In-Progress Sketchbook '26

In-progress sketchbook by David Habben. All works drawn by hand.

When Security Becomes Part of the Architecture

What transforms a space of living into a home? Beyond ownership or shelter, a home is tied to a quieter sense of certainty: the feeling that one can retreat, rest, and momentarily step away from the world's unpredictability. Homes are where routines accumulate, memories settle into spaces and objects, and where personal identity takes physical form through occupation and everyday rituals. Yet this sense of belonging depends on another condition that often goes unnoticed until disrupted: security. To feel "at home" implies a condition of comfort and stability. When domestic environments fail to provide this, spaces designed for rest become...

Ascension — Pegassi®

FWA of the day 10 September 2026:

Ascension — Pegassi®

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Website for the launch of Pegassi's debut EP called 'Ascension'.

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Huizhou Vernacular Historic Bridges Micro-Museum / LUO studio

Following the Sandstone Wood Pavilion designed for the "HU SHI GUANG · Art Eco Site" program in Longyou, Zhejiang, we were once again invited by Fengyuzhu—this time to engage in a regional-scale curatorial initiative—the "Nankunshan-Luofushan Rim Pioneer Zone (Huizhou) Architectural Art Project." Drawing on Su Dongpo's "Sixteen Delights of Life" as its curatorial framework, the initiative brings together architects and artists to create rural waystations and spatial installations along Huizhou's 218-kilometer-long scenic tourism highway. Each participating team selected one of Dongpo's sixteen delights as the theme, creating a spatial installation complemented by café and tea offerings. During early site visits...

Cerebrium

Serverless infrastructure for real-time AI. Deploy voice agents, LLMs, and AI workloads with instant scaling, global regions, and built-in observability.

Kiabi

The "K" symbol alongside the Kiabi typography becomes a strong marker and central to the brand experience. Simple, recognizable, and universal, it is now expressed everywhere, from digital to physical stores.

Tactile wallcoverings have become a "defining force" in luxury interiors says Selected Wallpapers

Promotion: according to wallpaper specialist Selected Wallpapers, wallcoverings are increasingly equipped with woven, sound-absorbing and embossed qualities, which is changing "what a wall is asked to do".

Selected Wallpapers explained that there is an increasing demand for tactile wallpapers, which now play a large part in how a space looks and feels.

As interior design trends have shifted toward calmer, more restrained spaces, the brand added that wallpapers have become the chosen surface where texture and a room's personality are expressed.

"There is...

Diminutive Seahorses Top the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest

As deep swells from an offshore hurricane were further empowered by king tides in Southern California over the past several days, residents experienced firsthand the impacts of human-generated climate change. Erosion is an innate process along coastlines, where waves and wind constantly shift the sand and gnaw away at bluffs. Infrastructure projects and residential development over the last several decades have also meant changes to the natural coastline, and beaches are regularly refilled with tons upon tons of sand. Even so, in just a couple of days, some of the region’s beaches virtually disappeared.

This example is just one...

House in Los Cóndores / Malachowski Arquitectos

This single-family home in Los Cóndores, on the outskirts of Lima, is born from a clear decision: to let the slope of the site organize the project. The result is a sequence of platforms, roofs, and open spaces that follow the natural topography, turning the journey—climbing, crossing, pausing—into the core of the domestic experience.

Apple releases its first folding smartphone with "size of a passport"

Technology company Apple has released its first folding smartphone that has the largest screen of any iPhone.

Called iPhone Duo, the phone is the first folding-screen device in Apple's product lineup. It features a central hinge mechanism as well as an external screen visible when the device is folded.

"[iPhone Duo] redefines the experience of using a foldable phone," said Apple CEO John Ternus during a Wednesday virtual presentation.

It marks the entry of the company into the foldable screen market. It is the first major change in the phone's form since Apple released its first touchscreen...