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Volcanic landscapes reveal geological change in a striking way: lava hardens, ash lingers, and plants slowly colonize. Despite the ongoing activity of nearby volcanoes, these areas remain attractive places for homes and retreats. Architects respond by blending everyday life with a terrain that is still changing, using flexible foundations, resilient materials, and digital modeling.
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Davey McEathron Architecture unveiled a new residence in South Austin that mixes 1970s flair with Memphis‑style interiors. Built with Cary Paul Studios, the home showcases a playful yet sophisticated blend of mid‑century modern charm and bold 70s design.
Read thisTimex has released a new analog watch in India, priced at $125, featuring a 36mm case, 90‑gram weight, 30‑meter water resistance, and an INDIGLO back‑light.
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A senior 3D character artist has released a step‑by‑step guide that takes designers from a high‑poly sculpt all the way to a low‑poly head ready for animation. The course covers mid‑poly creation, edge flow, and mouth interior design, and is useful for both real‑time and production pipelines.
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Dezeen Jobs has highlighted five U.S. job openings that span academic roles and design practices. One of the positions is a tenure‑track assistant professor in architecture at Ohio State University, appealing to those who blend research with design.
Read thisDuring a showcase hosted by students and faculty of the Architecture, Art and Design School at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, a table lamp crafted from volcanic stone was unveiled. The lamp, inspired by sunrise, was presented alongside other works such as a stone plate with a glass cloche referencing Mexican cinema and a wooden stool adorned with leather tassels.
Read thisThe Silora task chair, designed by ITO Design for Narbutas, debuted at the Dezeen Showroom. Featuring a sculptural back and two petals that wrap from the front, the chair blends artistic form with practical function. Its design is grounded in ergonomic principles and contemporary aesthetics.
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Fabien Weibel, founder of Bubblebird Studio, explains how focusing on water and sand physics shaped the game Sandcastle, the challenges he faced, and how player feedback is guiding its evolution.
Read thisGRT Architects has updated Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, installing custom, removable shelving and a new doorknob on the building’s façade. The renovation also upgraded the gallery’s electrical and HVAC systems in its single, triangular space.
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A new Unity tool that detects complex geometry with minimal setup and supports IK‑driven traversal animations.
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Bastidas Architecture has designed a house that hides in the hills, using earth and native plants to make it almost invisible.
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Genarchitects’ regeneration of Youyi Bay turns a cluster of hotels, apartments and shops into a network of plazas and courtyards that guide residents from lively public spaces to quiet private ones.
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Dezeen announced the shortlist for this year’s awards, covering architecture, interiors and design projects.
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At a design conference in Croatia, NASA’s creative director David Rager discussed the challenge of maintaining brand trust in the age of AI.
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Harvard’s Grinham Research Group unveiled a new insulating cladding tile made from recycled wool at this year’s Oslo Architecture Triennale. The tiles were displayed on a timber frame in Oslo’s Sofienberg Church as part of the main exhibition.
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In the Gulf, people historically moved between desert pastures, coastal towns, and pearling sites each season. This article explains how that mobility shaped architecture and how modern development is changing it.
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In Medellín’s Laureles neighborhood, Casa Andina architects have turned an old garage into a coworking space for architecture firms. The project preserves the building’s memory while creating a new creative environment.
Read thisCasio, in partnership with Japanese apparel brand BlackEyePatch, unveiled the new G-Shock model DW‑5600BEP‑9. Featuring a gold body, black digital face, and bioplastic construction, it will launch in the U.S. next week at a price of $165.
Read thisWith Dyson’s tech‑driven toothbrush and a revisit of eight design projects from Dezeen’s archives, everyday toothbrushes are getting a fresh look. Landor & Fitch’s collection, featuring over 142 chunky‑grip handles for people with dexterity challenges, exemplifies this trend.
Read thisCasio has launched its new analog G‑Steel GST‑B1000 watches, featuring a slimmer design, 58‑gram weight, and solar charging. Two models, GST‑B1000‑1A and GST‑B1000‑2A, are now available through the brand’s official website in the United States.
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Designed by Cronoboros / TANAT, Pabellón El Eco exemplifies emotional architecture, breaking traditional rules of symmetry, structural coherence, and dedicated functions for each space.
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Patina House by 182 DESIGN is located in a quiet residential setting and emphasizes materials, craft, and long-term use over form. The building features a stone envelope that weathers over time and a curtain of hanging plants that softens its volume, creating a living patina.
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At the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Rockwell Group has created the Skywalker Grill restaurant and bar, avoiding any 90-degree angles to echo the museum's biomorphic architecture.
Read thisWhatsApp is redesigning its Android app, focusing on a new bottom navigation bar. The updated bar has an elliptical shape, fresh buttons, and incorporates Meta AI. Beta version 2.2638.10 is available to testers, with a stable release expected in a few weeks.
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Polysmiths in Peckham has re‑imagined a Victorian terrace by making light the main material. By carving a double‑height void and using south‑facing windows, the studio turned a narrow, dim space into an airy home with timber slats, lime‑plastered walls and cork panels.
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Villas Raíces is a set of mountain villas that were built to fit the terrain instead of forcing the land to accommodate them.
Read thisBYD unveiled a new full‑size crossover with a luxury cabin and a 30‑inch display in a preview video. The car features a 66.5‑kWh battery, a hybrid powertrain, and a sleek interior design that appeals to designers and motion artists.
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In mobile gaming, acquiring a new player is expensive, but bringing back those who have already tried the game offers greater upside. Adikteev, with over a decade of mobile marketing experience, shows that spotting early churn signals and sending targeted messages can boost return rates dramatically.
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In the new project, architecture frees space by concentrating functions rather than adding elements, creating a sense of spaciousness in a small home.
Read thisMicrosoft’s newly redesigned Copilot sparked a sharp rise in its stock, pushing the share price above $500 for the first time in recent days.
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Graduate students in Industrial Design at Georgia Tech have created a compact device that helps users sleep better and encourages them to record meaningful moments of their day.
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Aniket Rawat, a 3D anime artist, recreated a 2D bus scene from an anime in Blender.
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80 Level’s tutorial shows how to replicate the stylized hair of Wuthering Waves in Blender using a Hair Map texture and geometry nodes.
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Francis Kéré views time as the primary material in his architectural work. He believes architecture changes over time, turning structural elements like bricks, doors, windows, and stairs into protagonists of a living process. This perspective leads his projects to evolve continuously and adapt to user needs.
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The indie title Aegis Force: The Scorian War revisits the grid‑based combat of Shining Force while adding a dynamic 3D camera and real‑time cinematic animations, offering a fresh take on tactical RPGs
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In 2024, a small studio used Autodesk’s Flow Studio to produce a 50‑minute animated film called Daughter of the Inner Stars, blending symphonic music, live narration, and 3‑D characters.
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Bartolo+Contré’s design for the Dunant Health Center in Bordeaux rethinks how medical spaces can foster teamwork and patient well‑being.
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Pend, a Scottish architecture studio, added a single‑storey red‑brick extension to a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh’s Newhaven Conservation Area. The new addition creates a secondary entrance that links directly to the kitchen and dining room.
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Wonki Choi used Blender to transform the final scene of Fight Club into a cyberpunk 3D animation.
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Studio Orange blends 3‑D modeling, animation, and 2‑D line work to create shows like Beastars and Trigun Stampede that feel hand‑drawn. Their workflow offers designers and animators a way to keep the efficiency of 3‑D while preserving an anime aesthetic.
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Concept artist Marcin Basta, who had a background in 2‑D work, shows how he turned to 3‑D tools—3DCoat, Quixel Mixer, Blender and Photoshop—to create an overgrown robot scene. He walks readers through sketching, voxel modeling, texturing and rendering, highlighting how a simple workflow can be both fun and effective.
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The 2027 World Design Congress in Seoul has launched a striking brand that departs from tradition, using vibrant colors and a scattered logo. The design, built around seven colors tied to city landmarks, shows that boldness can be intentional.
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The Ellen Browning Building, designed by Hacker Architects, is a mixed‑use residential project born from a group of close friends who wanted to preserve their relationships in their later years. Located on Division Street in Southeast Portland’s lively retail and commercial district, the building supports an aging‑in‑place strategy with walkability, amenities, and easy access to healthcare.
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This year’s Burning Man in Nevada’s alkaline desert saw a parade of inventive structures—from a broken Eiffel Tower to a nylon‑panel chapel—built by artists, architects and volunteers. The pieces were lightweight, removable, and ultimately burned or taken down to honor the festival’s leave‑nothing‑behind rule.
Read thisMotorola unveiled the Signature 27, the first device to feature Qualcomm’s new flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip and a 200‑megapixel camera. With a distinctive design, Bang & Olufsen‑powered audio, and a promise of seven years of Android updates, the phone is set to attract designers and tech enthusiasts alike.
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Senior animator Ave Espelita showcased a striking fighting animation that blends Blender’s 3D capabilities with painterly smears, giving the sequence a hand‑drawn feel reminiscent of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Lucy. The clip features a young woman battling a masked uniformed man, and Espelita explained how he layered smear frames over the animation to create the effect.
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The Dezeen Awards announced a shortlist of 152 architecture projects from 36 countries across 19 categories.
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In Puerto Escondido’s El Vigía sector, TAC Taller Alberto Calleja has designed Casa Cieno on a 1,500 m² plot. The house is built to merge with the surrounding landscape rather than dominate it, offering inward‑facing living that balances interior comfort with the natural context.
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New York City plans to move inmates from Rikers Island to four new jails in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx. The program, launched in 2017, is overseen by the city’s Design and Construction Department and partners with several architecture firms. Construction is underway, with Brooklyn slated to open in 2029 and the others in the early 2030s.
Read thisMotorola released the first back‑side images of its new Signature 27 before the Snapdragon Summit. The phone sports a large, irregular camera module, a 200‑MP Sony LYTIA sensor, 100× zoom, Dolby Vision support, and Bang & Olufsen audio. It will debut in the US and Europe, with India to follow.
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The Haikou Workers’ Activity Center on Hainan Island is a public building that responds to the region’s hot, humid climate. Designed by CADG’s Green Architecture Design & Research Institute, it serves as a cultural, sports, and training hub while acting as an urban oasis for the community.
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A Swiss e‑ink display lets you hang art anywhere, change images with a battery that can last a year, and avoid the glow and noise of a TV.
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Bamboo, a rapidly renewable material, is being used in creative ways across South and Southeast Asia. Seven projects—from meditation centers to student hubs—demonstrate how bamboo can shape architecture, education, and community spaces.
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NAHE ARCHOTECTS transformed a conventional apartment into a series of calm, interconnected rooms where light, material, and proportion shape everyday life.
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Adam Vian, creative director of SFB Games, explains how his studio’s style evolved from early Flash games on Newgrounds to the Detective Grimoire series and the upcoming The Mermaid Mask. The story shows that 2D art can grow with changing tastes and tools.
Read thisCasio introduced three all‑steel analog watches featuring a classic multi‑plate layout in the Indian market, priced at about $52 each.
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The La Grieta Pavilion, built by WEYES Studio and architecture students, was unveiled as a hands‑on study of sustainability, material use, and the interplay of light, time, and space.
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aoa architects present a streamlined, efficient layout for rental units in the Bangbae Geunsaeng project, emphasizing optimal space use and natural light.
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Blender artist TheMathewFlames reimagined Nintendo’s Kirby in a comic‑book style, using bold 3‑D sketching and contrasting colors to place the character in a cosmic setting.
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Blender 5.3 now lets users import and render Gaussian Splat data directly, enabling photorealistic scenes from photos without external tools.
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Sustainability is often discussed as a universal standard, but in practice the rules differ from country to country. Architects must navigate varying energy codes, environmental requirements, and carbon targets, deciding which standards to adopt for international projects.
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A neglected Victorian building in Hastings was transformed by IF_DO into a multi‑purpose community hub. The design blends open public space, affordable work areas, and youth services into one welcoming building.
Read thisNew photos of the Asus GoogleBook laptop show a big touchpad, several USB‑C and USB‑A ports, a headphone jack, and a dedicated G button. Official pre‑orders start Monday.
Read thisNew York creative agency Basura teamed up with musician Big Data to create a plush toy that looks like a data centre and, when squeezed, plays a recording from a real server room in Virginia. Dubbed Bezzy, the toy is part of a satirical campaign that highlights the footprint of data centres and AI.
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In Paris’s 12th arrondissement, THINK TANK Architecture has transformed a former RATP industrial building into the US Métro Bizot sports center, consolidating sports activities that were previously spread across several sites.
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In 2024, Young Projects debuted the temporary Match House installation at Art Omi. The project explores innovative uses of everyday materials, collaborating with local makers to showcase a series of scaled prototypes, furniture, and architectural elements that challenge conventional expectations.
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Students from Cardiff University’s architecture program unveiled a housing project featuring shared courtyards, winter gardens and a nursery as a response to the needs of domestic‑violence survivors. The design also includes a pottery workshop using River Taff materials, a weather archive, and an artist residency in the Preseli Hills.
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From Dec. 2–15, Nielsen Norman Group will host live virtual UX courses. Each course runs 3.5 hours over two days, led by experts and invited speakers. Participants can take up to five courses, pay per course, and earn a UX Certificate by passing the related exams.
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Architecture firm HKS has released renderings of the interior of the new Washington Commanders NFL stadium, showing a glass ceiling and a steep bowl of seats that will hold 70,000 fans.
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The Lvzhou Primary School in Xinzhou, Shenzhen, was designed by CCDI Dongxiying Studio. Set within a mixed commercial, residential, and urban‑village context, the project addresses noise from Fuqiang Road by using vertical and underground spaces to create a quiet, functional learning environment.
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At the London Design Festival, Tom Pearson introduced his first furniture and lighting line, the 10,000 Rivets collection. The pieces use aluminium rivets that serve both as structural supports and decorative elements, forming droplet‑shaped patterns. They are displayed in APOC’s London store as functional display cases and lighting fixtures.
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A new low‑lying addition to Cairngorm Cottage in rural Aberdeenshire blends granite walls with ash joinery and clay plaster, creating extra space for a growing family while keeping the home’s cozy feel.
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In 2026, browser support for CSS container queries reached 94%, yet only about 41% of developers actually use them. Many still rely on traditional media queries, often treating container queries as if they were the same, which leads to misuse.
Read thisTimex has launched its first luxury watch of 2026, the Atelier GMT Première M1a, in the United States. Powered by a Swiss Landeron 24 GMT movement, the watch combines striking design with a price of $1,350, appealing to watch enthusiasts and designers alike.
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Miami's new 492,000‑sq‑ft terminal, designed by Arquitectonica, can handle three ships at once and reflects ship directionality.
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In Sorriso, northern Mato Grosso, Brazil, the architects Ser Arquitetos have designed a single‑story house that uses shade, open spaces, and natural light to respond to its surroundings, with a garden and pool nearby.
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In Paris, the La Salle School, designed by FP Arquitectura, moves beyond a conventional building to create an expansive learning landscape where void, landscape, and circulation serve as core instruments of the educational experience.
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Animator zombielord999 has built a new Blender rig for Mina from Valve’s upcoming game Deadlock, showing how the character’s face can be animated in a variety of expressive ways.
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Pinetrail is an action‑adventure title that places you in a charming town where your job is to deliver important packages. The streets are full of puzzles, surprises, and beautiful scenery.
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InLe Architects designed a house in Kerala that embraces the two mango trees already on the site, using timber shutters and tree canopies to shade and quiet the interior.
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Architects Grimshaw have unveiled a new layout for the entrance area of Las Vegas’s Allegiant Stadium, turning former parking spaces into a raised plaza that will house a Boring Company underground tunnel station. The plan replaces the need for surface parking with a transit hub that connects fans to the stadium and the city’s tunnel network.
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In Trancoso, Brazil, Padovani Arquitetos unveiled Villa Yandara, a home that brings tropical surroundings into every architectural detail, turning landscape into a living part of the interior.
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Wood has long been valued in architecture, but in humid, coastal, or wildfire-prone areas it can pose challenges. Aluminum with a wood‑finish coating preserves the natural look while offering high resistance to moisture, UV, and corrosion.
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Japanese studio Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture has designed a five‑storey concrete block in Tokyo that uses repeating trapezoidal shapes to echo the building’s surroundings. The 11‑unit Shin Nakano Trapezoidal, built for developer Real Partners, shows how geometry can tie a structure to its context.
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In Paraná, Brazil, Drucker Arquitetos Associados designed a private home where the structure itself becomes the architecture. Commissioned by a couple of entrepreneurs, the house delivers full privacy, spaciousness, and a stripped‑down aesthetic. Large glass openings, exposed concrete, and fluid circulation create a calm, functional living experience.
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The Dolphin Villa in Vietnam was designed to bring a closer relationship between domestic life and nature, focusing on a balanced environment rather than maximizing built area.
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In Argentina, Gonzalo Bardach Architecture has created a concrete house that balances thick walls with filtering screens to produce calm, deep atmospheres for everyday living. The screens control light and privacy, while a green roof adds natural elements.
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Blender Studio released a short teaser for its OVERGROWN project, showing a post‑human world reclaimed by nature and following two small animal protagonists on a perilous journey. The clip demonstrates high production quality while serving as a practical example of a workflow that could become a free, open‑source playbook for feature‑film creation.
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Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, has leveraged two decades of experience to design EVE Frontier as an open, moddable world. With clear digital physics, modular building tools, and a focus on survival, the game lets players create new structures and systems.
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A new Blender add‑on automates bone chains for stylized hair, easing the rigging process.
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A Swedish architecture studio has built a 152‑square‑metre holiday home in a forested site on the Hallandsåsen ridge. The cross‑shaped Pine House sits on a north‑facing slope and was designed in close partnership with its owners.
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Montreal bakery Toledo, in partnership with Nouvelle Idée, unveiled a new logo and visual style based on the irregular air pockets found in laminated dough.
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Architectural studio Chybik + Kristof designed Jihlava Municipal Arena with a striking red, zigzagging facade and a rooftop running track. The 5,650‑seat venue serves both a local hockey team and the community as a cultural hub.
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Marinas House sits in front of a lake and was designed by Pirca Arquitectura. The main goal was to create a space where interior and exterior boundaries blur together. This approach lets natural light, lake views, and vegetation shape each room and establish a dynamic connection with the surrounding environment.
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The new JH Gwangan building in Busan sits on a sharp corner, blending commercial and residential spaces while a design filter reduces traffic noise and lets sunlight in.
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In L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos designed a 37‑unit build‑to‑rent building that maximizes orientation, daylight and occupant comfort while staying economical and easy to maintain.
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On a hill where the city meets the forest, a new family home is designed to live in nature while staying connected to the city. Architects had to balance openness to the landscape with privacy from neighboring houses.
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Original Force, working with director Rodrigo Blaas, has released early character sketches, storyboards, and animation tests for the new Warrior Cats series. The designs depart from glossy CG expectations, instead embracing a loose, expressive style that brings the feline characters to life.
Read thisThe design agency hasan & partners reimagined a plain train‑car lift mark into a clean, sans‑serif ‘T’ that now represents Train Factory, a new cultural hub in Helsinki’s former locomotive factory.
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