-Designed Objects at Milan Design Week 2026

Milan Design Week 2026 showcases architect-designed objects, emphasizing material performance and adaptability in product and industrial design.
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fromTravel + Leisure
1 week ago

Milan's Biggest Design Week Moments Took Over Palazzos, Hotels, and Historic Courtyards-Get a Peek Inside

Milan's Salone del Mobile showcases luxury brands and innovative design, evolving into a significant cultural event in the design world.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

From Lighting to Modular Systems: ArchDaily's Selection of 13 Architect-Designed Objects at Milan Design Week 2026

Milan Design Week 2026 showcases architect-designed objects, emphasizing material performance and adaptability in product and industrial design.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Cobe to Transform Former IKEA Warehouse into a New Site for the Museum of Furniture Studies in Almhult, Sweden

The Museum of Furniture Studies will reopen in 2027 in a transformed IKEA warehouse, showcasing furniture design history and contemporary works.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Baku Architecture City Guide: 15 Projects Reframing Azerbaijan's Capital

Baku's urban development blends historical continuity with modern architectural transformation driven by oil wealth and media representation.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

"An Environment Where People Show Knowledge": In Conversation With David Gianotten of OMA on Salone Contract

Salone del Mobile 2026 showcased over 1,900 exhibitors and introduced new initiatives reflecting shifts in design practices and collaboration.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 week ago

This Korean Partition Uses A Periscope-Inspired Design To Reflect The Sky In Your Room - Yanko Design

CHAGYEONG partitions enhance urban living by providing privacy and natural light through a design inspired by the traditional East Asian concept of borrowed scenery.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Tropical Modernism Beyond Aesthetics: The Politics of Shade and Air

Tropical modernism integrates climate control with social dynamics, influencing access to comfort and reflecting power relations in architectural practices.
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fromArchitectural Digest
1 week ago

6 Emerging Furniture Trends We Spotted at High Point Market

Emerging furniture trends include draped shapes, fully upholstered outdoor furniture, and oversized designs, reflecting a blend of indoor and outdoor aesthetics.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

'design is no longer a monologue of control': lonneke gordijn on objects' hidden dreams

Lonneke Gordijn emphasizes the importance of non-human entities in design, advocating for a collaborative approach that acknowledges material agency and ecological impact.
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fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

A Palm Court-Inspired Workspace is an Oasis in London

Co-working spaces can blend historical inspiration with modern design to create inviting communal environments.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 week ago

Oil Pipes That People Actually Want To Sit On And Socialize - Yanko Design

The design does something more subtle. It reframes how we relate to space, to objects, and to each other. Instead of forcing a fixed posture or direction, Venture removes instruction altogether.
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