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5 Best Surreal Bookstores That Make You Forget You’re Inside a Building

A bookstore should do more than sell books. At its best, it alters how you perceive the act of reading, the space around you, and the relationship between the two. The five bookstores in this list abandon conventional retail interiors entirely. They borrow from astronomy, geology, wetland ecology, and mountain landscapes to create spaces where […]

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white perforated cubic facade wraps hybrid home and studio around a tree in brazil

Casa Branca residence and studio unfolds within a single volume   Casa Branca by NEBR arquitetura is conceived as a combined residence and studio, developed from the intention to integrate living and working within a single spatial framework. The project is located in the Zona da Mata region of Pernambuco, a territory defined by a

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reflective lights and moiré pattern adorn hajime sorayama and matt copson’s AFEELA art cars

AFEELA 1 art cars by hajime sorayama and matt copson   Sony Honda Mobility taps Hajime Sorayama and Matt Copson to turn its electric car AFEELA 1 into art vehicles. Each version of the car carries the work of the respective artist across its exterior, wheels, and interior screens, and these aren’t production models as

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A Net-Zero Research Building That Actually Respects Its Landscape

Most university research facilities share a certain visual language. You know the one: utilitarian, slightly apologetic in appearance, the kind of building that exists to check boxes and contain equipment rather than inspire the people who work inside it. The University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve is not that building. Completed in May 2025 and

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what if utopia began with the buildings we already have? theaster gates proposes an answer

theaster gates envisions a Utopia Through Practice   The concept of Utopia often arrives as a distant ideal, set somewhere far into the future. In the work of social practice artist Theaster Gates, it is instead an active process and result, driven by existing buildings and the community life they hold. Resisting fixed categories, his

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wallmakers rethinks tropical design through reused shipping containers and poured earth

petti restaurant: a space shaped by material reuse   Wallmakers‘ newly completed Petti Restaurant stands along a narrow site in Tuticorin, India, a place where maritime trade has left behind a steady accumulation of discarded shipping containers. The project takes this surplus as its starting point, assembling a 200-seat dining space from elements that once

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iridescent insect wings glow in chris perani’s macro portraits series

Chris Perani’s examines the surface structure of insect wings   Photographer Chris Perani presents Wings, a series that examines the microstructure of insect wings through high-resolution imaging. Building on earlier work focused on butterfly wings, the project expands to include a range of winged insects such as bees, wasps, damselflies, beetles, and butterflies. The series

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