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Ora Ïto redesigns Marseille metro trains and Place Castellane architecture-design
Marseille commuters now experience Ora Ïto's work both above and below ground. The locally born designer has reshaped Place Castellane, a key city intersection, and designed the…
SOM retrofits 1960s Gio Ponti office complex in Milan into open urban campus architecture-design
Global architecture firm SOM has completed the renovation of Corso Italia 23, a 46,500-square-metre modernist office complex in Milan originally designed by Gio Ponti and Piero…
Top new products from Milan Design Week 2026 architecture-design
Milan Design Week 2026, including Salone del Mobile, featured standout new releases. Prostoria debuted the Richter Collection, bringing to life unfinished work by Croatian…
Atelier SAD's Mountain Meadow House in Krkonoše National Park architecture-design
Atelier SAD has completed a house in a mountain meadow within the Krkonoše National Park, a highly protected area of Czechia. The structure occupies the exact footprint of the…
Edificio Londres 187: Vivienda Colectiva con Comercio en CDMX architecture-design
El diseño arquitectónico Londres 187, creado por CCA | Bernardo Quinzaños y Olga Romano, se encuentra en la colonia Juárez en la Ciudad de México. Este edificio combina vivienda…
KSS designs Europe's first purpose-built women's football stadium for Brighton architecture-design
Architecture studio KSS has designed a 10,000-capacity stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion's women's team, set to become Europe's first purpose-built women's football stadium if…
Ananas Ananas Creates Site-Specific Food Installation for Casa Laveni architecture-design
During Milan Design Week, the creative studio Ananas Ananas designed a site-specific food installation for Casa Laveni, a historic residence in Milan. The installation transformed…
Knoll reissues Morrison Hannah chair for European launch architecture-design
Knoll has released an updated version of the Morrison Hannah task chair, which was originally crafted by Andrew Morrison and Bruce Hannah in 1973. This new iteration, designed…
A&M Architects: Designing for Connection Between People and Place architecture-design
Established in 1983, A&M Architects, located in Athens, tailors each project to meet the specific needs of its users, environment, and conditions, emphasizing human experience and…
Interior Design Psychology: Why Most Homes Feel Wrong architecture-design
A Five by Nine video explains how the brain reads rooms like paragraphs, identifying common amateur mistakes that make spaces feel flat. Pushing sofas against walls eliminates…
Film on Israeli Architect Ada Karmi-Melamede Balances Work and Family architecture-design
The documentary 'Ada: My Mother the Architect,' directed by Yael Melamede, highlights the work of Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede. In the early 1990s, she collaborated with…
Kengo Kuma & Associates unveils Torre Qapital, first project in Ecuador architecture-design
Kengo Kuma & Associates has revealed plans for Torre Qapital, a 32-story mixed-use tower in Quito, Ecuador, developed with local firm Uribe Schwarzkopf. The 125.8-meter tower, set…
Samsung design chief calls for human-centered AI at Milan talk architecture-design
At Milan design week, Mauro Porcini, the chief design officer at Samsung, had an interesting chat with Dezeen co-CEO Benedict Hobson. This was during Samsung's exhibition titled…
Bardo's First Barcelona Project: Revoltó Renovation architecture-design
Bardo, an architecture firm, completed its first project in Barcelona, a 60 m² apartment renovation called Vivienda Revoltó. The project, curated by Valentina Díaz, involved…
Minoru Yamasaki's Northwestern National Life Building in Minneapolis to Be Converted Into Hotel architecture-design
In downtown Minneapolis, a hotel will be established in a building crafted by Minoru Yamasaki, which has stood vacant since 2023 after serving as the headquarters for the…
Philippe Starck on dreams as creative engine at Milan Design Week 2026 architecture-design
During Milan Design Week 2026, Philippe Starck joined designboom's ROOM FOR DREAMS for a conversation with editor-in-chief Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou. The French designer described…
Bardo Studio transforms 60m2 Barcelona flat with Catalan vaulted ceiling architecture-design
Madrid-based Bardo Studio has completed its first project in Barcelona, a 60-square-meter apartment in the Gràcia neighborhood. The renovation, named Revoltó, celebrates the…
MVRDV Secures Permit for Low-Carbon Tour & Taxis Towers in Brussels architecture-design
MVRDV has obtained construction permission for its Tour & Taxis Towers in Brussels, a mixed-use project commissioned by developer Nextensa in 2021. The two towers, reaching 126…
Nike opens permanent Air Lab at Milan's Dropcity with industrial robots architecture-design
At Milan design week, Nike introduced the Air Lab at Dropcity, a design facility established in 2024 by architect Andrea Caputo in the derelict tunnels behind Milan Central…
Kengo Kuma's Capella Kyoto Opens in Miyagawa-cho architecture-design
Capella Kyoto, the luxury Singapore brand's first Japanese hotel, has opened in Kyoto's Miyagawa-cho district, designed by architect Kengo Kuma. The 89-room hotel occupies the…
Hannes Peer and Margraf's La Casa di Marmo at Milan Design Week 2026 architecture-design
For Milan Design Week 2026, architect Hannes Peer and the stone company Margraf transformed an underground garage beneath a historic villa's garden on Via Cernaia 1 into La Casa…
Bortoletto Studio Designs Warm Gold Identity for Casagrande architecture-design
Bortoletto Studio created a brand identity for Casagrande Design Mobiliario, a custom furniture company. The design features warm gold tones, a serif logotype, and restrained…
Descopan's Shinnoki wood panels clad Yema's Paris flagship boutique architecture-design
French watchmaker Yema's first physical boutique in Paris, designed by Agence Véronique Cotrel, features Descopan's Shinnoki wood panel collection. The Terra Sapele panels, with…
Eyrie Residence: Australian Brutalist Hilltop Home with Horizon Pool architecture-design
Eyrie Residence, a contemporary brutalist home designed by Schmölzer Architecture, is perched on a hill in Beechworth, Victoria, offering views of the Victorian Alps. Architect…
Adaptive Reuse Projects Transform Ceramic Factories into Cultural Spaces architecture-design
An article by Camilla Ghisleni, translated by Diogo Simões and published on ArchDaily on April 29, 2026, explores four adaptive reuse projects that transform former ceramic…
Hydro's R100 project turns scrap aluminium into covetable design objects architecture-design
Norwegian aluminium producer Hydro has launched the R100 project, a circular-economy initiative that transforms post-consumer scrap aluminium into refined furniture and lighting…
Seattle Waterfront Park by Field Operations Wins Monocle Design Award architecture-design
Field Operations' Seattle Waterfront Park has been named Best in Urbanism, USA at the Monocle Design Awards 2026. The eight-hectare park replaces the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an…
Noah's Ark Nursery School by C+S Architects Wins Multiple Awards architecture-design
C+S Architects completed the Noah's Ark Nursery School in Alzano Lombardo, Italy, in 2024. The 3,380-square-meter project reimagines schools as civic piazzas, open beyond school…
Casa TN: A 71 m² House in a Rural Japanese Settlement architecture-design
Casa TN, designed by 1-1 Architects, is a 71 m² house completed in 2024 in a rural settlement under urban control. The project, curated by Miwa Negoro, responds to rapid land…
Eugenio Costa’s Omnibite joint connects raw branches without screws architecture-design
Eugenio Costa, a product designer from Milan, has created Omnibite, an innovative three-axis joint featuring a quick-lock mechanism that connects raw branches without the need for…
Hyunjoon Yoo + Partners Completes Wind Fence 2 in Busan architecture-design
Wind Fence 2, an extension of the existing Wind Fence project by Hyunjoon Yoo + Partners, has been completed in 2023 on the east coast of Busan, South Korea. The 495 m² building,…
La Casa con Terraza by S.O.S Architects in Chiang Mai architecture-design
S.O.S Architects designed 'La Casa con Terraza' in Chiang Mai, Thailand, completed in 2025. The 285 m² house rethinks single-family living for two people and a dog, centering on…
Vari Architects Unveils Organic Waterfront Village in Sanya architecture-design
Vari Architects has completed the Sanya CR Land Haitang Bay Waterfront Center, a 2,000 m² commercial architecture project on the banks of the Sanya Haitang River in China. The…
Centro Comunitario Rosa Parks: SPL Marne au bois's Brick Community Hub in Fontenay-sous-Bois architecture-design
The Rosa Parks Community Center, designed by Atelier MJA (Maxime Jansens) for SPL Marne au bois, opened in 2024 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France. The single-story brick building sits…
Daniel Fagerberg builds Gothic dollhouse cottage for botanist mother in Swedish forest architecture-design
Architect Daniel Fagerberg has designed and built an unconventional country home for his botanist mother in a forest near Stockholm, Sweden. The cottage blends Gothic cathedral…
Mara Bragagnolo’s Bad Posture Chairs Redefine Seating for Non-Conforming Bodies architecture-design
Designer Mara Bragagnolo has created Bad Posture Chairs, a collection of birch plywood seating that accommodates postures traditionally deemed 'incorrect.' The project critiques…
NII Presents Ingenious Design Workspace Vision architecture-design
Japanese firm NII, a subsidiary of ITOKI Corporation (founded 1890, over 130 years in furniture and workspace design), has unveiled its contemporary workspace vision. Under…
Toronto’s Eglinton LRT Opens After 15 Years, Alongside Pedestrian Streets in Mantua and Queens architecture-design
Toronto's Line 5 Eglinton Crosstown LRT, a 19-kilometre light rail transit route connecting Kennedy and Mount Dennis with 25 stations, opened in February 2025 after nearly 15…
Ramsden House: A Melbourne Home Inspired by Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn' architecture-design
James Harbard Architects has completed Ramsden House, a 250 m² family home in Australia, completed in 2025. The design draws heavily from W. G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn', a…
Labubu x USM Haller collaboration at Milan design week sparks debate architecture-design
The recent Dezeen Debate newsletter showcases a partnership between Kasing Lung's Labubu character and USM Haller furniture, unveiled during Milan design week 2026. The…

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