Architecture

The trailer industry is moving beyond wooden and wood-based, aluminum-skinned caravans toward more rugged, corrosion- and rot-resistant hard-bodied construction. Other features gaining popularity in hard-sided trailers include auto-lifting roofs and compact models that expand at the sides and rear to increase living space. A pioneer of the former, Prattline in Australia, is revisiting its lineup […]

The Beolab 90 has spent the better part of a decade as Bang & Olufsen’s technological flagship, a speaker so absurdly capable that it can beam-form sound to different parts of a room simultaneously. For the company’s centenary, the design team decided the speaker’s technical mastery deserved equally ambitious surface treatments. The result is a

Smartphone design has been converging on a single, almost universal ideal: more screen, less frame. Brands across the spectrum have spent the last few years shaving down bezels, flattening camera bumps, and chasing a kind of visual minimalism that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. The race to the thinnest, cleanest slab has become

If you grew up watching old movies or flipping through your parents’ architecture magazines from the 70s, you probably remember the conversation pit. That sunken, circular seating area built into the floor, ringed with cushions, usually occupied by someone in a turtleneck holding a glass of wine. It felt like the most optimistic design idea

Sleep has quietly become one of the most closely watched aspects of personal health. Around one in three people struggle with it, and roughly half of Americans already use a wearable device to track their sleep each night. That growing awareness has made sleep monitoring mainstream, turning the wrist and the finger into familiar real

Before the iPhone arrived in 2007 and quietly buried the category, handheld PCs were shaping up to be something genuinely exciting. Devices like the Sony Vaio UX and OQO Model 2 promised a full desktop OS in your jacket pocket, and for a brief window, that felt like the obvious future of personal computing. Smartphones

Kazakhstan is building a new city, and it just got a centerpiece worthy of the ambition. On March 5, 2026, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill unveiled the Alatau Iconic Complex and Gateway District, a pair of pyramidal towers set to define the skyline of Alatau, a brand-new city rising along the Almaty–Qonaev highway in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

Most great furniture doesn’t start with a grand vision. It starts with a sketch, usually a messy one, the kind you draw absentmindedly while thinking about something else entirely. Designer Deniz Aktay knows this. His latest piece, the Shift Sideboard, is proof that an unfinished line can sometimes carry more intention than a polished one.

Most of us learned to play ping pong the same way: flat table, net in the middle, bounce, smash, repeat. The rules were never really up for debate. You either knew them or you didn’t, and the table gave you very little room to imagine doing things differently. That’s exactly the kind of thinking French

If you worked in an office during the Windows 95 era, you knew the drill. The boss walks past, you alt-tab from Solitaire to a spreadsheet, and if you’re feeling particularly bold, you minimize Minesweeper and hope nobody notices the gray grid burned into your retinas. The game was a workplace epidemic, a logic puzzle