Cechvala Architects cloaks Bratislava home with corrugated raw aluminium

Slovakian studio Cechvala Architects has completed RDH, a contemporary family home in Bratislava composed of three stacked volumes clad in corrugated aluminium.

Situated next to a horticultural centre in Bratislava's Sihot district, the three-storey house sits between a branch of the Danube River and the foothills of the Carpathian mountains.

RDH's three stacked volumes include a more solid base supporting a glazed first floor and a smaller upper volume that opens out onto a roof terrace.

This design was partly shaped by an existing building permit issued in 2009, which Cechvala Architects said determined the...

Правомерность желания

В обсуждении подкаста о просьбах был такой комментарий: «абсолютно непонятно, что делать, когда откажут».

Но ведь если тебе отказали, то ничего плохого не произошло, ситуация осталась ровно такой же, как была до просьбы. Было неприятно, что кто-то курит или шумит? Всё осталось так же. То есть вообще никаких минусов от отказа нет.

И всё же людям как-то отдельно неприятно именно от самого факта отказа. У меня есть теория, почему так.

Мне кажется, у многих в голове какая-то связь, типа: «если моё желание правомерно, то его обязаны исполнить, а если неправомерно, то его и выражать глупо». И тогда получается, что если твоё желание не исполнили, ты приходишь к выводу о его неправомерности и чувствуешь себя глупо. Именно в этом минус, которого не было до того, как ты выразил желание.

Но это...

CipherX launches world's first painless tattoo

London biotech company CipherX has created the world's first commercially available microdot tattoo, which is applied using a pain-free applicator.

Launched yesterday, the permanent tattoos are created using dissolvable microneedles instead of a traditional tattoo gun. This means that the application is a pain-free process.

"You end up with the same permanent tattoo, and I should really stress that," CipherX co-founder Ferdinand Kohle. "The result is the same, but the application process is completely different."

So far CipherX has applied 500 microdot tattoos, and following its launch in London, it is now available commercially for the first...

Pavillon of the Sliding Doors / Piertzovanis Toews

It all began with an open letter to the local town council, which caused a small stir in the village of Nuglar–St. Pantaleon in Switzerland. Young people, full of energy and ideas, were looking for a shelter where they could meet and gather. They had already assembled in various places around the village, but each time it led to friction with other residents, who often found them too loud.

Has architecture become too boring?

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Is this year's Stirling Prize shortlist the least interesting ever? And why are astronomers up in arms about a plan to launch a giant mirror into space? Listen to the latest episode of Dezeen Weekly now.

This episode begins with Dezeen features editor Nat Barker and design editor Jennifer Hahn discussing the plans by a US startup to light up streets at night by reflecting sunbeams from a satellite.

Then, for part two, they're joined by Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft to debate this year's shortlist for the UK's best new building.

Finally, there's been an update in the story about what we previously called...

SANAA proposal for National Museum of Ecuador selected after public backlash

A curved brick structure by architecture studio SANAA has been selected as the new design for the National Museum of Ecuador in Quito, following reports that locals had criticised the original winning design.

Set to be built along the border of La Carolina Park in Quito near projects by studios such as BIG, Kengo Kuma and Safdie Architects, the winning design for the Museo Nacional de Ecuador is imagined as "a system of interconnected vertical plazas" wrapped in terracotta brick.

The project team includes SANAA in collaboration with Caá Porá Arquitectura,...

Pan-African Biennale - Open Call: Short Film

The Pan-African Biennale (PAB) is a continental platform dedicated to documenting, preserving, and projecting Africa's built environment, urbanism, and creative futures— across all 54 nations and the diaspora.
It is the founding of a long-term continental institution, built to ensure that African architects, urbanists, artists, and communities are the authors of their own spatial and cultural narratives.

OPEN CALL: SHORT FILMS

The Pan African Biennale invites filmmakers, artists, designers, and spatial practitioners to submit short films that engage critically and creatively with contemporary African conditions. This open call seeks moving-image works that explore shifting landscapes, embodied knowledge systems, and speculative futures across the

Design Competition for the Prishtina City Cemetery

The Municipality of Pristina / Capital City has initiated a comprehensive and inclusive
planning process for the development of the Capital City Cemetery of Pristina,
conceived as a contemporary civic, memorial, landscape, and digital public
infrastructure of long-term importance.
The project aims to establish a new model for cemetery planning and funeral
infrastructure in Kosovo, based on:
• dignity,
• equality,
• coexistence,
• institutional professionalism,
• sustainability,
• digital governance,
• and respect for religious and cultural diversity.
The process has been developed through continuous dialogue and consultation with
representatives of religious communities, institutional stakeholders, technical experts,
and international partners.
The future cemetery complex is envisioned not merely as a burial ground, but as a
carefully

Call to Makers – Furniture Design Workshop Opening Celebration

Call to Makers showcases original furniture created through reuse, upcycling, and inventive craftsmanship by the inaugural cohort of CO Architects’ Furniture Design Workshop. Over the course of nine months, individuals and teams designed and fabricated one-of-a-kind pieces using reclaimed, salvaged, and repurposed materials. Ranging in scale from footstools to dining tables, the work explores the creative potential of material intelligence, low-cost fabrication, and hands-on making. The exhibition celebrates creativity, craftsmanship, collaboration, and CO Architects’ culture of making.

The opening celebration features a panel discussion with workshop participants and invited guests, offering insights into the design process, fabrication challenges, and the role

The Association for Community Design: Enduring Optimism Conference

Calling all community designers to join us for ACD49 in Bozeman, Montana!

ACD49: Enduring Optimism marks the return of the Association for Community Design’s annual conference with a two-day convening on October 2-3, 2026.

ACD49 is hosted by the Montana Community Design Center at Montana State University. As the center marks its 50th year, this gathering reflects on the endurance of community design as both a movement and a practice. Set within Montana’s rural context and hosted at the state’s largest university, ACD49 creates space to reflect on where this work began, what has endured, and where community design must