Mocha Mousse the Color of 2025

Every year, the prestigious Pantone Color Institute unveils the hue that will ignite design, decor, and creativity in 2025. This year’s star is Mocha Mousse, a sophisticated blend of brown and terracotta hues that exudes harmony and a deep connection with nature. It’s the perfect choice for contemporary spaces that radiate intimacy and elegance. Mocha [...]

Cozy Family Nest by Martins Studio

This project was designed by martins studio for a large family of six who prioritize comfort and contemporary aesthetics while leading an active lifestyle. Hosting guests and spending quality time together were essential, making it crucial to create a space that fosters relaxation and socialization. The central objective was to develop an environment that reflects [...]

Westfriedhof Station by Ingo Maurer – A colorful cave of light

1 Ingo Maurer – Lighting concept for Westfriedhof Station, 2001, installation view, Munich, Germany, photo: Public Delivery

Think of a subway station and what comes to mind is a dark and busy place, likely dirty and filled with old metal and concrete. Fortunately, there are exceptions to this. One of them is the colorful 1 and bright Westfriedhof Subway station in Munich, Germany, that departs from the common conception of subway stations 2 and instead bathes the visitor with colorful beauty.

What sets Westfriedhof apart is its lighting concept, developed by renowned designer Ingo Maurer 3. Red, blue and yellow lights shine...

Award Plaques for CMU’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

We recently created a set of sculptural award plaques for a new fund at The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. The Moore Family Fund for underwriting creativity, knowledge, experimentation, research and yumminess will fund antidisciplinary undergraduate research (learn more here). Dan Moore (a senior technical artist at NVIDIA) commissioned us to design a unique set of perpetual award plaques that will hold the names of recipients over the next 75 years.

Typical award plaques are simple rectangular slabs with a grid of metal nameplates, each engraved year after year. We wanted to break away from...

KM Home

A prime example of extraordinary design solutions that seamlessly blend aesthetics with practicality is the private residence of designer Karina Mayer and architect Danylo Koshulynskyy, the creative minds behind the successful interior studio Koshulynskyy & Mayer. The designer-architect couple was far from satisfied with the developer’s original layout. Rather than conforming to a design that [...]

Macao’s largest mural – Drawing Architecture Studio’s casino maze

1 Drawing Architecture Studio – Learning from Macao, 2021, wall film, ink, 12.5 x 26.2 m, installation view, Handover Gifts Museum of Macao

What does it mean to learn from a city like Macao, rich in history, culture, and architectural 1 spectacle? Learning from Macao invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic relationship between art and urban life.

The mega-mural 2 is displayed on the outdoor wall of the Handover Gifts Museum of Macao. It was commissioned by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR for Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2021. It’s a visual love letter to the city’s...

The Kyiv Crematorium: Censorship & the fight for recognition

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1 Abraham Miletsky, Ada Ryabachuk, Volodymyr Melnychenko – Kyiv Crematorium, 1975, installation view, Kyiv, Ukraine, photo 2: Надія Кукла 3

The Kyiv Crematorium is a striking neo-modernist concrete structure nestled on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. It marks a turning point in how Ukrainian society addresses death. Built when cremation was a contentious subject due to historical trauma, the design aimed to create a therapeutic environment, free from associations with destruction.

Cremation was a thorny subject in Ukraine when the idea of building a crematorium in Kyiv was brought forward. That is partly because of the Second World War genocide...

The Mask of Sorrow by Ernst Neizvestny: Remembering the Gulag

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1 Ernst Neizvestny – Mask of Sorrow, 1996, concrete, 15 meters high, installation view, Magadan, Russia, photo 2: Polina Boytsova 3

What does it mean to confront the shadows of history, especially when those shadows loom as large as the Mask of Sorrow? Looming over the remote 1 city of Magadan in northeastern Russia, the monument serves as a jarring reminder of the countless lives shattered by Soviet oppression.

The sculpture was built in Magadan, around 320 kilometers from the Dneprovsky labor camp 23, the best-preserved site in the Kolyma Gulag network where prisoners were processed and sent to forced labor camps.

The...

Fog Bridge in San Francisco by Fujiko Nakaya – A misty marvel

1 Fujiko Nakaya – Fog Bridge #72494, 2013, 800 high-pressure nozzles, 150 ft (46 m), installation view, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA, photo 2 by zingbot 3

In the lively city of San Francisco, along the beautiful waterfront, stands a unique installation that blends science and art like nothing else seen before. This artwork is called the Fog Bridge, a creation by artist Fujiko Nakaya 1, permanently installed at the Exploratorium’s waterfront location.

Picture stepping onto a bridge 2 covered in mist, where it feels like reality and illusion are mixing. That’s what the Fog Bridge is all about. Nakaya created it in...

Kihoku Astronomical Museum in Kagoshima by Takasaki Masaharu

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1 Takasaki Masaharu – Kihoku Astronomical Museum, 1995, Kihoku, Kanoya City, Kagoshima, Japan

Resembling a UFO 1 for many who see it for the first time, the Kihoku Astronomical Museum is one of Japan’s most peculiar and eccentric buildings.

Conceptualized by Takasaki Masaharu 2, the museum was constructed in a remote location to cut the observatory off from the urban chaos and better root it in the earth. The isolation also helps to better observe the stars, which allowed Takasaki Masaharu to live up to his nickname: the architect of the cosmos.