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fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 days ago

At Tiny Doll House, craft the fun-sized world of your dreams

I think the thing that surprises people the most when they come in is the complete variety of items that we have, and the very wide range of things that we offer. Everybody smiles here. There's never anybody that's unhappy or grumpy.
NYC food
NYC music
fromTime Out New York
1 day ago

This traveling pop-up exhibit shows what NYC looked like 400 years ago

The New York Botanical Garden's exhibition 'Before New York' reveals the region's ecological history before urban development.
Renovation
fromwww.7x7.com
1 day ago

The 47th San Francisco Decorator Showcase reclaims the art of stillness.

The historic Victorian at 2315 Broadway Street showcases modern artistry while preserving its original character and architectural significance.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 days ago

'when I go to bed, I go to work': philippe starck describes a design practice guided by dreams

'When I go to bed, I go to work.' Starck describes dreaming as an active method in his design process, where sleep becomes a space for production and innovation.
UX design
fromianVisits
2 days ago

Tickets alert: Giant inflatable 'Luminarium' to pop up at Battersea Power Station

Luxart is a site-specific Luminarium created by Alan Parkinson for Battersea Power Station, composed of softly glowing chambers you can explore.
London
Remodel
fromDesign Milk
3 days ago

This Spa Trades the Typical Playbook for Roman Civic Logic

RECESS in Montreal combines thermal bathing with social interaction, creating a unique wellness experience that encourages personal and communal connection.
Arts
fromAnOther
5 days ago

Andrew Cranston's Paintings of Dreamlike Domesticity

Andrew Cranston's exhibition at Modern Art in London reflects his unique approach to landscape painting, influenced by personal experiences and memories.
Photography
fromApartment Therapy
5 days ago

I Stopped Buying Souvenirs - I Get These "Whimsical" Finds for My Walls Instead

Personal photos from travel can serve as meaningful souvenirs that capture memories and emotions.
#architecture
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 day ago

floating kiosk / bufen atelier

The project is a temporary intervention that appears as an enigmatic, extraterrestrial presence in an urban context.
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 days ago

NTH/ Neutral Tactile Habitat / Ply Architecture

NTH by Ply Architecture is a thoughtful addition in Colonel Light Gardens, harmonizing with heritage bungalows while addressing family life needs.
UX design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

how wutopia lab's 'magical realism' turns everyday spaces into ethereal interior atmospheres

Wutopia Lab creates immersive architectural experiences that transform ordinary spaces into imaginative environments, enhancing perception through design elements like light and geometry.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 days ago

Building Lightness Through Glass and Frames

Architecture has evolved from a focus on weight and permanence to a pursuit of lightness and continuity between interior and exterior spaces.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

"Material Is Where the Story Begins": Studio NEiDA on Building Through Craft and Context

Studio NEiDA integrates local materials and cultural conditions into architecture, emphasizing collaboration and vernacular practices to shape design and construction.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 day ago

floating kiosk / bufen atelier

The project is a temporary intervention that appears as an enigmatic, extraterrestrial presence in an urban context.
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 days ago

NTH/ Neutral Tactile Habitat / Ply Architecture

NTH by Ply Architecture is a thoughtful addition in Colonel Light Gardens, harmonizing with heritage bungalows while addressing family life needs.
UX design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

how wutopia lab's 'magical realism' turns everyday spaces into ethereal interior atmospheres

Wutopia Lab creates immersive architectural experiences that transform ordinary spaces into imaginative environments, enhancing perception through design elements like light and geometry.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 days ago

Building Lightness Through Glass and Frames

Architecture has evolved from a focus on weight and permanence to a pursuit of lightness and continuity between interior and exterior spaces.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

"Material Is Where the Story Begins": Studio NEiDA on Building Through Craft and Context

Studio NEiDA integrates local materials and cultural conditions into architecture, emphasizing collaboration and vernacular practices to shape design and construction.
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Sabah House NYC Pays Homage To Set + Setting

Sabahs are made entirely by hand from 100% leather in either Texas or Turkey—two regions with distinct yet deeply rooted relationships to the material. The result is a shoe that varies subtly from pair to pair, even within the same size.
Brooklyn
#milan-design-week
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 day ago
Design

at milan's cinema of dreams, paf atelier immerses viewers in a suspended time capsule

Paf atelier's Cinema of Dreams transforms cinema into an introspective space for reflection and mental projection during Milan Design Week 2026.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
6 days ago
Renovation

lina ghotmeh floods milan's palazzo litta with pink labyrinthine landscape

Palazzo Litta is transformed into a dynamic, inhabitable landscape with Lina Ghotmeh's installation, creating a dreamlike experience during Milan Design Week 2026.
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 days ago

Aesop Presents The Factory of Light Installation in Milan

Aesop's new Aposē luminaire reflects the brand's minimalist aesthetic and is showcased in a unique installation during Milan Design Week.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 week ago

These Striking Artworks By Dima Rebus Carry The Physical Traces Of Glacial Melt, Political Unrest, And Strangers' Memories

Dima Rebus creates art using water samples from global contributors, exploring human life and connection through material transformation.
#art-installation
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 days ago

sensory installation abstracts human anatomy into sculptural light objects

The project explores perception through the five senses, focusing on the moment before interpretation, where sensation precedes cognition and experience is formed through subtle emotional and sensory cues.
Design
fromArchDaily
4 weeks ago

Architectures of the Gaze: 25 Viewpoints for Experiencing the Landscape

Viewpoints are structures designed for observing the landscape from elevated positions. They act as devices that organize the gaze and establish a direct relationship between the body and the territory.
Philosophy
Renovation
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Circularity Cements Memory in Cast Concrete

True ingenuity in architecture lies in negotiation with the past rather than erasure, as demonstrated by the Trace project in London.
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis

Geddis' sculptures evoke an enigmatic tension between identity and glyph, teetering between abstraction and figuration like retrofuturistic icons, reflecting his diverse cultural influences.
Arts
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

Why Do We Want to Float? The Psychology of Lightness in Architecture

In 1962, the architect Buckminster Fuller envisioned a floating city that would free humanity from its dependence on the Earth. The speculative project consisted of enormous geodesic spheres that would naturally levitate in air warmed by the sun and be anchored to mountaintops.
Design
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

The identity for Spatial festival feels aptly three-dimensional

Motion was integrated as a foundational design element rather than an afterthought, creating a dynamic, three-dimensional brand identity that responds to physical and digital spaces.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
3 weeks 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.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Explore a Growing City of Meticulously Crafted Miniature Paper Buildings by Charles Young

Charles Young creates intricate miniature paper models inspired by color combinations, showcasing diverse architectural styles and emphasizing color pairings.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Folklore and Nature Converge in Cat Johnston's Expressive, Eccentric Puppets

Drawing on childhood memories, folk art, and nature, the London-based illustrator and model maker creates expressive sculptures and puppets that inhabit dreamlike realms. Invoking historical costumes and cartoonish and emotive faces, Johnston's otherworldly cast seems both familiar and strange, as if children's book protagonists have sprung to life or converged with a strange dream.
Graphic design
Design
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape

Cultural centers are evolving to reflect diverse architectural explorations and redefine public institutions' roles in various contexts.
Coronavirus
fromArchDaily
1 month 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.
Gadgets
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

8 LEGO Architecture Sets So Good They Belong in a Museum, Not a Toy Aisle - Yanko Design

LEGO has evolved from disposable toys into collectible display pieces for adult enthusiasts, with official sets and fan designs featuring architectural detail and dramatic lighting.
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Archiving the Technosphere: How Museum Architecture Mediates Human-Made Systems

The contemporary technology museum has emerged as a performative participant in the systems it seeks to document. The architecture of these institutions has become increasingly fluid and bold, often mirroring the velocity and complexity of the systems it houses. They operate as mediators between the human, the ecological, and the technological realms, transforming from encyclopedic warehouses into active educational engines.
Science
fromianVisits
1 month ago

That dressing gown? It's wood. Inside London's strangest materials exhibition

This is just one item in a display that looks at how wood can be turned into all sorts of things that don't look or feel like wood at all. It's all because wood is a renewable resource and could be a viable replacement for plastics and other oil-based materials.
London
Miscellaneous
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

anamorphic installation by thomas medicus rotates into four shifting hand images

Coopparatus is a mechanical anamorphic installation that reveals four hand images sequentially through 90-degree rotations of a glass-strip cube, fragmenting between legible states to examine perception as an active, conditional process.
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Spaces That Feel Back: How Buildings Respond to Human Behavior

Decades of research in environmental psychology and building science reveal that indoor conditions can profoundly affect human health and behavior. Lighting influences circadian rhythms and sleep patterns. Air quality impacts cognitive performance and respiratory health. Temperature and acoustics shape comfort and concentration.
Renovation
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
Board games
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Do you believe in magic?

Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling light and computer-generated surfaces so convincing it feels like you could pose the model with your own hands. O'Donnell sat down with us to talk a bit about her process creating textures and her life's work making magic real.
Film
fromThe Architect Elevator
2 months ago

The Mighty Metaphor

The Architect Elevator is a metaphor-in reality, the company leadership may be sitting on the same building floor as you; my car metaphors could fill an entire book; and " Architecture is Selling Options " has become the anchor of many architecture keynotes. So, at least my world of architecture is full of metaphors.
Software development
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

CUBES photo series explores spatial design through 27 hand-built miniature interior models

CUBES is a long-term photographic series, developed between 2018 and 2025 by Seb Agnew, composed of 27 hand-built miniature architectural environments. Structured across three interconnected chapters: CUBES I, CUBES II, and CUBES III, the project examines how spatial design reflects human presence, historical continuity, and technological systems. Each image originates from a physically constructed model room built from scratch. Traditional model-making methods are combined with contemporary fabrication tools, including laser cutting and 3D printing.
Photography
Science
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Know when to fold them: the tech inspired by origami

MIT researchers developed a 3D-printing technique inspired by kirigami that creates flat, foldable structures that pop into predetermined 3D shapes when pulled.
#ecological-architecture
fromArchDaily
1 month ago
Design

Designing with Living Matter: 5 Installations Using Bio-Based Materials and Digital Fabrication

Architecture must integrate ecological considerations and material intelligence to transform design practices and reduce environmental impact.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago
Design

Soil Stories Pavilion / Magicline Studio

A 60-cent pavilion within a 14-acre family estate integrates with existing ecological systems including sacred groves, wetlands, and native vegetation to create an active living landscape.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Designing with Living Matter: 5 Installations Using Bio-Based Materials and Digital Fabrication

Architecture must integrate ecological considerations and material intelligence to transform design practices and reduce environmental impact.
NYC music
fromTime Out New York
1 month ago

A sweeping, 140-foot multimedia installation is turning Lincoln Center into a portrait of NYC

Josh S. Rose's Lincoln Center Arrival Tableau is a 140-foot multimedia installation capturing performers, students, and audiences across Lincoln Center's westside campus, celebrating New York's performing arts community.
fromApartment Therapy
2 months 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.
Gadgets
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Stunning Digital Storytelling Landscapes By Prismofpixels, Turning Quiet Streets And Town Squares Into Cinematic Moments Of Color And Light

A curated collection of diverse visual works spanning paintings, photography, design, and historical images across eras, genres, and artistic mediums.
fromFlowingData
1 month ago

Illustrated engineering in everyday objects

I take the product apart. CAD it up. Illustrate each view. Then animate and lay it out for the web. That sounds quick, but it does take me quite a bit of time to create each one.
Graphic design
fromColossal
1 month 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.
Arts
Design
fromArchDaily
1 month 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.
Arts
fromColossal
2 months 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.
Renovation
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

alsar-atelier repurposes raw construction materials as reversible enclosed exhibition booth

Alsar-Atelier's pallet installation demonstrates how temporary exhibition architecture can achieve ornamental quality while remaining fully disassemblable and reusable, reducing waste through reversible design.
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Wenting Zhu Cultivates a Kaleidoscopic Garden of Crystals in 100+ Petri Dishes

Crystal Garden: Seasons uses over 100 chemical compounds and pigments to produce colorful, growing crystal formations that blend natural processes with human intervention.
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

three suspended digital screens translate AI imagery into luminous spatial installation

UNFOLD PLANE's spatial installation translates artificial intelligence concepts into an integrated architectural environment using suspended screens, dynamic lighting, and reflective surfaces that respond to visitor movement.
Arts
fromUntapped New York
1 month ago

Immerse Yourself in a Digital Garden at Artechouse NYC

ARTECHOUSE NYC transforms Chelsea Market's former boiler room into an immersive digital art venue celebrating spring through interactive technology and projection art.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

Self-taught artists across the U.S. create distinctive vernacular environments using salvaged and found materials, driven by spiritual fervor and personal vision.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month 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.
Arts
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

BuildFest Introduces "Acts of Construction," a Three-Year Exploration of Timber Installations

Bethel Woods launches BuildFest, a three-year initiative featuring large-scale timber installations and multimedia experiences on the historic 1969 Woodstock festival grounds, organized sequentially around construction, choreography, and performance themes.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

6 Unbuilt Retreats Exploring Hospitality Through Landscape and Refuge

Retreat architecture reimagines hospitality through landscape-responsive design prioritizing rest, reflection, and environmental sensitivity over spectacle across diverse global contexts.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

playful interactive cone installation reflects viewers' sand art back to them

A circular concrete ring forms a defined boundary, incorporating a landing and three steps that lead into a contained field of refined sand. At the center of this ring rises a tall cone clad in polished mirrored steel. The composition establishes a clear geometric contrast between the horizontal plane of sand and the vertical reflective surface.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

patterned tiles extend from curved walls to furniture in layered retail exhibition booth

Accessible from three sides, the booth is shaped by approach and visibility rather than a single frontal orientation. The primary entry is marked by an angled portal set back from the site edge, establishing a layered visual field rather than an immediate overview. From this offset threshold, overlapping planes of tiles, textures, and color unfold gradually, encouraging movement through depth rather than direct access.
Design
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

kinetic lighting activates mechanical movement in a sculpture of steel and glass

Kinetic lighting object integrating pulleys, counterweights, glass sphere reflector, and onyx diffuser to produce adjustable directional and diffused illumination via physical interaction.
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

Sandscape Lighting by Studio Haran Breathes Water Into Wood

Sandscape Collection transforms coastal ripple patterns into wooden and ceramic lighting and objects that celebrate grain, depth, and customizable ceramic finishes.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Landforms Office / Billboards

Phosart Studio Landforms functions as an architectural manifesto integrating real estate operations, workspace design, and model homes to translate territorial scale into built experience.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Designing for Presence: When Architecture Invites Us to Stay

Architectural design should prioritize presence by creating calm, comfortable spaces that enable staying, reflection, and shared awareness without demanding interaction.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month 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.
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