Curtain House / Johnsen Schmaling Architects

The Curtain House is a private residence on a long, vacant, narrow parcel embedded in Milwaukee's Lower East Side, a dense demographically diverse neighborhood known for affordable housing options and its lively mix of young families, blue-collar workers, students and artists. The clients, lifelong urban dwellers looking for a buildable lot in the central city to build their first home, acquired the 24'-wide infill property directly from the Milwaukee Department of City Development, which had taken ownership of it two decades earlier after condemning and razing an abandoned house there.

Cechvala Architects cloaks Bratislava home with corrugated raw aluminium

Slovakian studio Cechvala Architects has completed RDH, a contemporary family home in Bratislava composed of three stacked volumes clad in corrugated aluminium.

Situated next to a horticultural centre in Bratislava's Sihot district, the three-storey house sits between a branch of the Danube River and the foothills of the Carpathian mountains.

RDH's three stacked volumes include a more solid base supporting a glazed first floor and a smaller upper volume that opens out onto a roof terrace.

This design was partly shaped by an existing building permit issued in 2009, which Cechvala Architects said determined the...

Правомерность желания

В обсуждении подкаста о просьбах был такой комментарий: «абсолютно непонятно, что делать, когда откажут».

Но ведь если тебе отказали, то ничего плохого не произошло, ситуация осталась ровно такой же, как была до просьбы. Было неприятно, что кто-то курит или шумит? Всё осталось так же. То есть вообще никаких минусов от отказа нет.

И всё же людям как-то отдельно неприятно именно от самого факта отказа. У меня есть теория, почему так.

Мне кажется, у многих в голове какая-то связь, типа: «если моё желание правомерно, то его обязаны исполнить, а если неправомерно, то его и выражать глупо». И тогда получается, что если твоё желание не исполнили, ты приходишь к выводу о его неправомерности и чувствуешь себя глупо. Именно в этом минус, которого не было до того, как ты выразил желание.

Но это...

CipherX launches world's first painless tattoo

London biotech company CipherX has created the world's first commercially available microdot tattoo, which is applied using a pain-free applicator.

Launched yesterday, the permanent tattoos are created using dissolvable microneedles instead of a traditional tattoo gun. This means that the application is a pain-free process.

"You end up with the same permanent tattoo, and I should really stress that," CipherX co-founder Ferdinand Kohle. "The result is the same, but the application process is completely different."

So far CipherX has applied 500 microdot tattoos, and following its launch in London, it is now available commercially for the first...

Pavillon of the Sliding Doors / Piertzovanis Toews

It all began with an open letter to the local town council, which caused a small stir in the village of Nuglar–St. Pantaleon in Switzerland. Young people, full of energy and ideas, were looking for a shelter where they could meet and gather. They had already assembled in various places around the village, but each time it led to friction with other residents, who often found them too loud.

Has architecture become too boring?

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Is this year's Stirling Prize shortlist the least interesting ever? And why are astronomers up in arms about a plan to launch a giant mirror into space? Listen to the latest episode of Dezeen Weekly now.

This episode begins with Dezeen features editor Nat Barker and design editor Jennifer Hahn discussing the plans by a US startup to light up streets at night by reflecting sunbeams from a satellite.

Then, for part two, they're joined by Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft to debate this year's shortlist for the UK's best new building.

Finally, there's been an update in the story about what we previously called...

SANAA proposal for National Museum of Ecuador selected after public backlash

A curved brick structure by architecture studio SANAA has been selected as the new design for the National Museum of Ecuador in Quito, following reports that locals had criticised the original winning design.

Set to be built along the border of La Carolina Park in Quito near projects by studios such as BIG, Kengo Kuma and Safdie Architects, the winning design for the Museo Nacional de Ecuador is imagined as "a system of interconnected vertical plazas" wrapped in terracotta brick.

The project team includes SANAA in collaboration with Caá Porá Arquitectura,...

Light Phone goes clamshell with "timeless" Flip model

Tech company Light has released a clamshell version of its popular minimalist phone, combining contemporary dumbphone functionality with retro appeal.

A follow-up to 2025's all-black Light Phone 3, the Light Flip comes in six colours and runs Light's intentionally stripped-back LightOS operating system, which is devoid of social media, games and other common distractions.

Light said the new device with its clamshell-style design responded to the resurgence of interest in flip phones, which have become particularly popular among members of Generations Z and Alpha.

"Time and time again, we've heard from people –...

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"Is this the death certificate of architecture?" says commenter

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing MVRDV's winning proposal for social enterprise Shift's competition to design a €240 million landmark in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Named Rotterdam Rocks!, the project, which was designed to resemble stacked rocks with terraces and greenery, was the most radical of the five submissions.

"Actual nature does it better"

Commenters were largely on the same page.

"Horror!" wrote Fokkovanderveen. "A terrible nightmare!".

Ozspur, meanwhile, wrote "Looks like something Shrek would throw up."

"Just when it felt Rotterdam was starting to grow up, this comes along," said Will, exasperated. "I'm embarrassed for...