Design

prada presents scaffolding as spectacle on nyc’s fifth avenue   For its Fifth Avenue flagship building in New York City, Prada adopts the structural vocabulary of commercial scaffolding to form a permanent facade. Built entirely from standard commercial pipe scaffolding elements and finished in the brand’s signature pale green, the structure wraps the building in […]

A.R.Grinberg Architects designed the Ofran offices in Bnei Brak, Israel, merging the dynamic concept of motion with elegant, warm spaces…

‘I don’t agree with the idea of utopia,’ Sir Peter Cook once told me. Coming from the co-founder of Archigram, the 1960s avant-garde collective that practically defined the architectural imaginary, these words took me by surprise. But Cook, ever the pragmatist among dreamers, clarified: ‘It’s usual to say there is the utopian world, and then

The Almaty-based studio breathes new life into a landmark pavilion, transforming 1960s nostalgia into a bold manifesto for contemporary commercial…

utopia through small-scale practices   Designers often approach the concept of ‘utopia’ through ambitious masterplans and conceptual theses for distant futures. Madrid-based Izaskun Chinchilla Architects approaches the idea through something far smaller, at the scale of fabric and embroidery. The temporary pavilion ‘Levedad y denuncia. El bordado como utopía en femenino,’ stands along the waterfront

LocalloopBKK: translating local voices into AI-led urban design   LocalloopBKK is a participatory design tool developed in Bangkok, Thailand, to translate community input into spatial proposals for public space. Created by Prapawit Intun / Participatory Citizen Lab, the platform combines participatory research methods with AI-assisted design tools to support collaboration between residents, designers, and policymakers.

One of the perks of living in one of China‘s shortlist of advanced first-tier cities is definitely a sophisticated retail…