In this issue

The Bauhaus turns 100. The work of DAAD. Motherhood and design intersect in new ways.

No New Buildings

The energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.

7 mins

The Circular Office

Major manufacturers are exploring every avenue to close the loop on workplace furniture.

1 min

Building for Tomorrow, Today

Radical change in the building industry is desperately needed. And it cannot happen without the building trades.

6 mins

Strength from Within

Maggie’s Centres, the service-focused cancer support network, eschews clinical design to arm patients in their fight for life.

5 mins

Next-Level Living

The availability of attractive, hospitality-grade products on the market means everyday consumers can live the high life at home.

1 min

Enter The Culinarium

AvroKO imagines the future of residential amenities—where convenience, comfort, and sustainability meet.

5 mins

Science Says Light Brighter!

In Troy, New York, a leading research center studies the connection between light, color, and well-being.

4 mins

A New System Aims To Activate Outdoor Space

Emphasizing modularity and customizability, a new system aims to activate outdoor space.

2 mins

development diamond in the sky

zaha hadid architects blends the historic and the futuristic for the antwerp port authority’s new headquarters.

3 mins

Metropolis Thinktank

Autonomous in Chicago

2 mins

Spectrum

An essential survey of architecture and design today

1 min

In Production Sweet Spot

Francesco Meda’s Woody Chair for Molteni&C is an exercise in simplicity that doesn’t lose sight of comfort.

2 mins

Made California Clay

For a new collection of tile, Heath Ceramics turned to a fellow Golden State clay worker: the artist Stan Bitters.

3 mins

New Talent Begum Cana Ozgur

Inspired by craft, a textile designer builds a bridge between realities.

2 mins

Profile Paola Lenti

The textile and color maven looks back on 25 years of her eponymous brand.

3 mins

Productsphere New Look

A new batch of textiles eschews rigid grids and crisp edges for a softer, more casual feel. This is not to say the offerings lack sophistication: On the contrary, these collections demonstrate how the industry has pushed itself in ways material, technical, ethical, and aesthetic.

2 mins

Design For Aging - Exchange

A lush center for intergenerational connection suggests a new housing paradigm for Singapore.

2 mins

Design For Aging-Care

In Newport, Wales, a RIBA-awarded hospice is tailored to the needs of patients, loved ones, and staff.

2 mins

Design For Aging-Autonomy

In order to create products and services that stay relevant as people age, designers cannot fall into the trap of trying to control every aspect of peoples lives, or assuming that seniors are a monolithic group who share the same needs. As the solutions here show, there is plenty more work to be done to develop sensitive designs that support older adults while preserving their autonomy.

3 mins

Mindful Spaces

At CannonDesign, a studio is dedicated to bringing behavioral-health-care patients back to their everyday lives.

5 mins

Please Touch

For more than half a century, creatives have attempted to breakthe grip of the master sense, cracking open the experientialworld in the process.

6 mins

Bridging The Divide

Once the center of controversy, El Equipo Mazzantis innovative Bicentenario Park is now the center of Bogots historic core.

3 mins

Hospitality Quanto Basta

Misi, a new restaurant in Brooklyn, puts the art of pasta making on display.

2 mins

Materials - Either-Or

The Suave collection from Vondom takes inspiration from an unlikely source: car manufacturing.

1 min

Architecture

White Light.

1 min

Workplace

Industrial Reboot.

1 min

Flooring

Laid Back.

1 min

Think Tank

Partners in Design

2 mins

Old Meets New

A new rug collection from G.T.Design harnesses universal geometries and unorthodox dyeing techniques.

1 min

Seismic Shake-Up

A viscous damper system in San Francisco’s third-tallest tower is changing the game in resilience-based design.

1 min

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