A Look at Cat Bridges

Here's a feline-based subcategory of objects on Etsy: Cat bridges.

Fayno Pet

Fayno Pet

Overcraftinated

Overcraftinated

Moho Wood

Moho Wood

Scratchy Things

Scratchy Things

Scratchy Things

Eco Cats Collection

Eco Cats Collection

Eco Cats Collection

Eco Cats Collection

Catastrophic Creations

Catastrophic Creations

Catastrophic Creations

These seem like they'd be a fun DIY project for parents with engineering-minded kids.

For cats who get bored easily, an alternative is to build them an entire climbing facility, as DIY'er Vivianne did:

Vivianne ...

Industrial Designers Shawna and Matt Heide: The Eameses of Concrete

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What plywood was to the Eameses, concrete is to industrial designers Shawna and Matt Heide. The Quebec-based duo, who operate under the name Concrete Cat, harness the material in unexpected ways to create household objects like trays, vessels, bookends, and even mirror frames. Riotous colors, expressive organic forms and the pair's signature "Oracle pattern"—a sort of cross between tie-dye and marbling—all feature.

Their process is an unusual blend of controlled and uncontrolled elements, starting with the molds that they make. "We design and fabricate our own molds. Molds change over time, they...

White Tower / Studio Benjamin Dillenburger + Michael Hansmeyer

© CheWei Lin architects: Michael Hansmeyerarchitects: Studio Benjamin DillenburgerLocation: Mulegns, District of Albula, SwitzerlandProject Year: 2025Photographs: CheWei LinPhotographs: Nijat MahamaliyevPhotographs: BirdviewpicturePhotographs: Benjamin HoferPhotographs: Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael HansmeyerPhotographs: Andrei JipaPhotographs: Girts Apskalns

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Studioquint extends Dutch farmhouse with black-timber Shadow Barn extension

Dutch practice Studioquint has renovated and extended a farmhouse in the Netherlands, adding a barn-like form clad in black timber that was designed to resemble the "shadow" of the existing building.

Located in the village of Waterlandkerkje close to the Belgian border, the project, aptly named Shadow Barn, saw Studioquint tasked with adding more expansive living spaces to a traditional brick farmhouse.

To avoid disrupting the historic, compartmentalised layout of the existing building, the Hilversum-based practice added a new barn-like structure alongside, which was given over entirely to a single living, dining and...

Design Museum curators pick five projects that exemplify "more-than-human" design

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In its latest exhibition More Than Human, London's Design Museum explores what happens when we design not for people but for animals, plants and other living things. Here, the curators preview five works that give an insight into this new frontier of thinking.

Opening this Friday, the More Than Human exhibition features works such as facade cladding made to host birds and insects, traditional cane fish traps that let babies swim free, and an AI project that gives voice to a river.

These disparate works are not yet united by a formal name or movement. But curators Justin McGuirk and Rebecca Lewin...

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Oasis under a Building / fala

© Francisco Ascensão architects: falaLocation: Porto, PortugalProject Year: 2023Photographs: Francisco AscensãoPhotographs: Lera SamovichPhotographs: Giulietta MargotArea: 1292 ft2

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"As architects and designers, we don't talk about toilets enough"

Public toilets are vital infrastructure and architects and designers should do more to increase their prevalence in our cities, write Edit Collective.

Toilets have been under renewed scrutiny in the UK lately in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling about biological sex and the Equality Act. But instead of restricting access to public conveniences, we should get angry about the severe lack of this infrastructure in our cities.

Victorian London was famous for its vast network of public toilets. They heralded sanitary improvement, civic pride and freedom to move around the city for millions of people.

Toilet design can be about much...

Judge spares London office tower from demolition in right-to-light legal battle

A couple in London have been awarded £500,000 compensation over light being blocked from their apartment by a PLP Architecture-designed office tower – but a court refused their request for the offending building to be partially demolished.

In a landmark ruling issued on Tuesday, a High Court judge agreed that two homes in the CZWG-designed Bankside Lofts development face "a substantial adverse impact on the ordinary use and enjoyment of those flats" because of the nearby Arbor tower (pictured top).

But he refused to grant an injunction that would have required Arbor's developer to "cut back" up to half of the 19-storey...

Iris van Herpen dress covered in glowing algae is "cultivated rather than constructed"

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has worked with biodesigner Chris Bellamy to create a "first-of-its-kind living look", a dress made from 125 million bioluminescent algae that emit light as it moves.

The dress, which opened Van Herpen's Sympoiesis Autumn/Winter 2025-2026 haute couture show at Paris Fashion Week, was made from Pyrocystis lunula, a bioluminescent algae cultivated by Bellamy.

The algae were grown in seawater baths with a nutrient gel over several months, before being moulded into a protected membrane and embedded into the dress.

"Caring for the garment, and for the 125 million Pyrocystis lunula it...