Jan 14, 2026locally sourced limestone, wood, lime plaster, and hemp define the material palette.
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wood and timber architecture and design (1369)
Jan 14, 2026
Jan 12, 2026players construct speculative houses using wooden components, acrylic figures representing characters, and action cards derived from scenes of domestic life.
residential architecture and interiors (4689)
Jan 14, 2026edmonds + lee architects and garde hvalsøe design the residence as a pair of gabled volumes wrapped in fire-resistant steel cladding.
Jan 14, 2026locally sourced limestone, wood, lime plaster, and hemp define the material palette.
TETRO Arquitetura (7)
Dec 04, 2025zenithal openings slice through the timber geometry, introducing controlled daylight into living spaces.
Oct 21, 2025the suspended block is enveloped by a metallic brise-soleil that reads as a monolithic mass from the outside.
architecture in brazil (407)
Dec 15, 2025the plan follows a hyperbolic geometry guiding movement toward the interior prayer space.
Nov 25, 2025the project will be the first built work of the studio in south america and its second library after the gando primary school library.
rooftop architecture and design (201)
Jan 13, 2026the brise-vent havre harbor museum is proposed by LYT-X as an adaptive reuse of an industrial port building in france.
Jan 09, 2026the 3XN-designed sydney fish market brings a breezy market hall and waterfront promenade to sydney harbour.
architecture in italy (647)
Jan 06, 2026caffè nazionale is a restoration project by AMAA set beneath a nineteenth-century city hall colonnade in arzignano, italy.
Jan 01, 2026the compact structure offers a brief pause along the path, oscillating between the typologies of chapel, shelter, and shipwreck.
renovation and restoration architecture and design (1136)
Jan 12, 2026the material palette is intentionally restrained and minimal, preserving the character of the former cold-storage facility.
Jan 10, 2026kengo kuma will sensitively renovate the historic l'aventure michelin museum with its industrial heritage and rhythmic sawtooth roof.
marble and stone design (365)
Jan 14, 2026locally sourced limestone, wood, lime plaster, and hemp define the material palette.
Jan 07, 2026vertical cuts slice through the ring to create oval openings oriented toward key views.
Tanween (7)
Dec 19, 2025dubai design week and isola design directors discuss their partnership with tanween, signaling a maturing gulf ecosystem.
connections: +120
Dec 18, 2025tanween lead shahad alwazani reveals how the design festival builds regional dialogue and sets the stage for ithra design week 2026.
connections: +120
art and architecture in saudi arabia (121)
Dec 09, 2025mist and mirrored surfaces frame an infinite column of illumination.
Dec 04, 2025beginning in 2026, tanween will expand into ithra design week, integrating design across and beyond ithra’s walls.
connections: +130
apps (149)
Jan 13, 2026once the text is ready, there’s an accompanying compact printer that produces the labels with braille using a proprietary pressing mechanism.
Dec 04, 2025OPERATOR turns the act of music production into a visual, spatial, and inherently playful building exercise.
connections: +150
timepiece design (423)
Jan 14, 2026one reason is because the system can’t yet understand the movement of the hands or the idea of time in a physical sense.
connections: +920
Jan 02, 2026this hybrid object combines robotic precision with tactile materials and slow, repetitive motion.
ressence watches (7)
Dec 04, 2025the oil removes the usual bending of light in watches, and because of that, the time on the discs looks close to the glass and clear from all angles.
connections: +480
Aug 29, 2024discover the magic behind ressence’s TYPE 3 BB2 watch - a mechanical marvel that looks like it is powered by LEDs but is purely crafted with hundreds of intricate pieces.
connections: +430
marc newson (51)
Oct 01, 2025on october 6th, 2025, the brand is set to release the wearable and functional objects, from bags, lamps, and glasses to surfboards, ceramic plates, and pieces of luggage.
Sep 29, 2025inside palazzo fendi in milan, these boxes are stacked up in different sizes and heights, arranged in shifting hues but in no order.
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