Studio TOOJ uses mycelium to craft "dreamlike" Duk tables

Design practice Studio TOOJ's illusory Duk furniture series features hard, unmoving forms that look like draped cloth but are made of wood and mycelium.

The Duk – the Swedish word for 'tablecloth' – series was created in collaboration with biotech company MycoWorks, whose Reishi material puts the finishing touch on the furniture pieces.

The pieces were sculpted from wood and then upholstered with the leather-like living material, grown from the root structure of mushrooms.

Studio TOOJ created and showed the first piece in the collection, a floating corner table, in...

The Brick Industry Association spotlights ten award-winning brick buildings

Promotion: a furniture studio with a sun-filtering facade and a charcoal-coloured New York tower are among the buildings and structures that won the Brick in Architecture Awards in 2024.

The annual competition is held by the US trade organisation The Brick Industry Association and has been described as "the leading international design competition featuring fired-clay brick".

The competition was open to submissions that use clay brick as their primary building material.

The awards also included an exclusive Craftsmanship award, which was given to New York City's Anagram project, listed in this roundup. The building was chosen due to its dramatic charcoal brick...

GRATEFUL GIRAFFES

Grateful Giraffes is a purpose-driven community rooted in gratitude, shared rituals, and meaningful connection?both material and spiritual. The brand's mission is to foster deeper human relationships, encouraging intentional moments that elevate personal and collective well-being. We approached the visual and conceptual development through the lens of reciprocity: the subtle yet powerful exchange that happens when people give and receive with intention. From there, we built a visual narrative inspired by emotional generosity and ritual. Our scope included strategic brand development, manifesto creation, messaging and storytelling systems, visual identity, and key real-world and digital applications.

Aurel's Grand Theater

FWA of the day 23 April 2025:

Aurel's Grand Theater

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Aurel's Grand Theater is an unconventional portfolio where you can read the case studies, solve mysteries to unlock the secret page or explore freely the theater, jump around & even smash things! Keep your eyes open, you might see some of the many hidden details about my projects or myself!

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PORTRAITS COLLECTION 1

In Luminous Portraits, Florence Solis Invokes Feminine Power Amid Constraint

When touched, the hypersensitive makahiya plant folds its minuscule leaflets inward, protecting itself from any potential threat.

Florence Solis draws on this defensive response in an ethereal collection of portraits. Beginning with digital collages that meld figures and delicate, organic ornaments, the Filipino-Canadian artist translates the imagined forms to the canvas. Shrouded in dainty, beaded veils or entwined with botanicals, each protagonist appears bound and concealed, their bodies and faces obscured by hair or grass.

As Solis sees it, the figures may be restricted, but they’re also able to find strength and transformation....

Tallest residential skyscraper in Atlanta under construction

The 1072 West Peachtree skyscraper, designed by architecture studio TVS, is under construction in Atlanta, USA and will be the "tallest building in the city in over 33 years" when completed.

Developed by the New York's Rockefeller Group and designed by local studio TVS, 1072 West Peachtree is located in Atlanta's Midtown neighbourhood and comprises a glass residential skyscraper atop stone-clad parking and office volumes.

According to Rockefeller Group, the 60-storey skyscraper is "rapidly rising" and construction has "exceeded the 20th floor", noting that concrete pouring is complete in the lower office...

CaseDept.

From Object to Companion CaseDept. designs high-quality phone cases with precision, durability, and obsessive attention to detail. But while their products were built to last, the brand lacked a voice to match. We repositioned CaseDept. around a simple truth: your phone ? and its case ? is always with you. Not just as protection, but as presence. The brand became a companion for daily life, reflected in a dynamic tagline system: On all your... moods, moments, meet-cutes, messes. A restrained identity system, tactile packaging, and conversational tone bring humanity to the category ? turning a functional object into something quietly felt.

Six proposals by YACademy students that breathe new life into salt mines

Dezeen School Shows: a tower with a salt-infused facade that filters air is among the proposals by students at YACademy that reimagine the use of an old salt quarry in Sicily.

Also featured is a project presenting immersive installations using salt and light, and a repurposed salt mine that includes a sculpture garden.

Institution: YACademy
Courses: Architecture for Landscape
Tutor: Patrick Lüth, partner and managing director at Snøhetta

School statement:

"The Architecture for Landscape course is the educational project by YACademy aimed at training professional designers who are able to interpret the characteristics of the natural environment to transform it into a fine setting for elegant,...

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