Polaroid turns anti-AI sentiment into an advertising campaign
The brand's new global campaign champions analog photography over screens, chatbots, and data centers, turning nostalgia for instant cameras into a playful critique of AI culture.
The new monumental work by James Turrell transforms the Danish sky into light
In Aarhus, James Turrell’s hundredth skyspace is a 40-meter-diameter dome where natural and artificial light transform the sky into pure perception.
In Marseille, for 95,000 euros, you can buy a home by Fernand Pouillon, a forgotten architect of the French reconstruction
Eight apartments are for sale in the Building Canebière, built in 1952 by one of the great architects of the French reconstruction, who is being rediscovered today after decades of relative obscurity.
Insta360 has created a camera unlike any leica has made in a century
Designed for professional creators and filmmakers, Luna Ultra brings Leica's design philosophy into the world of gimbal cameras for the first time, marking the company's entry into the creator economy.
What happens if A24 wants to make arthouse cinema with AI?
The studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hereditary, The Lighthouse, and its latest hit Backrooms has partnered with Google to develop AI tools for filmmaking, reigniting the debate over artificial intelligence and creative authorship.
Whimsy: after a century of minimalism, ornament and the superfluous return to design
Charms, bows, glitter, and tiny useless objects are everywhere. Yet, behind the whimsy trend lies a much older issue: the return of ornament and the re-evaluation of everything that escapes the logic of function.
The world’s 16 most beautiful hotels don’t look like hotels
From the Orient Express La Minerva in Rome to the Splendido in Portofino, the 2026 Prix Versailles selects sixteen projects that demonstrate how luxury hospitality is becoming a total experience: imaginary homes, scenic retreats, restored palaces, and habitable landscapes.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.