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three asymmetrical planes rotate around an imaginary axis. The post temporary timber pavilion uses cedar, cypress, and reclaimed CLT for japan’s forest festival appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

created during a 12-day residency, spok’s painted tennis court appears to sink through layers of repeating metallic geometry. The post spok bends the geometry of tennis into an optical loop at felipe pantone’s casa axis appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

Pracownia is a story about holistic design, where a relationship between the user's needs and matter, both existing and conceived, forms a multi-layered spatial experience. It integrates local culture, nature, craftsmanship, and modern manufacturing methods. The space is shaped by overlapping volumes and their dialogue with the surroundings. Details, materials, and bespoke solutions achieve a qui…

elna nykänen andersson explores how shared values and deep cultural translation connect finnish craft with japanese rituals. The post why entering the japanese design market requires more than exporting nordic aesthetics appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

vita vase rethinks the vase around the full life cycle of a flower, making space for petals as they fall and for stems that unexpectedly rise towards the light. The post a vase that follows the full arc of a flower’s life, even as petals fall appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

studios, public performance spaces, and a rooftop salle des fêtes will bring professional and amateur dancers together beside MAD’s neighboring fenix museum. The post MAD transforms 1923 art deco warehouse into rotterdam’s house for dance appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

Getting dressed in the morning, many of us will look in the mirror and ask ourselves what our outfit says about us. In this way, it is easy to treat clothing as something to be read: a way of communicating who we are, where we belong, and what we value. Yet this familiar way of thinking about fashion can obscure as much as it reveals. Fashioning argues that our preoccupation with what adornment m…

The blocky, plaid palaka design has evolved beyond its roots as simple workwear, crossing over ethnic and class lines as a symbol of local pride

the familiar red-and-white sphere is finally letting humans in, although only a few lucky sleepers will get the key The post giant poké ball becomes human-sized sleeping pod in japan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

BackgroundInclusive music-making requires instruments that support varied bodies, abilities, musical backgrounds, and forms of participation. Digital musical instruments provide diverse approaches to sound creation, and fabric-based interfaces offer an alternative interaction modality that may support participation for some users and contexts. Their tactile and deformable properties enable forms …

Guided by the philosophy "From Waste to Promise," WasteLand transforms a heavily contaminated former industrial site into a public park where regenerative urban development, contemporary art, and climate science meet. Its architectural anchor, Crystal Sauna by Bigert & Bergström, was conceived for the city of Skellefteå as both a public artwork and a functioning social space: a place where questi…

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art is now officially open to the public on the shores of Jinji Lake in Suzhou, China . The 60,000 m² building was designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group , ARTS Group, VIA.inc, and SHUISHI for the Suzhou Industrial Park Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau. The project is designed as a village of 12 pavilions beneath a continuous, ribbon-like roof, with a covered co…

lunar and martian habitat experiments turn privacy, waste, repair, and resources into questions of domestic design. The post when home becomes life support: designing habitats for mars and the moon appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

Taking its name from a line from a Zohran Mamdani speech, “Turn the volume up!” at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art urges visitors to get political this fall.

keker translates a familiar architectural component into a lighting collection. The post discarded aluminum blinds transform into cylindrical lighting system appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .