Design

Current AI toys pose safety issues to children and parents   The consumers advocacy group Public Interest Research Group releases a report detailing how children are at risk around a few AI-powered toys. Based on the annual document Trouble in Toyland, the researchers tested AI toys currently on the market and their chatbots that use […]

THISS Studio and CLUSTER craft all-red ‘pergola’ theater in cairo   Set against the concrete flow of Cairo’s 6th of October Bridge, Pergola introduces a ten-meter-tall outdoor theater and community arts space built from recycled materials and shaped through a year-long co-design process between THISS Studio, CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental

Atypique artisan workshop and coffee shop in Siboney building   Atypique by Zooco Estudio is an artisan workshop and specialty coffee shop situated on the ground floor of the Siboney building, a significant example of 20th-century architecture in Santander, Spain. Known for its expressionist and art déco vocabulary, the building contrasts with the surrounding historicist

Atelier Faber transforms old well site with ‘solum’   Atelier Faber presents Solum, a spatial and landscaped installation set on the site of an old well in Luxembourg City that highlights the gradual recovery of soil porosity, an often-overlooked ecological process. Through a stark composition of reeds and local sandstone, the project, presented at LUGA,

D1 is all-terrain modular dog-shaped and intelligent robot   Direct Drive Technology introduces D1, an all-terrain modular dog-shaped and intelligent robot that can split its body into two and rejoin them again. Able to move across many types of ground, the two- or four-legged mobile device can walk, roll, climb, and travel at different speeds