Fans head out on game day ready to root for their favorite teams, with all eyes on the pitch, enclosed in a large venue that is separate from its surroundings. The Xi’an International Football Centre… Read More »A Football Stadium With Fluid Forms Rises Above in China
Bubbly wax forms, smooth amorphous shapes, and globules suspended in space – there’s something so captivating about the fluidity and distortion found in futuristic objects like the lava lamp. The Arnardo Collection by Paddy Pike… Read More »The Virtual + Reality Coalesce in Paddy Pike’s Arnardo Collection
French “internet of things” engineer Olivier Mével just released La Machine as a device that reprises the true essence of Marvin Minsky’s first “useless machine,” albeit in a playful and boldly colored composition. Unsurprisingly, he… Read More »Olivier Mével’s La Machine Makes Uselessness Playful
Cities and architecture across the world are increasingly being influenced by the fundamentally anti-democratic principles of places like Dubai, argues academic Quinn Slobodian in this interview. Slobodian is a Canadian historian based at Boston University.… Read More »Spread of Dubai-style urbanism “quite terrifying” says Quinn Slobodian
At this year’s Design Miami.Paris, Apple and Design Miami introduce Designers of Tomorrow, a new initiative celebrating four emerging creative voices who are subverting expectations – and quelling fears – regarding man’s place at the… Read More »Apple + Design Miami Spotlight the Future of Craft With iPad Pro
Local studio Owain Williams Architects has transformed a disused garage site in London into the Stroud Green Housing Centre, creating a public drop-in space and office fronted by a large timber gate. Tucked between terraced… Read More »Infill housing centre by Owain Williams Architects is “a public building in miniature”