Dec 24, 2025la mécanique de noël installation examines festive gatherings through spatial design and mechanics.
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architecture in france (717)
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Dec 13, 2025thatch-filled pillows with circular openings form a regular grid across the installation’s exterior facade.
pink (42)
Dec 18, 2025calibrated 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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Dec 12, 2025the design takes the familiar elements of frosting, piped borders, and sugar decorations and reworks them into architectural motifs.
children's spaces (140)
Dec 24, 2025wooden columns replace walls to create an open interior flow within the single-story nursery school.
Dec 23, 2025the urban conga collaborates with a new york public housing community in the bronx to transform forgotten steps into a multigenerational playscape.
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hotel architecture and design (747)
Dec 16, 2025a continuation of the existing rock formations, the hotel is articulated as a series of stepped horizontal planes, courtyards, and gardens.
Dec 16, 2025the hotel is open for reservations once again, restoring access to what it calls ‘the worst view in the world,’ facing the concrete separation wall.
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A' design award and competition (86)
Oct 13, 2025the submission deadline for 2026 is february 28, with winners announced on may 1st.
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Sep 15, 2025A' design award winners blur the lines between art and architecture, shaping public experiences with groundbreaking, statement-making designs.
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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.
retail interiors (804)
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, 2025sejima frames the project as a garden-like environment that operates on its own sense of time.
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architecture interviews (315)
Dec 23, 2025the legendary architect and co-founder of archigram speaks with designboom at mugak/2025 on utopia, drawing, and the lasting impact of his visionary works.
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Dec 09, 2025speaking to designboom, mandlik positions factory 5.0 as a framework for rethinking material futures.
venice architecture biennale 2025 (60)
Oct 30, 2025each 3D printed unit is fabricated from sawdust and recycled consumer plastics.
Sep 03, 2025on september 5th, 2025, aquapraça is set to debut in venice, inviting visitors to experience its sloping, water-responsive surfaces firsthand.
nieuwe instituut (5)
May 19, 2025in our exclusive interview, curator amanda pinatih and designer gabriel fontana delve into the conceptual framework behind SIDELINED.
May 17, 2025nieuwe instituut's exhibition 'ma yansong: architecture and emotion' in rotterdam explores how emotion and nature shape MAD’s vision.
3D printing (872)
Dec 11, 2025assembled by hand, the string instruments adopt the lightweight material, which doesn’t react to temperature and humidity.
built with a 3D printed case, the miniature device runs on rechargeable battery and has only one control button.
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climate change (192)
Dec 17, 2025designed for research, recreation, and habitation, the system supports human-ocean coexistence.
Nov 19, 2025first presented in a simplified prototype during the venice architecture biennale 2025, aquapraça arrives in brazil in its complete form.
timepiece design (419)
Dec 19, 2025happy time operates as a small, conceptual sculpture for the wrist, offering a slowed, ambiguous experience of duration.
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Dec 09, 2025a traveler’s watch, it was the japanese architect masayuki kurokawa that designed the accessory way back in 1999.
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calendars (11)
May 19, 2025the designer derives earth and cloud visuals derived from NASA's datasets with month-specific versions applied individually to each small globe.
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Nov 07, 2014matt w. moore sent us photos of his 2015 ‘vectorfunk’ calendar - which features all new 100% custom typographic explorations for each month.
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