movable walls enable flexible configurations within the art center.
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architecture in china (2068)
physical remains of industry become a testing ground for how architecture can extend memory and generate new forms of experience.
restaurant and café design (946)
wallmakers transforms shipping containers into climate-responsive 'petti restaurant' through earth insulation and passive cooling.
ravioli and farfalle motifs appear as subtle furniture details.
connections: +1370
interiors (35)
movable walls enable flexible configurations within the art center.
burl wood, velvet, and patterned textiles define the store’s interior language.
smartphone design (271)
a modular device built around a physical keyboard, the case introduces a full QWERTY typing tool that attaches magnetically.
connections: +490
a multipurpose accessory, the embedded gadget is powered by AI and can also record audios and translate them into texts on its own.
google (148)
familiar arcade formats are recomposed through AI-generated logic.
named project suncatcher, the research project is unveiled to meet the demands of AI use on earth.
vans (9)
part of the ongoing series OTW, the accessories are designed by artist sterling ruby through his studio S.R. STUDIO. LA. CA for the footwear brand vans.
connections: +540
using a two-part system, the closed outer shell forms a structure around the inner mule, so users can wear the inside without the outer shell.
connections: +670
shoe design (349)
the construction supports maintenance, disassembly, and material recovery.
kibardin design's egg box sneakers conceptual project examines how waste can be reinterpreted into new forms.
fashion design phenomena (311)
the coat operates as wearable architecture, proposing survival as something carried directly on the body.
burl wood, velvet, and patterned textiles define the store’s interior language.
public art (749)
at OCT-LOFT’s 2026 ‘super new year’, a kinetic installation turns public space into a shared game of motion.
'I believe in fantasy and fun and imagination': the artist on activating public spaces, participation and gathering as an act of optimism.
pink (45)
the 180-square-meter space combines record retail, vinyl listening zones, a photo studio and community infrastructure.
gradient pink mirrors line the preserved brick perimeter.
plastic art and design (119)
hand-assembled into the canvas, hundreds of these materials become the base for screen-printed and painted portraits of cultural figures.
connections: +800
made from expanded polystyrene, designer max lamb made 431 chairs for the show, arranged in uniform rows inside palazzo san fedele.
temporary pavilions (581)
the project uses recycled sails and participatory embroidery to turn a public square into a space for imagining a new urban future.
drawing on the tradition of the architectural folly, the pavilion reimagines the historic garden typology as a contemporary gathering space.
inflatable structures (164)
a set full of installation built from the brand’s memories since 1978, the space works like a scene after a party, with items place across the floor.
'the rhinoceros in the room,' an inflatable installation by itamar gov, fills the nave of kunstmuseum magdeburg in germany.
connections: +580
interactive installation (549)
at thaddaeus ropac paris marais, ariana papademetropoulos presents glass slipper, her first solo exhibition in france.
connections: +750
the London-based artist's work reimagines how communities can form in the present, not as fixed ideals but as lived, audible encounters.
sculpture (526)
material interactions a series of kinetic objects that explore the role of materials as active components within design systems.
connections: +780
the London-based artist's work reimagines how communities can form in the present, not as fixed ideals but as lived, audible encounters.
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