Lei Wa Lakom Library in Zanzibar, designed by Mai Al Busairi under the Parallel Gives program, uses timber structure, perforated panels and passive cooling to create a climate responsive civic space for children and the wider community.
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Haniyasu House by AATISMO in Kamakura reimagines a 58 year old wooden house as a two family residence rooted in earth and craft. Using site soil, bisque fired clay and oxidised metal plaster, the project merges architecture, pottery and landscape into a contemporary settlement.
This critical essay examines Swiss artist Zimoun’s large scale sound installations, focusing on the 2017 exhibition Mécaniques remontées in Paris. Through modular repetition of motors and everyday materials, Zimoun constructs immersive acoustic environments where architecture becomes instrument and simplicity generates emergent complexity. The article situates his practice within contemporary sound art while analyzing material clarity, system logic and the poetics of mechanical variation.
Founded in 1846, KRUPS evolved from precision scales to a defining force in domestic appliance design. This long form editorial explores how accuracy, restraint, and user focused detail shaped the brand’s philosophy, language, and cultural relevance across generations.
Experience the profound impact of YokYok immersive installations, inviting you to engage with art in a dynamic landscape.
Atelier tao plus c adds a lightweight pavilion to a historic village courtyard in China, creating a shared space between road and river.
This project explores how an existing building can be re read through deliberate structural disruption. By inserting a visible and intrusive structural system, limiting demolition, and working systematically with lines, colour, and reflective surfaces, the intervention transforms friction and imperfection into architectural agency.
Lynx redefines drone station architecture through a network of autonomous outposts in mountainous regions for search and rescue.
Sigma Space Shanghai by ONOAA STUDIO explores design through craft, perception, and a calm spatial atmosphere.
Located in Nagpur, near the geographic centre of India, Cielo is a residential project by Sanjay Puri Architects that translates extreme climatic conditions into architectural form. Conceived as a vertical sequence of single apartments, the building integrates cross ventilation, layered balconies, and curved screening elements to reduce heat gain and enhance passive cooling. The project reflects a contemporary interpretation of regional architectural traditions, embedding environmental performance and spatial clarity within a compact urban footprint.
