Architecture & Design

The new furniture collection by Herzog & de Meuron and UniFor is among our Salone del Mobile 2026 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale 9 April

Explore London studio Khan Bonshek’s tactful refurbishment of an unconventional 1980s show home that was ‘a very, very strange building’

Military forces figured out decades ago that you need two kinds of vision in the dark: one to detect, one to identify. Heat finds the target, detail confirms it. The problem has always been making both feeds available to a single operator without adding weight, bulk, or the friction of switching between devices. High-end tactical units solved this with helmet-mounted dual-tube systems that cost as much as a used car and require specialized training to operate. Consumer and prosumer markets have

© Guowei Liu architects: CM DesignLocation: Hedong, Tianjin, ChinaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Guowei LiuPhotographs: Weiqi JinArea: 809.0 m2 Read more »

Islington houses tend to resist openness. The typical Victorian or Edwardian terrace was built for a world of separate rooms, each with its own function and its own door, and even postwar Neo Georgian rebuilds like this one on St Paul’s Road inherited that spatial logic. Hamish Vincent Design and Architecture for London treated that inheritance as a starting point rather than a constraint, keeping the facade exactly as it found it and reorganizing everything behind it around a different se

The humble stool has barely changed in centuries. Four legs, a flat seat, done. It exists in every cafe, classroom, kitchen island, and co-working space on the planet, reliably doing its one job and nothing else. So when a designer comes along and asks what happens if you add just one more leg, the answer should probably be “nothing interesting.” And yet here we are, talking about SQOOL. SQOOL is a 2025 personal project by Liam de la Bedoyere of Bored Eye Design, a UK-based independe

© Kohei Matsumura architects: td-AtelierLocation: Kyoto, JapanProject Year: 2025Photographs: Kohei MatsumuraArea: 150.0 m2 Read more »

NASA’s Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, carrying four astronauts on humanity’s first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen are currently aboard the Orion spacecraft, preparing for a lunar flyby that will take them farther from Earth than any humans have traveled since Apollo 13. Space exploration feels immediate again in a way it hasn’t in decades, and CircuitMess tim

John Cena’s spinning championship belt should not have worked. It was gaudy, it was hip-hop inflected, it belonged more to a music video than a wrestling ring, and it absolutely captured a generation of young fans who grew up treating it as the definitive image of what a championship looked like. That belt stayed on WWE television long after Cena’s character stopped spinning it, because WWE understood that the object itself had taken on a life independent of the man who introduced it

Cats knocking things off tables is old internet. It predates memes as a concept, predates YouTube, predates the entire visual language of digital humor. It is perhaps the most documented animal behavior in human history, captured billions of times, studied by actual ethologists, and still inexplicably funny every single time. Fabio Ferrari has taken this behavior and made it load-bearing, literally, designing a 3D-printed table lamp where a seated cat figure tilts the shade off-axis mid-push, an

© Mario Wibowo architects: PSA StudioLocation: Kecamatan Beji, Jawa Barat, IndonesiaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Mario WibowoArea: 280.0 m2 Read more »

French aerospace startup Beyond Aero has just completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of its hydrogen-electric business jet, the BYA-I One, a significant step that moves the aircraft firmly into detailed design and verification and one step closer to its target commercial entry in 2030. Founded in Toulouse in December 2020, Beyond Aero first unveiled the BYA-I concept at the Paris Air Show in June 2023. Since then, the aircraft has evolved considerably, and the PDR marks the most mature ve

© Carolina Lacaz architects: Kiko Castello Branco Arquitetura + Lucas CunhaLocation: Quinta da Baronesa, BrasilProject Year: 2025Photographs: Carolina LacazArea: 926.0 m2 Read more »

Modular seating tends to be either complicated or a compromise. The sectional sofa has never really solved the fundamental problem that living situations change, people move, and the enormous L-shaped configuration that worked in your last apartment probably doesn’t fit your new one. Furniture that adapts to circumstance sounds like an obvious idea, but the designs that actually pull it off cleanly remain surprisingly rare. Liam de la Bedoyere, the designer behind Bored Eye Design, takes a

Vertical farming is redefining how food is grown, distributed, and consumed in an increasingly urban world. As populations rise and arable land becomes scarce, growing food vertically offers a practical, efficient alternative to traditional agriculture. By producing crops closer to where people live, vertical farming reduces dependence on long supply chains, minimizes food waste, and ensures year-round access to fresh produce. It also uses significantly less water and land, making it a more sust

Courtesy of Grzywinski + Pons architects: Grzywinski+PonsLocation: Seattle, United StatesProject Year: 2026Photographs: Courtesy of Grzywinski + PonsArea: 35117.0 m2 Read more »

‘Borgonuovo’ games table, by Armani Casa, is among our Salone del Mobile 2026 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale 09 April

© arqbag architects: arqbagLocation: Cervelló, EspañaProject Year: 2024Photographs: arqbagArea: 186.0 m2 Read more »

‘Photo: Hans Hansen’ at Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe showcases the work of a master of commercial photography

From perfumes inspired by desert mirages to mezcal colognes and ‘crazy basil’ scents, our selection of spring perfumes provides a subversive take on seasonal scents with warm, ambery notes at their core