18+ hour, 38+ min ago   (236+ words) the pavilion’s outer skin is made of recycled aluminum | all images ©DAP Studio Fragments of construction debris are distributed across the floor, disrupting the conventional experience of a clean, finished architectural surface. Walking through the pavilion becomes a physical encounter…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1083+ words) Most houses have a room whose only purpose is to get you somewhere else. Most of us are so used to the idea of the hallway that it’s hard to imagine it was ever novel. Yet for much of architectural…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (257+ words) They are strange, often funny, and increasingly cruel. More importantly, they are all built around the same trap: every city has found a solution. Twelve Ideal Cities – Twelve Cautionary Tales, 1971 | image via MAXXI The inhabitants of the 2,000-Ton City live…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (260+ words) Doha Pavilion Gerhard Richter (interior) | visualization © Selldorf Architects Two floor-to-ceiling Mirrors occupy the narrower walls between the paintings. Richter has worked with mirrors since the 1980s, and here they make the pavilion behave differently as people move through it. Paintings repeat…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (194+ words) Designboom keep up with our daily & weekly stories Shadow of Light sits within Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats Shadow of Light is a site-specific land art installation by Gregory Orekhov, created in 2026 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA. Set…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (170+ words) Korea Craft & Design Foundation presents ‘Hanji House’ at Maison&Objet 2026 | all images courtesy of KCDF marquage g’s signature ‘Hanji Shakerbox’ leverages the paper’s physical resilience to form continuous curves At Maison&Objet pavilion the space is designed around soft translucency…...

4+ day, 2+ min ago   (261+ words) Palazzo Litta | image by Melancholia~itwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons the palazzo is among Lombardy’s significant examples of Baroque architecture | image by Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons At ground level, the Cortile d’Onore becomes the principal threshold between Palazzo…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (107+ words) IED Master of Arts Exhibition | all images courtesy of Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) IED’s Master of Arts graduates present their thesis projects under the umbrella ‘Design X Commons’ ‘Systemic Reef’ operates at the intersection of territorial knowledge, material research,…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (248+ words) the neighborhood is characterized by temples, apartment buildings, and small parks | all images ©Daici Ano rough textured bricks form the lower volume, while the upper volume is wrapped in a lattice of GRC heavily textured bricks custom-made in Hekinan, Aichi…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (403+ words) Designboom keep up with our daily & weekly stories Re:Concrete Gives Buried Infrastructure a Second Life Re:Concrete transforms precast drainage pipes, elements typically buried beneath the city, into an open civic room on Mumbai’s coast. Cut, rotated, and suspended…...