Spanish studio H Arquitectes has completed Casa 1736, a house in Barcelona with “robust and monolithic” walls formed of tactile poured concrete. The challenge of the design was to provide the three-storey home with sufficient… Read More »Textured layers of poured concrete enclose Barcelona home by H Arquitectes
Over 100 modernist booths that brighten streets across central and eastern Europe feature in the book Kiosk. Authors David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka shed light on the unusual structures and pick ten of the most… Read More »Ten modernist kiosks that offer “a window to a different world”
Designers in Norway, Sweden and Denmark are changing perceptions of Scandinavian design by creating pieces that are organic, colourful and playful, rather than minimalist and neutral. Cajsa Carlson reports. For many decades, Scandinavia has been… Read More »New Scandinavian design “breaks with the beige tradition”
Following the recent launch of a necklace wearable that provides AI friendship, here are seven products that are trying to imagine the future of hardware for artificial intelligence. If 2023 was the year that familiarised… Read More »Seven portable AI devices that attempt to give shape to a new technology
Architecture studio State of Kin has paired an olive-toned hemp render with aluminium awnings at Proclamation House, a light-filled family home in Western Australia. Located on the former site of a derelict dwelling in Subiaco,… Read More »State of Kin uses hemp render to create family home with “organic feel”
Meals are prepared in a woodland kitchen using fermentation, rather than electricity or gas, in an installation by architect Andrés Jaque‘s Office for Political Innovation. Jaque and his New York and Madrid-based studio designed the… Read More »Andrés Jaque promotes carbon-free cooking with outdoor Transspecies Kitchen