Dec 24, 2025from high-tech hoverbikes to solar-powered motorcycles, our list shows a design shift in personal mobility, where experimentation, form, and user experience come through.
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motorcycle and scooter design (479)
Dec 24, 2025
Nov 25, 2025an upgraded and smaller version of the 2024 model, the brand revives the retro styling for the recent motorbike with its pixelated decals.
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electric motorcycle and scooter design (361)
Nov 19, 2025SOLARIS features retractable photovoltaic wings that form the core of the motorcycle's solar-harvesting system.
Nov 05, 2025presented at EICMA 2025 in milan, the vehicle follows the brand’s goal to build lightweight electric vehicles for city use and off-road conditions.
architectural icons (14)
Dec 16, 2025the barbican centre will be closed from june 2028 until summer 2029 for an ambitious renovation led by buro happold and asif khan.
Nov 21, 2025altrath focuses on the constant shifts of light, weather, and movement that animate the megastructure of the brutalist icon.
facades (437)
Dec 19, 2025the architects allow the perimeter of the site to define the volume, resulting in an architecture that bends, adjusts, and aligns itself with the movement of the street.
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Dec 18, 2025designed by luca poian forms and frade arquitectos, 'espardenyer' proposes a climate responsive congress centre for elche, spain.
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renovation and restoration architecture and design (1126)
Dec 17, 2025the project restores aspects of the original structure and introduces new spaces that align the museum with current international standards.
Dec 16, 2025the barbican centre will be closed from june 2028 until summer 2029 for an ambitious renovation led by buro happold and asif khan.
architecture in barcelona (106)
Dec 11, 2025altherr désile park details their sensitive, human-centered update of roca's meridian collection, bringing architectonic design to the bathroom.
Nov 25, 2025isern serra's latest project looks like a concept design store, but it's the barcelona flagship of relleno pasta.
casa batlló (10)
Oct 02, 2025restored by the barcelona-based studio, the gallery occupies a 230-square-meter second-floor apartment that has remained closed to the public for decades.
Jun 19, 2025as casa batlló marks 20 years as a UNESCO world heritage site, the domestic spaces at the heart of gaudí’s design are set to reemerge with renewed clarity and vibrancy.
charles and ray eames (26)
Aug 01, 2025the eames institute will convert a modernist warehouse in northern california into a museum designed by herzog & de meuron.
Jul 23, 2025the foundation aims to preserve and extend the eames legacy through exhibitions, education, global partnerships, and long-term conservation.
the metropolitan museum of art (32)
Oct 21, 2025the project marks the artist’s first major US presentation and the seventh edition of the met’s annual public facade commission.
Jun 19, 2025the 9-minute film and scale model of the galleries reimagine how the met could welcome, orient, and engage visitors in the 21st century.
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architecture in china (2029)
Dec 23, 2025titled fun palace, the installation combines five looping ball-track systems with five sculptural architectural forms.
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Dec 16, 2025courtyards of varying sizes surround the central house volume, merging living spaces with the urban realm.
rooftop architecture and design (198)
Dec 24, 2025wooden columns replace walls to create an open interior flow within the single-story nursery school.
Dec 11, 2025ITM yooehwa slices the prayer room's rooftop with the form of a cross, visible only from the interior and from overhead.
wood and timber architecture and design (1353)
Dec 24, 2025wooden columns replace walls to create an open interior flow within the single-story nursery school.
by embedding a sensor‑driven mechanism, phantom chess bridges centuries of analog play with the analytical power of modern chess engines.
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residential architecture and interiors (4664)
Dec 20, 2025a roofed porch traces a perfect square, enclosing a 15 × 15 meter courtyard framed by a colonnade.
Dec 18, 2025the design is inspired by the geometry and structure of a voluminous tent.
architecture in norway (190)
Oct 30, 2025the new vipp lofoten guesthouse is designed by LOGG ARKITEKTER as an elevated timber retreat in snøhetta's village on the coast of norway.
Oct 10, 2025the structure by oslotre is composed entirely of mass timber, with glulam columns and beams.
exhibition design (757)
Dec 17, 2025the exhibition, which runs until march 14th, 2026, marks cornell’s first solo presentation in paris in more than forty years.
Dec 03, 2025the exhibition brings together digital media, architecture, data science, and music.
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