charles brooks expands his architecture in music series Charles Brooks continues his Architecture in Music series, revealing the concealed chambers of rare and historic instruments. For each of his compositions, he merges hundreds of images of the intimate interiors taken with medical telescopes, capturing sweeping perspectives that appear almost architectural. His newest documentation takes […]
zigzag resort extends linear terraces and infinity pools along albania’s rugged coastline
ZigZag Resort by JA Joubert Architecture & UNS Architects Located along the coastline of Himare, Albania, ZigZag Resort is designed by JA Joubert Architecture in collaboration with UNS Architects. The resort adopts a linear zigzag configuration that follows the existing topography, maintaining views across the site while minimizing alteration to the landscape. The formal […]
ephemeral canopies of wool drape over serbian pavilion at venice architecture biennale
unraveling: new spaces is designed to unknit itself over time The Serbian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale adopts wool as its primary, unexpected medium, to weave an ephemeral canopy. Titled Unraveling: New Spaces and curated by Slobodan Jovic, the exhibition explores the idea of transformation in contrast to ideas of architecture as […]
gamfratesi’s puro hotel brings curated scandinavian design to warsaw, poland
A Nordic-inspired Pause in the Heart of warsaw The PURO Hotel quietly settles into the texture of Warsaw, Poland, occupying a site just steps from Plac Teatralny, near the National Opera and Saski Park. Discovered along Canaletta Street — named after the Venetian painter whose canvases helped reconstruct postwar Warsaw — the hotel invites guests […]
MoMA to explore the legacy of the iconic nakagin capsule tower in upcoming exhibition
an Architectural Time Capsule revisited in new york The Nakagin Capsule Tower returns to public view this summer in a new light, as MoMA in New York opens an exhibition centered on its half-century lifespan. Built in Tokyo’s Ginza district in 1972 and dismantled in 2022, the structure was once among the clearest architectural […]
fingerprint patterns inform sculptural landscape design within bangkok housing complex
a network of gardens and elevated spaces defines Premio Unic VV Desine Landscape Architecture conceives Premio Unic, a 340-unit condominium development in Bangkok, Thailand, designed to integrate landscape architecture with the environmental context of the site. The project incorporates a network of gardens and elevated spaces to provide multiple landscape experiences within a residential […]
alex chinneck’s monumental brick facade sculpture slides and sits down in a london garden
A week at the knees by Alex Chinneck shows up in london At the Clerkenwell Design Week 2025, Alex Chinneck’s monumental brick facade sculpture slides and sits down in London’s Charterhouse Square. Named ‘A week at the knees,’ the public art, on view at the square until early July 2025, looks like it has […]
JR covers the facade of naples’ cathedral with black-and-white living portrait of the city
jr presents the eighth chapter of his chronicle series French artist JR unveils Le Cronache di Napoli, the eighth and most emotional chapter in his globally acclaimed Chronicles series, with a massive public artwork installed on the facade of the Italian city’s Duomo. Presented alongside Who Are You, Naples?, an exhibition at Gallerie d’Italia […]
chiharu shiota suspends butterfly wings over warm bed at beijing’s red brick art museum
Chiharu Shiota’s major exhibition at red brick art museum Chiharu Shiota unveils Silent Emptiness, a major solo exhibition at Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, running until August 31st, 2025. Curated by Yan Shijie, the show marks a significant milestone in Shiota’s career, presenting newly commissioned site-specific installations, infused with Eastern philosophy, personal memory, […]
interview: rotterdam’s nieuwe instituut exhibition traces emotional architecture of MAD
MAD’s Poetic Vision explored through Rotterdam exhibition A new exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Ma Yansong: Architecture and Emotion, debuts alongside the long-anticipated opening of the MAD-designed Fenix Museum of Migration. During the exhibition’s opening, designboom spoke with Aric Chen, General and Artistic Director of the Nieuwe Instituut and curator of the […]