A Laptop Concept with a Palm-Rest Screen You Can Sketch On

To execute their work, designers often shuffle between three different UIs: A mouse or 3D mouse, the keyboard, and a good ol' fashioned pen/marker/pencil. Typically the mouse and keyboard happen on your computer, and the sketching takes place off to the side. But this new concept aims to add the analog writing tool as a third on-computer interface.

The concept—pointlessly named the AI Book, though there's no AI hardware in it—is by Compal, a Taiwanese computer manufacturer. What they propose is turning the entire area under the keyboard, where the trackpad typically is, into a full-width E-ink surface that...

La Manufacture Cultural Center / MARS Architectes

© Charly Broyez architects: MARS ArchitectesLocation: Villefranche-de-Rouergue, FranceProject Year: 2023Photographs: Charly BroyezPhotographs: Courtesy of MARS ArchitectesArea: 1700.0 m2

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Charred tree trunks support sauna on Finnish island by Jaakko Torvinen

A colonnade of whole charred tree trunks supports the roof of Puusauna, a sauna and tea room in Finland designed by architect Jaakko Torvinen.

Located on the small island of Kaunissaari in the Gulf of Finland, the 30-square-metre sauna sits at the boundary where a large forest meets the beach.

Puusauna, which means Tree Sauna in English, was constructed almost entirely using trees from this neighbouring forest, which have been hand-hewn and left as whole trunks to create sculptural structural elements.

Sheltering an external terrace is a canopy supported by charred tree trunks, building on a technique...

Jony Ive designs oak rostrum for Christie's auction house

Jony Ive's studio LoveFrom has collaborated with UK studio Benchmark to create a rostrum for Christie's that replaces one designed by Thomas Chippendale.

The rostrum, which was unveiled last week, will replace Chippendale-designed podiums in all of Christie's auction houses around the world.

LoveFrom founder Ive aimed to create a rostrum that was informed by the auction house's history and described following in the steps of Chippendale, who remains one of the world's best known furniture makers, as "rather intimidating".

"As a team, we have a robust research discipline," he said. "I often think our understanding...

Assemble reveals design for Maggie's Centre in Kent

Architecture collective Assemble has received planning permission for a Maggie's Centre at Maidstone Hospital, which will feature pitched volumes informed by Kent's local culture and landscape.

Like all centres created by the Maggie's charity, Maggie's Kent will aim to provide support to cancer patients and their families in a more homely setting than a typical hospital.

Set to be built in the grounds of Maidstone Hospital, the centre will contain a welcoming kitchen area, rooms for one-to-one cancer support, and larger spaces for group gatherings and exercise classes.

Designed to appear familiar to local...

Pluskouple designs monochrome aircraft hangar for Ukraine skydiving collective

Designer Dan Vakhrameyev has created a sleek, multifunctional interior for an aircraft hangar filled with industrial design details for skydiving collective Aerotim in Ukraine.

Vakhrameyev, who is co-founder of the Pluskouple design studio, designed the interior of the industrial hangar for Timur Fatkullin's Aerotim collective.

Located in an undisclosed location, it was intended to function both as a maintenance space for the aeroplanes and a place where the crew could hang out.

The outside of the hangar has an industrial-style full-width gate covered with raw zinc sheets. At its top, a polycarbonate section...

Nancy Social Housing / ABC Studio

© Cyrille Lallement architects: ABC StudioLocation: Rés des Aulnes, Nancy-Maxéville, FranceProject Year: 2025Photographs: Cyrille LallementPhotographs: ABC Studio

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Silva collection by KFI Studios among six new products on Dezeen Showroom

Dezeen Showroom: a collection of tables and chairs made from solid wood and featuring steam-bent elements is among six new products featured on Dezeen Showroom.

Silva collection by Union Design for KFI Studios

American studio Union Design worked with furniture brand KFI Studios on a collection of seating and tables characterised by their solid wood materiality and steam-bent details.

The Silva collection comprises three different sizes of table, a guest chair, bar stool and lounge chair – the latter featuring bentwood rear legs dramatically angled using steam bending methods.

The range was recently featured on Dezeen Showroom alongside a curvaceous table lamp made out...

Architectural Ingredient: 15 Brazilian Restaurants Where Design Meets Gastronomy

Cora Restaurant / Vapor arquitetura © Arthur Duarte

The relationship between architecture and gastronomy goes beyond the simple function of providing a place to eat. It is a sensory symbiosis in which the environment prepares the palate as much as seasoning does. The visual composition of a dish can be understood through principles such as volume, balance, contrast, and rhythm — concepts that are equally fundamental to architectural design. In the same way, a restaurant’s architecture — its colors, lighting, and material choices — acts as an invisible ingredient, capable of...

McLean Quinlan gives family townhouse in Lisbon a homelier feel

Scaled-down living spaces and Douglas fir joinery help bring a more intimate feel to this townhouse in Lisbon that's been revamped by British architecture practice McLean Quinlan and features an artwork by Anish Kapoor.

The property was originally designed to host several apartments, but during the 1990s, they were amalgamated to form a singular townhouse.

As a result, the home had what McClean Quinlan described as "an office-like feel – vast open spaces, with no rhythm or intimacy". When the practice began the renovation, it focused on giving the home a better sense...