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café’s sand-hued sculpted volumes draw from its coastal context in India

Eventide Coffee is framed light and material restraint   Located along the coast in Chennai, India, Eventide Coffee by Billboards is shaped by its proximity to the sea and the consistent east light received on site. The project examines light, materiality, and spatial restraint within a coastal setting, forming a café environment defined by atmosphere […]

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TDF Is Hosting A Two-Day Event All About Apartments + You’re Invited!

TDF Is Hosting A Two-Day Event All About Apartments + You’re Invited! Apartments by Amelia Barnes See how The Design Files team have transformed the East Brunswick Village display suite with local furniture and art. The Design Files is taking up residency at East Brunswick Village (EBV) for one huge weekend of events and design

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CIFRA builds an evolving archive for digital art beyond the limits of exhibition

CIFRA: A Digital Platform for New Media Art   CIFRA is a digital platform dedicated to the presentation, contextualization, and long-term accessibility of new media art. It connects artists, curators, and audiences through streaming, curated thematic collections, interviews, and educational programming. By providing a stable digital environment, the platform supports generative, AI-driven, interactive, glitch-based, and

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a quilt-wrapped ice shanty brings patchwork colors to a frozen minnesota lake

A Quilt shanty on the Ice   Atop the frozen surface of a Minneapolis lake sits this so-called Quilt Shanty, a public art project by artists Emily Quandahl and Madeline Cochran. The temporary structure was installed on January 26th, 2026 for this year’s winter season of the annual Art Shanty Projects program, and reinterprets the

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iPhone 17e Gets MagSafe but No Dynamic Island or Gemini Apple Intelligence… Is It Worth Buying?

Apple has a habit of making its budget phones more interesting than they have any right to be. The iPhone 17e packs the same A19 chip found in the standard iPhone 17 into a $599 body, with a 6-core CPU built on 3-nanometer architecture, a 4-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, and a 16-core Neural Engine

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Nvidia wants robots to learn before executing tasks by watching 44,000 hours of human video

CES 2026 was crowded with humanoids doing simple household tasks such as folding laundry or stacking up the dishwasher. One thing I was sure of seeing this influx of robots at the world’s biggest tech event, was that such service bots are going to be the next big thing invading our households in the near

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This Designer Made the Screwdriver EDC Nerds Didn’t Know They Needed

There’s something deeply satisfying about an object that refuses to take itself too seriously. The Drillbit Gyro, a concept design by Berlin-based designer Julius Works, is exactly that kind of object. It’s a spinning top. It’s a screwdriver. It’s the kind of thing you pick up off your desk when you’re on a phone call,

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concrete and timber converse in osaka residence through an interplay of solid and void

Osaka Home by Masakazu Tsujibayashi Adapts to Irregular Plot   Located in a dense residential district of Osaka, Jonoya private residence by Masakazu Tsujibayashi Architects occupies an irregular plot bordered by roads on three sides. The surrounding neighborhood is characterized by a mix of narrow alleys and designated streets, older tenement houses, newer dwellings, small

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