development diamond in the sky

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

Metropolis Thinktank

Autonomous in Chicago

Spectrum

An essential survey of architecture and design today

In Production Sweet Spot

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

Made California Clay

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

New Talent Begum Cana Ozgur

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

Profile Paola Lenti

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

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.

Design For Aging - Exchange

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

Design For Aging-Care

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

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.

Mindful Spaces

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

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.

Bridging The Divide

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

Hospitality Quanto Basta

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

Materials - Either-Or

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

Architecture

White Light.

Workplace

Industrial Reboot.

Flooring

Laid Back.

Think Tank

Partners in Design

Old Meets New

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

Seismic Shake-Up

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

Amsterdam

In the historically neglected but now-vibrant northern half of Amsterdam, the eclectic firm Space Encounters fits right in.

Seoul

A once-maligned concrete megastructure in Seoul is reimagined as a dynamic hub.

Social Connector

A new residential tower by Studio Gang fosters neighborly interaction through imaginative architectural form.

The Beauty of Nothing

With technology derived from watchmaking, Vitrocsa’s structural glass systems help architects inch closer to the Modernist vision of invisible walls.

Materials Curtain Wall

Shildan’s Fabrik rainscreen system is flexible in more ways than one.

Materials Quiet Craters

A new acoustic lighting product brings multi functionality and an outer-space-inspired aesthetic to spruce up the workplace.

Spectrum

An essential survey of architecture and design today

Architecture

Flex Space