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9/29/2026

designed by studio téré, the former railway signal box-turned-kiosk-bar sits within the jardins de l’estuaire new public park. The post former railway signal box reopens as l’aiguilleuse red-orange kiosk-bar in nantes appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/29/2026

the rooms where people came to dance, disappear, dress up, watch and be watched became laboratories for architecture, performance and collective life. The post from 1960s radical design to berlin’s concrete bunkers: a history of nightlife spaces appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/29/2026

a mix of fashion, exhibitions, and gathering, the space uses everyday references and tactile materials to create a place for cultural exchange. The post LANG’s los angeles flagship layers fragments of hong kong into a former warehouse appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/28/2026

forty-one volunteers spent eleven days building a school toilet from reclaimed wood, learning about sanitary design, material reuse, and hands-on craft. The post volunteer camp in thailand hand-builds school toilet from reclaimed wood appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/27/2026

the residence’s rectangular volume frames a central courtyard around the pool. The post planted roof connects concrete casa cieno by TAC to oaxacan coast appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/26/2026

a triangular courtyard anchors nghia do kindergarten’s elliptical volumes. The post elliptical classroom volumes and colorful louvers shape courtyard kindergarten in hanoi appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/26/2026

the two interventions generate renewable energy, improve comfort, and establish a bold new presence within la unión’s mining landscape. The post ribbed lime-green gateway and blue solar canopy reform municipal sports center in murcia appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/25/2026

nineteenth-century paris produced a figure who made a practice of watching the city. The post the flâneur and the birth of the modern urban spectator appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/24/2026

larch timber, stone footings, and corten steel shape the shrine office by sobokuya. The post leaning timber frame anchors shrine office in japanese mountain valley appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/24/2026

the architects trace the industrial past of the building while adapting it for exhibitions, workshops, meetings, and collaboration. The post MPNYC turns former port warehouse into adaptable cultural space in piraeus appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/23/2026

when on the move, different trees reshape the reflected landscape while the pavilion structure remains unchanged. The post curved mirrored steel walls multiply one tree into forest at infinite grove pavilion in shanghai appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/23/2026

zyva studio turns the apartment of its founder, anthony authié, into a manifesto for neo-ornament. The post oversized flowers, terrazzo, and pop references ornament zyva studio’s paris showroom appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/22/2026

the london space lets artists play a concert, record it, mix it and turn it into a global broadcast without leaving the building. The post apple opens 600-capacity music venue inside london’s battersea power station appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/22/2026

the new nonprofit brings together pesce’s archive, scholarship, exhibitions, and authorized editions under a board of longtime collaborators and colleagues. The post gaetano pesce foundation launches to preserve and continue the architect’s practice appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/22/2026

brick forms the facade and adds a material connection to local architecture, while persian red brings a vivid accent to the villa’s recessed openings. The post persian-red voids carve into villa’s white brick volume in northern iran appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/21/2026

erre completes the marina de empresas campus with a third waterfront building connecting talent, education and entrepreneurship. The post blue spiral staircase anchors ERRE’s harbor-side workspace in valencia appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/21/2026

for le festival des cabanes, a playable timber wall carries changing wooden tones through the mountains above lake annecy. The post nearly 1,000 wooden chimes turn le bruit du bois into an alpine instrument appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/21/2026

igarchitects creates a house in okinawa where reinforced-concrete walls, columns, and a large roof overlap to form a continuous sequence of spaces. The post overlapping concrete walls and columns blur inside and outside in okinawa house appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/20/2026

shakira stadium by bjarke ingels group transforms madrid’s iberdrola music venue with temporary pavilions, recycled fabrics and 500 trees. The post BIG builds a temporary city for shakira in madrid with reusable structures appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/20/2026

igarchitects tests the spatial strength of timber architecture with a house shaped by a field of structural walls. The post IGArchitects builds tokyo house from field of structural timber walls appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/19/2026

locally sourced stone, terracotta brick, and perforated screens shape a tactile, climate responsive architecture. The post local stone, brick and terracotta screens layer across three-story gathering space in indonesia appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/18/2026

frida escobedo will expand MALBA beneath plaza perú, doubling the museum’s exhibition space while preserving the public square above. The post frida escobedo studio to take MALBA underground with newly unveiled expansion appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/18/2026

from wandering through the city to imagining environments shaped by play, the movement asked what it might mean to take an active part in shaping everyday life. The post how the situationists turned spectators into participants appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/17/2026

five domestic areas are distinguished through different color treatments. The post a sequence of colored rooms and a continuous bookcase reshape a madrid apartment appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/17/2026

cherokee red floors and hand-cast concrete blocks remain throughout the restored residence by frank lloyd wright. The post cantilevered roof extends over frank lloyd wright’s concrete usonian house appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/17/2026

ochotac is a mexican-inspired bar where architecture, graphic identity and food culture come together through a bold material and visual language. The post studiomateriality translates lucha libre into green-lit, stainless-steel bar in athens appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/17/2026

architecture spent centuries learning how to become an image before the spectator eventually picked up the camera. The post from the picturesque to the smartphone: architecture’s obsession with being seen appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/17/2026

studio KO adapts a former tram depot in tashkent into a cultural institution combining contemporary art, research, public programming, and artist residencies. The post CCA tashkent opens inside transformed 1912 tram depot by studio KO appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/17/2026

the café introduces a contrasting geometry to the linear boulevard. The post diagonal forms and illuminated curves outline 2050 coffee shop along osaka’s midosuji axis appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/17/2026

restrained materiality allows geometry, light, shadow, and vegetation to shape the atmosphere. The post triangular layered residence by QBO3 arquitectos nestles on costa rican hillside appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/16/2026

the citywide strategy is designed to evolve alongside benghazi, replacing a fixed masterplan with an adaptable framework for growth. The post ZHA rethinks benghazi’s urban growth through a digital planning hub appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/16/2026

the czech arena combines an expressive aluminum facade with circulation designed to remain active beyond event hours. The post CHYBIK + KRISTOF wraps jihlava arena in a jagged red aluminum crown appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/16/2026

the sheltered edge forms an engawa-like space between inside and outside. The post dark metal roof shapes community canteen beside mountain stream in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/15/2026

weaving new living spaces between fruit trees, a chain of colorful masonry vaults shapes ZAV architects' gelareh house. The post colorful vaulted home by ZAV architects weaves through iranian orchard appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/15/2026

skip floors create interconnected levels throughout the house. The post a spiral of timber beams and steel frames tiny 40-sqm tokyo home appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/15/2026

prefabricated over two months at princeton’s architecture lab, the prototype uses 16 large straw units whose density and limitations directly shape the house’s form. The post agricultural waste forms complete building system in new york house by LTL architects appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/15/2026

inflatable elements hover above the pavement to filter sunlight and create shifting shadows. The post pink inflatable canopy brings soft shade to new york’s streetscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/14/2026

built upward from a tiny footprint, the compact home orients its brightest living spaces toward the sea. The post SO arquitetura stacks tiny azores home onto 13 square-meter footprint appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/14/2026

the apartment is organized through spatial relationships instead of separate rooms. The post a series of joinery elements replaces walls in 1970s athens apartment renovation appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/13/2026

reflections blur the distinction between architecture, debris, and bodies. The post salvaged concrete and recycled aluminum turn tehran’s demolition waste into debris pavilion appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/13/2026

the corridor began as a way to separate movement from rooms, leaving a spatial logic that still shapes homes today. The post how domestic work became built into the floor plan of the modern home appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/12/2026

in 1971, superstudio imagined twelve cities where architecture, technology, and urban systems could shape every part of everyday life. The post superstudio’s 12 ideal cities question the price of a perfectly designed life appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/12/2026

the concept combines industrial materials, sculptural stainless steel, integrated lighting, and intuitive customer flow to create a space that feels precise, contemporary, and unexpectedly generous. The post suspended metal grid ceiling meets translucent and reflective surfaces inside french café appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/12/2026

underground homes reveal a tension between the physical comfort of shelter and the psychological pull of the world above. The post why does living underground feel so strange? appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/11/2026

an elevated eucalyptus structure brings bedrooms and daylight above the retained block walls of this perucho home. The post la cabina de la curiosidad suspends timber ‘nests’ beneath eucalyptus roof in ecuador appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/11/2026

set on the steep slopes of banyalbufar, the family home turns the practical difficulties of building in a remote village into part of its architecture. The post KOSMOS transforms mallorcan townhouse by giving old materials new roles appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/11/2026

the elevated structure allows the woodland to remain continuous beneath the house. The post compact forest cabin by wiki world takes shape as a red wooden submarine appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/10/2026

from minecraft shelters and animal crossing islands to VR bedrooms and contested digital real estate, video games have become places where people build a sense of home. The post building a life in virtual worlds: the places we inhabit and lose appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/10/2026

built-in furniture, curved geometries, and color organize the compact apartment around daily life. The post curved joinery and bold color reframe 1960s apartment in madrid appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/10/2026

the black school creates a permanent space for creative education, neighborhood gathering, and black self-determination shaped through 18 months of community design research. The post community-led cultural hub provides permanent home for black creative education in new orleans appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/10/2026

a digital experiment begun more than a decade ago expands across the walls and interior of gerhard richter’s new pavilion in doha, qatar. The post artist gerhard richter designs hexagonal doha pavilion from his strip paintings appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/10/2026

the strategic plan reorganizes a working baroque palace around exhibitions, offices, new circulation, and the return of its historic garden to public life. The post AMDL circle plans new public life for milan’s palazzo litta appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/10/2026

kawamura electric’s headquarters occupies a seven-story building in central nagoya. The post KIAS pairs textured brick facade with planted atrium for headquarters in japan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/10/2026

longitudinal cuts transform cylindrical pipes into curved architectural elements. The post cut, rotated, and suspended concrete pipes create reusable pavilion in mumbai appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/9/2026

on every twist and turn, this park in naucalpan is a rainbow-filled display of the mexican architect's fluid and imaginative design style. The post inside the serpentine world of javier senosiain’s quetzalcóatl park appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/9/2026

four prefabricated timber blocks create adaptable apartments and shared gardens for a new Ibiza housing complex. The post stefano boeri plans gardened affordable housing in ibiza as four modular timber blocks appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/9/2026

jpg print shop connects fabrika’s industrial memory with contemporary design scene. The post plywood and reflective steel build retro-futurist print shop in tbilisi’s former factory appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/9/2026

nine cabins designed by kengo kuma & associates, elemental, studio MK27 and other practices provide dedicated spaces for writers and translators to live and work. The post architect-designed cabins offer temporary homes for writers at jan michalski foundation appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/9/2026

facing the eiffel tower, the renewed ken club turns fitness into an all-day social environment, using saturated color, curved forms, and references to its 1985 identity. The post rodolphe parente and marion mailaender revive the spirit of 1985 paris sports club appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/9/2026

what happens when a community center stops behaving like a building and starts becoming a landscape? The post abandoned canal site in london transforms into a community playscape garden appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/8/2026

these california homes reveal how architecture changes when fire becomes something the house is expected to encounter. The post how do california architects design a house to live with wildfire? appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/8/2026

the sculptural curved form contrasts with new york's predominantly rectilinear skyline. The post ground becomes roof, shielding inhabitable civic landscape on roosevelt island appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/8/2026

as 'park rise' takes shape within the ellinikon, johansson discusses the project’s cascading form, its relationship with athens and the potential for a new model of urban living. The post BIG’s hanna johansson on designing ‘park rise’ as a vertical extension of athens’ landscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/8/2026

demonstrates how high-performance environmental engineering can coexist with tactile materiality and refined spatial intimacy. The post first single-family home in greece achieves LEED platinum certification for sustainable living appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/8/2026

the boutique brings together contrasting materials, sculptural furniture, and a contemporary artwork by guan xiao. The post alaïa reopens shanghai boutique with perforated facade and curved interior appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/7/2026

translucent FRP panels create a continuous exterior surface that changes appearance with shifting daylight. The post triangular timber structure encloses tsukumo kiln ceramic studio in kobe, japan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/7/2026

our renewed obsession with cabins reveals what contemporary life may be getting wrong about comfort, connection and escape. The post from refuge to prototype: why cabins keep redefining how we live appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/7/2026

the book brings together 33 european housing projects, asking how architecture can respond to existing buildings, care, and the everyday systems that shape domestic life. The post what kind of life should housing make possible? 33 projects offer answers appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/5/2026

from the 81st floor of the shanghai world financial center, paul clemence reflects on how the city’s skyscraper crowns act as landmarks. The post paul clemence on how skyscraper crowns become landmarks of shanghai appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/5/2026

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

9/5/2026

as temperatures rise and grids strain, 'passive survivability' asks how long architecture can keep a home habitable. The post when the power goes out, how can the architecture keep a house cool? appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/4/2026

the vertical residence responds to changing daylight, airflow, and seasonal conditions. The post voids and vertical space reinterpret traditional japanese machiya on a compact site in tokyo appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/4/2026

designboom visits les caryatides in guyancourt to explore the iconic building in person and unveil its beauty and peculiarities. The post les caryatides de guyancourt: a photo essay on the postmodernist complex of suburban paris appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/3/2026

interior’s restrained material palette extends to the exterior through a travertine-clad facade. The post travertine, timber, and desert-toned textures shape groundeddesign’s villa limni in dubai appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/3/2026

across japanese cities, tiny urban houses carve parking directly into their plans and sections to create a car-sized void. The post why japanese architects carve parking into tiny urban homes appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/3/2026

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.

9/3/2026

half a century after the back-to-the-land movement transformed northern california, the book documents the handmade homes and personal histories of those who attempted to build an alternative way of living. The post ‘handmade utopia’ traces radical homes of northern california’s back-to-the-land movement appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/3/2026

arc park places recreation and community gathering at the center of the mixed-use development. The post house-like concrete play structures frame community arc park in chihuahua appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/2/2026

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.

9/2/2026

mad architects’ lucas museum of narrative art opens in los angeles with 9,290 square meters of galleries. The post MAD’s lucas museum of narrative art opens in LA this month: take an early look inside appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/2/2026

in west palm beach, zig-zag geometry distributes sea views across a 25-story tower above a historic fire station. The post every apartment gets an atlantic view in carlo ratti’s zig-zag west palm beach tower appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/2/2026

the hong kong architect treats time as another dimension of space, allowing one compact home to repeatedly change its function. The post gary chang’s ‘domestic transformer’ makes 32 sqm of hong kong living space work 24 ways appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/2/2026

DLR Group explores how cross-disciplinary masterplanning, landscape, and interiors transform high-density urban developments across the middle east. The post DLR Group on translating urban density into intimate neighborhoods in the middle east appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/2/2026

replacing a block of aging walk-ups, the proposal organizes two residential towers around balconies, shared platforms, gardens, and communal spaces. The post OMA’s taipei housing renewal lets residents shape an alternative to the standard tower appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/2/2026

six low-rise clusters form the student housing development arranged around shared courtyards and gardens. The post 3D printed concrete and cork shape 36 student homes in denmark appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/2/2026

kubota & bachmann architects reconfigures the traditional 1890 home into a fluid living environment. The post mirrors, ribbed glass, and light boxes open up a narrow amsterdam townhouse appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/1/2026

the institution focuses on storytelling across classic illustration, muralism, comic art, science fiction imagery, and cinematic artifacts. The post new images reveal MAD’s completed lucas museum ahead of september opening in LA appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/1/2026

textile-inspired facades by MVRDV break a 163-home miami development into stacked blocks around a mosaic public plaza. The post MVRDV to stack colorful WOMA housing around fornasetti mosaic plaza in miami appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/1/2026

the japanese architect is recognized for a career spanning more than three decades, shaped by an ongoing exploration of architecture’s relationship with nature, material, and tradition. The post kengo kuma honored with andrée putman lifetime achievement award 2027 appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

9/1/2026

atelier gram retains přerov city hall’s original 1969 modernist structure. The post steel layered facade revives 1969 modernist city hall in czech republic appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/31/2026

rom pigeon towers and silkworm lofts to aristocratic stables and industrial farms, architecture has long organized space around nonhuman life. The post how architecture has made space for animals across history appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/31/2026

stone, timber, and planted courtyards support the center’s mediterranean climate strategy. The post mineral stone wall enclosure frames tectoniques’ cultural center in france appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/30/2026

na bothain is a collection of guest cabins designed by córr, perched above the isle of raasay distillery overlooking skye’s cuillin mountains. The post gabled timber cabins by córr nestle into scotland’s rugged landscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/30/2026

a closer look at emissions trajectories reveals a smaller group of cities that have turned those mechanisms into measurable reductions. The post C40 cities have built a framework for climate action, but which ones are actually delivering? appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/29/2026

ICON employs large-scale 3D-printing to build affordable housing, suburban communities, private homes and desert retreats. The post ICON uses one construction system to 3D-print radically different ideas of home appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/28/2026

helen & hard pairs viking-era boatbuilding logic with robotic milling to shape cabin sande’s expressive timber frame. The post helen & hard revives viking boatbuilding with whole-tree cabin on norway’s atlantic coast appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/28/2026

the interior features intricate crafted elements like peppercorn balusters, beehive chandeliers, tree-trunk tables, and gold plaster. The post mamuli translates georgian culture and traditions into layered restaurant interior appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/28/2026

seymour documents 40 mid-century motels, revamped into contemporary boutique hotels while preserving the character of the past. The post neon signs and retro rooms: ellie seymour’s book maps mid-century motels across the US appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/27/2026

the modular timber installation combines a spatial portal with an integrated wooden bench. The post lens installation uses rhythmic timber slats to frame island’s historic churches appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

8/27/2026

Isak Chung and Jinpyo Hong renovate a 1968 residence in Seoul with a courtyard, annex and reused air-raid shelter. The post 1968 seoul residence is reshaped with courtyard, annex and timber frame appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.