‘Back to the Future’ 40th anniversary with Lexus floating hoverboard
Today, we celebrate Back to the Future’s 40th anniversary with the Lexus Hoverboard, which can float on both land and water.
Moonhouse: The first house on the moon is a humble Swedish cottage
The tiny Moonhouse will land in Mare Frigoris, showing how even impossible dreams can come true when we work together.
‘OUT’: How Space-Inspired Architecture Could Help Save the Planet
The OUT section of the 2025 Venice Biennale explores how space-driven innovation can build and shape a sustainable future through architecture.
Melike Altınışık Architects unveil RAIM, Seoul self-built robotic museum
RAIM, Robot & AI Museum, was built by robots to tell the unfolding narrative of Fourth Revolution technology.
Black Rock Observatory connects Burning Man with outer space
Black Rock Observatory is Burning Man festival’s astronomical planetarium for dreamers who wish to take a sneak peek into the universe.
‘DUNE’ inspires AI-generated Arrakis Palaces by NKey design studio
NKey Design Studio has harnessed Artificial Intelligence to create otherworldly architecture and interiors for imaginary palaces on the fictional planet of Arrakis.
The Line: how visionary really is a 200 m-wide 170 km-long metropolis in the desert?
Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced the design of THE LINE, a 170 km-long metropolis composed of only two parallel mirrored skyscrapers and connected by cutting-edge sustainable technology.
LUNARK by SAGA Space Architects is the extreme home for astronauts on the moon
Young Danish studio SAGA Space Architects designed and even spent 100 days in Greenland for an extreme mission to test LUNARK, a lunar habitat showing how we can not only survive but thrive in space.
Production Club reveals Daft Punk-style ‘Micrashell Suits’ allowing people to safely club and rave in times of pandemic
The high-tech visionary ‘Micrashell Suits’ offer a solution for the music and nightlife industries and the future of human interaction. Unique features include in-suit beverage and vape supply system, mounted-in speakers, smartphone integration, computer vision safety camera, privacy-driven voice communicator, and a breathable helmet with unobscured views.
CES 2020: 5 future mobility innovations on show
Urban flying taxis, solar-powered compact electric tricycles and Jurassic Park-inspired electric wheelchairs… CES 2020: flying taxis, solar-powered electric tricycles and Jurassic Park-inspired wheelchairs. Archipanic’s Editor in Chief Enrico Zilli picks 5 future mobility innovations debuting in Las Vegas.5 future mobility innovations debuting in Las Vegas.
Moon landing 50th anniversary: 8 moon-inspired designs and architectures
From an inflatable permanent lunar settlement to a Sputnik replica making some noise at Burning Man festival. We rounded up some of the ultimate and most visionary moon-inspired designs and architectures.
Robot Love: exploring our most intimate relationship with intelligent machines
A brain-scanned symphony of a kiss, a romantic FaceTime kinetic sculpture, VR sex toys and a AI cheating female-bots gone wild. Can we trust loving robots? Can they trust us? The Robot Love exhibition explores love in the era of intelligent machines.
Daan Roosegaarde’s SPACE WASTE LAB tracks sidereal junk in real time with beams of light
Daan Roosegaarde and his team of experts present UFO-like performances which visualise real-time space waste connecting earth with the layer of junk orbiting the planet.
THE BLANKET: reflective NASA blankets set to create marine waves at Burning Man
Sasha Shtanuk crowfunds for THE BLANKET, a 100 sqm ‘sea’ constantly changing it’s silhouette by the power of wind and “taking different surreal forms- waves, mountains or some giant fantastic sculptures”.
THE ORB: Bjarke Ingels designs a giant mirrored planet for Burning Man
Bjarke Ingels and Jacob Lange of studio BIG launched a crowdfunding campaign to build THE ORB, a huge reflective sphere raising in Black Rock City, the iconic temporary city rising from its ashes every year for the Burning Man festival.
Asif Khan’s super-black pavilion frames glimpses from outer space at PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018
Outer space might sneak a peek on planet Earth, through Asif Khan’s super-dark Vantablack pavilion at PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018. The “darkest building on earth” features also a hydrophobic water installation recalling cities viewed from other planets.
Tom Blachford captures Tokyo’s Blade Runner-style nightscapes
Australian photographer Tom Blachford explores Tokyo’s Blade Runner-style architecture portraying iconic buildings by Kenzo Tange, Kisho Kirosawa and more…
Gates of light: Dan Roosegaarde explores futuristic eco-landscapes
Inspired by light-reflective butterflies wings, kites and bioluminescent algae, Dan Roosegaarde envisions futuristic sustainable light designs by the floodgates of the historic Afsluitddjk site in the Netherlands.
Anime Architecture exhibition explores Gost in the Shell cyberpunk urbanscapes
Anime Architecture: London’s House of Illustration showcases hand drawn dystopian futures shaping sci-fi and beyond.
Frank Lloyd Wright 150th Anniversary: a celebration through movies
From Blade Runner to Game of Thrones, but also Mulholland Drive, North by Northwest and The Big Lebowsky. Archipanic celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th Anniversary featuring 12 iconic movies filmed or inspired by the American Architect’s masterpieces.
Os & Oos’ SYZYGY lamps and clock are inspired by aligning planets and stars
Syzygy design collection by Os & Oos projects overlapping geometries that reproduce the astronomical light interactions between the sun, the moon and the Earth.
Vitra Design Museum explores our love-hate relationship with robots
From Terminator to smart floor sweepers but also 3D printers for bridges and responsive fashion designs. Shall we trust robots? Vitra Design Museum looks into our complex relationship with intelligent machines that could either save our lives or steal our job.
Meet Kuri, the expressive super-cute robot smiling and beeping around the house
Mayfield Robotics introduces Kuri, a real live home pet-bot that smiles, blinks and speak its robot language but also films, plays music and works as a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Alien, Blade Runner and even Metropolis: iconic Sci-Fi architecture is coming soon
In 2017, long awaited masterpieces will either reach us out from galaxies far far away or envision cyberpunk urbanscapes. Get ready for iconic Sci-Fi architecture and design from Alien, Metropolis, Blade Runner and more.
Astrograph: MB&F and Caran D’Ache design rocket-like pen for space odysseys dreamers
Maison Caran D’Ache and horological laboratory MB&F launch Astrograph bespoke sci-fi pen tuning the skills of Swiss master craftsmen.
When objects dream: ECAL students propose a journey in the wildest dreams of augmented hairdryers and sci-fi brooms
Is the Internet of Things “such stuff as dreams are made of”? ECAL students present When objects dream: an interactive and playful exhibition to make reflect on our relationship with designs that communicate with each other and even seem to retain a sort of conscience.
Inside BB-8: how can the new droid of Star Wars roll?
Design from a galaxy far far away. We peeked into the rolling technology of BB-8, the adorable droid starring in Star Wars’ new trilogy: The Force Awakens. Can you guess how does it work?
Fraser Ross designs synthetic organs for future humans
Fraser Ross combined human and animal anatomy to create synthetic organs and show how design and bio-technologies can shape the future.
Sci-Fi Twerking?
Twerking meet design. From TW3RKBOT 1.0 of Basement Jaxx’s video to the “Real Booty Music” project. Artists, designers and engineers playfully go beyond Miley Cyrus hype.
