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Latin America in Focus: This Month in Architecture, Social Housing, and Heritage Recovery

This October, architecture across Latin America became a platform for exchange, bringing together discussions on inhabitation, cultural identity, emerging practices, and the relationship between the built environment and its wider context. From conversations on emerging architectural practices and material research at Design Week Mexico to new approaches to housing, landscape, and public space in Chile and Mexico , recent developments highlight how architecture responds to specific local conditions. Across the region, initiatives addressing climate adaptation and heritage recovery in the Domin

ArchDaily · EN

Why BIM Still Doesn't Know What Your Building Is Made Of

Move a wall in Revit and every plan, section and schedule follows. Change a material, though, and the team is often back in specifications, spreadsheets and drawings, checking that they all describe the same choice.

ArchDaily · EN

Black Miller House / Three Sixty Architecture

Black Miller House is conceived as a cluster of contemporary pavilions embedded within a 32-hectare coastal hill landscape. The design retains much of the existing dwelling while introducing new living and sleeping wings, creating a relaxed, climate-responsive retreat that feels grounded in the land and open to the expansive outlook. Rather than replacing the original structure, the project adopts a strategy of selective demolition, retention, and expansion, allowing the building to evolve while respecting its historical presence on the site.

ArchDaily · EN

The Invisible Brief: How Laboratory Needs Shape Research Buildings

A floor that feels solid may still be moving. Vibrations travel through the ground and across buildings, often at levels too small for people to notice. Most have little effect on everyday activities, but in some research laboratories , instruments measuring matter at the nanoscale can register movements this small, and even traffic several miles away can interfere with an experiment.

ArchDaily · EN

“Uncommercially, We Do Too Much”: Bureau de Change on Protecting Design Ambition

“The distinction between big and small practices is changing. I think we are heading towards ideas being valued more than scale.” The post “Uncommercially, We Do Too Much”: Bureau de Change on Protecting Design Ambition appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

A Real Eiffel Tower Light Becomes a Lamp Without the Kitsch

A Real Eiffel Tower Light Becomes a Lamp Without the Kitsch A miniature Eiffel Tower tells you where someone went, but rarely gives you much reason to look closer. I’m more interested in souvenirs that carry...

Yanko Design · EN

San Siro’s Proposed Replacement Uses a Concrete X-Frame to Support Its Sweeping Roof

San Siro’s Proposed Replacement Uses a Concrete X-Frame to Support Its Sweeping Roof I’m not a fan of either AC Milan or Inter Milan, but as a football fan, visiting Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, more popularly known as San...

Yanko Design · EN

Pillowy Steel Furniture Without a Stitch of Upholstery

Pillowy Steel Furniture Without a Stitch of Upholstery The steel in Sarah Naghawi’s JAWF collection looks caught halfway between a box and a balloon. Surfaces bulge, dip, and crease, giving rigid metal the...

Yanko Design · EN

The 5 Best EDC Designs of November 2026

The 5 Best EDC Designs of November 2026 The most interesting EDC upgrade here begins with something that already fits a pocket: a Zippo case. Open the lid, and there’s no lighter inside,...

Yanko Design · EN

Xbox Put a Working Series X Inside a Giant Fake Alligator

Xbox Put a Working Series X Inside a Giant Fake Alligator Finding a place for a game console usually means clearing a shelf, not making room for a reptile. Microsoft’s Xbox Series X-BITE puts a working...

Yanko Design · EN

2026 Booooooom Photo Awards: Call to Submit

Calling all photographers! Our fifth annual Booooooom Photo Awards are officially open for submissions. This year’s categories are Portrait, Nature, Street, Colour, and for the first time-ever, a special Student category. Our friends at Format are once again partnering with us to make it all happen. We’re thrilled to have an elite panel of judges … Continued

Booooooom · EN

The Art of Showing Up

Voting stickers adorn memorials to ICE victims, Jeremy Shaw talks grief and ecstasy, and a portable archive of East LA.

Hyperallergic · EN

Inside N2 Albiino’s Tactile Graphic Design for Vuoden Huiput

N2 Albiino’s graphic design for Vuoden Huiput 2025 breaks Grafia’s pyramid into Cinema 4D clay and metal paired with cobalt type. Every year since 1980, Finland’s graphic design association Grafia has...

Abduzeedo · EN

Meet the new gadgets designed to kill our dependence on gadgets

On our video call, Shreyas Narlanka holds up a 3-inch square screen called Meadow . It looks like a thick, equilateral iPhone 13 mini . It would easily fit in my jeans’ front pocket. I instantly wanted one. The Meadow is just one of a small but growing merry band of devices that want to help people cut their hyperdependency on their smartphones. There’s Ikko’s MindOne Pro , a kids’ phone called Freckle , the Light Flip phone , and even an aluminum case called RePod designed to turn obsolete Apple Watches into iPhone-iPod hybrids. These gadgets are coming at an opportune time because every day

Fast Company Design · EN

Film is breaking out of its box, and this orchestral tour is showing the way

Forty-four years after it first aired, The Snowman is touring with an orchestra, including shows in four cathedrals. And I think this tells us a lot about where we are as a culture. It's been 44 years...

Creative Boom · EN

Burger trees, spying fruit and flying taxis: the digital clay world of Daniel Jurman

The New York illustrator channels 1990s MTV bumpers and retro claymation in these gloriously odd mini-animations. If you're old enough to remember the 1990s, you may recall the strange little animated...

Creative Boom · EN

Yinka Ilori brings joy and colour to the Tottenham Hotspur away shirt

The British-Nigerian artist harnesses his signature colour, pattern and storytelling in a shirt design that celebrates North London's community. Let's start with some honesty. I'm not really intereste...

Creative Boom · EN

Andstudio on the challenges of building a global studio from Lithuania

As the Vilnius agency celebrates its 10th birthday, co-founder Augustinas Paukštė discusses transforming a local firm into an international player. Ten years ago, two designers in Vilnius, Augustinas...

Creative Boom · EN

Hell in a Handbasket: Robotic Humanoid Torsos for Companionship

Las-Vegas-based robotics company Realbotix is developing these Echo robots. These are companionship robots, imbued with AI software designed to carry conversations. To cut down on costs, the 'bots are just a head and torso, absent expensive joints and limbs. Four models are in the works, named Aria, Mila, Dave and Amar. "Every Echo talks, listens, and reacts with a personality of its own," the company writes. Their silicone-skinned faces are said to be lifelike, their voices natural-sounding. Here's what one of the things looks and sounds like, supposedly—this appears to be AI video rather tha

Core77 · EN

SCAD alumni transform 18th-century staircase into colourful installation during Design Miami Paris

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has revealed a colourful tufted flooring installation at this year's Design Miami.Paris, as seen in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. The post SCAD alumni transform 18th-century staircase into colourful installation during Design Miami Paris appeared first on Dezeen .

Dezeen · EN

Alter design exhibition returns to Tokyo with AI-powered tea ceremony and washi paper furniture

The second edition of young designers' exhibition Alter has opened in central Tokyo, featuring a glowing lung-like lamp and Japanese cedar stools made from every part of the log. The post Alter design exhibition returns to Tokyo with AI-powered tea ceremony and washi paper furniture appeared first on Dezeen .

Dezeen · EN

SOM unveils design for luxury waterfront development on Australian pier

International architecture studio SOM is set to transform a historic pier in Geelong, Victoria, into a waterfront destination culminating in a rounded high-rise. The post SOM unveils design for luxury waterfront development on Australian pier appeared first on Dezeen .

Dezeen · EN

OEB Architects channels 1980s interiors for London extension

Glossy ceramic tiles, a glass-block wall and a leafy garden feature in this extension to a Victorian terrace in London by OEB Architects. The post OEB Architects channels 1980s interiors for London extension appeared first on Dezeen .

Dezeen · EN

JP’s Product Pick of the Week 11/3/26

This week’s product picks were the NeoPixel Ring – 12 x 5050 WWA with Integrated Drivers and the NeoPixel Ring – 16 x 5050 WWA LED with Integrated Drivers! Want more JP’s Product Pick of the Week?! Tune in every Tuesday on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and Facebook. LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in […]

Adafruit Blog · EN