This house extension transforms a poorly built, staggered structure into a floating topography, crafting three distinct living platforms and a renewed domestic section through computational design.
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Barozzi Veiga’s Szczecin Philharmonic pairs a crystalline aluminum and glass façade with a golden main hall rooted in local craftsmanship, combining expressive roof geometry, acoustic fragmentation, and a formally autonomous civic landmark.
Soft electronics describe a post war design language that made household technology approachable through rounded forms, warm colours and readable interfaces. Using the Rowenta Filtermatic FK 11 as a point of entry, this essay examines how Dutch designer and collector Jaro Gielens has reframed everyday appliances as cultural evidence rather than disposable tools. It maps the historical shift away from hard modernist severity, outlines a philosophy of tenderness grounded in clarity and repairability, and considers why the soft turn matters now, in an age defined by sealed devices, planned obsolescence and digital opacity. The archive becomes a method of critique, reminding us that the most durable objects are often those designed to be trusted, understood and kept.
DRIFT presents Shy Society in Venice, a kinetic light installation combining robotics, silk, and movement above the Grand Canal.
In Dilbeek, Belgium, TV Team Begijnenborre designs a kindergarten that weaves between existing trees, creating a nature-centred learning environment organised around an internal courtyard.
Madrid’s Invernáculo rethinks cultural communication through a modular greenhouse-like structure that hosts large-format exhibition images and plant life, bridging museum programming and public space.
Rosa María House in Madrid by delaVegaCanolasso is organized around two patios that shape light, movement and daily life through a restrained architectural language.
La Maison Pliée is a folded timber house in southern France exploring passive and low tech domestic architecture.
In downtown Yiling, Yichang, Xiaoxita Forest Park occupies 89 hectares along the Huangbai River. Long valued as one of the city’s major green lungs, the forest had gradually become burdened
Perched above Munich, Munich on Top is a minimalist penthouse apartment designed by Holzrausch Studio that confronts a familiar dilemma of contemporary urban living. How can a large, fully glazed
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