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items: taubenkobel brings VOGELFREI culinary pop-up to vienna through botanical and light art
items: BUREAU highlights lake geneva lighthouse’s lattice geometry with blue accents
items: designing for artists, wittman estes builds a home with integrated creative studios
items: mirroring pillowed walls filled with reed grass compose sensory installation in montpellier
items: ARK architects build bio-villa in southern spain from unprocessed materials
items: zaha hadid architects to design garden-infused malpensa hospital in italy
items: SANAA’s taichung art museum opens in taiwan with translucent dual-layer metal facade
items: wearable shelter garment transforms into a livable tent with sleeves as backpacks
items: MVRDV perches arched, earth-covered timber pavilion among the hills of chengdu, china
items: camille walala scatters sculptural benches animated by color and pattern in arkansas

taubenkobel brings VOGELFREI culinary pop-up to vienna through botanical and light art
type: item
creator: kat barandy I designboom
date: 2025-12-14T18:30:51Z
subject: design
subject: architecture in austria
subject: flower and leaf art
subject: restaurant and café design
description: taubenkobel uses and botanical and light art to frame its annual culinary VOGELFREI pop-up, this year at atelier augarten in vienna. The post taubenkobel brings VOGELFREI culinary pop-up to vienna through botanical and light art appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: VOGELFREI lands in Vienna for its tenth year VOGELFREI is a seasonal pop-up restaurant and spatial installation by Taubenkobel, unfolding this winter inside Atelier Augarten in Vienna as a temporary convergence of art and cuisine. Each year, the team behind the two-Michelin-star restaurant relocates its kitchen and collaborators from rural Burgenland to the city, occupying sites that sit outside Vienna’s usual cultural circuits and reshaping them through food and atmosphere. For this edition, the choice of Atelier Augarten brings the project into a former studio building set within the parkland of the Augarten. The setting offers a restrained architectural envelope with generous volume and daylight, allowing the intervention to unfold through material presence rather than overt scenography. The project reads as a carefully composed occupation of space, where dining becomes one layer within a broader spatial experience. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1169642 size-full" src="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/taubenkobel-pop-up-vogelfrei-austria-designboom-01.jpg" alt="taubenkobel vogelfrei" width="818" height="655" srcset="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/taubenkobel-pop-up-vogelfrei-austria-designboom-01.jpg 818w, https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/taubenkobel-pop-up-vogelfrei-austria-designboom-01-125x100.jpg 125w, https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/taubenkobel-pop-up-vogelfrei-austria-designboom-01-768x615.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px" /> VOGELFREI, image courtesy Taubenkobel vogelfrei: Taubenkobel’s traveling culinary experience Taubenkobel’s annual VOGELFREI pop-up sees the dismantling of a working kitchen and the transportation of an entire team to create a productive tension between permanence and impermanence. In Vienna, this tension shapes how spaces are read and used over the course of an evening, as guests move through zones defined…

BUREAU highlights lake geneva lighthouse’s lattice geometry with blue accents
type: item
creator: Bureau
date: 2025-12-14T11:50:07Z
subject: architecture
subject: readers
subject: architecture in switzerland
subject: BUREAU
description: the project reinterprets the traditional lighthouse typology for an urban harbor context. The post BUREAU highlights lake geneva lighthouse’s lattice geometry with blue accents appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: BUREAU Redefines the Lighthouse in an Urban Harbor Context PHARE YLLIAM is a lighthouse developed by BUREAU architecture firm for the waterfront of Geneva, Switzerland. Lighthouses carry a clear functional purpose and a distinct spatial presence. As singular vertical structures positioned at the edges of landmasses, they serve as navigational markers and contribute to the reading of the surrounding landscape. The project works within this typology while adapting it to the specific conditions of Geneva’s harbor. Unlike traditional coastal sites often associated with dramatic cliffs or exposed terrain, the Geneva waterfront presents a calm, controlled environment. The project responds by reinforcing its infrastructural identity rather than replicating the familiar aesthetic of conventional lighthouse silhouettes. Set against a landscape of riprap, the structure emphasizes its role as part of a broader system rather than a symbolic standalone figure. all images by Dylan Perrenoud Layered Vertical Sequence defines PHARE YLLIAM Lighthouse The design references the hyperboloid structures developed by early 20th-century Soviet engineer Vladimir Shukhov, particularly their efficiency, transparency, and structural lightness. This approach results in a lattice form that visually shifts with changing light and atmospheric conditions, allowing the lighthouse to appear and recede depending on the viewpoint. Its vertical structure is anchored by a solid mineral base, a reinterpretation of the stone blocks that line the harbor. The project also introduces a new spatial sequence along this extension into the lake. The interior program spans three levels, each offering distinct spatial conditions. The base level forms a sheltered interior with a panoramic opening toward the water. Above it, a compact cabin-like space provides an elevated 360-degree view across the lake. At the top, a movable lantern constitutes the project’s key functional element. Integrated within the structural p…

designing for artists, wittman estes builds a home with integrated creative studios
type: item
creator: kat barandy I designboom
date: 2025-12-14T03:45:33Z
subject: architecture
subject: interiors
subject: architecture in the US
subject: residential architecture and interiors
description: wittman estes' 'french creek workshop house' in washington merges spaces for living, woodworking, metalworking, and glass art. The post designing for artists, wittman estes builds a home with integrated creative studios appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: french creek workshop house: living in washington wetlands Washington-based architecture studio Wittman Estes completes its French Creek Workshops House among the sprawling, forested area of Snohomish. The a four-and-a-half-acre site is located alongside a wetland once used as an animal sanctuary. Conceived as a year-round retreat for a newly retired couple, the project balances shelter during the long, wet season with openness during warmer months. The single-level home is arranged for aging-in-place and multigenerational use, with a plan that follows the gentle slope of the land through subtle terracing. Wide doorways, flush thresholds, and sandblasted concrete floors support steady movement throughout the 2,471-square-foot residence, while the building’s low stance allows it to settle into the landscape without becoming an obstruction. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1169618 size-full" src="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wittman-estes-french-creek-workshop-designboom-01.jpg" alt="Wittman Estes French Creek" width="818" height="546" srcset="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wittman-estes-french-creek-workshop-designboom-01.jpg 818w, https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wittman-estes-french-creek-workshop-designboom-01-768x513.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px" /> images © Andrew Pogue Wittman Estes’ interiors balance craft and durability The design team at Wittman Estes curates the interior palette of its French Creek Workshop House to express a dialogue between durability and craft. Locally-sourced fir and cedar bring warmth to spaces shaped by concrete and terrazzo, while reddish-brown soffits and a vivid blue kitchen wall introduce moments of color that register against the muted palette. Cast-in-place concrete floors with hydronic radiant heating continue onto exterior patios and paths, extending the sense of continuity across thresholds. Personal fabrication …

mirroring pillowed walls filled with reed grass compose sensory installation in montpellier
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creator: COAT
date: 2025-12-13T18:01:56Z
subject: art
subject: readers
subject: architecture in france
subject: interactive installation
subject: private courtyards
description: thatch-filled pillows with circular openings form a regular grid across the installation’s exterior facade. The post mirroring pillowed walls filled with reed grass compose sensory installation in montpellier appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: Chaume Sublimé Transforms Reed Grass into Sensory Architecture Chaume Sublimé is an ephemeral installation by COAT – conditions atmosphériques d’espaces, created for the Festival des Architectures Vives 2025 in Montpellier, France. The project investigates the spatial and sensory potential of reed grass, using the material to form an atmosphere-driven architectural intervention that examines craftsmanship, sustainability, and the transformation of everyday resources. The installation is composed of two opposing walls placed within the courtyard of the Hôtel des Trésoriers de la Bourse. Each wall presents two contrasting sides, interpreting both the external street-facing facade and the internal courtyard facade. This duality parallels the relationship between plate and food in contemporary haute cuisine, where the support and the content form a unified composition. The exterior faces form a minimal, monochrome envelope, while the interior faces carry the textural and sensory expression. The arrangement defines an intermediate zone that becomes a focal exploration space for visitors. Reed grass forms the primary material. It is deployed in distinct configurations to articulate the contrast between exterior and interior. A regular grid of thatch-filled pillows establishes a controlled facade, punctuated by circular openings that offer partial views toward the interior and encourage interaction. Stacked sheaves of thatch introduce varied textures and colors. Natural dyes, such as coffee grounds, turmeric, and root-based pigments, add chromatic shifts and subtle olfactory qualities that extend into the surrounding street. The lightweight bundles respond to air movement and visitor passage, producing temporary sensory effects. Recognizable architectural elements from the courtyard context are incorporated subtly into this inner surface, establishing a direct connection between installation and site. all images by Paul Kozlowski – photoarchitecture unless stated otherwise…

ARK architects build bio-villa in southern spain from unprocessed materials
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creator: Antonio Ruiz
date: 2025-12-13T11:30:54Z
subject: architecture
subject: readers
subject: video
subject: architecture in spain
subject: residential architecture and interiors
description: ARK architects delivers sustainable luxury with villa geneve's bio-architecture, emphasizing unprocessed materials and well-being. The post ARK architects build bio-villa in southern spain from unprocessed materials appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: bio-villa geneve designed by ark architects Perched in the exclusive landscape of La Zagaleta in the hills of Benahavís, near Marbella, Spain, Villa Geneve is a benchmark for contemporary bio-architecture, designed by Manuel Ruiz Moriche of ARK Architects. This design balances natural beauty, sophisticated architecture and contemporary sustainability to create a residence that exists in perfect harmony with its surroundings. The home is guided by ARK’s unique philosophy of bio-architecture, a transformative approach that uses architecture as a mediator between humans and nature to enhance well-being. the home is located in the exclusive landscape of La Zagaleta in the hills of Benahavís, near Marbella all images courtesy of ARK Architects luxury yet sustainable architecture The Villa Geneve’s clean, modern lines blend organically into the lush landscape of La Zagaleta, with open views across the Benahavís mountains, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. ARK Architects’ design celebrates the connection between interior and exterior, creating a home that breathes and adapts to the rhythm of life. Contemporary luxury here is defined by authenticity and a connection with the environment, symbolizing a shift toward a quiet, conscious, and sustainable lifestyle. the design balances natural beauty, sophisticated architecture and contemporary sustainability A firm commitment to sustainability is evident in the materials chosen. In keeping with the ARK philosophy, the project exclusively uses natural, unprocessed materials such as stone, chemically unprocessed wood, and unadulterated finishes. Even the paints are lime-based, promoting healthy living within the villa. These materials are expressed in their purest form possible, reinforcing the project’s dedication to sustainability and achieving a raw yet refined aesthetic. the bio-architecture achieve a raw yet refined aesthetic The architecture and interior design are seamlessly combined. The spaces have been furnished with pie…

zaha hadid architects to design garden-infused malpensa hospital in italy
type: item
creator: kat barandy I designboom
date: 2025-12-13T05:01:58Z
subject: architecture
subject: interiors
subject: architecture in italy
subject: healthcare facilities
subject: zaha hadid
description: zaha hadid architects' malpensa hospital will shape a medical campus surrounded by a landscape of forests in lombardy, italy. The post zaha hadid architects to design garden-infused malpensa hospital in italy appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: healthcare space design by ZAHA HADID architects A consortium led by Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to design the new Malpensa Hospital in Lombardy, Italy. The project will unite the existing hospitals of Gallarate and Busto Arsizio into a single medical campus serving the area between Milan and Varese. Commissioned by the Lombardy Regional Health Authority, the project is conceived as a contemporary healthcare environment for a population approaching one million residents. The winning team led by Zaha Hadid Architects with RINA, Studio Plicchi, WSP, STI Engineering, and BC Building Consulting brings together architectural design with engineering and healthcare planning. The proposal responds to the evolving demands of the Olona Valley, with an emphasis on adaptability, operational efficiency, and long-term public service. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1169582 size-full" src="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/zaha-hadid-architects-grande-ospedale-malpensa-hostpital-italy-designboom-01.jpg" alt="" width="818" height="511" srcset="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/zaha-hadid-architects-grande-ospedale-malpensa-hostpital-italy-designboom-01.jpg 818w, https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/zaha-hadid-architects-grande-ospedale-malpensa-hostpital-italy-designboom-01-768x480.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px" /> visualizations © X Universe navigating the malpensa hospital Malpensa Hospital is planned by Zaha Hadid Architects and its partners as a compact structure with five levels above ground and a single basement, encompassing around 90,000 square meters. Its organization follows a clear gradient of care intensity, which allows critical functions to operate with precision while maintaining legible movement for patients and staff. Clinical spaces are arranged to support change over time, with layouts capable of adjustment as medical practices and technologies advan…

SANAA’s taichung art museum opens in taiwan with translucent dual-layer metal facade
type: item
creator: Yi-Hsien Lee
date: 2025-12-13T01:45:58Z
subject: architecture
subject: readers
subject: architecture in taiwan
subject: library architecture and design
subject: museums and galleries
subject: SANAA
description: its inaugural exhibition, 'a call of all beings', brings together more than 70 artists and collectives from 20 countries. The post SANAA’s taichung art museum opens in taiwan with translucent dual-layer metal facade appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: Taichung Art Museum by SANAA opens to the public SANAA’s Taichung Art Museum, part of the newly completed Taichung Green Museumbrary, opens today, December 13th, 2025 in Taiwan. The project integrates the city’s central library with a metropolitan art museum, establishing a combined cultural facility that presents a new institutional model. The Taichung Green Museumbrary sits on the northern edge of Central Park, a 67-hectare green space within the 254-hectare Shuinan Trade and Economic Park, formerly a military airport decommissioned in 2004. Positioned at the heart of this redevelopment area, the project has been described as Taiwan’s most significant cultural initiative of 2025. SANAA’s design follows the guiding idea of creating ‘a library in a park and an art museum in a forest.’ The building is lifted above ground level, allowing natural light and park breezes to move freely through shaded plazas that provide open, permeable access from all sides. Its inaugural exhibition, A Call of All Beings, brings together more than 70 artists and collectives from 20 countries. The show unfolds across galleries and public spaces through video, painting, sculpture, installation, archival material, artists’ books, and 24 newly commissioned, site-specific works, accompanied by performances, workshops, and talks exploring human and multispecies coexistence. SANAA unveils the Taichung Art Museum as part of the Green Museumbrary | all images by YHLAA – Yi Hsien Lee An Open Plan Connecting Culture and Nature The plan dissolves traditional divisions between museum and library spaces within an open and inclusive interior. Reading areas and exhibition zones are designed to overlap, encouraging cross-programming and interaction. The library will house over one million physical and digital resources. On the rooftop, the design team at SANAA organizes an outdoor garden that offers views of Central Park and the Taichung skyline. Conceived as both a public landscape and a cultural extens…

wearable shelter garment transforms into a livable tent with sleeves as backpacks
type: item
creator: matthew burgos I designboom
date: 2025-12-12T22:45:01Z
subject: design
subject: fashion design phenomena
subject: tents
description: created by fashion student yoon myat su lin, the concept originates from her memory of an earthquake in myanmar, where many people were suddenly displaced. The post wearable shelter garment transforms into a livable tent with sleeves as backpacks appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: Transformable and wearable shelter garment with tent Shelter Wear presents a wearable outer garment that transforms into a livable tent with sleeves that double as backpacks. Created by Tokyo-based fashion student Yoon Myat Su Lin, the design concept originates from her memory of an earthquake in Myanmar, where many people were suddenly displaced and left without safe, temporary shelter. That moment stayed with her, forming the basis of a garment that functions beyond being streetwear. Instead of looking at fashion as just a form of creative expression, she channels practicality, asking how a wearable object can support someone during a crisis. At the center of the project is a simple idea: clothing is always with the user, so why not allow it to transform into what they urgently need? This starting point leads to a design that shifts between everyday wear and emergency structure, as the wearable shelter garment converts into a tent, with its sleeves operating as backpacks. Each element is part of the same design, avoiding the need for separate items. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1169600 size-full" src="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wearable-emergency-garment-tent-sleeves-backpacks-designboom-01.jpg" alt="wearable shelter garment tent" width="818" height="1021" srcset="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wearable-emergency-garment-tent-sleeves-backpacks-designboom-01.jpg 818w, https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wearable-emergency-garment-tent-sleeves-backpacks-designboom-01-801x1000.jpg 801w, https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wearable-emergency-garment-tent-sleeves-backpacks-designboom-01-768x959.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px" /> all images courtesy of Yoon Myat Su Lin | photos by Anatolii Ozarto Sleeves double as backpacks for essential item storage The wearable shelter garment with tent and backpacks, inspired by the works of fellow des…

MVRDV perches arched, earth-covered timber pavilion among the hills of chengdu, china
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creator: thomai tsimpou I designboom
date: 2025-12-12T16:01:32Z
subject: architecture
subject: category banner
subject: homepage banner
subject: architecture in china
subject: MVRDV
subject: wood and timber architecture and design
description: the 414-square-meter pavilion uses earth-covered timber arches to reconstruct the silhouette of a hill. The post MVRDV perches arched, earth-covered timber pavilion among the hills of chengdu, china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: MVRDV embeds a civic pavilion within the hills of Pujiang MVRDV completes Pujiang Platform, a timber event pavilion and viewing structure embedded into the hills east of Pujiang, southwest of Chengdu, China. Conceived as an architectural extension of the terrain itself, the 414-square-meter pavilion uses earth-covered timber arches to reconstruct the silhouette of a hill that was previously flattened, while framing panoramic views toward the growing town below and the Qionglai Mountains beyond. Set within a landscape that is rapidly transforming as Pujiang develops into a new sustainable town, the project aims to offer residents and visitors a place for gatherings, ceremonies, and civic use, and to do so with minimal visual and environmental impact. MVRDV shapes the building as a telescopic form that appears almost geological when seen from afar, while becoming legible as a civic structure through its large viewing window and projecting balcony. At night, light spilling from this opening turns the pavilion into a landmark, visible from the plains below without dominating the landscape.‘The hills of this region are truly a spectacular sight, so one of the challenges we faced was to make the most of those views while reducing the impact on the landscape. By adding a hill-shaped pavilion with a green roof we not only minimise our own impact, but we recreated the hill that was there before,’ MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs notes. ‘This act of preserving and respecting nature is the essence of the design, which is continued in the construction approach, using bio-based materials such as wood that are more sustainable and thus have less impact on natural environments such as this one.’ <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1169560 size-full" src="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/mvrdv-earth-covered-pavilion-viewing-deck-public-gatherings-china-designboom-01.jpg" alt="" width="818" height="546" srcset="https://www.designboom.com/wp…

camille walala scatters sculptural benches animated by color and pattern in arkansas
type: item
creator: thomai tsimpou I designboom
date: 2025-12-12T11:50:39Z
subject: design
subject: camille walala
subject: justkids
subject: steel architecture and design
subject: street furniture
description: the pieces work collectively to establish a visual cadence along the street, transforming moments of rest into encounters with form and color. The post camille walala scatters sculptural benches animated by color and pattern in arkansas appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
encoded: Camille Walala and the language of color in the public realm Bold blocks of color and chunky geometric forms define The Walala Lounge, Camille Walala’s permanent public installation in downtown Bentonville, Arkansas. Spread across the streets of the market district, the project transforms benches and planters into oversized sculptural steel elements, using saturated hues and graphic contrasts. Curated by justkids, the pieces work collectively to establish a visual cadence along the street, transforming moments of rest, waiting, and gathering into shared encounters with form and color. Walala describes the project as an opportunity to move beyond surface-based work and into shared, physical experience. ‘In 2022, I painted two buildings at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport. This time, we got to move beyond murals to 3D sculptural pieces of furniture in downtown,’ notes the designer. ‘I wanted to take unusual shapes and turn them into meeting points. I love public art and creating free, joyful spaces where people can share everyday moments together. I can’t wait to see how people use these pieces.’ <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1169487 size-full" src="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/camille-walala-color-pattern-culptural-benches-bentonville-arkansas-justkids-designboom-01.jpg" alt="" width="818" height="545" srcset="https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/camille-walala-color-pattern-culptural-benches-bentonville-arkansas-justkids-designboom-01.jpg 818w, https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/camille-walala-color-pattern-culptural-benches-bentonville-arkansas-justkids-designboom-01-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px" /> The Walala Lounge by Camille Walala, curated by Justkids, courtesy of Oz Art NWA | all images courtesy of Justkids turning urban furniture into sculptural infrastructure London-based designer Camille Walala brings her language of color, pattern, a…