Leather is inextricable from the human experience, early manipulations dating back 400,000 years. Full grain leather is prized throughout the world as the premium surface in any hide, revered for its strength, durability, and beauty.… Read More »Studio Luddite Stacks Leather Discs to Form the Pell Chandelier
Chunky columns wrap the exterior of Wood Up, an apartment block in Paris by French studio Local Architecture Network with a glued-laminated and cross-laminated timber structure. Created for developers Semapa and REI Habitat, the 14-storey… Read More »LAN “deliberately exposes” mass-timber structure of Paris apartment block
The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is Oslo Opera House, a Snøhetta-designed project that pioneered the concept of architecture as landscape. The home of the Norwegian National Opera and… Read More »Snøhetta’s Oslo Opera House was the most significant building of 2007
Salford City Council has approved the demolition of the University of Salford’s Centenary Building, which won the inaugural RIBA Stirling Prize in 1996, despite Twentieth Century Society objection. Completed by British studio Hodder+Partners in 1995,… Read More »Winner of first-ever Stirling Prize to be demolished
Design studio Uchronia has overhauled womenswear boutique Koibird in London‘s Marylebone, introducing a gradient colour scheme and details including a giant planet sculpture and a floor made from painted lava stone. Uchronia designed the store,… Read More »Uchronia gives London’s Koibird store a colourful psychedelic revamp
From tiny cats that cool down tea to a blinking AI companion intended to integrate with your family, here are seven cute robots that have dominated news feeds since last week’s Consumer Electronics Show –… Read More »All the cute robots that took over CES 2025