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Behind the Curtain: Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Radical Reimagining of the Museum Archive

At the V&A’s new Storehouse, architecture meets radical transparency. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, this converted Olympic warehouse reveals the hidden life of museum collections. Visitors explore storage as sp
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Four Creatives Harnessing the Energy of the Sun

Designers Shani Nahum, Pauline van Dongen, Yvonne Mak, and Mireille Steinhage are imagining a future where solar textiles are the norm.
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Studio ThusThat Gives Industrial By-products a Second Life

The Amsterdam-based designers create furniture and objects that explore industrial production and waste narratives.
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Architecture’s Now, Near & Next: The World Around Summit 2025 at MoMA

The World Around Summit 2025 convenes a global gathering to reimagine sustainability, culture, and equity in the built environment.
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B Corp Brands Are Creating Design for a Fairer World

The third-party designation is transforming design by putting people on par with profit.
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Grand Paris Express Now Has a Dazzling Keystone

The latest addition to Europe's largest infrastructure project reflects aesthetics, practicality, and comfort that contribute to the city's urban and social transformation.
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3 Textiles and Wall Treatments with Purpose

Textiles and wall treatments shape our surroundings, but it’s the fusion of material innovation and artistic intent that gives them meaning
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A Collaborative Artwork Brings Aboriginal Voices to Sydney Metro

Artist Nicole Monks honors the Gadigal people with three installations at the John McAslan + Partners–designed Waterloo Station.
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This New Cultural District is Creating Community on Detroit’s East Side

Little Village, a hub of parks, art galleries, cultural spaces, artist studios, restaurants, and more, is expanding the city’s revitalization beyond downtown.
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Finding Beauty in Climate Futures

Five recent exhibitions, books, and initiatives highlight utopian visions of design that leaves a positive impact on the environment.
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WholeTrees Brings Structural Round Timber to the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire

the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire makes use of a new carbon-smart structural round timber (SRT) by Madison, Wisconsinbased timber products company WholeTrees Structures.
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This 120 Year Old Brooklyn Building is now a Powerhouse for the Arts

Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW have transformed the 1904 Central Power Station into a nonprofit arts fabrication facility.
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A New Exhibition Explores Climate Change Through Craft

On view at Pittsburgh’s Contemporary Craft through January 2024, Climate Awakening: Crafting a Sustainable Future uses art to engage with the issue of environmental impact.
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Marcos Lutyens and the Exploration of Consciousness Through Art

How the great nephew of famed architect Edwin Lutyens has charted his own path, investigating perception and the mind as a multidisciplinary artist.
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Lana Del Rey’s Music Has Always Taken Architecture Very Seriously

The singer-songwriter’s cultural universe includes keenly observed references to cities, neighborhoods, and buildings. And her fans are paying attention.
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Digital Art Gallery SINGULART Makes Art Accessible for All

From Our Partner: With the goals of enabling art lovers to curate their lives while also empowering the artists, SINGULART, brings transparency to the art market.
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Louise Braverman Engages Communities through Design

For the Leading Edge series, architect Louise Braverman seeks to create beauty that makes a difference in people’s lives by striking the perfect balance of visionary and pragmatic.
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Morris Adjmi Architects on Creating Meaningful Environments

Part of the Leading Edge series, multidisciplinary firm MA | Morris Adjmi Architects delivers designs that are simultaneously iconic, contextual, and community-oriented.
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Sculptor Oscar Tuazon Radically Deconstructs Architecture

This American artist fashioned Building—an expansive wooden structure that is a sculpture, model house, meeting place, and event forum all in one—for an exhibition in Switzerland.
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The Architect of Art Nouveau Who Brought Beauty to the Masses

Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York offers a reassessment of an often-overlooked designer who helped define the look of 20th-century Paris.