‘WHITE OUT’ Exhibition Explores Winter Sports’ Design in Milan
The WHITE OUT exhibition at Triennale Milano explores how design has shaped the evolution of winter sports—and how winter sports, in turn, have driven innovation in design.
Umbra Pavilion Weaves Solar Power into Public Space
In Eindhoven, Pauline van Dongen’s innovative solar-powered fabric captures the sun’s energy and glows at her Umbra Pavilion, a kite-like architecture weaving light, technology, and care for our planet.
Estonia Pavilion in Venice wraps a historical building with insulation panels
Can weather insulation tackle climate change as much as social and spatial challenges? The Estonia Pavilion in Venice raises a provocative question.
SOLEIL-S: How can design harness solar energy for a better future?
SOLEIL-S, the second edition of the Solar Biennale, explores how design can boost solar-empowering innovation and reimagine material culture.
Stefan Diez’s Vert pavilion is a ‘greening machine’ boosting urban biodiversity at London Design Festival
Within a courtyard at Chelsea College of Arts in London, the Vert pavilion is a cutting-edge, sustainable, modular urban-cooling timber structure designed to tune with cities’ infrastructure.
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.
Bonfiglioli HQs by Peter Pichler Architecture combine “sustainability with intelligent geometry”
Peter Pichler Architecture has completed a geometric office block dressed in pleated mesh for industrial manufacturer Bonfiglioli.
DAE Graduation Show 2023: ten highlights
DAE Graduation Show 2023: Marble-looking furniture made from discarded books, pine trees’ narratives in Israel-Palestine and therapeutic knitted grids.
Transnatural returns to Dutch Design Week 2023 with two exhibitions
Material experimentation and the radical city of the future. Transnatural returns to Eindhoven, blurring the lines between nature and technology.
Dutch Design Week 2023: eight must-visit destinations in Eindhoven
A half-built and half-grown tree, upcycled iconic chairs in discarded denim, and eggshell lightbulbs. The best of Dutch Design Week 2023 is on Archipanic.
Burning Man flooding sparks a reflection on Climate Change
Burning Man flooding, people stranded in the mud, and a surreal traffic jam in the desert trigger a reflection on the role of festivals and leisure events within the frame of the climate change emergency.
Isola Design Festival 2023: “It’s time to make a concrete change!”
Design for social, mental, and physical well-being, tech-crafts, a circular village, and resilient Lebanese creatives. Isola Design Festival 2023 invited designers to challenge contemporary issues with creativity.
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.
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.
A fleet of A.I. Drones behaves like a school of fish in Studio Drift’s ‘Social Sacrifice’ performance in Venice
‘Social Sacrifice’ highlights the tensions that emerge between collective action and individual freedom as well as how these change in the presence of external threats.
‘Wetlands,’ the UAE pavilion wins Golden Lion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
The ‘Wetlands’ exhibition explores the fragile link between waste and production with forward-thinking, innovative and responsible solutions. The United Arab Emirates win the Golden Lion for best National pavilion at the 17th Biennale Architettura di Venezia.
Best of 2019: 7 amazing stories tackling nowadays challenges
From pink seesaws allowing children and grown ups from both sides of the US-Mexico border to play together to multi-faith temples encouraging inter religious understanding and the Alpine forest in the stadium triggering reflection on Climate Change. The Best of 2019? Check how architects and designers can truly make a difference to shape minds and places for a better future!
A ‘School of Schools’: Istanbul Design Biennial 2018 showcases the shaping up of design education
How can design learning make our future more humane? Titled A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS, Istanbul Design Biennial 2018 explores the design process across 6 venues in Turkey’s cultural capital.
Designers and Architects respond to Donald Trump
US-Mexico border wall, sustainability, women rights, travel immigration ban and Donald himself. Design and architecture community reacts to the policies of the 45° US President.