A floating stage for living on water in the Amazon
In the Peruvian Amazon, Espacio Común built a floating stage during the flooding of the Itaya River for a festival of young filmmakers. It has now become a permanent infrastructure.
An artist has “broken” Tadao Ando’s architecture at Punta della Dogana
In Venice, Paulo Nazareth’s exhibition intervenes in Ando’s space, transforming it from a neutral container into a device shaped by history, bodies, and trade routes—reactivating the memory of the Dogana.
Scrubs is back. And with it, the ambitious set design of Sacred Heart Hospital
If Grey's Anatomy turned the hospital into melodrama, Scrubs has always chosen irony. In anticipation of its return, Roger Fires previews how he recreated the series’ iconic settings
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Design and trends for outdoor living spaces
Sound systems are now design fetishes, from the Serpentine Galleries to Milano Design Week
Sound systems move into museums, boutiques and even brutalist churches, shifting listening from background to space. We set out to understand what this shift really means.
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Sora’s shutdown shows we no longer own our creative tools
Those who were working with Sora suddenly found themselves without a tool. An episode that reveals an increasingly widespread condition: the precariousness of creative software in the age of artificial intelligence.
The renovation of a socialist icon in Berlin: from Stalinallee to a showroom
On the Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin, a former children's department store designed by Hermann Henselmann is reborn with a new function thanks to the design by Gonzalez Haase AAS.
The objects in Giorgio Morandi’s paintings, photographed one by one
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
The sky in a room
From Gino Paoli’s song to the frescoes of Mantegna, Correggio, and Tiepolo, and on to James Turrell: how a room becomes sky—and how space exists only through the gaze of the one who inhabits it.
The architecture of the idol: how the design of success has changed from Hannah Montana to today
From the sealed sets of network television to the algorithmic construction of the self, the trajectory of teen idols reveals how the boundary between adolescence and adulthood has become increasingly unstable.
A micro-home for emergencies: Lorenzo Damiani’s design for the homeless
With Street Bed Unit, Lorenzo Damiani transforms the idea of hospitality into an essential and transportable microarchitecture designed to offer shelter and dignity to homeless people. But can design really respond to a social emergency?
Frank Gehry’s special relationship with Louis Vuitton is now an exhibition
An eight-part retrospective charts a decade of crossovers between architecture and fashion, from Paris’s Fondation Vuitton to icons like the Twisted Box bag: an exploration of brand, time, and form that moves beyond product.
Two exhibitions in Milan transform the home: from refuge to an uneasy, collective space
At HangarBicocca in Milan, exhibitions by Benni Bosetto and Rirkrit Tiravanija turn domestic space into a narrative and relational device, between body, architecture, and participation.
The architecture of a break: Faci Leboreiro’s café designed around trees
In Troncones, an open-plan café makes use of natural materials, passive ventilation and open spaces to transform the coffee-drinking experience into a leisurely one.
The masterpiece by Frank Lloyd Wright’s mentor could disappear for good
Saved from demolition in 1972 and reconstructed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the trading room of Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange is once again at risk.
The material palette is the key to understanding this residential building in Lisbon
In the Lapa district, ALA.rquitectos transforms an existing building into ten small apartments, allowing materials to define the project: original elements are restored and new surfaces engage in a dialogue with Portuguese tradition.
Farewell to Ennio Brion (1940–2026), creator of a total legacy for Italian design
With the passing, at 86, of the entrepreneur who led Brionvega through its defining years, a chapter closes that spanned every dimension of Italian design, from objects to the urban scale, extending to the architectures of James Stirling and Carlo Scarpa.
Collectible design is everywhere, yet no one quite knows what it is
Amid experimental galleries and radical objects, Collectible Brussels reveals a still-elusive collectible design, where the boundaries between art, craft, and research grow increasingly fluid and hard to define.
All of modern California design in a Los Angeles home, now on the market
With the Stromberger Residence in Pasadena, Henry Eggers introduced modernist touches into the ranch-style language, complemented by the landscaping of master Garrett Eckbo, blending polygonal pools with sweeping views of the Pacific Mountains.
The Vignellis changed how we read the world, from the New York subway map to everyday graphics
At Triennale Milano, the exhibition “Lella and Massimo Vignelli. A language of clarity” reconstructs a “biography through projects” that goes beyond style: from visual systems for companies and institutions to the grids that now structure interfaces and information, their method continues to organize the way we read the world.
Isamu Noguchi tried to reshape New York — a largely forgotten story
At The Noguchi Museum in New York, a major exhibition explores the complex relationship between the Japanese-American sculptor and the city, through iconic works, unrealized projects, and urban visions left suspended.
Inside Los Angeles’ ghost theater, brought back to life for one last season
At the Variety Arts Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, a temporary program has reactivated a historic venue that has moved through vaudeville, cinema, and civic culture, presenting works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the United States for the first time.
The new Diesel earbuds look like no others
Chains, charms and a price tag of nearly ninety euros: the Diesel 60458 Wired Earbuds look more like a punk jewel than an audio gadget. An aesthetic provocation, or is this the end of invisible tech?.
Leandro Erlich’s sculptures in Scarpa’s Olivetti Showroom, one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the 2026 Biennale
On the occasion of the 61st Venice Art Biennale, the Olivetti Showroom in Piazza San Marco hosts the fantastic and surreal works of Leandro Erlich: an exhibition project we will be hearing a lot about.
Are the best concept cars the virtual ones? 10 examples, from Ferrari to Xiaomi
From Ferrari to Lamborghini all the way to Xiaomi, within the Vision Gran Turismo project car brands design without the constraints of real-world production: the result is a series of extreme objects, closer to an idea than to an actual car.
Building on memory: Studio MAAC’s arena in Ouidah
Located on the Atlantic coast of Benin in West Africa, the new cultural venue aims to engage with the landscape, which has been shaped by significant historical events.
Radical Design was also born on the dance floor: inside Turin’s Piper Club
From Pratone to Strum to the Piper-Pluriclub, a shared cultural matrix emerges: a Turin that functioned as a laboratory where design first took shape as experience rather than object.
Everything you need to know about Fuorisalone 2026
Districts, exhibitions, installations and new digital platforms: the complete guide to Fuorisalone 2026, between confirmations, expansions beyond Milan and new tools to navigate the busiest design week in the world.
SOM has designed sci-fi towers for Kazakhstan
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill unveils the project for a multifunctional complex set to become the defining landmark of Alatau’s “new town,” blending place branding, engineering, and a strikingly cinematic aesthetic.
All the exhibitions to see in Venice during the 2026 Biennale
Beyond the Biennale, Venice becomes a labyrinth of international art. Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions unfolding across the city.
No, Jony Ive has nothing to do with the alarm clock everyone is talking about
Balmuda presents The Clock, an alarm clock with no screen or hands that tells the time through light and soundscapes. An object so well designed that it even inspired a fake news story.
Gae Aulenti’s most narrative house is for sale in Pisa: a system of thresholds, not rooms
Designed in 1973 just a short walk from Piazza dei Miracoli, this villa by Gae Aulenti is back on the market for €975,000. Organized as a sequence of parallel walls that do not divide but connect, the house functions as a system of passages: each threshold reshapes space, light, and the relationship between inside and outside.
Andrea Branzi’s design belongs to a world we can no longer imagine
At Triennale Milano, Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Present does not attempt to bring the author into the present, but makes visible the distance he comes from: a time when design could be theory, critique, and the construction of imaginaries.