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textural brickwork shapes trung tran studio’s breezy ‘nang house’ in rural vietnam

trung tran studio designs a home for rural vietnam   Nang House sits in the rural outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam, a place where new construction presses steadily into long-established village patterns. Designed by Trung Tran Studio for a three-generation household, the residential project works with the grain of its surroundings rather than clearing it away. […]

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A Naturalistic Garden Gives This Grand Victorian A Wild Edge

A Naturalistic Garden Gives This Grand Victorian A Wild Edge Gardens by Christina Karras The front garden features a tapestry of grasses and flowering perennials. Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus Superior’ (purple coneflower). Rudbeckia fulgida speciosa (Showy Black-Eyed Susan). Tall Betula pendula ‘Moss White’ (moss white birch trees) complement the sweeping facade. The naturalistic new planting sits

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aditya mandlik on how decomposition becomes design method in worm-driven architecture

factory 5.0: a pavilion shaped by biological intelligence   Studio Aditya Mandlik (SAM)’s Factory 5.0 is a timber structure that positions biological intelligence as a genuine collaborator, co-authored by 10,000 king worms metabolizing Styrofoam in real time. ‘When we design built environments, we’re reshaping the planet’s outermost skin, one that has always supported complex, multi-species

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Remember Need For Speed? Someone built a real-life Mini Map from the game to use in your car

The mini map has been a staple of racing and open-world games for decades, teaching us to navigate virtual cities with quick glances at a corner of the screen. A developer has now made that experience tangible, building a GPS-based mini map system for actual driving that recreates the look and feel of Need for

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A Living Sphere: Japan’s Self-Contained Food Ecosystem Points to Urban Agriculture’s Future

Perched at the Osaka Health Pavilion during Expo 2025, a translucent dome hums with life. Inside, tomatoes ripen above brackish water while pufferfish swim below, their waste feeding the plants that clean their home. This is “Inochi no Izumi,” or “Source of Life,” a 21-foot-high sphere that reimagines how cities might feed themselves. The dome’s

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Toyota IMV Origin rethinks modular truck design with a vehicle that arrives unfinished

The Toyota IMV Origin arrived at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show stripped down to almost nothing, and that was entirely intentional. Where conventional vehicle concepts arrive polished and production ready, the IMV Origin presented itself as a skeletal flatbed with an open air single seat cab, barely recognizable as a truck at all. Toyota’s approach

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The 8BitDo 64 controller just got an iMac G3 inspired makeover in 8 new colors

Remember when technology came in flavors instead of just space gray and black? 8BitDo certainly does, and the company is channeling serious late-90s energy with its newly announced Funtastic Limited Editions. These eight new colors for the 64 Bluetooth Controller embrace the translucent design language that once made the iMac G3 a cultural phenomenon and

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metallic piggy bank made of paper encourages young people to save money and donate

Design studio creates metallic paper piggy bank   PLANBUREAU studio designs a metallic piggy bank made of paper, which can encourage people to save up money and donate from a young age. The project is created for the Hungarian branch of Red Noses International, an organization that supports clown doctors who work with children in

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Ecno Evil Unit-1 is rugged, off-road, and wood-free camper you can’t break

If you’re into pomp and show, turn back now. This camping trailer isn’t for you. But if the bare essentials are enough to make your adventures fun, read on. Before that, though, check out the video above. It’s easily the strangest promo I’ve ever seen for a trailer. Cinematically shot 4k videos of full-equipped trailers

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