Paris Déco Off 2023: seven textile and wall decor designs de
Textured poetries in abstract paper compositions, matte splashes, and stripey cushions inspired by Texas? craft markets. Check what we liked the most ...
05-02-2023 21:58
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How many Holocaust memorials and museums does the world need
As much as possible! These Holocaust memorials and museums from Berlin to Jerusalem, from Milan to Dallas, are proof that architecture can play a fund...
27-01-2023 21:58
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Powerhouse Company adds a ?friendly giant? tower to an iconi
Rather than building around monuments, Powerhouse Company completed a ?friendly giant? skyscraper tuning with the Brutalist architecture of a 1970?s b...
26-01-2023 22:02
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Indian architecture maestro Balkrishna Doshi dies aged 95
Balkrishna Doshi, the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Prize, is known for pioneering work in low-cost housing. During his 70-year-long ...
26-01-2023 22:02
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ZIKZAK designs the REVIVAL modular system to rebuild schools
REVIVAL can be swiftly mounted and scaled up. ?The war is causing irreparable destruction very quickly. Our task is to rebuild Ukraine faster; because...
21-01-2023 22:01
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Design celebrates the Chinese Year of the Rabbit. ????!
Happy Year of the Rabbit! We collected 12 bunny-shaped design projects by Stefano Giovannoni, SANAA, Front, MAD Architects, and more.
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18-01-2023 22:04
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NOWATCH smartwatch increases mindfulness without telling th
Faceless designer watch NOWATCH captures your most important bio-data to help you focus on living more fully ?in the now? without stress.
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14-01-2023 21:59
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Moonbikes debuts at CES 2023 with the first 100% electric sn
French company Moonbikes revolutionises snow mobility allowing riders to explore nature without compromising it as it leaves behind a minimal operatio...
14-01-2023 21:59
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CES 2023: seven tech trends at the Consumer Electronic Show
CES 2023 tech trends: metaverses you can touch, alternative electricity-powered vehicles, money and energy-saving smart devices, and inclusive innovat...
13-01-2023 21:59
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CES 2023: Five inclusive and human-based tech design innovat
From an assistive lipstick applicator for people with reduced mobility to a smart joystick for impaired gamers. We selected five inclusive and human-b...
11-01-2023 21:59
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CES 2023: 7 future-driven automotive innovations unveiled in
Sony and Honda?s new car brand, flying cars, snow bikes, and electric hydrofoil boats. Seven electric and future-driven automotive innovations debutin...
10-01-2023 22:04
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Best of 2022: discover the ten most popular architecture sto
2022 most popular architecture stories: a 175 km long metropolis in Saudi Arabia, the demolition of Tokyo?s iconic capsule tower, a kinetic glass hous...
05-01-2023 22:00
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Best of 2022: six mesmerising pavilions and installations
From Milan Design Week to Burning Man and the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. We rounded up this year?s best pavilions and installations.
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05-01-2023 22:00
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10 museums and cultural architecture projects to look forwar
A cavernous museum in New York City, a terraced campus in the heart of Jerusalem, and a culture park with giant pebble-shaped buildings in Shenzen are...
04-01-2023 21:57
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Best of 2022: six architecture and design stories for a bett
We selected six popular architecture and design stories published earlier this year with a powerful message on human rights and sustainability for a b...
31-12-2022 21:54
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Pritzker Prize wining architect Arata Isozaki dies aged 91
Arata Isozaki, one of the most influential post-war architects, is renowned for connecting East and West, global and local, raising questions that tra...
30-12-2022 21:58
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Best of 2022: this year, architects and designers joined the
From a modular solution to rebuild neighborhoods and protect monuments to a fashion collection from evacuated garments and more. Architecture and desi...
29-12-2022 21:56
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The Pingtan Book House is a new village library paradigm in
At the Pingtan Book House by Condition_Lab, kids can read and play at the same time. The project draws on a typology of traditional Dong Houses and is...
22-12-2022 21:56
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Nendo designs a kinetic Christmas tree that literally glitte
In the central hall of Tokyo Midtown shopping centre in the Roppongi district, Nendo has created a matte champagne gold kinetic Christmas tree.
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22-12-2022 21:56
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3XN stacks shifted volumes to compose the Quay Quarter Tower
Conceived as a vertical village, the Quay Quarter Tower won the World Building of the Year Award 2022 at the 15th World Architecture Festival.
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22-12-2022 21:56
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BluRhapsody rethinks the art of making pasta with 3D-printin
Italian company BluRhapsody digitally crafts handmade pasta for jaw-dropping gourmet finger food. Have a merry - and 3D-printed - Christmas dinner par...
17-12-2022 21:58
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Marcus Byrne creates graffiti architectures with Artificial
Marcus Byrne?s graffiti architectures capture the beauty in the decay with the art project When life imitates art. Through AI, the Australia-based Iri...
15-12-2022 21:59
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Long Live The Christmas Tree! A winter wonder exhibition at
Eleven ?traditionally untraditional? Christmas trees mesmerize the country house?s visitors in West Yorkshire, England. Long Live The Christmas Tree!
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09-12-2022 21:56
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Christmas gifts: eight design ideas for architects, writers,
The ultimate paper tablet, concrete pens for concrete writing, a BauHaus-inspired alarm clock for some good analog time, and more. We selected eight d...
08-12-2022 21:56
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Design Miami Curios 2022: our favourite exhibitions on show
Sparkling memories of iconic glamour nights, a sofa made of trash bags, and quirky ceramic creatures. Check the Design Miami Curios 2022 we enjoyed th...
06-12-2022 22:13
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Design Miami 2022 explores contemporary design in search of
The Golden Age is the main theme of Design Miami 2022. We explored the fair and detected five trends: from ancient folklore revamp to phygital utopias...
05-12-2022 21:59
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Miami Art and Design Week 2022: 10 must-visit exhibitions an
The best of Miami Art and Design Week 2022 is on Archipanic. From colourful, quirky chairs inspired by the city?s carnival culture to pink meditation ...
01-12-2022 21:59
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Welcome to Doha: 8 contemporary architectures in Qatar?s cap
From futuristic skyscrapers to stunning libraries and magnificent museums. Architecturally speaking, Doha is future-driven. Discover the Gulf metropol...
28-11-2022 21:59
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Irreverent Christmas decorations with a quirky attitude
Forget angels, lights, and garlands. Archipanic?s design contributor Antonella Galimberti selected irreverent Christmas decorations to add fun to the ...
25-11-2022 21:55
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The Qatar World Cup Memorial tower reflects the migrants wor
Over 6,700 migrant workers died in the construction sites of the stadiums and infrastructures built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Such a gigan...
23-11-2022 21:57
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Sportwashing" The architectural dark side of 2022 FIFA
Sportwashing describes the practice of individuals, groups, corporations, or governments using sports to improve reputations tarnished by wrongdoing.
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19-11-2022 21:56
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2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar: 8 archi-stadiums hosting the matc
Nomadic tents, desert dunes, shipping containers, and traditional Arab caps inspired the architecture of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar stadiums.
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18-11-2022 21:56
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The Humble Series: 10+1 unconventional pegs pimped with whim
Even the most functional and humblest of objects can be empowered with design. Archipanic?s design contributor Antonella Galimberti had fun selecting ...
12-11-2022 21:59
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Jean Verville?s MEV cabin borrows geometries and colours fro
Curving geometries and kaleidoscopic interiors define MEV Cabine, the eclectic refuge in the woods that Studio Jean Verville has created for ?two admi...
10-11-2022 21:56
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A lattice facade wraps Peris+Toral Arquitectes? residential
Behind the lattice facade, the five-storey building located in the Bon Pastor neighbourhood in Barcelona houses 54 social light-filled and naturally v...
09-11-2022 21:58
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Expedition Aequalis: a design exploration towards an eco-cen
Expedition Aequalis ongoing project and exhibition at Dutch Design Week explored new design thinking paths tuning with Nature?s priorities.
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04-11-2022 21:58
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The Victorian haunted house from Psycho to Stranger Things
Archipanic explores the history of the Victorian haunted house, an iconic architecture celebrated in comics, movies, and tv series.
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29-10-2022 21:58
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Dutch Design Week 2022: seven must-see exhibitions in Eindho
Microbial vending machines, solar pavilions, intentional low-resolution furniture, and more. Dutch Design Week 2022 is in full swing. We selected seve...
26-10-2022 21:57
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Ten new Italian wineries with a striking architectural impri
Wine-making culture, landscape, and contemporary architecture are the inebriating ingredients of ten new Italian wineries on show in Merano.
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22-10-2022 21:57
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Japanese calligraphy inspires Sabina Blasiotti?s furniture d
SABI creates a furniture family informed by the ink-black swift strokes of Japanese calligraphy. ?Each piece possesses its own expressional character,...
20-10-2022 21:57
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The Luminary Series: Kengo Kuma?s exclusive designs for The
The Dalmore and Kengo Kuma create an architectural ?floating? sculpture for the Luminary Series of limited-edition luxury whiskies.
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20-10-2022 21:57
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The Chamber Church is made up of sixty spaced-out white alum
Büro Ziyu Zhuang?s Chamber Church in China blends archetypical church architecture with contemporary design, divinity, and ritual.
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15-10-2022 22:00
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Murrillo 1665: residential architecture embraces nature in U
Pitched roofs, wood, and corrugated steel facades, and great views of the surrounding vegetation. Life is sweet at the Murrillo 1665 housing project i...
15-10-2022 22:00
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Virgil Abloh, Jayme Hayon and more rethink the ladder at Gal
Galerie kreo tasked international designers to reinvent the humble and functional ladder, probably one of the least-cared-about objects of contemporar...
14-10-2022 22:01
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Edit Napoli 2022: fair and slow design takes over Naples
A floating chair inspired by childhood memories and tables made from discarded sheet metal. Eight ?fair? and ?slow? designs at Edit Napoli 2022.
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13-10-2022 22:00
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Artists and designers support the Iranian women?s protest fo
A queen of spade cutting her hair locks and a giant billboard in Piccadilly Circus, creatives from around the world join the protest in support of the...
11-10-2022 22:03
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MAD Architects nests Quzhou Stadium under a gentle green slo
Architecture should merge with the natural landscape instead of standing out against it, believe at MAD Architects. Their Quzhou Stadium submerges its...
06-10-2022 21:58
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Six contemporary design projects defying gravity to ?magical
Hovering lamps, suspended tables, and fluctuating beds. We selected six furniture designs that seem to float in mid-air with style.
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05-10-2022 22:00
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SEE MONSTER: from former North Sea gas platform to major pub
SEE MONSTER by NEWSUBSTANCE studio in Weston-super-Mare, UK, opens to the public, triggering conversations about reuse, renewables, and the great Brit...
29-09-2022 21:50
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CERSAIE 2022: seven ceramic surface design collections on sh
A sky in a room, contemporary terrazzo-style tiles, and Moroccan inspirations? Check what we liked the most at Cersaie 2022, the leading international...
27-09-2022 21:57
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HENGE: a contemporary urban circle made of Jurassic stone br
Inspired by Neolithic stone circles, the HENGE installation and gathering space ?creates a space separate from the outside world.?
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22-09-2022 21:49
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?R for Repair? at the V&A in London explores the sentim
The R for Repair exhibition shines a timely spotlight on consumerism by showing how cherished but broken objects can be given both new meaning and a f...
21-09-2022 21:49
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Gropius Chair Military Edition: Ukrainian design ?before? an
NOOM and volunteers weaving camouflage nets during the first months of the Russian invasion craft the Gropius Chair Military Edition.
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21-09-2022 21:49
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Sabine Marcelis? vibrant urban seats playfully swivel in Lon
Materiality, movement, gravity, and colour swivel at SolidNature and Sabine Marcelis? interactive installation for London Design Festival.
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19-09-2022 21:54
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London Design Festival 2022: 12 must-visit exhibitions and i
Kaleidoscopic experiences, brutalist swiveling seats, urban stone circles and more... London Design Festival 2022 celebrates its 20th anniversary.
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17-09-2022 21:52
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Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde hand-draws iconic TV series? floor p
From Carrie Bradshaw?s NYC studio to MadMen\'s apartment and The Simpson?s house, Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde designs some of the most famous TV series? f...
14-09-2022 21:50
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Archifont: Federico Babina translates the language of 20-cen
Tell me how you read me, and I?ll tell you who I am. This is the motto behind the Archifont graphic design series by Federico Babina.
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13-09-2022 21:47
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Architecture in Music: discover the hidden interiors of pian
At first glance, they recall cavernous tunnels, monolithic temples, cathedral-like halls, or empty distilleries. They are the unseen interiors of musi...
13-09-2022 21:47
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Laurence Renzo Verbeck?s Empyrean Temple at Burning Man 2022
Shaped like a compass rose beacon, the Empyrean Temple rose and burnt in Black Rock City. The architecture featured a tessellation pattern latticework...
06-09-2022 22:17
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Burning Man 2022: 10 architectures raising from the Nevada d
Burning Man 2022 explores the transformative power of dreams with mesmerizing architecture and design. Am ?empyrean temple, a grove of geometric trees...
04-09-2022 22:15
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Colourful stepped terraces define the Qingdao Business Park
With the Qingdao Business Park, CLOU Architects sculpts an architectural landscape blending office, commercial and social spaces.
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02-09-2022 22:15
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CASAMIRADOR Savassi: Gisele Borges dresses a Brazilian resid
The CASAMIRADOR Savassi building might look unexpected within the urban scape of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. But the complex\' sustainable ?skin? recalls ...
26-08-2022 22:08
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X MUSE vodka blends Scottish spirit-making with contemporary
X MUSE, the first blended barley luxury vodka from Scotland, presents an immersive tasting experience by Formafantasma.
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10-08-2022 21:48
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I am melting: 10 quirky design pieces tuning with this summe
?When I began working on this post, it was so hot I couldn?t concentrate. Wouldn?t it be easier to focus on air conditioners" Yes, but I hate simple t...
09-08-2022 21:54
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The Greenhouse Silent Disco deciphers the silent language of
The Polish Pavilion at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition presents Greenhouse Silent Disco, a greenhouse of the future where sensors c...
06-08-2022 21:46
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The Line: how visionary really is a 200 m-wide 170 km-long m
Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced the design of THE LINE, a 170 km-long metropolis composed of only two parallel mirrored skyscrapers and...
06-08-2022 21:46
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10 alternative design straws to raise your glass with a sust
Summertime, cocktail time. Our indefatigable contributor Antonella Galimberti has selected ten sustainable design straws made from blades of grass, pa...
26-07-2022 22:18
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El Roser Social Centre: from historic prison to progressive
Josep Ferrando Architecture and Gallego Arquitectura rehabilitated the former Reus prison to turn it into the El Roser Social Centre in Tarragona, Spa...
21-07-2022 21:54
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WAF 2022 shortlist: competing architects to explore the them
Some of the boldest, most beautiful, and most innovative projects from around the world were revealed on the World Architecture Festival - WAF 2022 sh...
15-07-2022 21:58
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NOMAD Capri 2022: 7 design highlights on the famed Italian i
The best of NOMAD Capri 2022 is on Archipanic. Vibrant fabrics dance with the breeze, biophilic ceramic totems and resin-based furniture recall infini...
12-07-2022 21:52
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10 design projects inspired by the fascinating world of the
Our volcanic contributor Antonella Galimberti has always been fascinated by construction sites. She selected ten eclectic and unexpected furniture and...
08-07-2022 21:50
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Filtered Rays: Yinka Ilori has created a kaleidoscopic pavil
London-based designer Yinka Ilori created a vibrant pavilion named Filter Rays that explores the relationship between light and colour.
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01-07-2022 21:49
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BIG’s FLUGT Refugee Museum features a curvy volume con
BIG transformed a former hospital in Denmark?s largest Refugee camp from World War II into the FLUGT Refugee Museum. Two original elongated buildings ...
30-06-2022 21:47
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Heatherwick Studio creates a kinetic glasshouse in the Engli
Heatherwick Studio and the British National Trust unveiled a pyramidal kinetic glasshouse that literally unfolds to reveal an immense space full of su...
30-06-2022 21:47
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DUDE develops the tongue-in-cheek HOM design collection for
For the launch of Netflix?s LBGT+ movie The Invisible Thread, DUDE agency has created HOM, an ironic campaign and a temporary design store for familie...
29-06-2022 21:48
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3 Days of Design 2022: 7 furniture designs debuting in Copen
3 Days of Design 2022: Denmark?s furniture and lighting festival returns with a positive attitude, theme and incitement: ?Remember to play!? We have s...
23-06-2022 21:50
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STEPPING ON UKRAINIAN SOIL: Faina Gallery brings forward Ukr
Design Miami/ Basel 2022: FAINA Gallery presents the STEPPING ON UKRAINIAN SOIL exhibition, ?reinterpreting the country?s heritage and crafts through ...
21-06-2022 21:48
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Little Monsters Scary Beasts: four empowering crafts stories
With ?Little Monsters Scary Beasts,? Nadja Zerunian presents design and craft projects supporting artisans from Serbia, Albania, Hungary and Romania.
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16-06-2022 21:45
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TAKT PROJECT?s ‘AS IT IS – EQUILIBRIUM FLOWER
The AS IT IS - EQUILIBRIUM FLOWER exhibition features a field of delicate textile vessels highlighting the harmony between man-made and nature.
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16-06-2022 21:45
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Best of Alcova 2022: 8 exhibitions at the Milanese independe
Alcova 2022: onyx portals, inflatable furniture and magmatic parallelisms. Archipanic?s editor-in-chief Enrico Zilli selected eight innovative design ...
11-06-2022 21:54
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Woven Whispers by Richard Yasmine celebrates ancient crafts
The WOVEN WHISPERS exhibition by Richard Yasmine is a praise of craftsmanship and a proclamation to preserve nearly extinct crafts while exploring the...
11-06-2022 21:54
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Truly Design Crew creates a giant anamorphic mural in Milan
Truly Design Crew combines art, design and innovation with an anamorphic mural celebrating the plurality of perspectives and sustainability.
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10-06-2022 21:55
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With the Divine Inspiration exhibition Lee Broom unveils lig
Divine Inspiration is the first lighting release for Lee Broom in four years, showcasing a series of new ethereal lighting pieces in a range of materi...
09-06-2022 21:53
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SUPERBLOOM: Los Angeles-based studio RIOS brings Californian
L.A. collective RIOS debuts at Milan Design Week with the SUPERBLOOM exhibition recreating the awe and energy of Southern Californian springs. The imm...
08-06-2022 21:48
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Mexican volcanic rocks shine and float in David Pompa?s ?Mag
With the ?Magmatic Parallelism? collection, David Pompa balances metal and volcanic rock to create exquisite suspended lighting designs.
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07-06-2022 21:57
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Brera Design District 2022: Archipanic?s design route in the
There is a lot to discover along the cobbled street of the Brera Design District 2022. Flagship stores of leading Italian and international brands, ex...
05-06-2022 21:51
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Archipanic?s design tour of 5vie 2022: fine crafts and conte
A stone?s throw from Piazza del Duomo, the 5Vie design district features dozens of events and exhibitions tuning with the main theme ?Prototyping Utop...
05-06-2022 21:51
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The Inventory of Life: Mathieu Lehanneur turns data into hum
At La Triennale design museum in Milan, French artist and designer Mathieu Lehanneur presents ?The Inventory of Life,? an exhibition translating data ...
04-06-2022 21:52
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Tortona Rocks 2022 celebrates materials innovation and susta
Tortona Rocks 2022: discover an interactive musical lighting design show, anamorphic street art and rising talents from Germany and Slovenia.
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03-06-2022 21:49
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Ten blooming exhibitions at Milan Design Week 2022
Californian springs, giant olive shoots with golden leaves, floating forests and choreographies with flowers and drones. Milan Design Week celebrates ...
03-06-2022 21:49
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Milan Design Week 2022: 25 must-visit exhibitions and destin
Lighting designs inspired by Brutalist churches and temples, a virtuous Babel tower, volcanic rock lightings, anamorphic murales and a design gin gard...
01-06-2022 21:48
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Collectible 2022: six quirky furniture design highlights in
Collectible 2022: playful pink creatures from outer space, sofas that seem to be grown from cell mutations and quirky chairs made of discarded cupboar...
25-05-2022 21:50
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Seven design highlights at ICFF and WantedDesign Manhattan 2
ICFF and WantedDesign Manhattan 2022: from therapeutic glassware to Brutalist poetic furniture and shelves hanging on a thread.
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22-05-2022 21:48
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Mana Sazegara unveils vibrant furniture design collections i
Architectural benches, multi-dimensional mirrors, modular stools and pop rugs. Mana Sazegara presents two brand-new design collections playing with ge...
20-05-2022 21:45
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FILTER Design Pavilion by CLB Architects NYCxDESIGN 2022
In the middle of the hustle and bustle of Times Square, FILTER is a chapel-like pavilion inviting visitors to enter a peaceful oasis for reflections o...
14-05-2022 21:49
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Eurovision 2022 stage-design celebrates Italy?s abundance of
Scenographer Francesca Montinaro designs the set of Eurovision 2022. Inspired by the Italian sun, the stage features a kinetic sun, pyrotechnics light...
14-05-2022 21:49
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NYCxDESIGN 2022: 12 must-visit design exhibitions in New Yor
Best of NYXxDESIGN 2022 celebrates New York City?s creative community with a peaceful oasis in the heart of Times Square, flower design exhibitions, i...
11-05-2022 21:46
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?RE:Ukraine. Monuments? sheltering system protects Ukrainian
Ukrainian studio balbek bureau has developed ?RE:Ukraine. Monuments,? a modular, easy-to-install and fast-to-mount protection system for endangered mo...
09-05-2022 21:50
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Masquespacio?s EGEO Greek restaurant features blue 3D printe
For the EGEO greek restaurant in Valencia, Masquespacio sought to represent the essence of classical Greek architecture with a contemporary twist.
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08-05-2022 21:47
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Christopher Cichocki creates the Microscape pavilion at Coac
The ?Circular Dimensions x Microscape? installation and pavilion by Christopher Cichocki is made from 25.000 feet of resonating PVC pipes.
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