Davidson Prize winner proposes reusing buses as mobile playgrounds

Multidisciplinary team RUA Studio has won this year's Davidson Prize with Playdeck, a concept design that envisions repurposing decommissioned buses into playscapes for people of all ages.

The proposal takes London's decommissioned New Routemaster buses, which will be phased out by 2030, and transforms them into mobile playgrounds to help encourage play in residential neighbourhoods.

It was designed by RUA Studio, which is a studio comprising WW+P architects Ru Quan Phuah and Shaun Thomas, WW+P landscape architects Esther Yik Chi Chan, Carmen Du and Jessica Huynh, Studio Egret West landscape architect Kelci Vittachi and clinical psychologist Owen Walker.

Open Studio designs izakaya-style restaurant with "half-dipped dumpling" lamp

Local firm Open Studio has created a gigantic fibreglass dumpling to illuminate and beckon visitors into Dumpling Darlings, a small-plates restaurant in Singapore's New Bahru shopping centre.

The studio looked to traditional Japanese izakayas when designing the restaurant for New Bahru, a dining and shopping location in an old, breeze-block-clad modernist school.

"These izakaya very often spill out onto the street, and are recognisable for their compact seating tucked beneath low retractable eaves," Jax Tan, who co-founded Open Studio with Lam Jun Nan, told Dezeen.

"That blurred boundary between the street and the restaurant...

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Sunken lightwells illuminate partially submerged London home by Stylus Architects

Local studio Stylus Architects has completed Green Lodge, a partially submerged family home in Roehampton Village, southwest London, where a series of sunken lightwells brings daylight into rooms set below ground.

The house occupies a constrained site on the edge of Putney Heath that is surrounded by mature trees, a gothic revival church, Victorian villas and Arts and Crafts houses.

Rather than extending the home upwards, the architects embedded much of it within the landscape, leaving only a single-storey volume visible from the street.

According to Stylus Architects, the partially submerged design emerged...

Summer '26 Collection

This series of patterns continues my exploration of the relationship between color, form, and rhythm. By combining vibrant palettes with carefully balanced geometric compositions, I seek to transform simple visual elements into layered visual systems.

Cipher

FWA of the day 02 July 2026:

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Cipher is a creative production company exploring the space between precision and possibility. This portfolio bends convention, celebrates craftsmanship, and experiments with what digital experiences can become.

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Units

UNITS repositions student housing from a basic necessity into a premium lifestyle experience centered around community, comfort, and modern living.

Vogau | Visual Identity

Vogau is a Brazilian design studio working with clients locally and internationally. The name comes from a variation of "vogal" ? the Portuguese word for vowel ? reflecting the studio's connection to language, communication and meaning. The identity was built around typography as its main graphic material, using letters, words, symbols and handmade expression to create a system that feels human, flexible and open to interpretation. Through typographic compositions and graphic interventions, the visual language moves between structure and spontaneity, allowing the brand to evolve across different formats while remaining recognizable.

Monocle x Hoper

A series of editorial illustrations created for Monocle Magazine in collaboration with Hoper Hélicoptères. This project visually explores how the aviation platform Hoper transforms helicopter travel into the smoothest, most seamless part of the journey?from the sun-drenched Côte d'Azur to the scenic Greek islands. Client: Monocle Magazine x Hoper Hélicoptères Art Direction: Monocle Magazine

Pliskin Architecture creates "welcoming threshold" at brick-clad Brooklyn rowhouse

Local studio Pliskin Architecture has updated a rowhouse with an interlocking brick entry programme to create a two-family home that fits into the context of a Brooklyn street.

The Leonard Street Rowhouse was completed in 2025 and measures 6,000 square feet (557 square metres) on an infill lot in Greenpoint.

Pliskin Architecture nested a townhouse and a penthouse behind a unified brick facade with a slanted, corbeled depression facing the street, drawing on the context while iterating.

"We drew from recognizable elements of Brooklyn rowhouses – masonry facades, punched openings...