Traditional printing presses as working LEGO sets A LEGO Ideas suggests two working printing presses that, once built, can show users how images are printed and transferred onto paper. There are two toy machines involved: a lever-operated plater press, based on the Albion press and built from 312 pieces, and a roller-based press next […]
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Most coat hangers exist somewhere between purely functional and aggressively boring. They’re the things we grab without thinking, the wire creatures that multiply mysteriously in closets, or the bulky wooden ones that restaurants seem to breed. But every so often, a design comes along that makes you stop and reconsider something as mundane as a
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Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center by Studio Gang opens in nyc Studio Gang completes the 74,000-square-foot Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center for the NYC Department of Design and Construction and NYC Parks & Recreation in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Targeting LEED Gold, the civic project establishes a multi-level public hub for fitness, recreation, and learning, consolidating a gym,
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THE WORLD’S FIRST JOINT AWARD FOR STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS The DBEW Award 2026 officially opens its global call for entries, inviting students and educators to participate in an educational movement that redefines design as a manifestation of collective intelligence. By mandating a co-creation model, the award introduces a fundamental shift in traditional competition: you
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It’s not just a jewellery business, but one that’s inspired by the beneficial energy of natural minerals. Founded in 2019…
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Ogikubo Bar’s renovation focuses on the entrance door Renovated by Ateliers Mumu Tashiro, Ogikubo Bar is a modest neighborhood bar located within a residential area in Ogikubo, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Approximately ten years after its opening, the project underwent its first architectural intervention, limited intentionally to the replacement of the entrance door. The renovation
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Sometimes the best architecture happens when designers refuse to accept what’s been left behind. The Hangzhou Empathy Museum, completed in 2025 by TAOA, is one of those rare projects that transforms architectural leftovers into something genuinely captivating. What started as an abandoned community project in Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan District has become a striking contemporary art space
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This community art museum is a transformative renovation based on an unfinished project, originally consisting of a completed underground parking…
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danica o. kus photographs the renewed nederlands fotomuseum Photographer Danica O. Kus documents the recently opened Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven district, now occupying a nine-story, early 20th-century coffee warehouse, originally built between 1901 and 1902 to store beans arriving from the Brazilian port city of Santos (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Her images
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TAOA’s cavernous and luminous museum in hangzhou The Hangzhou Empathy Museum by TAOA Studio stands along a riverfront corridor in Hangzhou, where a former construction site has been reworked into a compact community arts institution. The project begins with an unfinished condition, an underground parking garage already complete and a planned structure above, and
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