Architecture & Design

Milan Design Week 2026 was, by most accounts, a fair deeply in love with the handmade. Craft, texture, labour, and the visible trace of human effort were the recurring themes that season. So it felt like a deliberate and well-timed provocation when, inside Nilufar’s historic gallery on Via della Spiga, Andrea Mancuso unveiled LUMIAC: a chandelier that moves on its own, generates its own choreography of light, and takes its name from a 1950s computer. The name is no accident. LUMIAC stands

The property spans 1.34 acres over the Pomona Valley The post A Frank Lloyd Wright protégé designed this cascading California villa appeared first on The Spaces.

The performance, titled ‘House of Gestures’, centres on Swinton using physical movement and costume changes to evoke character, memory and place, in a collaboration with Dom Pérignon

The new museum prepares to open its doors, bringing the spirit of the Pompidou to the South Korean capital and the wider region

Perched at 7,000 ft in the Kumaon Himalayas, this lodge is the newest addition to the Shakti portfolio, cementing two decades of visionary mountain hospitality

Keys are the only objects humans carry with religious consistency. Wallet habits change, phone pockets shift, watches come and go, but keys stay anchored to the same loop every single day. That makes the key form factor the most reliable real estate in EDC. A tool that mimics a key doesn’t just blend into your carry, it hijacks the one item you’ll never leave behind. EDC Monster understood this from the start when they launched the original KeyMaster in 2023, a 14-in-1 titanium multi

Humans have been mapping the sky in circular form for thousands of years. From the Antikythera mechanism to medieval astrolabes to the ornate astronomical clocks of Prague and Strasbourg, the wheel has always been our preferred metaphor for cosmic time. Something about the cyclical nature of celestial motion just demands a round form, a dial, a face that turns and returns. It’s a design language so old it feels almost genetic. Martin_Studio has tapped into exactly that instinct with this L

Some tiny homes ask you to settle. Cramped kitchens, awkward layouts, a bathroom you have to apologize for. The Black Butte by Spindrift Homes is not that version. Originally built as a fully custom commission, the design earned enough attention that Oregon-based Spindrift added it to its permanent catalog. The community responded, and it’s easy to see why. At 30 feet long and 10 feet wide, the Black Butte sits on the broader end of the towable tiny home spectrum. That extra width changes

Most tissue boxes are designed to be used, emptied, and thrown away. They sit quietly on tables, counters, bedside units, office desks, and bathroom shelves, becoming part of daily life for a short period before adding to another cycle of packaging waste. The cardboard box, printed surface, plastic slit, and disposable structure may seem insignificant on their own, but repeated across homes, hotels, offices, cafés, and public spaces, they create a steady stream of unnecessary material waste. Reu

Can’t help but notice something quietly interesting about Qapital, the new residential skyscraper designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates for Quito, Ecuador. At first glance, it has all the ingredients of a contemporary urban tower: compact apartments, shared amenities, a dramatic facade, a strong location, and an international architecture name attached to it. But the more interesting story is not that Quito is getting another high-profile tower. It is that Qapital seems to be asking whethe

With the ITC demolished, the Spurs have named the architects of the $1.3 billion downtown arena: Overland International, Sasaki, and Marquee Development. On May 13, the San Antonio Spurs named The post San Antonio Spurs tap Overland International, Sasaki, Marquee Development, and others to design new downtown arena and district appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

Overlooking Smith College’s Paradise Pond, on its Frederick Law Olmsted–designed campus, is a new mass timber student hub designed by TenBerke. The architects responded to the stately context not by The post TenBerke and Thornton Tomasetti complete Smith College mass timber student hub appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

It’s not usual for brands to branch out of their niche and still rock the universe with the same effectiveness. Generally, there are incongruities here and there, but it’s not the case with Winnebago. The campervan genius that adventurers swear by, is this time around, venturing out of its comfort zone with a fully equipped overlanding adventure truck it calls the ARKA 20Z. ARKA is definitely not the first time Winnebago has experimented with adventure rigs designed for extended stays away from

For the last several years, the premium smartphone camera has been a story about software eating hardware. Google’s computational photography turned mediocre sensors into benchmark toppers. Samsung’s AI processing chased detail out of dark scenes that the lens glass alone could never recover. Apple built the Photonic Engine specifically to run post-capture processing at speeds no competitor could match. The results have been genuinely impressive across the board. They have also been,

From June 8–9, this dynamic lineup of 20-minute conversations will dive into topics ranging from salutogenic spaces to designing for neurodiversity. Itineraries are already filling up for the commercial interior design industry’s premier annual event, NeoCon 2026. With more than 450 established and emerging exhibitors, this year’s programming includes engaging exhibits, collaborations and more—plus a new lighting showcase, Illuminate at NeoCon. But one thing you won’t want

Scroll through any tech community online, and the same frustration keeps surfacing: people are exhausted by their screens. The perpetual brightness, the notification pull, the way a quick phone check somehow turns into forty lost minutes. That collective discomfort has pushed a growing number of people toward e-ink devices, displays that don’t glow in your face and don’t make a habit of demanding your attention. What’s interesting about where the e-ink phone category stands in

From rare reissues to bespoke listening rooms, these are the best presentations and launches at the New York design fair, now in its sophomore year

Chopsticks have been around for thousands of years, and their form has barely changed. The material varies, from wood and bamboo to polished metal and lacquered resin, but the design conversation rarely goes beyond surface decoration. They exist to serve a function, and that’s mostly where the thinking stops, quiet tools that have settled into the background of the dining table. LUNARIS takes that very stillness as its starting point. A conceptual chopstick design, it reinterprets the trad

Highlights at Clerkenwell Design Week 2026: Day 2 Every day, Design Milk editors bring you the best to see, learn, and do during the UK’s leading design festival. Here are our picks for Wednesday, May 20. Editors’ Pick | Talks | All-Day Happenings | Showroom Events | Products Highlight of the Day The Secret Garden by La Erreria This sensory installation that reimagines the traditional English garden as a reflection of materiality in architecture, featuring Tile of Spain ceramics f

Artificial Intelligence doesn’t always play nicely with creativity. Do these pioneering pieces of kit make a case for AI’s educational abilities or are they playing us for fools?