Dec 25, 2025after revisiting the striking photography projects we covered over the past 12 months, we've curated a selection of the top 10.
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les rencontres de la photographie d'arles (8)
Dec 25, 2025
Jul 26, 2025the two photographers take viewers on a journey across US route 1, documenting the cultural, social, and environmental conditions explicit in today’s united states.
reuben wu (6)
Jul 29, 2025the images are captured entirely on-site, in single exposures, using drones and lasers to inscribe fleeting geometries into the environment.
connections: +450
Nov 26, 2020is this planet earth or did reuben wu travel to mars?
designboom book reports (233)
Mar 05, 2026architecture, wellness culture, and slow living converge in a visual survey of contemporary sauna design.
connections: +350
moving from canvas to immersive installation, the book features works by takashi murakami, yayoi kusama, olafur eliasson, kimsooja and others.
connections: +240
musée du louvre (22)
Dec 25, 2025after revisiting the striking photography projects we covered over the past 12 months, we've curated a selection of the top 10.
Oct 17, 2025following an international call that attracted more than a hundred submissions, the shortlist announced marks a milestone in the nouvelle renaissance project.
connections: +3390
- amanda levete architects / AL_A (27)
- architecture in france (728)
- architecture in paris (268)
- ATELIER BRÜCKNER (6)
- dan pearson studio (5)
- diller scofidio and renfro (108)
- musée du louvre (22)
- museums and galleries (862)
- renovation and restoration architecture and design (1162)
- SANAA (87)
- selldorf architects (11)
- sou fujimoto (105)
photography (445)
Feb 22, 2026each imaginary scene begins as a physically constructed cubic room built from scratch.
connections: +520
Jan 31, 2026the series documents the photographer’s repeated encounters with the maritime landscape, using the ferry crossing as a fixed observational point.
connections: +440
architecture in japan (1704)
Mar 02, 2026the design incorporates elements that regulate exposure and enclosure.
connections: +6470
Mar 02, 2026a curved roof split by a central linear skylight forms the villa’s geometry.
residential architecture and interiors (4768)
Mar 03, 2026during construction, builders temporarily relocated the site’s large boulders and later returned them to their original positions.
Mar 02, 2026cristián nanzer shapes 'casa cosmos' with a triangular floor plan and board-formed concrete for cavernous spaces and views across argentina.
chicken coops (17)
Dec 24, 2025the piece turns a functional agricultural structure into a design-focused object.
connections: 31
Dec 22, 2025from bamboo vaults rising in flood-prone villages to inflatable dream temples, here are ten pavilions reshaping how we think about space right now.
gold (14)
Jan 25, 2026design studio halleroed arrives in hong kong with a new retail project, a schiaparelli salon realized with gilded interiors.
connections: +950
Oct 25, 2024on the ceiling inside the car, there are 719 ‘stars’ positioned, replicating the exact constellations during the last night of the 1964 movie’s filming.
connections: +1090
gabion walls (13)
Dec 24, 2025a new pavilion opens on mount royal, the highest point in montreal and home to the basilica saint joseph’s oratory.
connections: +300
Sep 25, 2025portuguese studio artequitectos organizes the interiors of its CL house to face a central garden courtyard.
architecture in canada (285)
Feb 18, 2026the house breaks into distinct arms that follow the topography and orientation of the site.
Feb 13, 2026omar gandhi's 'east river residence' is elevated atop slender steel columns to float over the rocky terrain of nova scotia.
sound art (110)
Feb 23, 2026a commission by a client, the owner originally asked the sound artist to create his own version of the rosita commander luxus from 1970.
Feb 12, 2026the team draws from the Japanese concept of iwagumi, a tradition of composed rock arrangements.
table design (186)
Jan 08, 2026cara campos' furniture collection expresses the geometries and visible wear of the worn bicycles.
connections: +1990
Jan 05, 2026guided by organic morphologies, the living series develops form and structure across a sculptural chair, side table, and tray.
connections: +1470
christmas tree (16)
Dec 24, 2025la mécanique de noël installation examines festive gatherings through spatial design and mechanics.
Dec 24, 2024standing 8.4 meters tall, yuji okitsu's spiral-shaped centerpiece is crafted from 40,000 precision-cut fresnel lenses.
connections: 16
interactive installation (542)
a cubic image body is constructed from 144 vertical glass strips.
Mar 04, 2026the project transforms sand into an interactive medium that invites play, reflection, and collective gathering.
connections: +570
lighting design (562)
Mar 04, 2026two recessed ‘eyes’ introduce a subtle anthropomorphic presence.
connections: +2060
Mar 03, 2026using two AAA batteries, the lightbulb-shaped device has no wires, no plugs, or no need for a mains connection.
connections: +680
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