Diller Scofidio + Renfro renovates Boston storage warehouse for MIT architecture school

New York architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has spliced an 1894 brick warehouse building with several glazed volumes to create a home for MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.

The Metropolitan Storage Warehouse building (MET) is located on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will house several architecture and design schools, including the Department of Architecture and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

The schools will relocate to the converted warehouse from their current location in the neoclassical Building 7, which sits cady corner to the new building.

Originally built in 1894 by local architect Frederic...

De Pé No Chão

"De Pé no Chão" é uma série ilustrada dedicada a capas de discos de samba icônicos do imaginário popular brasileiro. Fruto de uma pequena seleção iconográfica, ao revisitar essas imagens através da simplicidade de ícones e formas, investigo a potência da memória visual, reconhecíveis no universo do samba mesmo na ausência do título, nomes ou rostos detalhados. Muito além de registros musicais, essas capas também são registros das crônicas populares que carregam a memória visual de um Brasil profundamente marcado pela experiência suburbana.

The Ocean Photographer of the Year Finalists Highlight the Sorrowful and Sublime

Our oceans are places of mystery and biological wonders as much as they are essential to communities’ livelihoods. We tap these expansive bodies of water for recreation, food, transportation. From the Atlantic to the Arctic, oceans cover around 70 percent of the earth’s surface, and there is an incredible wealth of life yet to be discovered.

As the continuing climate crisis melts ice caps and raises sea levels, and industrial fishing and waste threatens endangered marine animals and habitats, reminders of the oceans’ irreplaceable value and power are ever more critical. That’s where Oceanographic magazine and Blancpain’s annual Ocean Photographer of...

AKSH Architects transforms disused buildings in India into "timeless and earthy" retreat

Indian studio AKSH Architects has completed The Earthen Retreat, a cluster of guesthouses in Pune created by repurposing several small abandoned buildings and coating them with mud and lime plaster.

The 557-square-metre plot was previously occupied by four site offices and storage units that had outlived their original purpose.

While maintaining the existing timber and steel structures of these units, AKSH Architects used natural materials to demonstrate how "forgotten infrastructure" can be transformed into "architecture with lasting cultural, environmental and experiential value".

"The design intervention was intentionally radical," the studio's founder Akash Shingvi told...

Node - Brand identity

Economy v1 is an American startup (Public Benefit Corporation) building the infrastructure for a redemocratized internet, at the crossroads of Bitcoin, agentic AI, and peer-to-peer. Node, its first product, is a compact and affordable personal server that lets everyone control their identity, data, and money: a Lightning/Bitcoin node, P2P apps, and private AI agents in a single device. Economy V1, through Node, champions the idea of a free and decentralized internet, free from the surveillance and intermediaries of major platforms. Its ideology is rooted in digital and financial sovereignty, relying on Bitcoin as the foundational currency and on P2P networks to give...

Minimalistic Office of Engineering Company by Anna Makukha

The office of the engineering company Di Energy is located in a new building in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. Its panoramic windows overlook the Dnipro River and the city’s right bank. The core idea of the project was to create a workspace that communicates order and clarity and, at the same time, functions as [...]

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Jaguar reveals first look at Type 01's four-seat interior

British carmaker Jaguar has revealed a glimpse of its upcoming Type 01 electric car, which has a central divider and "on-demand" screens.

The recently released renders show the interior of Jaguar's Type 01 electric car, which will be the production version of the much-discussed Type 00 concept car that was first revealed in 2024.

Jaguar plans to unveil the car this October.

The renders show a sleek, modern interior divided by a central bar that runs the full length of the car. This makes the Type 01 a four-seat car with distinct seating areas for...

Youth avoids Manchester cliches for city's first Cubitts eyewear store

British eyewear brand Cubitts has unveiled its first shop in Manchester, designed by locally based studio Youth to reflect the city's industrial and musical history without resorting to the obvious.

Youth co-founders Oliver Collinge and Liam McGroarty planned the interior to reflect the present and future of the British city, with subtle references to the past rather than cliches.

It includes a shelving display combining tubular steel uprights with dapple-textured glass shelves, a faceted oak counter housing a till and record player, and a pair of figurative sandstone sculptures by artist Richard Perry.

The designers...

KIMONO series

A series of illustrations inspired by the Japanese world of fabrics and patterns

Kii uses local limestone and colourful "melting" stools for SR Ice Cream Miyakojima

Architecture studio Kii has designed an ice cream shop on Miyakojima Island, Japan, featuring a pink ceiling, a limestone counter and perforated concrete tiles.

Called SR Ice Cream Miyakojima, the cafe and ice cream shop is located on an island in the southern part of Japan's Okinawa prefecture in the Pacific Ocean.

Its ocean-side setting influenced the interior, which features local materials chosen for their weather resistance.

"On Miyakojima Island, its local residents, new arrivals and tourists coexist and the goal was to create a welcoming environment where people of all backgrounds can simply drop...