8+ hour, 39+ min ago   (475+ words) DesignWanted A workplace on a tree: the Baumhaus Office of Benedikt Hartl What happens when the cost of space becomes more important than the space itself? In Weimar, Opposite Office answers with a one-square-metre treehouse, the Baumhaus Office, turning the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (719+ words) Jia CURATED closed its 5th edition, growing as a festival without losing the intimacy that made people fall for it in the first place. More than 18,000 visitors passed through Pengembak Beach in Bali between the 13th and 17th of August, rising sharply from…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (448+ words) An object, in Keiji Takeuchi’s view, reaches completion through use: when someone handles it, lives with it and finds satisfaction in the interaction. This understanding of design as an ongoing relationship is central to his work and to this episode…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (467+ words) Generally, when we talk about offices, the spaces we consider are indoor environments where greenery has the function of improving comfort and perceived quality. With the Ibira Work project, Brazilian studio FGMF instead decides to consider the outdoors as an…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (412+ words) DesignWanted MIT is turning its entire campus into a five-day experiment in what comes next MIT Future Fest, a new annual festival from the MIT Museum, will take over the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, opening labs, studios, and public…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (350+ words) From construction sites to furniture production, the management of materials is based on a simple principle rooted in project economics: as a form of risk management to deal with possible damage, design errors or delivery issues, standard practice suggests ordering…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (445+ words) Design enthusiasts often have a knack for understanding how an object was made: looking at its parting lines, joints, or imperfections to recognise what machine created them, and sometimes even to grasp what the designer was thinking during their process....

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (496+ words) DesignWanted LTR1 brings housing, public space and nature into a vertical neighborhood Designed by Carazo Arquitectura, LTR1 transforms a mixed-use development in Nuevo Cuscatlán, El Salvador, into a vertical neighborhood built around an existing forest, combining residences, public spaces, and climate-responsive strategies....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (369+ words) While bachelor’s degrees are usually to cover the basics, design master’s programmes are where the fun can truly start. In an industry where a formal education is often unnecessary, students choosing this route are often looking for innovation, ways to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (268+ words) We asked him to walk us through the idea from the ground up: what affordances actually mean for a building, what examples are fundamental for his research, and what the outcomes can do for the architects of tomorrow. “I got…...