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1 day ago

Kengo Kuma & Associates Present Site-Specific Installation "Earth | Tree" at Copenhagen Contemporary

Kengo Kuma's Earth | Tree installation in Copenhagen blends timber, brick, and light, embodying a responsive architectural approach.
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2 days ago

The Corporeal, Bizarre Photography of Torbjrn Rdland

Torbjørn Rødland's new exhibition features a shift towards simpler photographic styles, emphasizing suggested features and everyday observations.
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2 days ago

Grimanesa Amoros and the architecture of illumination

Light is a powerful force in art, transcending culture and language, and is essential to understanding perception and truth.
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fromDesign Milk
4 days ago

"Shimmering Real" Presents Two Swedish Designers in their Prime

Camilla Iliefski and Eva Zethraeus showcase their craft-focused works in the exhibition 'Shimmering Real,' highlighting their connection to nature and detail.
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13 Best Ikea Kitchen And Dining Finds Of 2026 (So Far) - Tasting Table

Ikea offers new affordable kitchen decor and storage solutions that enhance organization and style.
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2 months ago
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All the IKEA Pieces Our Editors Know and Love

IKEA offers accessible, well-designed, and modular furniture that became iconic by combining Scandinavian design principles with affordable, versatile home solutions.
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13 Best Ikea Kitchen And Dining Finds Of 2026 (So Far) - Tasting Table

Ikea offers new affordable kitchen decor and storage solutions that enhance organization and style.
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1 week ago

A Lush Textile Installation Springs to Life in Shanghai

Hu Yuehua's 'Weaving Nature' is a large-scale composition that intricately combines organic forms with human craft traditions, showcasing a vibrant array of indigo and ochre.
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fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

The Shop by Gantri Pays Homage to Set and Setting

Color profoundly influences our environment, and Gantri enhances this through innovative lighting designs and a new community-focused space.
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fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

The Glasshouse Theater / Snhetta

QPAC's new Glasshouse Theater features a rippling glass facade and expands the center to become Australia's largest performing arts venue under one roof, designed by Blight Rayner Architecture and Snøhetta.
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3 weeks ago

The Embellished, the Transient, and the Critical Installation / Alsar Atelier

During the pandemic, urban spaces transformed dramatically as animals reclaimed cities and streets became vibrant communal areas filled with greenery and public life.
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Marc Fornes' New Sculptural Pavilion Reimagines the Architectural Folly

Marc Fornes creates a contemporary sculptural pavilion in Cary Park that reimagines the 18th-century architectural folly tradition through high-tech digital fabrication and innovative design.
#architecture
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fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago

Artist Residence and Studio in NY / Horizontal Design

A six-year design journey began when director Bing Ju met artist Emily and her husband Wolf, who share a deep understanding of Eastern philosophy.
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1 week ago

Artist Residence and Studio in NY / Horizontal Design

A six-year design journey began when director Bing Ju met artist Emily and her husband Wolf, who share a deep understanding of Eastern philosophy.
#contemporary-art
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fromBerlin Art Link
2 weeks ago

An Interview with Igshaan Adams | Berlin Art Link

South African artist Igshaan Adams translates memory into physical matter through installations, textiles, and performances that weave spirit and remembrance into materials like cotton, plastic, and stone.
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2 weeks ago

An Interview with Igshaan Adams | Berlin Art Link

South African artist Igshaan Adams translates memory into physical matter through installations, textiles, and performances that weave spirit and remembrance into materials like cotton, plastic, and stone.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

thousands of glass beads form delicate blossoms that never wilt in henri purnell's sculptures

Working bead by bead, the artist recreates delicate blossoms that echo the organic irregularities of real flowers while shimmering with the luminosity of glass. From airy wildflower stems to full, colorful bouquets, each arrangement captures the fleeting beauty of botanical forms that remain permanently in bloom.
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1 month ago

IKEA Just Reinvented an Iconic Throw Rug Into a Stunning New Design

IKEA's new GREJSIMOJS rug reinvents classic play mats with a tufted, organically shaped design featuring foliage and water elements, priced under $160 and already receiving positive reviews.
#contemporary-painting
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fromJuxtapoz
2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Timothy Lai "No Swans" @ Josh Lilley, London

Timothy Lai creates paintings inspired by Salter Grove Memorial Park in Providence, using daily walks to develop landscapes that transition from memory into imagination through layered, meditative brushwork.
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fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Cathrin Hoffmann "Sill" @ Public Gallery, London

Cathrin Hoffmann's exhibition explores psychological fatigue and information overload through monochromatic paintings and sculptures depicting figures in sustained tension, resistance, and existential weariness.
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2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Timothy Lai "No Swans" @ Josh Lilley, London

Timothy Lai creates paintings inspired by Salter Grove Memorial Park in Providence, using daily walks to develop landscapes that transition from memory into imagination through layered, meditative brushwork.
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3 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Cathrin Hoffmann "Sill" @ Public Gallery, London

Cathrin Hoffmann's exhibition explores psychological fatigue and information overload through monochromatic paintings and sculptures depicting figures in sustained tension, resistance, and existential weariness.
Miscellaneous
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

The Inchiostri Exhibition by Ronan Bouroullec and Giorgio Mastinu

The Inchiostri exhibition combines handcrafted glass components in modular configurations to create chromatic vibrations through layered color, light refraction, and transparent depth.
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fromColossal
4 weeks ago

Alvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

Álvaro Urbano sculpts plants from metal and paint to preserve fleeting moments of nature that would otherwise disappear within days or minutes.
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1 month ago

Ways to Personalize a Rental Apartment: At Home with Swedish artist-designer Elisabeth Dunker of Fine Little Day

I like things that are sprawling, mismatched, and fragmentary. Elisabeth's design philosophy emphasizes organic, layered aesthetics that celebrate imperfection and eclecticism in everyday objects and spaces.
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fromDesign Milk
2 weeks ago

Form Us With Love Breaks the Traditional Fair Display Model

Stockholm's design community bypassed traditional trade fairs by organizing informal, collective happenings that proved more authentic and honest than conventional fair formats.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

Smiljan Radic: Material Explorations Between Ephemerality and Permanence

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić creates buildings that blend ancient monumentality with provisional fragility, combining diverse materials in experimental ways that challenge conventional architectural categorization.
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

In 'Life Forms,' Janny Baek Imagines a Speculative Landscape

As Janny Baek builds sculptural ceramics of speculative beings and imagined landscapes, she grapples with these questions. The work follows its own dream logic, one that accepts incongruity and dissonance as necessary to play and experimentation. Marbling hunks of colored clay, coiling bases, and molding a singular material into something new is part of an exploratory practice that embraces transformation and its often strange outcomes.
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1 month ago

Daniel Arsham's New Drafting Table Has Brass Gears and Cup Holders Built In - Yanko Design

CALIPER designed a precision CNC-machined aluminum drafting table for artist Daniel Arsham featuring backlit glass, adjustable tilt mechanism, integrated storage, and specialized lighting for detailed charcoal and graphite drawing work.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 weeks ago

Bentu Just Built Furniture From Cities That No Longer Exist - Yanko Design

Bentu Design transforms urban demolition rubble into furniture through 3D printing, achieving 85% waste utilization while preserving the physical and cultural memory of demolished communities.
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fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Fifty-eight contemporary Latinx artists innovate within painting traditions, challenging historical exclusion and interrogating boundaries while celebrating personal, culturally specific expressions that enrich American and contemporary art.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 weeks ago

'raw geological poetry': how SolidNature interprets stone into an architecture of emotions

SolidNature transforms natural stone from conventional building material into atmospheric, emotionally expressive design medium through craftsmanship, technology, and artistic collaboration.
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fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

The 4 Best Things to Grab from IKEA's As-Is Section, According to Experts

Check the IKEA as-is section for discounted, customizable items like IVAR cabinets that are versatile, sturdy, and ideal for DIY projects.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
4 weeks ago

5 Floating Designs That Look Like Photoshop (But They're Real) - Yanko Design

Floating design lifts architectural elements from the ground to create visual lightness, spatial clarity, and refined interventions that balance engineering precision with aesthetic intent.
fromFortune
1 month ago

How leaders are protecting culture while AI rewrites how work gets done | Fortune

Across large enterprises, AI is moving quickly from experimentation into daily work. That shift is forcing leaders to confront issues they can't delegate to technology: how performance is measured, how people are supported through change, and how values show up when machines start doing more of the work. Not every company is approaching those questions in the same way. Some organizations are responding by racing for efficiency.
Business
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Unscripted Pavilion / Abin Design Studio

Mumbai is a city of simultaneities. Its urban fabric is dense and restless a patchwork continually fractured by moments of porosity. Narrow alleys suddenly unfold into courtyards, and fleeting intimacies emerge between strangers in crowded trains. Rhythms of chaos and solitude overlap seamlessly to create an everyday theatre of resilience.
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fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

The Clever Way to Turn Your Home into a Curated Art Gallery

LG Gallery+ is a new visual curation service for LG TVs - and a brilliant way to make your home more unique and personalized. It lets you express your ever-changing creativity with a massive library of classic art, digital and 3D artwork, scenery, games, and more. With more than 4,500 options to choose from, you can turn your LG TV into a world-class art gallery, a peaceful forest, or an homage to your favorite video game - all in the same day.
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fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

VARMBLIXT by Sabine Marcelis for IKEA Expands Further

IKEA's iconic VARMBLIXT donut lamp evolves into a smart version with matte white glass and customizable lighting through 40+ colors, maintaining its sculptural form while shifting from warm amber to fluid atmospheric experiences.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Doing the "bare maximum" with limited resources: Tina Tona on fostering creativity through collage

Tina Tona creates colourful photo-collages from found ephemera and cut-up magazines exploring diasporic Black expression, pop culture, and her dual heritage.
Design
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

F5: Amber Pan Talks an Iconic Lamp, Sculpture + More

Amber Pan transitioned from architecture to interior design, founding Studio ŪMA to create spaces that tell stories through imperfect beauty, weathered materials, and intentional restraint.
fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

Studio Visit with Jerszy Seymour | Berlin Art Link

Countering the passive consumption of today's social, political, ecological and informational debacle, artist and designer Jerszy Seymour proposes a necessarily utopian alternative, grounded in cooperative creativity. His interdisciplinary practice engages the transformative potentials of art, design and activism through instinctual and embodied energies.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

The Swamp Collective find roots of graphic design in the muck, mud and mire of Europe

Swamp Collective is a Berlin-based artist-led publishing collective producing nature-focused visual work, self-published books and identities while collaborating across European cultural institutions and festivals.
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2 months ago

Gulu's Berlin Solo Debut: NIHILISTIC SUPERSTAR at Migrant Bird Space - KALTBLUT Magazine

As we traverse an era dominated by algorithms and driven by the impulse for efficiency, we increasingly sacrifice our ability to feel. In this "age of emotional poverty," highlighted by philosopher Byung-Chul Han, our emotional landscapes grow flatter, our pains diluted, and genuine intimacy replaced with a sterile digital façade. However, in Gulu's evocative imagery, the body emerges as a resilient space of resistance, pushing back against a world that demands we conform to neat, predictable narratives.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

commonly hidden metal drywall guides recast as chairs, lighting and sculptural vases

The collection comprises , , and sculptural elements developed through repetition, modularity, and consistency. By working with standardized components, the project examines how structural logic can inform form, allowing typically concealed systems to become spatial and perceptible. Designed by Claudio Larcher and Sofia D'Andrea, the collection is based on metal drywall guides, technical profiles usually embedded within partition walls and left unseen. These industrial elements are extracted from their conventional context and reconfigured into objects with a linear and uniform architectural language.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

Itty-Bitty Signs and Portals by Michael Pederson Reimagine Everyday Urban Details

Michael Pederson creates playful miniature interventions that transform mundane urban and natural occurrences into moments of wonder and curiosity.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 months ago

"Input/Output" by Artist Jacob Rochester

Jacob Rochester's paintings explore familial ties and intergenerational connection through music, blending photorealism, gestural marks, photographic sources, and layered oil glazing to evoke collective nostalgia.
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1 month ago

Painter N's House / a.co.lab

Remodel preserves a 1969 single-family house's accumulated lifestyle while adding new spatial possibilities suited to contemporary life and neighborhood context.
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1 month ago

Anish Kapoor Presents New 'Mirror Works' in NYC

Anish Kapoor's polished stainless-steel mirror sculptures distort space and perception, using reflective surfaces, voids, and color to create immersive, disorienting spatial experiences.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

These 'Sandscape' Lamps Turn Reflected Light Into Sculptural Artpieces - Yanko Design

There is a moment at dusk when the boundary between sky and water dissolves. The sun hangs low, the tide softens, and the surface of the sea becomes a trembling mirror, holding light in fragments. Studio Haran's Sandscape Collection seems to trap that exact instant. These sculptural luminaires do not simply resemble waves. They resemble the reflection of something luminous hovering above them, as though the moon or sun has descended and dissolved into ripples.
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1 month ago

Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany

In 2019, the artist Henrike Naumann built an East German living room and rotated it by 90 degrees. The sofa, chairs and coffee table all in the unmistakable aesthetic of the 1990s climbed the wall. The carpet became vertical. Cabinets hovered near the floor alongside a CD rack, baseball badges and a flag bearing a slogan in Sutterlin script: Beware of storm and wind and East Germans who are enraged.
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1 month ago

This new design gallery is putting the spotlight on South Asian design talent

House of Santal opens in Midtown Manhattan to showcase contemporary South Asian collectible design, presenting one-off and limited-edition Indian furnishings to New York collectors.
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fromBerlin Art Link
2 months ago

An Interview with Egill Sbjornsson | Berlin Art Link

Art can act as an evolving, collaborative life form that heals, generates joy, and reshapes human relationships through sensory participation, play, and tech-material hybrid environments.
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fromColossal
2 months ago

Luftwerk Transforms Paint and Aluminum into Radiant Explorations of Sunlight

Topped with a roof shaped like a crabshell, Le Corbusier's Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a sanctuary amid the French mountainside. The 1955 construction rests atop a hill in Ronchamp, standing unobstructed by the otherwise forested inclines. As the sun rises and falls, light filters in through the mélange of rectangular windows tinted to cast streams of color around the space. The stained glass apertures of Le Corbusier's modernist chapel are a clear reference point for Luftwerk's "Open Frame."
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Swiss Artist Andre Thomkins Invented 'Lackskins'-Now They Are On View

André Thomkins developed 'Lacksins', a chance-based marbling-derived drawing technique blending bookbinding, varnish-on-water processes, and Surrealist/Dada influences.
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2 months ago

Matt Midgley Paints Razorsharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Handmad

Death Anxiety Comics Inspired By Our Fears "Sunkissed": Beautiful Feminine Illustrations by Emilija Savic Artist Creates Honest Illustrations About Relationships And Everyday Life Artist Yana Tarakanova Creates Superb Explicit and Bizarre Comics About The Society The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornella Chris Keegan by Cosmic Creatures 6 Feet Covers: Duo Artists Re-Designed Iconic Album Covers To Promote Social Distancing Artist Spent Three Years Painting Her Readings Mom Prepares Healthy Meals As Cartoon Characters For Her Son How To Teach Yoga Like Slav: Top 10 Drunk Yoga Positions
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

note design studio arranges lammhults design group's stockholm space as sequence of rooms

Lammhults Design Group opened a Stockholm showroom by Note Design Studio that functions as a lived-in, shared environment prioritizing materiality, acoustics, light, and user experience.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

How Rebecca Manson Transforms Thousands of 'Menial' Gestures Into Radiant Sculptures

Rebecca Manson creates intricate ceramic sculptures of butterfly and moth wings that evoke decay, time, aging, and natural beauty while using unconventional hand-formed techniques.
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fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Opens Memoryscapes Exhibition Exploring the Design Methodologies of ATTA and DnA

Memoryscapes examines how archaeological, anthropological, and geological approaches and fieldwork enable architects to use cultural memory and site-specific histories to design locally grounded futures.
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fromArchDaily
1 month ago

The Luc Lifestyle / Atelier Generations Vasudeva Design

LUC Lifestyle blends food, fashion, fragrance, aesthetic dental care, and Balinese craftsmanship into a contemporary destination reflecting Canggu's international energy and cultural identity.
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fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

Vivian Chiu on Joyce Lin, Sylvie Rosenthal, Meg Callahan + More

Vivian Chiu combines precise woodworking and sculptural techniques to create optical forms through iterative deconstruction, reconstruction, and research-informed marquetry.
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fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

An Artist's 450-Square-Foot Studio Is a Playhouse (There's a Giant Beanbag!)

A 450-square-foot Richmond studio blends modern organic design with playful, functional decor that reflects the artist's identity and supports creative living.
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fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

What to Hang When Even A Noguchi Lantern Isn't Big Enough

Isamu Noguchi's Akari lights remain timeless design staples, yet large double-height spaces can call for bespoke, oversized paper-and-bamboo lanterns that reinterpret the same light quality.
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fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

I've Never Seen Anyone Hang Art Here (It's Pure Genius)

Hanging artwork on interior metal poles instantly warms industrial spaces and creates a bold, inexpensive design statement using Command strip hooks.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

designboom job position available: lab senior editor

Our mission is to bring together the worlds of design, architecture, art, and technology, fostering creative thought and global dialogue. We are driven by a philosophy of 'Utopian Optimism' and a 'What If' mindset, believing in the power of design to shape a better future. We believe that design is not decoration, but transformation. It is how we learn to see, connect, and rise.
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fromArchDaily
2 months ago

From Industry to the Living Room: Metal Furniture in Interior Architecture

How did a material conceived for bridges, factories, and large-scale structures make its way to the living room bench, the apartment bookshelf, the café table? For centuries, metal was associated with labor, machinery, and monumentality-from the exposed structures of 19th-century World's Fairs to the productive logic of modern industry. Its presence in domestic interiors is not self-evident but rather a cultural achievement: the transformation of an industrial material into an element of everyday, intimate use, in close proximity to the body.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

There is no right way, just the creative way: Alex Tan on Mouthwash Studio's multi-media projects

Creative strategy requires flexible, multidisciplinary approaches that combine visual identity, editorial products, and physical spaces to enable imaginative teams and impactful work.
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Nobel Foundation Reveals Design for New Nobel Center in Stockholm by David Chipperfield Architects

The Nobel Foundation has revealed the first design proposal for the new Nobel Center, a public cultural and educational institution dedicated to science, literature, and peace. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, the project will be constructed along Stadsgårdskajen at Slussen in Stockholm, with construction scheduled to begin in 2027 and completion planned for 2031. Conceived as a permanent home for the activities surrounding the Nobel Prize, the building aims to make the work of Nobel Prize laureates accessible to a broad public
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fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Serpentine Pavilion 2026 and Lina Ghotmeh's House of Performing Arts: This Week's Review

Architecture increasingly functions as public platform and civic infrastructure, addressing cultural, environmental, and social challenges through material, programmatic, and institutional design.
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