Pierre Yovanovitch designs a moving stage for Giuseppe Verdi
Pierre Yovanovitch?s Rigoletto set design features curved walls which gradually move into a tighter circle as the story unfolds.
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XISUI Design deploys digital technologies to develop the
The \'Dunes Playtopia\' project by XISUI Design invites kids to venture into a concrete playground with undulating red dunes evoking the charm of a mo...
14-07-2023 22:08
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London Design Biennale 2023: Eight must-see exhibitions at S
An oversize architectural wind chime, a fabric village square, and Polish windows for Ukraine?s reconstructions. The best of the London Design Biennal...
14-07-2023 22:08
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Best of 3 Days of Design 2023: Copenhagen shines with design
3 Days of Design 2023 celebrates the Danish festival?s 10th anniversary focusing on the design community teaming up to create a better living environm...
14-07-2023 22:08
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Mendel?s Greenhouse: Chybik + Kristof reinvents the birthpla
The new Mendel?s Greenhouse is in direct conversation with the original 19th-century greenhouse in Brno, Czech Republic, where the scientist conducted...
14-07-2023 22:08
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ROAR designs an Escher-esque carpet display for Jaipur Rugs
Arches and stair-wells carpeted in a gradient of rainbow hues define Jaipur Rugs? Dubai flagship store designed by Pallavi Dean of studio ROAR.
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Spaziale, the Italian Pavilion in Venice, highlights the vis
Spaziale presents transdisciplinary and collaborative projects of a new generation of ?Sustainable Native? Italian architects dealing with a world in ...
14-07-2023 22:08
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Lina Ghotmeh?s Serpentine Pavilion 2023 is informed by discu
The Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by French Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh in central London ?is an encouragement to enter into a dialogue, to convene and...
14-07-2023 22:08
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Henning Larsen Architects designs a New Wood Terminal in the
In Torshavn, the capital of the remote Faroe Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, Henning Larsen Architects has designed the New Wood Terminal, a new ferry ...
14-07-2023 22:08
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DAAA Haus? Kettles Café Bistro Bar is set in a Maltese forme
Kettles Café Bistro Bar, co-working space and entertainment destination, takes over a former 1950s brewery in Mriehel, Malta.
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Design Wanted Manhattan 2023: seven standing out furniture a
Ghost limb furniture and yellow-coated plate steel totemic lamps. Seven highlights at Design Wanted Manhattan 2023.
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Twelve tongue-in-cheek, fun and quirky creatures from Milan
Our design contributor Antonella Galimberti has always been quite a fun and cheeky creature herself. In Milan, she has collected twelve creatures bubb...
14-07-2023 22:08
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NOMAD Capri 2023 celebrates the Mediterranean Sea with desig
NOMAD Capri 2023: Murano blown-glass floors climbing the walls, vibrant bulbous creatures, Mediterranean-inspired turquoise design, and more.
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BE_Design completes the Komera Leadership Center for a rural
Komera Leadership Center by BE_Design in Rwanda is a cluster of buildings connected by a dynamic and flexible roof canopy creating spaces for learning...
14-07-2023 22:08
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The Turkish Pavilion in Venice focuses on abandoned building
Titled ?Ghost Stories,? the Turkish Pavilion exhibition at Venice Architecture Biennale suggests how some of the many abandoned buildings in the count...
14-07-2023 22:08
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Pamela Rosenkranz installs a pink ?Old Tree? on New York Cit
Pamela Rosenkranz?s pink ?Old Tree? art installation stands out on NYC?s High Line, questioning our relationship with Nature across Manhattan?s archit...
14-07-2023 22:08
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DesignMiami/ Basel 2023: seven highlights at the Swiss fair
AI-powered chairs, Space Age dining rooms and consoles from upcycled oil barrels. DesignMiami/ Basel 2023 blends past, present and future.
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Fran Silvestre Arquitectos? Alamo House idly floats over Mad
?We envisioned the Alamo House as a solid mass, from which carved-out openings create a dynamic narrative.?
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Holcim and The Norman Foster Foundation unveil a concrete em
The ?Essential Homes? emergency housing prototype features a rollable low-carbon concrete sheet wrapping a safe and decent home for displaced people a...
14-07-2023 22:08
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ICFF 2023: Ten furniture design collections debuting in New
Fluo felted chairs, a stool workshop from Texas, and curvy unconventional furniture. The best of ICFF 2023 is on Archipanic.
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Earth and indigenous architecture narratives fill the Brazil
The modernist concrete architecture of the Brazil Pavilion nests an inclusive narrative of the country?s heritage, culture, and future opportunities.
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26-05-2023 22:11
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The Estonian Pavilion in Venice highlights the home-vs-real
Housing is no longer just about living. The Estonia Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 reflects on the contradictions between homes and...
26-05-2023 22:11
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MORE OR LESS: Maarten Baas wraps a jet in denim for G-Star R
Green design and mass consumerism" Maarten Baas and G-Star RAW?s thought-provoking MORE OR LESS exhibition features a jet and cabinets dressed in deni...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Ukrainian creatives share their vision for the future at the
Architectural cakes, ?silent? furniture designs, mist-inspired perfumes, shape-shifting fashion, and textile crafts. Five Ukrainian creatives share an...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Knitty lounge chair by Nika Zupanc for Moooi
Knitty lounge chair resembles a giant ship knot or an oversized ball of yarn every cat would dream of, but it is a beacon of comfiness.
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The new Italian Design Museum at Triennale Milano brings tog
From the Vespa to the Arco Lamp. Triennale Milano celebrates its 100th anniversary with the new permanent exhibition ?Italian Design Museum? curated b...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Pic-a-stic lamp by Andreas Walther for Ingo Maurer
The playful Pic-a-stic lamp by Ingo Maurer GMbH continues the poetic and playful design language of the late brand?s founder Ingo Maurer.
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Venice Architecture Biennale 2023: finally, the spotlight is
There is a great dose of optimism and commitment to make a change at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. The most influential architecture event ex...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Laboratories of the Future: the African perspective takes ce
Ten brave projects exploring the decolonisation and decarbonization of Africa and the African diaspora countries at the \'Laboratories of the future\'...
26-05-2023 22:11
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The Crystal Beat installation by Preciosa Lighting synchroni
At Salone del Mobile, Preciosa Lighting invites visitors to experience the Crystal Beat installation featuring a grid of hand-blown crystal tubes glow...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Design for Communities: good design making for a primary sch
Good design can make a difference, spark creativity, and teach a job. The Design for Communities project by NGO LiveinSlums and Giacomo Moor involved ...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Istanbul Modern by Renzo Piano Building Workshop is inspired
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed Istanbul Modern, Turkey?s first museum of modern and contemporary art, now open to the public in a new bui...
26-05-2023 22:11
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NYCxDesign 2023: 16 must-visit exhibitions in New York City
Urban beehives, a narration on contemporary symbolism, funky sculptures, and a tit-for-tat exhibition against plagiarism are among the 16 must-visit e...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Cloud-to-ground: at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, t
The Cloud-to-ground exhibition at the Israeli Pavilion at Venice Biennale ?un-displays? the secretive and ominous architecture of data storage buildin...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Euroluce 2023: 16 lighting designs shining in Milan
A giant cloud chandelier, a signature-like lamp, a Wassily Kandinsky-inspired fashionable hat turned into a light, a glowing grid pulsing with music, ...
26-05-2023 22:11
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?Desacralized? furniture design shines in a former Milanese
Cascades of light, Japanese temples, and Christian symbolism inspire furniture designs by Rick Owen, Faina, Studiopepe, and more at the ?Desacralized?...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Five unconventional chandeliers shining at Milan Design Week
A total blue Venetian chandelier, ?desacralized? cascades of light, luminous balances interweaving nature with technology, and more. Five unconvention...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Studio Gang’s cave-like Gilder Center for the American
Canyon-like spaces surround visitors of the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation in Manhattan.
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Unsettling Queenstown: the Australian Pavilion in Venice ref
With the ?Unsettling Queenstown? exhibition, the Australian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale explores the despoliations of colonialism and ext...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Datament: The Polish Pavilion at Venice Biennale allows visi
We give carte blanche to algorythms too easily. We allow them to tell us ?truths? to make decisions in building homes and cities. What if they make mi...
26-05-2023 22:11
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?Senza Invito? exhibition: inmates in Milan famed prison cra
Milan Design Week enters the famed San Vittore prison, where inmates who joined a circular design workshop crafted upcycled furniture and tableware an...
26-05-2023 22:11
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WonderGlass takes the magic of glass to Milan with the strik
At the Istituto dei Ciechi in Milan, WonderGlass collective exhibition Abrakadabra stages installations created by Paul Cocksedge, Tom Dixon, Elisa Os...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Break to Make: Nendo and Daniel Arsham inject new functional
Nendo and Daniel Arsham are quite a disruptive couple, literally. Check what they have been up to in Milan at the Break to Make exhibition.
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Arcobaleno and Raggiosole wood veneer collections by Konstan
Mesmerising hues inspired by rainbows and vintage electric guitars inspired the new food veneer collection by Konstantin Grcic for ALPI.
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NYCxDESIGN 2023 at the Javits Center: ICFF + WantedDesign Ma
During NYCxDESIGN a trip to the Javits Center is mandatory. This year, ICFF and DesignWanted present new sections and formats dedicated to American de...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Girjegumpi: The Nordic Pavilion brings to Venice Sámi archit
Joar Nango?s nomadic library with architecture books, crafts, and designs by colonized Sámi indigenous people fill the Girjegumpi exhibition at the No...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Fferrone sets an ultramarine banquet to explore timelessness
Time-challenging glassware collections, deep-blue-tinged antiques found in flea markets, and a Renaissance Milanese villa are the ingredients of Fferr...
26-05-2023 22:11
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SolidNature?s ?Beyond the Surface? wins Fuorisalone Award fo
The ?Beyond the Surface? installation by OMA Studio for SolidNature invited visitors to a subterranean journey and a secret garden in the heart of Mil...
26-05-2023 22:11
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Design a palazzo with the ?Gianfranco Frattini: Ieri Oggi Do
The exhibition GIANFRANCO FRATTINI: IERI OGGI DOMANI narrates the work of the legendary architect who collaborated with some of the most visionary ent...
26-05-2023 22:11
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‘FAKE’ by Uto Balmoral for Sturm Milano
FAKE is a tongue-in-cheek nightstand/seat playing with contemporary designers? dilemmas: Fame or sobriety" Artsy or functional purist" Ubiquitousness ...
26-05-2023 22:11
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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