The ambient lighting market keeps growing, and yet most table lamps still work the same way they always have: they point light directly at you and call it a day. That’s fine if you’re reading, but it doesn’t do much for a room that needs to ease down in the evening. The growing appetite for […]
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soft tones and raw materials outline Drinkit Café’s pink interiors Drinkit flagship café in Yekaterinburg, Russia, explores the relationship between the city’s industrial legacy and its evolving creative culture. The project, designed by the brand’s own team, combines references to reinforced concrete construction with a palette derived from confectionery tones, establishing a contrast between
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A Wearable Interface Translates Gesture into Emotional Data MELO Bubble Ring, designed by New York-based product designer Shuting Jiang, explores the relationship between everyday gestures, wearable technology, and emotional awareness. The project addresses stress as a largely unrecorded condition, translating unconscious tactile behaviors into measurable data. The design builds on the observation that repetitive
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LACMA opens long-awaited building, designed by Peter Zumthor Peter Zumthor’s David Geffen Galleries at LACMA open to the public on April 19th, 2026, completing a two-decade transformation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art into its most expansive institutional form yet. The new building, a 275-meter-long, curved glass-and-concrete structure that stretches along Hancock
Electric vehicles have been gaining ground steadily, but one of the more stubborn problems hasn’t been the cars themselves; it’s been finding somewhere to charge them when you’re far from a city. In a high desert environment, that problem gets considerably more pointed. The open stretch between towns can be long, the heat unforgiving, and
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Tile of Spain presents ‘Spanish Design as a Souvenir’ at Fuorisalone How does an architectural installation express the identity of a region? How can a building material connect with the essence of a nation? Throughout its history, Spain has been shaped by a wide range of cultures and civilizations, including Muslim, Phoenician, Roman, Greek, Carthaginian, and Visigothic influences.
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Lightweight Roof Shields Pavilion’s Layered Volumes Shared Space by 4site Architects is a large-span pavilion located within a six-acre landscape at Prashanthi Kutir near Belagavi, Karnataka, India. Conceived as a climate-responsive structure, the project redefines hospitality architecture through flexible, open-ended spatial programming rather than fixed-use environments. The pavilion operates as a continuous inhabitable layer
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An Iconic Cake-Shaped House Gets An Architectural Upgrade Architecture by Amelia Barnes The ‘Cake House’, as it’s nicknamed, has long been beloved by many Mollymook locals for its unique slice-like shape and position on the beach. Alexander Symes Architect wanted to respect the existing building by minimising the scale of the addition, ensuring it is
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Anyone who has spent three hours printing a delicate miniature only to snap off an arm while scraping it from the build plate knows the frustration intimately. Resin 3D printing has always delivered stunning detail at the cost of a genuinely messy, nerve-wracking post-processing workflow. Metal spatulas, damaged models, scratched build plates, and the occasional
There’s a reason every retro emulation console of the last decade keeps cribbing from the same 1980s Japanese design playbook. The Famicom and the original SNES established a visual grammar for home gaming hardware that has never really been improved upon, just iterated, simplified, or fetishized. Cream-colored ABS plastic, primary-red accents, ribbed black ventilation grilles
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