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GRRIZ shapes reversible timber structure along the arc of the setting sun in italian mountains

palcosole open air stage inclines according to setting sun   Palcosole is an open air stage designed for community performances in the Apennine hills south of Bologna, Italy. The timber structure provides a reversible platform for cultural events and reinforces the clearing’s established role as a place for shared experience. Designed by studio GRRIZ, the

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A Sleep Tracker That Solves the “Creepy Gadget” Problem With Soft Forms and Invisible Sensing

A device that watches you sleep should, by all rights, feel invasive. Wellune, the sleep health monitor concept from Korean tech company Bitsensing, somehow doesn’t. Designed by Adaption Design Studio’s Deokhee Jeong, Youngnam Lee, and Aran Hwang, this is a product that understands something most health tech still gets wrong: if you want people to

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10 Of Tasmania’s Best Designed Stays To Book In 2026

10 Of Tasmania’s Best Designed Stays To Book In 2026 Travel by Christina Karras Inside Vipp Tunnel on Bruny Island. Photo – Dillon Green. The brutalist-style house overlooks the D’entrecasteaux Channel. Photo – Adam Gibson. The imposing concrete exterior. Photo – Adam Gibson. The kitchen. Photo – Adam Gibson. A look at the decorative lightwell. Photo

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7 Best Tiny Home Accessories That Make Small-Space Living Feel Like a Design Choice, Not a Compromise

Living small has a perception problem. Most people associate compact spaces with sacrifice, with the slow creep of clutter and the resignation that comes from owning less. But the best tiny home accessories flip that narrative entirely, turning constraints into opportunities for deliberate, considered living. The products on this list do not just fit into

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Honor MagicPad4 Review: The World’s Thinnest Tablet Nails Portability and Performance

PROS: Excellent portability Immersive content-consuming experience Great battery life Powerful performance CONS: No microSD card slot No IP rating Underwhelming software support period RATINGS: AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABILITY / REPAIRABILITY VALUE FOR MONEY EDITOR’S QUOTE: The Honor MagicPad4 nails extreme portability with a gorgeous OLED screen, strong performance, and a surprisingly complete productivity toolkit that

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A Swiss Designer Just Replaced Your HVAC System With a 500-Year-Old Pot

We spend a lot of time looking forward when it comes to solving the climate crisis. Better batteries, smarter thermostats, AI-optimized HVAC systems. And sure, some of that will matter. But I keep finding myself more drawn to designers who have the nerve to look backward, who dig through centuries of human ingenuity and ask

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5 Reasons Modern Treehouses Just Became the Ultimate Luxury Escape

Treehouses have re-emerged not as nostalgic artifacts, but as serious architectural propositions. Within contemporary practice, they are understood as a distilled form of biophilic thinking – where structure, ecology, and human occupation are inseparable. Rather than imposing form on landscape, treetop architecture allows the built environment to coexist, adapt, and respond to living systems. Occupying

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designboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this march

March exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR   March’s standout exhibitions place architecture and material at the center of the experience. In São Paulo, ABERTO5 opens Eduardo Longo’s Casa Bola, using the spherical ferrocement house as the setting for site-responsive works. In Tashkent, the Centre for Contemporary Arts debuts with Hikmah, where new commissions engage Studio KO’s

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