Freitag proves even a cooler bag can become a design object
The Swiss upcycling brand reinvents one of summer's most overlooked accessories with a cooler bag made from reclaimed truck tarpaulins and other recycled materials.
Brutalisim and electronic music meet in Milan’s new club
Housed in a former industrial building in the Certosa district and designed by Velvet Studio, Duro reinterprets the Brutalist aesthetic in a space dedicated to electronic music, featuring exposed concrete, steel, and urban regeneration.
What if Commodore had made mobile phones? Its anti-social flip phone seems to come straight from the Nineties
The Commodore 64 brand returns with the Callback 8020, a retro-style clamshell phone that blocks social networks and browsers while allowing the use of essential apps. It will be available for order starting June 30, but its price brings it closer to a collector's item than a real dumb phone.
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The sea does not lie, does not console, does not stay still. This is why artists have always sought it out: from Turner to Matisse, as a place where painting meets fear, light, the body, and the most exposed part of oneself.
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Will the revival of Milan’s historic Lido also mark its end? It’s becoming a giant private fitness club
Built in 1931 to bring the seaside to Milan, the city's historic Lido—a public sports and swimming complex designed for everyone—has been closed since 2019. A new redevelopment plan will replace it with a six-story fitness center and radically transform its monumental swimming pool, creating a Lido without its defining feature.
The wooden mountain bench that becomes an emergency micro-shelter
Designed by Francesco Faccin for the Trentino Alps, Pancalpina looks like a simple wooden bench, but hides a survival kit and a tent to help those caught unprepared in the mountains.
Gaudí’s unbuilt New York hotel now exists thanks to AI
In 1908, Antoni Gaudí envisioned the Hotel Attraction for Lower Manhattan—a colossal vertical hotel that was never built and was later all but forgotten. On the centennial of his death, artist Thierry Lechanteur brings it back to life with an AI-generated reconstruction.
The hotel that works when it rains
Completed in 2024, the Xirang Boutique Hotel by Vector Architects translates the richness of the landscape into a sensitive architecture: at its center, a large atrium collects rainwater and transforms it into a spatial experience.
In Tokyo’s densest district, this building redefines vertical living with nets and slides
Designed by Key Operation, the multifunctional complex at Naka-Ikebukuro Park in the Toshima Ward overcomes the constraints of urban density with a sequence of high-ceilinged spaces and an unexpectedly playful approach to living.
The world will end underwater, so Superflex makes art for fish
For over thirty years, the Danish collective has challenged the myth of the 'lone genius,' imagining new forms of collaboration between humans, animals, ecosystems, and the built environment. We met with them.
Frank Gehry was not just an architect: an exhibition in Porto explains why
At the Serralves Museum in Porto, the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Gehry since his passing uses models, sketches, photographs, and videos to explore not only his works, but how the architect transformed design into a free, physical, and deeply human gesture.
As Bali changes at breakneck speed, design tries to point the way forward
Between architecture, craftsmanship, biophilia and local materials, Jia Curated returns to Sanur as the island continues its rapid transformation—offering an alternative model for how design, communities and landscapes might coexist.
I. M. Pei’s largest archive, the Pritzker winner who designed the modern Louvre
More than 1,500 drawings, models, and documents join the MIT Museum collection. Among them, the projects for the Louvre and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston: a donation that chronicles the entire career of the Chinese-American architect.
Near Rome, there is a living house, one of the most eccentric pieces of 20th-century Italian architecture: you can now visit it
On the Lazio coast, the "Casa Albero" (Tree House) is the realized utopia of Giuseppe Perugini, Uga De Plaisant, and Raynaldo Perugini: a building designed to grow, branch out, and change, now open to the public during select times.
Snøhetta transforms Alvar Aalto’s masterpiece, the Paimio Sanatorium, into a hotel
The Norwegian firm’s masterplan ushers the modernist complex into a new era by combining hospitality, wellbeing, and culture whilst preserving the humanistic spirit of the original design.
Villa Nouvelle Vague is a habitable concrete sculpture where Brutalism becomes organic
Overlooking the North Sea in Belgium, Villa Nouvelle Vague by Magalie Munters Architecture explores the meeting point between Brutalism and organic architecture. Conceived as a wind-sculpted concrete volume, it evokes waves, sand and fossils while engaging in a powerful dialogue with its protected coastal setting.
Everyone knows ancient Rome. This map reveals the modern city
From the Palazzo dei Congressi in EUR to Luigi Moretti’s villas, and from the Morandi Bridge to the Vigna Murata Water Centre, Blue Crow Media’s new Modern Rome Map brings together more than fifty buildings and infrastructures that tell the story of twentieth-century Rome.
10 essentials every designer packs for a camping trip
Camping isn’t just a vacation choice—it’s a matter of design. From iconic pieces to self-sufficiency technologies, here are ten items that show how design helps us live away from home.
The 7 most beautiful airports in the world today: they look like cities, gardens and temples
From China to Germany, via India, Cambodia and the United States, the 2026 Prix Versailles awards seven airports that transform global infrastructure into a narrative of the territory, through gardens, urban squares and architecture inspired by local culture.
A movie’s costumes tell the forgotten history behind the origins of Italian cinema
At the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, an exhibition uncovers the original costumes designed by Georges Annenkov for the 1953 movie Puccini. Through these garments, the itinerary traces the bond between the composer, Queen Margherita, and Italian cinema.
The Louvre-Lens will host an exhibition about kittens
With “So Cute! The Art of Happiness,” the French museum explores how the aesthetic of the adorable – from internet cats to kawaii, and even the Labubu phenomenon – has moved from the kitsch fringes of visual culture into art history and everyday life.
London’s new museum turns two engineering masterpieces into its greatest exhibit
Opening in November 2026, the newly relocated London Museum will occupy Smithfield’s General Market, and later its Poultry Market: two feats of engineering at the seam of the city’s intersecting parts.
What if architecture could be listened to? At Villa Arconati, Terraforma gave it a try
In the first edition of Terraforma Radical School, fifteen participants lived at Villa Arconati for four days, moving between field recording, landscape, and sound. An experiment to understand if a garden, a labyrinth, or even silence can become sound architecture.
Midjourney has taught AI to dream: now it wants to tell you if you are sick
The startup announced an unexpected pivot to medical technology, promising a revolutionary full-body imaging machine that people could use in spas like the one Midjourney is planning to open in San Francisco in 2027.
This stilt house in Chile clearly reveals how it was built
Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Arquitectos has transformed prefabrication into an open system, combining a steel structure, building envelope and removable components to create flexible, durable and adaptable architecture.
The Kodak Keychain Camera that won everyone over now arrives in a Y2K Version
With chrome finishes, pixelated graphics, CRT TV-inspired effects, and seven new colorways, the Kodak Charmera Millennium Edition brings the Y2K aesthetic to the mini camera that brought lo-fi photography back into fashion.
Bivouacs, the most radical laboratory of contemporary design
From Charlotte Perriand’s insights to the projects of studio EX., high-altitude architecture becomes a space for experimentation where lightness, reversibility, and new ways of living in the mountains are put to the test.
Inside the 15th-century palace where AI, digital Buddhas and algorithmic oracles came together
For its 2026 edition, Sónar+D moves into the Llotja de Mar, in the heart of Barcelona. Through immersive installations, artificial intelligence, robotics and digital art, one of the city’s most iconic historic buildings becomes, for a few days, the place where the future meets seven centuries of history.
Inside the Brooklyn cemetery where the dead live in miniature houses
At Green-Wood Cemetery, mausoleums, miniature brownstones and Egyptian Revival tombs show how the architecture of death has often mirrored — and perhaps anticipated — that of the living city.
UFOs, demons and baby aliens: in Chloe Wise’s exhibition, the paranormal explains who we really are
With “Extrasensory”, her first major institutional exhibition in Switzerland, the Canadian artist brings together UFOs, aliens, angels, demons, souvenirs, film and objects of worship to tell not the story of extraterrestrial life, but the human need to give shape to the unknown.
France didn’t have a national design museum. It is trying just a stone’s throw from Lyon
In the former arms factory of Saint-Étienne, the new Galerie nationale du design brings together public collections dedicated to the project for the first time. A national platform that aims to transform design into heritage, debate, and research.
This brick house in India is designed to emulate an anthill
Designed by Kaushal Tatiya Architects, “The Anthill” draws inspiration from the complex and efficient structure of anthills to provide indoor comfort in the region’s scorching climate.