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animals in art (211)
designboom speaks with the italian artist about the making of 'Ι don’t like it, Ι love it', the importance of freedom, and why the 'impossible' is often just the beginning.
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art basel paris/design miami.paris 2025 (8)
on view at design miami.paris 2025 until october 26th, the ‘resonating ping pong table, song no. 1 (2025)’ is reminiscent of a xylophone and sound bath in one.
the exhibition, debuting in paris during art basel, is centered on a groundbreaking textile that translates the artist’s ongoing series 'light and shadow inside me'.
alex da corte (3)
alex da corte's artwork transforms the historic square into a stage for a scene of comic melancholy.
in an interview with designboom, the venezuelan-american artist revisits the artistic influences of the swedish-born american sculptor on his practice.
public art (730)
titled fun palace, the installation combines five looping ball-track systems with five sculptural architectural forms.
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calibrated to complete a full rotation every two minutes, the work takes a familiar fairground structure and transforms it into a sculptural environment.
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inflatable structures (159)
by pumping air into the light piece, users reveal the fragile tension between rigid aluminum frames and inflating membranes.
polymeter by plastique fantastique explores the intersection between material permanence and natural decay.
SpY (28)
the festival takes place under the theme 'in the blink of an eye,' exploring the city’s rapid transformation through immersive, light-based artworks.
black forms hover in silence, creating an immaterial geometry.
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art and architecture in saudi arabia (121)
mist and mirrored surfaces frame an infinite column of illumination.
beginning in 2026, tanween will expand into ithra design week, integrating design across and beyond ithra’s walls.
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light installation art (196)
noor riyadh director nouf almoneef discusses how the world’s largest light art festival connects the city's past and future, making art accessible to everyone.
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artist shaikha al mazrou presents 'the contingent object' at the public light art exhibition manar abu dhabi 2025.
noor riyadh (9)
from the metro to the historic center, see noor riyadh’s must-see light installations from 2025.
until december 6, light art transforms riyadh's public spaces, celebrating creativity and the city’s momentum under the theme: ‘in the blink of an eye’.
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residential architecture and interiors (4666)
HPA arquitetura's casa corten reinterprets an industrial site in portugal through corten steel volumes shaped the slope.
the modest structure explores how light and seasonal conditions can continually reshape interior experience.
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TETRO Arquitetura (7)
zenithal openings slice through the timber geometry, introducing controlled daylight into living spaces.
the suspended block is enveloped by a metallic brise-soleil that reads as a monolithic mass from the outside.
architecture in brazil (407)
the plan follows a hyperbolic geometry guiding movement toward the interior prayer space.
the project will be the first built work of the studio in south america and its second library after the gando primary school library.
concrete architecture and design (947)
discover the nadhyavart residence, a spa-like sanctuary where curved forms and tactile luxury offer a serene escape from the bustle of delhi.
in the recent discovery, the researchers show that the romans used quicklime, mixed it dry with volcanic ash, and added water to make the binding material.
mork-ulnes architects (12)
mork-ulnes architects' 'pavilion in the oaks' weaves among the california hillside canopy to become a flexible wellness retreat.
'the craft of place' illustrates mork-ulnes architects' blend of scandinavian pragmatism with an experimental california spirit.
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