Sep 24, 2025the oak ridge national laboratory was born in 1943 as a top-secret part of the manhattan project.
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alastair philip wiper (9)
Sep 24, 2025
Nov 08, 2024from the hub of rapid shoe prototyping to machines that make the footwear and testing facilities for the athletes, the photographer has caught them all on camera.
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taschen (16)
Sep 23, 2025taschen’s 'tadao ando. sketches, drawings, and architecture' shows how the architect’s hand-drawn lines evolve into concrete spaces.
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Aug 02, 2024an expansive exhibition at the smithsonian institute and a photography book by TASCHEN celebrate the 100th birthday of the black queer literary icon.
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clothing installations (5)
Sep 23, 2025commissioned by RIBBON international, the major and large-scale artwork is on view at pavilion 13 in kyiv between september 14th and november 30th, 2025.
Jun 26, 2025the work is set to premiere on september 14th, 2025, at the cultural space pavilion 13 in kyiv, ukraine.
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architecture in morocco (28)
Sep 22, 2025the stadium’s shimmering, golden facade is inspired by rabat’s iconic palm-lined boulevards and morocco’s artisanal heritage.
Jul 22, 2025morocco's centre de congrès by bofill taller de arquitectura includes an immersive green auditorium with a sweeping oculus.
romain veillon (5)
veillon’s images reveal glasshouses overtaken by the very vegetation they were built to contain, their iron frameworks wrapped in vines.
Oct 11, 2023what would the earth look like if humans suddenly disappeared?
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archi-union architects (9)
Sep 21, 2025archi-union integrates digital fabrication and handcrafted bamboo to create this community center in rural china.
Oct 07, 2018as a media partner of ROB|ARCH 2018, designboom spoke with philip f. yuan, one of the event's keynote speakers, who leads shanghai-based firm archi-union.
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luca cipelletti / AR.CH.IT (6)
Sep 20, 2025luca cipelletti's 'gioco' at the triennale milano is a flexible installation with modular cork and pine furnishings for children's play.
Apr 25, 2025philippe malouin’s green modular furniture brings flexibility to the forefront, making the space adaptable for a range of sound-centered events.
smarin (9)
Jan 12, 2024the reception area presents a modular construction, screwless system of furnishing and structuring with an ecological material palette.
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Oct 12, 2023the cushions play with vast scales and biophilic forms, their shapes and densities allowing for limitless installation possibilities.
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studio GGSV (1)
Sep 19, 2025designboom visited the installation in person to explore the three rooms and speak directly with the parisian design duo.
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On (3)
Sep 19, 2025at On Labs Tokyo, visitors can witness a robot - called LightSpray - spray a complete, ultralight shoe upper in just three minutes.
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Jun 24, 2022on the occasion of Art Basel 2022, ON invited designboom to discover art, both in the city and outside, and offered us to test the shoes.
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designboom radar: september 2025 (7)
Sep 19, 2025cj hendry brings her flower market 2.0 to rockefeller center, transforming the plaza into a vivid landscape of hand-crafted flowers.
designboom rounds up a list of must-see exhibitions around the world to check out during the month of september 2025.
anagram architects (10)
the store features a restrained layout punctuated by bold red elements, including a sweeping display rod and a central bench.
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Jun 19, 2022the family home is designed as 'a conversation between whimsy and simplicity'.
in japan (1)
Sep 19, 2025jean nouvel’s NOT A HOTEL YAKUSHIMA uses stone and glass to embed the retreat within misty, ancient forests for a contemplative retreat.
david černý (3)
Sep 18, 2025the distinctively shaped 'top tower' has been designed by a sculptor and an architect – david černý and tomáš císař respectively.
Jul 28, 2012the mammoth sculpture is composed of a 1957 'routemaster' double-decker bus outfitted with bulging working mechanical arms and a sculpted buttocks, which when switched on, finishes push-ups in reps of ten.
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OAKLEY (11)
Sep 18, 2025unveiled during the connect event, the pairs of eyewear house optical and camera modules with transparent lenses.
Aug 11, 2020first debuted at the 2000 summer olympics in australia by trinidad & tobago’s sprinter ato boldon, OAKLEY has brought back the OVERTHETOP frames.
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meta / facebook (59)
the wearable technology lets people control devices by allowing the wristband to read signals from the muscles around the wrist.
Dec 19, 2024in our list, we explore the tech designs that have made their mark in 2024, including dyson’s ontrac headphones and teenage engineering’s medieval music sampler.
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