Design

Datça Summer Workshop Reinterprets the Vernacular Çardak   Datça Summer Workshop 2025, titled Lightweight Structures in Vernacular Agroscapes II, was organized by Istanbul Bilgi University, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, and İzmir Ekonomi University, in collaboration with Erazo Pugliese and Erginoglu & Çalışlar Architects. The two-week design-build program resulted in a lightweight timber structure installed in […]

Concept stickers with ink-based seeds regenerate snow   Tanay Wadodkar conceptualizes stickers with cloud seeding technology to help regenerate snowfall in the mountain regions as the athlete’s board glides through. Embedded with modified ink, the woven-like material forms snow when it touches the surface. It doesn’t need any high-grade equipment, but just the help of

NIVAN SKY GARDEN INCLUDES NATURE AT THE CENTER OF URBAN LIVING   Located at the intersection of HITEC City and the Financial District in Hyderabad, India, Nivan Sky Gardens emerges as a contemporary residential ecosystem that repositions nature at the heart of high-density living. Designed by Studio Symbiosis, the project proposes a verdant vertical community

how contemporary artists construct experience through color   Rainbow Dreams: Color and Light in Contemporary Art, a book published by The Monacelli Press, gathers more than 200 works by leading contemporary artists into a single, spectrum-spanning volume that examines how color operates as material, concept, and atmosphere. Edited by Olga Rei and Valentine Uhovski, the

Museum Oberamteistrasse glows in Reutlingen, germany   The Museum Oberamteistrasse by Wulf Architekten in Reutlingen brings a contemporary timber structure into dialogue with one of the German city’s oldest streets. The museum project restores a sequence of medieval houses and completes the corner with a new volume that traces the footprint of the former Stone

discarded concrete pipes turn into public pavilion in Busan   Concrete Utopia by designer Hyunje Joo reconfigures discarded concrete pipes into an open-ended public pavilion at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan in South Korea. The project examines the environmental implications of concrete, one of the most widely used and carbon-intensive construction materials, and proposes