design
This new apartment building takes advantage of the local landscape.
A bold concrete building wraps public space with sinuous curves.
A mirroring scenario invites visitors to a Chilean Park to experience public space in new and unexpected ways.
Questions (re)emerge around landscape and nature in this exhibition at Bureau Europa.
A staircase that allows for different user experiences and that engages with the built heritage of the city of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
A historic avenue in Santiago is updated to keep up with the cultural necessities of today’s citizens.
A play hub designed to redistribute activities between the courtyards and public spaces in a Moscow neighborhood.
Artist-Designer Ryan L Foote reinvents chocolates for the digital age—and architects.
Two brothers share identical weekend houses on a single concrete prism.
This intervention transforms a former industrial site into a new urban park for the HafenCity quarter in Hamburg, Germany.
The extension of this coastal house in the United Kingdom takes on the existing house’s prototypical elements.
This solo exhibition at Sean Kelly in New York features polar landscapes and explores how humans and the natural are inextricably linked.
A transformation of parking spaces into an animated—and concentrated—parklet.
A mixed-use facility that combines a historic façade with a contemporary public space.
An exploration of landscape that opposes the formalistic, closed, stable, and objective.
Four programmatic cores define the boundaries of the empty space that forms the heart of this Parish hall.
This month, a series of design events highlight both established and upcoming designers.
A contemporary ruin is transformed to generate a new cultural space for the city of Torredembarra in Spain.
With void and light as the protagonists, the design for these offices brings new life to an old shed.
This school in Denmark takes inspiration from the surrounding forest.
This wine bar rethinks renovation and acts as a witness to the region’s multifaceted architectural history.
This compact house prioritizes a relationship with nature through a courtyard at its heart.
This multi-unit private housing in Amsterdam is flexible and takes into account different generational needs.
The Dutch office completed a new mixed-used building located in a former industrial site.
This renovated house distills and continues the archaic and brutalist aesthetic of the time in which it was built.
This project reinterprets the porch of the Parisian courtyard.
Located in an Austrian forest, this renovation uses the existing structure as the programmatic core and combines it with a panoramic external layer.
In a historical enclave in Lisbon, this renovation features maximum material austerity and an atypical formal game.
Featuring a site-specific lighting installation and views of the city’s landmarks, this project encourages the revitalization of Brno’s post-industrial district.
This small but distinguished coffee shop is a bright and attractive space with geometric curves.
This building is a model of sensitive but stridently contemporary historic preservation and adaptive reuse.
A small house located in the forest of the Stockholm Archipelago with three cabins and a diversity of outdoor spaces.
Housing solutions for Climate Change are explored in this exhibition at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco.
The school in Croatia shapes a sense of community through the inclusion of new social facilities.
KUBE at K11 MUSEA is an installation designed to create a distinctive and intimate place for encounters in Hong Kong.
Four projects by Uruguayan architects Gualano + Gualano.
A former locomotive shed in Tilburg, The Netherlands has been transformed into a public meeting place with a distinct railway theme.
This experimental project allows inhabitants to freely arrange and combine their home.
Located in Muharraq, the building showcases the collection of architect John Yarwood.
A conversion of a former winery into a single-family house.
A new urban space for the University of Copenhagen that is adapted for climate change.
Located on the outskirts of Beijing, this is an efficient passenger terminal that is ready for future growth.
Wrapping up our calendar is this eco-friendly and quirkily designed gift wrap.
These designs balance between the archetypal and the organic and are created with a 3D software.
These sculptures explore architectural constructions and the Anthropocene.
These playful napkins encourage a return to the reusable for everyday dining.
These textures explore the limits between reality and abstraction.
Day 18 brings a powerful and emotional experience of light.
This hut introduces new open spaces that complement and expand the uses of the main house.
Day 17 brings robotic garments that react to the chromatic spectrum.
These practical designs take the sand dunes formed by the wind as inspiration.
This art gallery is located on the Shanghai Corniche and is one of the main buildings of the West Bund Masterplan, a new cultural district.
This cradle for adults brings a bit of comfort to our hectic lifestyles.
This object is an exploration of expert material handiwork.
These ceramics are deformed through the reappropriation of an object from the fitness industry.
The playful side of design abounds in this site-specific installation created for Trienniale Milan.
This brutalist-inspired design explores material imperfection and minimal lines.
Day 10 is a portable and temporary Jewish structure built in Australia on Aboriginal land that raises important questions.
These ceramic sculptures are a contemporary take on the tradition of pottery in Japan.
A childhood reference transforms a multi-use space in the outskirts of Santa Fe, Argentina.
In this FestiveNESS pick, Daniel Arsham builds a kunstkammer and reimagines classic archetypes.
A design-filled creative retreat to collaborate and build structures for camping and relaxing.
Our sixth pick is a gadget that harnesses the power of the sun and promotes the sustainable.
These limited-edition ornaments are made from unused liquid resin.
Day four brings a chocolate that includes a very special ingredient.
In the outskirts of Hanoi, this education facility aims to generate a relaxed environment.
The third FestiveNESS item explores the materiality of meteorites.
A graphic designer and a spatial designer built a cabin, a sauna, and a workshop on a private Swedish island.
A daily celebration of an eclectic mix of design objects and ideas.
First up in our advent calendar is a performative look at a cultural and flexible plastic chair by Objects of Common Interest.
The expansion adds more than 40,000 square feet of gallery spaces and enables the Museum to exhibit more art in new ways.
A renovation of this existing library, a key institution for the Kew Gardens Hills community neighborhood in Queens.
This house, located in the outskirts of Moscow, explores the dissolution of the boundary between interior and exterior.
An extension and adaptation of an existing home in Palma using a modular and lightweight plywood system.
The transformation and extension of a traditional Victorian house into a new and contemporary domestic space.
The Japanese studio’s design hybridizes cultures and influences.
The Mexican studio designed this single-family house around a courtyard composed by a concrete structure.
The new building is built especially for the acquisition, study, exhibition, storage, and conservation of modern and contemporary drawings.
The expansion of the center drove an integral renovation that combines new and existing spaces.
A young Brazilian studio whose practice orbits around producing and discussing architecture.
The building offers a new meeting point for the Agordo community in Italy.
An exhibition, a book, a house, and a table corroborate architecture’s role as a critical mediator.
A restoration in the historical center of Schiltigheim brings back to life a building that was closed over a decade ago.
Brazilian office Terra e Tuma designed a house that merges with the surrounding landscape.
A new building in Zurich encourages the connection between the city and the river.
The Swiss architect built the entrance and museum for this cultural heritage site in Bahrain.
A single-family house in a eucalyptus forest in Argentina.
The school in Turin, Italy embodies a cultural, pedagogical, and architectural reflection on educative spaces.
A nursery for the care and reproduction of the Guayacan tree in Oaxaca, Mexico.
A transformation of an existing building in the historic city center of Montevideo.
This young practice built their own office in Asunción, Paraguay.
A single-family house located in Geneva, Switzerland.
A new type of hybrid urban infrastructure.
A new life for a 300-year old house in Saitama, Japan.
A single open space that completes an existing furniture store complex in São Paulo.
Exploring the role of design and architecture in how we imagine our waste system.
A Living Memorial: The REACH at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by Steven Holl Architects
This expansion adds much-needed rehearsal, education, and flexible indoor and outdoor spaces.
French architects Manal Rachdi, Nicolas Laisné, and Dimitri Roussel joined Sou Fujimoto to design a multi-family, nature-inspired apartment building.
Buenos Aires-based studio adamo-faiden works on the problem of the city as well as the use, the program, and the scale of architecture—no matter the commission.
adamo-faiden on how the design of all scales of buildings can transform the city. A conversation in Spanish with Florencia Rodriguez.
Mexico is bringing its designs to the international stage in 2020.
A residential building in the outskirts of Malaga, Spain.
After twenty years of design and construction, the impressive James Simon Galerie finally opens its doors.
The architects created a sustainable design for the soviet city Naberezhnye Chelny.
The Spanish architect transformed an old structure into a new wooden pavilion in New York.
Collective, light-filled housing set along the river banks of the Rhine.
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma was selected by Camper to design their Barcelona store.
An upcoming public festival at Concrete Plant Park focusing on New Ecologies.
An exploration of the Critical Zone with Bruno Latour and Alexandra Arènes.
Kéré Architects designs a wooden pavilion located at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, USA.
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation releases the design of Reggio School in Encinar de los Reyes, Madrid.
Chinese office MUDA Architects designs a restaurant in a lotus pond hidden in a eucalyptus forest.
A conversation about Jumbo’s Neotenic design practice and its larger implications on consumerism and design.
A peek at Lafeliz’s new collection De Río a Sur and their unique approach to design.