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architecture archivesby Tom Cookson8d ago
Irish vernacular furniture informs settle public installation settle, a temporary architectural installation designed and curated by TRESTLE, proposes a public interior for gathering and collective...
architecture archivesby Studio Téré9d ago
Studio Téré gives a 1960s railway signal box a new public role L’Aiguilleuse is a project by Studio Téré that transforms a former 1960s railway signal box into a small kiosk-bar located at the...
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom9d ago
When the Dance Floor Became the Stage Looking back at Vitra Design Museum’s 2018 exhibition Night Fever, the history of club culture reveals a recurring architectural experiment: what happens when...
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom9d ago
Paul Chan turns cultural memory into a retail interior Studio Paul Chan completes LANG’s 110-square-meter flagship at ROW DTLA in Los Angeles, transforming a former industrial warehouse into a...
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom13d ago
paris becomes a city to look at The flâneur wanders through Paris, a city that is changing quickly, with new streets and boulevards, covered passages, cafés, department stores, advertisements, and...
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom15d ago
The swiss museum’s new ensemble begins gradual opening Peter Zumthor’s expansion of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel begins its opening to the public, with the new ensemble gradually...
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom20d ago
the city as a field of possibility What if the city wasn’t something to consume but something to play?
architecture archivesby kat barandy I designboom21d ago
before the building, the image Before the Crystal Palace existed in Hyde Park, it appeared in the newspaper.
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom25d ago
Superstudio designed 12 impossible ways of living In 1971, Superstudio imagined twelve cities designed to solve the problems of human existence and came up with solutions so complete that there was...
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom27d ago
building a home in the virtual world Before exploring a virtual world, players start by building a house.
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom29d ago
architects imagine temporary homes for writers in switzerland At the foot of Switzerland’s Jura Mountains, the Jan Michalski Foundation assembles an unusual small neighborhood for writers and...
architecture archivesby kat barandy I designboom29d ago
learning to live with fire In the days after the Palisades and Eaton fires swept through Los Angeles in January 2025, some of the strangest photographs were of the houses still standing.
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom7 Sept 2026
housing is not a fixed product: laura traub on how we live now What should housing make possible today?
architecture archivesby Iñaki Laguardia5 Sept 2026
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”...
architecture archivesby kat barandy I designboom5 Sept 2026
COOLING MOVES BACK INTO THE HOUSE At Jalmanjar Farmhouse outside Ahmedabad, cooling begins with a perforated facade of compressed earth blocks.
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom4 Sept 2026
LES CARYATIDES DE GUYANCOURT BY Manuel Núñez Yanowsky Just southwest of Paris, at the intersection of Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright streets in the suburb of Guyancourt, 18 colossal female...
architecture archivesby kat barandy I designboom3 Sept 2026
carving a void in the home At the corner of two narrow streets in Tokyo, an orange compact car slips beneath a white house that seems to have been cut around it.
architecture archivesby kat barandy I designboom2 Sept 2026
how can humans actually live beyond earth? Inside a 1,700-square-foot structure at NASA‘s Johnson Space Center in Houston, four people are currently spending 378 days pretending Earth is 140...
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom2 Sept 2026
Gary Chang’s apartment treats space as a time-shared resource In Hong Kong, architect Gary Chang’s Domestic Transformer turns a 32 square meter apartment into a series of living environments, using...
architecture archivesby lisa kostyra I designboom2 Sept 2026
SHAPING MIDDLE EASTERN URBANISM FROM MASTERPLAN TO MICRO-MOMENT ‘When you have the same types of buildings and spaces replicated everywhere, you lose any sense of place,’ states Henrique Dias...
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