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bold sculpted volumes shape stationary store in tokyo by MET team architects

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Sculptural PLOTTER Flagship emerges in Tokyo   Designed by MET Team Architects, the Tokyo Flagship Shop for Japanese stationery brand PLOTTER occupies a narrow urban site, where the store’s sculpted facade emerges as two interlocking volumes. The brand is known for its minimalist leather binders that reinterpret the traditional notebook, and this dual-volume composition, one

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playful children’s drawings become colorful handmade chairs in cambodia

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Children’s drawings translate into vibrant chair designs   Chair for Kids is a participatory design project developed by designer Taekhan Yun in collaboration with students from an English school in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The project focuses on translating children’s ideas and drawings into functional seating, while introducing fundamental principles of design and making.   The

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Samsung Freestyle+ Turns a Friendly Cylinder into an AI-Assisted Portable Screen

Architecture, Design

The first Freestyle tried to make projection feel as casual as dropping a speaker on a table, but still needed some fiddling with focus, keystone, and room darkness. Portable projectors are great in theory, but often fall apart on setup friction, tweaking corners, hunting for the right brightness mode, and dealing with off-color walls. Samsung’s

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schemata architects transforms japanese machiya townhouse into flexible workspace

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schemata architects reworks the machiya typology in japan   Jo Nagasaka-led Schemata Architects completes the head office for Uchida Shōten, a hardware manufacturer with a 160-year history in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The team roots the two-story wooden structure in the spatial logic of the historic town that surrounds it. The site sits along

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ring of concrete blocks shapes balkan cultural center proposal in rural US town

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Aleksa Milojević’s US cultural center shaped by Balkan traditions   Rhapsodist’s Tea Room is a design proposal by New York–based architectural designer Aleksa Milojević for a rural town in the American West, conceived as a cultural archive and public gathering space for a historic Balkan community. Planned for a site opposite a historic church and

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Best Tech Gadgets of 2025: 10 Innovations You Need to See

Architecture, Design

Technology moves fast, but 2025 feels like a distinct era. This year brought gadgets that challenged convention rather than followed it. From keyboards that fold into phone cases to power banks that communicate through light, these innovations prove that great design starts with questioning what we’ve accepted as normal. The products ahead represent a shift

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This Upside-Down Boat Blocking a Mountain Trail Is Actually An Architecture Award-Winning Chapel

Architecture, Design

Picture yourself hiking through the Italian mountains and suddenly there’s a wooden boat blocking the trail. Except it’s upside down. And it’s not actually a boat. This is La Barca, a timber pavilion that just won the 2025 Festival di Microarchitettura, and it’s one of those projects that works because it commits fully to a

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