"No House Exists in Isolation": Riken Yamamoto on the Failures of Contemporary Housing in Louisiana Channel Interview

Riken Yamamoto, born in Beijing in 1945 and raised in Yokohama shortly after World War II, is a Japanese architect celebrated for fostering community through architecture. After founding his practice, Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop, in 1973, he became renowned for works ranging from social housing, such as Hotakubo Housing and Pangyo Housing, to civic projects like the Hiroshima Nishi Fire Station and Saitama Prefectural University, all unified by modular simplicity. Honored in March 2024 as the Pritzker...

Stockholm Stadshotell's "understated" interiors reference arts and crafts

A 19th-century building in Stockholm's Södermalm area has been converted into a hotel featuring interiors that combine existing features with a pared-back material palette and artisanal details.

Stockholm Stadshotell occupies a building that was constructed between 1873 and 1875 as a charitable home for elderly upper-class women and commissioned by Sweden's Queen Josefina in memory of her husband, King Oscar I.

The hotel, situated at Björngårdsgatan 23, contains 32 rooms and suites, along with two restaurants, a bar, a guest lounge, sauna and cold plunge and a courtyard garden...

Ambientec explores the emotional connection to light in new brand vision

Promotion: portable lighting brand Ambientec has launched a new slogan, Emotion is Mobile, which it says represents its efforts in "balancing the emotional power of design and light with the freedom of mobility".

Ambientec explained how designing with light can evoke powerful emotions and influence not only how people perceive a space, but also how they move through it.

The brand's portable lighting products are designed to lean into this by engaging the senses, giving users more freedom to experiment with light.

To showcase its new philosophy, Ambientec recently launched its Ambientec Gallery Tokyo and an...

Between Geometric Shapes and Raw Materials: The Case of Brutalism in Italy

Studio-Museum Augusto Murer, Falcade. Giuseppe Davanzo (1970-1971). . Image © Roberto Conte

Born in the post-war period in the United Kingdom, the Brutalism movement was first met with skepticism but has found a new appreciation in the last decade, capturing the imagination of new designers fascinated with the interplay between striking geometric shapes and the exposed raw materials in which they are rendered. From Britain, the movement spread throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa, gathering different variations influenced by the cultural and socio-economic status of each area. In this article, we...

Bridge over Foša / Prostorne taktike

© Darko Škrobonja architects: Prostorne taktikeLocation: Trogir, CroatiaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Darko ŠkrobonjaPhotographs: Dino ČaljkušićPhotographs: Mihael BažokaArea: 237.0 m2

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Portfolio Work - 2024

Various portfolio pieces with landscapes and portraits for advertising, editorial and publishing contexts.

Adaline

FWA of the day 26 June 2025:

Adaline

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We approached Adaline as a landscape: a layered, evolving place for thought to root and stretch. Over the past year, we worked to define their brand and end-to-end product experience. The site reflects the nature of the tool: living between language and logic, composed for clarity and calm.

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Digital Design Days X is the new traveling DDD event, bringing inspiration, education, and networking to local communities.

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Alicja Kwade Reflects the Warped Nature of Time and Reality in Poetic Installations

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Square steel bars give way to knotted branches covered with patina in Alicja Kwade’s monumental meditation on time. Anchoring Telos Tales at Pace Gallery in New York is a sculpture in which architecture and nature converge.

Mirrored cylinders hang among the structures with distorted clock faces on their ends. Warping further as viewers move around the forms, these timepieces reflect the ways we are all bound up with the passing of the days. Time, Kwade suggests, skews our perceptions and realities and is only partially in our control. Whereas the city conforms to human design, nature doesn’t, and neither wholly does...