May 21, 2026inside the museum’s entrance hall, visitors are invited to nap beneath suspended gardens, gather around a former jacuzzi, and share spaces shaped by edible plants, chromatic light, scent, and sound.
UPDATES
stay up to date with all the latest topics to be featured on designboom with our dedicated tag overview. we've collated the most recent themes in the worlds of art, architecture, design and technology for your easy reading: from emerging architecture studios to new design trends to relevant events from around the globe.
josé hevia (16)
May 21, 2026
Mar 30, 2026a continuous steel plinth reorganizes the historic interiors, allowing original ceilings, wallpapers, and traces of time to remain visible.
MAXXI (17)
Apr 29, 2026 spanning five decades of work, the exhibition anchors itself in 'straight', the artist’s reassembled steel rebar installation from the 2008 sichuan earthquake.
connections: +380
Apr 24, 2024these three-dimensional and immersive works expand the original research from 1956–1976 to 2010, the year MAXXI was completed.
connections: +1730
yasmeen lari (9)
May 21, 2026the pakistani architect's humanitarian practice turns bamboo, earth, and community knowledge into a softer model for climate resilience.
May 29, 2025from the works of hassan fathy to balkrishna doshi, the exhibition maps an architectural history of traditions of welcome, gathering, and collective care in the region.
hydropower (40)
May 20, 2026the hydrogen-powered car heads to utah's salt flats, aiming to break 350 mph using excavator-derived engine technology.
connections: +1100
Oct 09, 2025in the first half of 2025, solar and wind energy met and exceeded new electricity demand for the first time.
connections: +730
andy warhol (18)
May 20, 2026artists and architects transform air into a medium of instability, participation, and collective care through inflatables, fog structures, and suspended worlds.
Dec 04, 2025the installation by artist beeple comments on the ways tech giants’ platforms and their algorithms influence the way people see the world today.
gagosian (30)
Apr 17, 2026marcel duchamp’s readymades reappear as unresolved questions, reactivating debates around authorship, value, and the role of the viewer.
connections: +380
Dec 17, 2025the exhibition, which runs until march 14th, 2026, marks cornell’s first solo presentation in paris in more than forty years.
iris van herpen (21)
May 20, 2026artists and architects transform air into a medium of instability, participation, and collective care through inflatables, fog structures, and suspended worlds.
May 11, 2026the renowned dutch designer brings couture into dialogue with craft, technology, and nature’s interconnected systems at the brooklyn museum.
diller scofidio and renfro (109)
May 18, 2026the project introduces new public entrances, landscaped moats, and underground galleries that reconnect the louvre’s historic eastern facade with the city of paris.
connections: +3540
- amanda levete architects / AL_A (27)
- architecture in france (744)
- architecture in paris (263)
- ATELIER BRÜCKNER (6)
- dan pearson studio (5)
- diller scofidio and renfro (109)
- musée du louvre (22)
- museums and galleries (905)
- renovation and restoration architecture and design (1256)
- SANAA (88)
- selldorf architects (12)
- sou fujimoto (105)
Oct 27, 2025across the curving glass surface, a delicate pattern has been translated from a 1909 cartier brooch.
al borde (8)
May 20, 2026the project combines earth architecture, passive thermal regulation, and local agroecological knowledge to create a laboratory for sustainable biological production within the rainforest.
connections: +220
Nov 13, 2024beneath a thatched roof and durable chonta wood, al borde’s 'yuyarina pacha library' brings a new community space to ecuador's amazon.
earth architecture (83)
Apr 06, 2026bamboo joinery and passive ventilation define the closed-loop building system.
Mar 18, 2026wallmakers transforms shipping containers into climate-responsive 'petti restaurant' through earth insulation and passive cooling.
centre pompidou (21)
May 20, 2026inside the transformed annex of seoul’s iconic 63 building, the newly opened institution launches with a major exhibition tracing the origins of cubism through works by picasso, braque, léger, and more.
connections: +1420
Jan 29, 2026to open on november 28th, 2026, the project marks the city’s first institution fully dedicated to modern and contemporary art and architecture.
google (149)
May 20, 2026the partnership combines google’s latest push into wearable computing with samsung’s hardware ecosystem and gentle monster’s fashion-led eyewear design.
familiar arcade formats are recomposed through AI-generated logic.
samsung (110)
Apr 24, 2026samsung explores human side of tech for milan design week 2026 ‘Design, at its core, is an act of love,’ asserts Mauro Porcini, President and Chief »
connections: +350
Jan 05, 2026debuting at CES 2026, music studio 5 and 7 translate a graphic reference to musical notation into spatial Wi-Fi speakers.
venice architecture biennale 2027 (2)
May 19, 2026amid global instability and ecological crisis, the theme calls for an architecture grounded in material reality, local craft, cultural memory, and coexistence.
Nov 26, 2025the founders of amateur architecture studio have been appointed curators of the 20th international architecture exhibition, opening may 8th, 2027.
wang shu / amateur architecture studio (13)
Nov 26, 2025the founders of amateur architecture studio have been appointed curators of the 20th international architecture exhibition, opening may 8th, 2027.
Jun 15, 2018we speak with the 2012 pritzker laureate to learn more about the his approach to architecture, and what he thinks is the biggest challenge facing architects today.
connections: +350
musée du louvre (22)
May 18, 2026the project introduces new public entrances, landscaped moats, and underground galleries that reconnect the louvre’s historic eastern facade with the city of paris.
connections: +3540
- amanda levete architects / AL_A (27)
- architecture in france (744)
- architecture in paris (263)
- ATELIER BRÜCKNER (6)
- dan pearson studio (5)
- diller scofidio and renfro (109)
- musée du louvre (22)
- museums and galleries (905)
- renovation and restoration architecture and design (1256)
- SANAA (88)
- selldorf architects (12)
- sou fujimoto (105)
Dec 25, 2025after revisiting the striking photography projects we covered over the past 12 months, we've curated a selection of the top 10.
KEEP UP WITH OUR DAILY AND WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS