THE PLANET AS A FESTIVAL: ettore sottsass’ UTOPIA WITHOUT CITIES Long before the Memphis group turned him into a postmodern icon, Ettore Sottsass was asking a far more destabilizing question: what if permanence was never the goal? In 1972, the Italian architect and designer published Il Pianeta come Festival (The Planet as a Festival) […]
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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Most children’s board games follow the same unspoken contract: open the box, unfold the board, arrange the pieces, and then, finally, play. The setup is just a chore you get through before the real experience begins. Toddler Plus, a concept by designer Adesh Jadhav, breaks that contract entirely. Here, the game begins the moment you
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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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Dior already has an extensive retail network across Japan with standalone boutiques and shop-in-shops, especially in Tokyo‘s sprawling metropolitan area….
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
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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Tuticorin, a port city, has been the center of maritime trade for the last 2000 years. The sheer number of…
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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
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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