JŌMON: Noe Kuremoto’s crafts celebrate the joy and hardships of motherhood
Rooted in JŌMON Japanese rituals, Kuremoto’s cracked and imperfect vessels hold what no words quite can: the full, unfiltered complexity of becoming a mother.
Richard Yasmine’s wartime-crafted Vessels of the Intangible collection
“It has never been so difficult to be in Milan,” shares Lebanese designer Richard Yasmine, whose Vessels of the Intangible collection was crafted with local artisans amid conflict.
100 Things Not to Forget: Milan’s World War II Bunkers Trigger Reflection
Repubblica del Design presents 100 Things Not to Forget, an exhibition that repurposes World War II shelters as contemporary cultural spaces.
Kéré Architecture’s Cultural and Spiritual Centre in Togo Celebrates The Soul Of The Ewé people
Rooted in ancestral tradition and shaped by living heritage, Kéré Architecture’s Ewé cultural centre weaves spirituality and memory into a luminous, climate-conscious design masterplan.
The Holy Redeemer Church by Fernando Menis in Tenerife
Shaped like giant rocks embedded in the ground, The Holy Redeemer Church provides a generous civic space in an area long in need of one. Inside, rough forms, textured surfaces and filtered light create an atmosphere of quiet introspection.
471 Days Installation Chronicles The Israel-Gaza Human Toll
At MilanTriennale, 471 Days uses architecture to make the Israel-Gaza war tangible through a staircase memorial where every day of loss is felt.
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025: Shaping Spaces in Times of Change
Under the theme SHIFT, the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025 reflects on architecture’s capacity to respond to global challenges.
Meet Me Here: A Playful Call Back to the Joy of Physical Presence
Spacon reimagines our digital habits in real-world spaces that spark connection, conversation, and care. The Meet Me Here exhibition in Copenhagen gently suggests that the future of connection might not be faster Wi-Fi—but a better bench or a note on a wall.
Give Them Fantasy exhibition showcases queer design thinking in New York City
LGBT+ project Design Dysphoria and Gotham join forces to explore design space through a queer perspective at the Give Them Fantasy group exhibition.
Alternative Urbanism: How Lagos Markets Are Reimagining Circular City Living
With the ‘Alternative Urbanism’ exhibition at the 2025 Venice Biennale, Oshinowo Studio spotlights Lagos markets as models of circular urbanism deeply rooted in West African culture and informal economy.
Inequalities: Triennale Milano 2025 to explore the role of architecture in a world of disparities
Inequalities, the Triennale’s 24th International Exhibition, invites us to rethink our future—from urban injustice to microbial design.
DropCity’s ‘Prison Times’ design project examines time and space within penitentiaries
The Prison Times exhibition and publication explore the environments of detention centres through an architecture and design lens.
Is Milan Design Week truly inclusive? An honest reflection on design gentrification
Skyrocketing rents vs students-friendly campsites and a fancy bar in a venue reclaimed by locals. How truly inclusive is Milan Design Week?
2025 Pritzker Prize: Eight Projects by Liu Jiakun
“First you need to be a person, then an architect,” believes Liu Jiakun. We round up eight seminal projects, highlighting the Pritzker Prize winner’s approach to architecture. From a mixed-use community building focused on dignified living in crowded cities to a campus merging ancient Chinese architecture with contemporary lifestyle.
Liu Jiakun Wins the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize
The projects of the 2025 Pritzker Prize laureate forge community, inspire compassion and elevate the human spirit, celebrating the lives of ordinary citizens.
WAFX 2024 Prize: Eight Future Projects Tackling Global Issues
The World Architecture Festival announced the winners of the WAFX 2024 Prize. We selected seven human-based projects, including a gasometer turned into a green residential tower and a stacked vertical neighbourhood.
Eleven community-building projects by Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto
A terraced university campus for interdisciplinary exchange, homes open to neighbours, a museum open to both visitors and locals and a see-through fire station strengthening the bond between firefighters and residents… Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto won the 2024 Pritzker Prize for his bold, community-driven approach.
Riken Yamamoto wins the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Architecture as a tool to foster a sense of community, collective life and mutual aid. This is what the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient, Riken Yamamoto, has been doing for the last five decades.
BE_Design completes the Komera Leadership Center for a rural community in Rwanda
Komera Leadership Center by BE_Design in Rwanda is a cluster of buildings connected by a dynamic and flexible roof canopy creating spaces for learning and social activities with the mission of empowering self-confident young women through education and community development.
5Vie Design District celebrates ten years of creativity connecting people
Humanistic, human-centred, and focused on people’s connections. This is what 5Vie Design District is about. We talked with the organisers about the founding values of this edition. Check what we liked the most.
World-renowned Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly dies aged 78
Gravity-defying skyscrapers, ship-inspired glass halls, and lagoon circular bridges. Seven stunning and controversial projects by the late Rafael Viñoly.
ADAT Studio’s Opera169 residential building blends sustainability with integration
ADAT Studio is completing the Opera169 residential building in Manhattan, NYC. Geometrical lines and brick facades integrate with its surrounding green and inclusive neighbourhood.
CES 2023: seven tech trends at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas
CES 2023 tech trends: metaverses you can touch, alternative electricity-powered vehicles, money and energy-saving smart devices, and inclusive innovations for people with disabilities.
Best of 2022: six architecture and design stories for a better future
We selected six popular architecture and design stories published earlier this year with a powerful message on human rights and sustainability for a better future.
The Qatar World Cup Memorial tower reflects the migrants workers’ humanitarian disaster
Over 6,700 migrant workers died in the construction sites of the stadiums and infrastructures built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Such a gigantic figure inspired 1week1project to propose the conceptual evolving “Qatar World Cup Memorial” tower.
Sportwashing? The architectural dark side of 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar
Sportwashing describes the practice of individuals, groups, corporations, or governments using sports to improve reputations tarnished by wrongdoing.
2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar: 8 archi-stadiums hosting the matches
Nomadic tents, desert dunes, shipping containers, and traditional Arab caps inspired the architecture of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar stadiums.
Artists and designers support the Iranian women’s protest for freedom of expression
A queen of spade cutting her hair locks and a giant billboard in Piccadilly Circus, creatives from around the world join the protest in support of the Iranian women’s freedom cause.
The Inventory of Life: Mathieu Lehanneur turns data into humane design
At La Triennale design museum in Milan, French artist and designer Mathieu Lehanneur presents ‘The Inventory of Life,’ an exhibition translating data on our planet’s health and our societies’ happiness into a less mathematical and more emotional language: art and design.
Marcin Rusak Studio’s ICFU charity project supports Ukrainian refugees
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Marcin Rusak Studio teamed up with artists and designers from around the globe to aid migrants with the online charity project ICFU – International Creatives for Ukraine.