Passive Cooling Is Not a Specialty. It Is a Decision Made Early Enough to Matter
The house that remains habitable through a heat peak without mechanical cooling is not a house that resists the climate — it is one that was designed in conversation with it from the first…
The Answer to Extreme Heat Was Never the Air Conditioner
When summer heat peaks become a structural condition of the calendar rather than an anomaly, the collective response defaults to a technology — the air conditioning unit — that consumes energy…
Yellow in a Kitchen Is Not a Color Decision — It Is a Test of Everything Else in the Room
Yellow is the only color that tells you immediately whether the room around it has been designed or merely assembled. Four kitchens — in Bagnolet, Rome, Lisbon, and Prague — each built around…
Architecture
Clemens Hoyer Raises a Pink Timber Room on Stilts Over a Munich Bicycle Rack
In Munich’s Haidhausen district, architect Clemens Hoyer has installed ZuHaus, a temporary room in a stretch of the city that has never had a function: the gap between a building’s…
This Arctic Viewpoint Uses Wood Joinery Instead of a Single Metal Fastener
Evgeny Makarenko’s Timber Architecture Workshop built a public viewpoint on Kola Bay using almost no metal fasteners, relying on wood joinery alone to survive an Arctic climate.…
Bardo’s Madrid Renovation Uses Acrylic, Not Walls, to Divide a Home Into Scenes
Macedonia is not a home with a floor plan — it’s ten rooms staged like scenes, held together by a column Bardo was never allowed to remove. The Madrid studio inherited a structural beam…
Four Ancient Boulders Lift Of Possible’s Larch Cabin Off a New York Forest Floor
Of Possible rests The Findling on four glacial erratic boulders, each roughly 500 million years old, lifting a 91-square-meter (980-square-foot) larch cabin off the forest floor in Austerlitz,…
Kéré Architecture Stacks a Timber Kindergarten Five Floors Up and Runs Slides Between Them
Kéré Architecture has stacked a kindergarten — the Kinderoase an der TUM — five stories into the air on a former parking lot at the Technical University of Munich, then run slides between the…
A Refrigerator Door Hides Isern Serra’s Retro-Futuristic Bar in Barcelona
Isern Serra has hidden Focacha‘s cocktail bar behind the counter of a working focacceria on Barcelona’s Carrer Tuset, so that reaching the bar means opening a door built to look…
Art
Joshua Vides Turns Five Cars and an Entire Gallery Into a Black-and-White Sketch
Joshua Vides has spent nine days convincing five real cars that they are drawings of themselves, hand-painting the Petersen Automotive…
One Pull Makes Dayuan Design’s Suspended Shanghai Glaciers Fold and Distort
Dayuan Design‘s Glacier Project hangs nine geometric ice forms over a Shanghai plaza, and pulling the components beneath them makes the…
SpY Suspends Fifteen Rings That Rise and Fall Through a Red-Lit Hall in Kazan
SpY‘s CYCLES N2 keeps the name of the artist’s 2025 Cycles sculpture but drops its entire mechanism, trading nine rotating steel…
Lifestyle
Oliviero Baldini Replaces Furniture with Floor-to-Ceiling Metal Units at HLORENZO Los Angeles
For the HLORENZO flagship store in Los Angeles, Oliviero Baldini didn’t design a boutique — he designed a city grid at the scale of a wardrobe. The 9,000-square-foot (836-square-meter)…
Mur Mur Makes This Paris Smash Burger Restaurant Feel Underwater, Not Fast
Mur Mur pointed a fast-food restaurant directly at the street, then built the whole interior around two shades of the same color to make the room feel underwater. Sainto, a Smash Burger…
Casa Gruta Reads Like a Cenote, Down to the Concrete That Changes Color
Casa Gruta doesn’t illustrate a cave — it recreates the physical sensation of moving through one, using compression and release instead of description. Designed by Salvador Román &…
Noue Studio Turns a Concrete Wall Into Eleventhfloor Restaurant’s Only Structure
Noue Studio, working from a load-bearing concrete wall it couldn’t remove, built an entire restaurant renovation around that one fixed point. Rather than dividing the interior with new…
Studio Francesco Faccin Builds De Cecco’s First Store Around a Bronze Pasta Die
Studio Francesco Faccin treats a De Cecco flagship store less like a shop and more like a museum built around five raw materials. Opening June 25, 2026 on Pescara’s Corso Umberto I, the…
Ninetynine Shrinks Its Tile Grid from 20cm to 5cm to Pull Diners into Fab Fries Freddy
Ninetynine‘s Fab Fries Freddy squeezes a full snack-bar identity into 35 sqm (377 sq ft) near Amsterdam’s Red Light District by shrinking its tile grid from 20 cm squares to 5 cm…
Technology
Design
Land Rover Classic’s Spectral Green Defender V8 Family Shifts Colour with the Light
Land Rover Classic proves that colour can be as bespoke as coachwork, commissioning a four-car Classic Defender V8 family — 90 Station Wagon, 90 Soft Top, 110 Station Wagon and the newly…
CALIPER Wraps a La Marzocco Linea Mini in Steel So Curved You Can’t Set a Cup Down
CALIPER strips every straight line from a La Marzocco Linea Mini, leaving a machine with nowhere to set a cup down. Developed for HELIOT EMIL‘s Paris SS27 showroom “Troxler”…
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