Asterix Cafe
Located in Adalaj, Gujarat, Asterix Café by UrbanNest Design Studio reimagines the contemporary café as a bold, experience-driven destination. Moving…
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8 LEGO Architecture Sets So Good They Belong in a Museum, Not a Toy Aisle
There was a time when LEGO sets lived in toy chests and were dismantled by Tuesday. That time is officially over. Today’s LEGO releases, along with the fan-designed Ideas submissions threatening to become tomorrow’s, are the kind of builds you display on a bookshelf, light dramatically, and absolutely do not let anyone touch. We’re talking
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olen resort embeds into greek island slope across three terraced levels
Ateno embeds Olen resort into a cliff overlooking the Aegean Sea Ateno Architecture Studio’s Olen Resort unfolds across a seaside, amphitheatrical plot in Syros, Greece, characterized by a steep southward slope and an uninterrupted view of the Aegean Sea. The primary challenge of the project was to satisfy complex functional requirements while respecting the
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This $65 Ergonomic Split Keyboard Folds to Fit Your Jacket Pocket
There’s a particular kind of misery that comes with typing long documents on a tablet. The glass surface gives nothing back, autocorrect wages a quiet war against technical vocabulary, and by the third paragraph, the whole setup feels like a compromise that compounds. Bluetooth keyboards solve most of that, but most of them are still
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forgotten computer floppy disks return to life as large-scale portrait paintings
Painting made of recycled computer floppy disks Artist Taylor Smith turns obsolete computer floppy disks into large-scale portrait paintings made up of these recycled storage devices. Hand-assembled into the canvas, hundreds of these materials become the base for screen-printed and painted portraits of figures, from Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to David Bowie and
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glass loudspeaker draws from uk grime music scene and brutalist architecture
Marek Kounovský designs Eski.Sub glass speaker The Eski.Sub is a glass loudspeaker by Marek Kounovský – MK Designers that draws inspiration from the visual language of Brutalist architecture and the cultural atmosphere of London’s UK grime music scene. The project examines the relationship between sound, urban context, and emotional listening experiences, positioning the loudspeaker
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IKEA’s $10 Speaker Is Tiny, But You Can Pair 100 of Them Together
Bluetooth speakers have a curious problem. The ones worth owning tend to cost real money, and the ones that don’t cost much tend to sound exactly like they cost nothing. IKEA’s KALLSUP sits somewhere outside that tired formula entirely, not because it defies audio physics at $9.99, but because it was never really designed around
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inside the surrealist universe of late artist pedro friedeberg, creator of the iconic hand chair
revisiting a singular imagination Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg, celebrated for his ornate architectural drawings and the iconic hand-shaped chair, has passed away at the age of 90. Following the news of his passing, designboom looks back at a visit and interview inside the artist’s Mexico City home and studio, stepping inside the fantastical world
OMA completes a domed pavilion for both artists and mushrooms at casa wabi
architecture for growing mushrooms at casa wabi The OMA-designed Mushroom Pavilion has opened at Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, introducing a compact structure dedicated to mushroom cultivation within the foundation’s coastal landscape. Set across the expansive grounds of Fundación Casa Wabi, the pavilion joins an iconic campus founded by artist Bosco Sodi that blends
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Rotary Tools Can Damage Fine Details, HOZO’s 13,000 SPM Micro Sander Cleanly Sands 3D Prints and Miniatures
Scroll through any Gunpla forum, 3D printing subreddit, or miniature painting Discord, and you’ll find the same complaint surfacing like clockwork: detail sanding is the worst part of the hobby. Rotary tools spin too aggressively and melt plastic. Orbital sanders are physically too large to reach the spots that matter. And hand sanding with tiny