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fromArchDaily
2 months ago
Design

Salone del Mobile Announces 2026 Framework, Appointing OMA to Design the "Salone Contract" Master Plan

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2 months ago
Design

Salone del Mobile Announces 2026 Framework, Appointing OMA to Design the "Salone Contract" Master Plan

fromFlowingData
2 days ago

Ballroom design, many notes

The ballroom design features impractical elements like a stairway to nowhere and fake windows, emphasizing a focus on flashiness over functionality.
Renovation
#milan-design-week
Design
fromArchDaily
2 days ago

Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape

Cultural centers are evolving to reflect diverse architectural explorations and redefine public institutions' roles in various contexts.
Juventus
fromDefector
4 days ago

Oops, Italy Did It Again, Again!

Italy's national team failed to qualify for the World Cup for the third consecutive time after losing crucial matches in the qualifiers.
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 week ago

Disruption has a shape. Design history shows us what it is.

AI is causing anxiety in design, echoing past technological disruptions like the printing press and desktop publishing.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 days ago

Flipmod / Ambit Narrative Design (A.N.D)

Flipmod is a modular shading system designed for public spaces in subtropical cities, promoting climate responsiveness and public engagement.
#scent
SOMA, SF
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Satinine's Oficina Milanese Balances Memory and Modernity

Scent is closely linked to memory, and Oficina Milanese embodies this connection through its design and sensory experiences.
SOMA, SF
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Mara Bragagnolo Unveils New Satinine Space in Milan

Satinine's Oficina Milanese blends traditional Milanese culture with modern design, emphasizing the emotional connection between scent and memory.
SOMA, SF
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Satinine's Oficina Milanese Balances Memory and Modernity

Scent is closely linked to memory, and Oficina Milanese embodies this connection through its design and sensory experiences.
SOMA, SF
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Mara Bragagnolo Unveils New Satinine Space in Milan

Satinine's Oficina Milanese blends traditional Milanese culture with modern design, emphasizing the emotional connection between scent and memory.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Miart 2026 Reimagines the Fair as a Layered Journey for Visitors

Miart 2026 will feature 160 galleries from 24 countries, focusing on contemporary art themes and innovative presentations.
#architecture
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 days ago
Design

What Happens When You Stop Fighting the Rain and Design With It - Yanko Design

Steven Chu's villa design embraces rain as a central feature rather than an obstacle, winning the Grand Prize at the NOT A HOTEL DESIGN COMPETITION 2026.
fromArchDaily
3 days ago
Design

Zaha Hadid's Legacy and Buro Ole Scheeren's Rong Museum: This Week's Review

Architecture operates through legacy, knowledge production, and public engagement, shaping contemporary identities and emphasizing hybrid programs and experiential environments.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 days ago

Zaha Hadid's Legacy and Buro Ole Scheeren's Rong Museum: This Week's Review

Architecture operates through legacy, knowledge production, and public engagement, shaping contemporary identities and emphasizing hybrid programs and experiential environments.
Typography
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

Esperanto was created as a universal second language, while Brutalism aimed to rebuild post-war society with raw concrete architecture.
Barcelona
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

UIA 2026 Barcelona Reveals Program Structured Around Six Thematic "Becomings"

Barcelona will host the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026, focusing on architecture's role in environmental and societal transitions.
Philosophy
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 weeks ago

before memphis, ettore sottsass envisions a planet organized by moments of collective life

Ettore Sottsass proposed replacing permanent cities with temporary, event-based gatherings across Earth, rejecting architecture's stabilizing role in favor of continuous human experiences.
Graphic design
fromArchitectural Digest
1 week ago

La DoubleJ's New Milan Headquarters Is a Study in Joy

J.J. Martin transforms a former wallpaper factory into the vibrant 'Starquarters' headquarters, blending spirituality with modern design in Milan.
fromArchitectural Digest
2 weeks ago

This 484-Square-Foot Milan Apartment Saves Space with Custom Cabinets and Chaise Lounges

The design trio wanted to concentrate all the necessary functions of the home into a few square feet by dividing the house along a main axis-ideally, one hall would connect the living room, hallway, and bedroom.
Renovation
Cooking
fromOpen Culture
3 weeks ago

The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art

Cooking functions as an art form with significant moral and intellectual influence, as demonstrated by F.T. Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook, which sought to revolutionize cuisine through radical culinary transformation.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi's Studio

Joel Meyerowitz's new book showcases his exploration of Giorgio Morandi's studio through photography, emphasizing geometric objects and their relationships.
SOMA, SF
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 weeks ago

OMA's new museum expansion completes in NYC as space for 'new humans'

OMA's expansion of the New Museum in New York creates two distinct yet interconnected buildings that maintain independence while fostering constant dialogue, reshaping the institution's public presence on the Bowery.
#furniture-design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago
Design

The Furniture That Looks Like It's About to Walk Away - Yanko Design

Jorge Suárez Kilzi's Barefoot Collection features furniture with curved, splayed legs resembling bare feet mid-stride, creating tension between stillness above and motion below.
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

Carlo Ratti Associati Designs Buzzi Heritage Cultural Center in Italy With the New Digital Construction System

The project examines the integration of digital fabrication processes into reinforced concrete construction, highlighting that while materials such as steel and timber have undergone significant transformation through digital production methods, reinforced concrete has largely retained conventional casting techniques. The proposal aims to address this condition by incorporating digitally fabricated components into the construction system.
Renovation
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

The identity for Spatial festival feels aptly three-dimensional

Motion was integrated as a foundational design element rather than an afterthought, creating a dynamic, three-dimensional brand identity that responds to physical and digital spaces.
fromSempreMilan
1 month ago

GdS: Olympics, fashion and football - why Milano remains the 'motor of Italy'

Milan is this centrifuge in which there is no past and no future, but an eternal present, even a bit contradictory. Some are not fans of it, but others - like Rafael Leao - immerse themselves in it. A buzz around the city that rarely quiets, especially with the Winter Olympic Games over and Fashion Week beginning with 162 events and 132,000 new visitors.
AC Milan
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Islamic Futurism Here and Now

Contemporary Islamic artists advance visual traditions through calligraphy, installation, and speculative image-making, while global art institutions face boycott demands and labor disputes.
Miscellaneous
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

The Inchiostri Exhibition by Ronan Bouroullec and Giorgio Mastinu

The Inchiostri exhibition combines handcrafted glass components in modular configurations to create chromatic vibrations through layered color, light refraction, and transparent depth.
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 weeks ago

Villa Modda / depaolidefranceschibaldan architetti

Villa Modda, designed by depaolidefranceschibaldan architetti, integrates into the Val di Noto rural landscape through its name derived from native Mediterranean vegetation, reflecting deep environmental connection.
Berlin music
fromArchitectural Digest
11 years ago

The 34 Best Frank Gehry Buildings That Everyone Should Know

Frank Gehry revolutionized contemporary architecture through sculptural, dynamic designs that transform cities economically and culturally, exemplified by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and its catalyzing 'Bilbao Effect.'
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Artists Set Islamic Futurism Into Motion

Contemporary Muslim artists use calligraphy, installation, and speculative image-making rooted in Islamic philosophy and medieval traditions to imagine and shape Muslim futures.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

How Contemporary Design Fairs Are Redefining Craft

Design fairs remain essential for experiencing the full character of objects, emphasizing craft, innovation, and global collaboration.
Music
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 month ago

Valentino Vivace Takes the Stage: Spring into the "Primavera Vivace Tour 2026" - KALTBLUT Magazine

Valentino Vivace launches the Primavera Vivace Tour 2026, continuing momentum from his successful 2025 tour with a fusion of Italo-Disco, French Touch, and Indie-Pop that creates retro-futuristic soundscapes with emotional depth.
Renovation
fromArchitectural Digest
3 weeks ago

A Young Milanese Couple Restore Their New Apartment with Care-and Tons of Retro Fixtures

A Milanese couple preserved their 1960s apartment's original character while introducing contemporary design through selective updates and respectful restoration by designer Lucrezia Calvi.
fromArtforum
1 month ago

Field Conditions

Like the chambered nautilus, its shell was a logarithmic spiral. A wall of rough sandstone and aquamarine glass cullet twisted up fifty feet to an oil-drill-stem mast from which a floating roof was hung by the stainless-steel struts of World War II biplanes. You slid in with the humid air from the ravine outside to stroll a terraced garden of pools and plants, over which suspended and carpeted pods for living and sleeping drifted like clouds.
Miscellaneous
Berlin
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Ethiopian Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture of Africa's Capital

Architectus won the 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize for conserving Africa Hall in Addis Ababa, highlighting underappreciated Modernist architecture across Africa and Ethiopia's significant twentieth-century architectural heritage.
fromArchitectural Digest
2 weeks ago

Rocco Forte Hotels Blends Art Deco Glamour With the Spirit of Dolce Vita in Its New Showpiece

I had to challenge my impulse to distill every line. I was feeling this desire to make work with a different kind of energy, a different kind of expressive force. It's about presenting these things I love about Murano and developing a frame for those gestures.
Design
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 weeks ago

Kaleidoscopic House / DOT

A residential design prioritizes creating shared family time for the homeowner who traditionally manages household duties without participating in the moments she creates.
Design
fromApartment Therapy
2 weeks ago

7 Italian Decor Trends American Designers Can't Stop Stealing

Italian design emphasizes intuitive, well-proportioned aesthetics that balance elegance with simplicity, inspiring 2026 home decor trends featuring natural materials and warm, earthy color palettes.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in "Chair-ish"

Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague deconstruct and reimagine iconic design furniture pieces, transforming them into experimental sculptural objects that challenge conventional notions of functionality and design heritage.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks ago

Bentu Just Built Furniture From Cities That No Longer Exist - Yanko Design

Bentu Design transforms urban demolition rubble into furniture through 3D printing, achieving 85% waste utilization while preserving the physical and cultural memory of demolished communities.
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

This Soothing Italian Philosophy Transforms the Way I Do Everything

"Piano piano" is an old Italian saying that sounds nonsensical, but is actually full of wisdom, especially if you, like me, are finding yourself wishing away these frigid winter days and hoping spring and summer gets here fast. These days, I've found myself rushing from one thing to the next, frustrated at the smallest things, from post office lines to just missing my train. And I'm ready to make a change.
Mindfulness
Renovation
fromArchitectural Digest
4 weeks ago

4 Small Space Renovation Tips To Steal From This 484-Square-Foot Milan Apartment

An apartment renovation maximizes natural light and open space through minimalist design, multifunctional built-in installations, and movable partitions instead of traditional walls.
Design
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago

Sao Paulo pop-up exhibition spotlights spherical home by architect Eduardo Longo

The fifth edition of an annual art, architecture, and design exhibition opens in São Paulo, featuring six galleries, over 50 artists, and newly commissioned works across two landmarks including a spherical home designed by architect Eduardo Longo.
Science
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota Transform MAE Carbon Fiber Archive Into an Interactive Museum in Italy

MAE Museum transforms a major carbon-fiber archive into an interactive "living museum" showcasing carbon-fiber science, production processes, and broad industrial and architectural applications.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
4 weeks ago

5 Floating Designs That Look Like Photoshop (But They're Real) - Yanko Design

Floating design lifts architectural elements from the ground to create visual lightness, spatial clarity, and refined interventions that balance engineering precision with aesthetic intent.
Food & drink
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A local's guide to Milan: the city's best restaurants, culture and green spaces

Simone Barlaam, Milan-born Paralympic swimmer, is a 13-time world champion, Paris 2024 multi-medalist, Milano Cortina ambassador and local guide sharing favourite Milan spots.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Top architects reveal their dream projects for 2026

The dream project for me isn't a skyline object or spectacle, it's a long-life system -a project whose structure is reused, materials are upgraded and recycled rather than replaced, and performance improves over time. Where sustainable strategies aren't hidden in basements, or rooftops, but become part of the architectural experience. A dream project would be an urban district reimagined, edited with a scalpel (rather than a sledgehammer) with its declining building stock given a new life through subtle upgrades, modest interventions, and attention to craft and building performance.
Remodel
fromThe Architect Elevator
2 months ago

The Mighty Metaphor

The Architect Elevator is a metaphor-in reality, the company leadership may be sitting on the same building floor as you; my car metaphors could fill an entire book; and " Architecture is Selling Options " has become the anchor of many architecture keynotes. So, at least my world of architecture is full of metaphors.
Software development
Travel
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

15 Architectural Destinations to Add to Your Must-Visit List in 2026

Malacca and Macau showcase diverse architectural and cultural fusion from Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Malay, and international influences, attracting culinary tourism and major casino-driven economies.
Design
fromDesign Milk
4 weeks ago

These Watches Are A Melange of Mood, Tone, and Supersaturation

Tonester and D1 Milano collaborate to transform architectural paint colors into wearable watch designs, shifting color from environmental scale to intimate personal objects.
Miscellaneous
fromdesign-milk.com
1 month ago

Take 5: A Heart-Shaped Park, Carlo Scarpa's Masterpiece + More

Love Park in Toronto uses playful, queer-inflected landscape design; Jeff Wall retrospective at MOCA presents large-scale, staged photographic narratives revealing choreographed cinematic scenes.
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Naples Architecture City Guide: 15 Projects of History, Density, and Continuity

Set on the edge of the Mediterranean and shaped by centuries of continuous occupation, Naples is a city where architecture is inseparable from time. Layers of Greek foundations, Roman infrastructures, medieval churches, Baroque palaces, and Modern interventions coexist within a dense and compact urban fabric. Naples reveals itself as an accumulation of structures, adaptations, and reuse, where buildings are rarely isolated objects and more often part of a larger spatial, social, and historical system.
Miscellaneous
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Meet Federico Seneca, The Visionary of Italian Poster Art

Federico Seneca (18911976) emerged as one of the most influential graphic designers of the early 20th century, known for fusing avantgarde artistry with commercial clarity. As art director for Perugina and later Buitoni, he reshaped Italian advertising by replacing literal imagery with bold, metaphordriven visuals. His most iconic contribution was the Baci chocolate identity, inspired by Hayez's *The Kiss*, featuring two lovers silhouetted against deep midnight blue. Drawing heavily from Futurism and Cubism, his work embraced geometric forms, dramatic contrasts,
Graphic design
SOMA, SF
fromwww.architecturaldigest.com
2 months ago

At Milan's New Olympic Village, Architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Envision Community Well Beyond the Games

The Milano Cortina Olympic Village will host athletes in 2026 then convert into student housing with activated public spaces and linked terraces anchoring Porta Romana.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Leonardo da Vinci's legacy lights up the Milan Cortina Olympics with two cauldrons

The design has been revealed and it is a sun-like structure that is inspired by Leonardo's intricate knot patterns. Leonardo spent almost 25 years of his life in Milan and many of his most famous works are from his time in the city. The cauldrons have been designed to open and close with a diameter that expands from 3.1 meters to 4.5 meters and will contain the Olympic flame at their core, encased in a glass and metal container.
Miscellaneous
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

salone del mobile 2026: what to expect from the biggest interior and furniture fair in milan

The 64th Salone del Mobile.Milano in April 2026 will feature 1,900 exhibitors across 169,000 square meters, reinforcing Milan's position as the global capital of contemporary design culture.
Miscellaneous
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

One Week to Milano Cortina 2026: The Cultural Olympiad Expands the Games Through a Distributed Arts and Public Programme

Milano Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympiad leverages national cultural partners and community projects to connect sport, heritage, and social change across Italy and beyond the Games.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

play spaces revitalize fluid 1960s home in italy by studio rossettini

Studio Rossettini revitalizes House LB into a contemporary single-family residence with playful spaces that puts functionality and quality of life at its center. The from the early 1960s in Padua, reimagines the existing structure through its renovation, freeing up the perimeter walls and creating a fluid sequence of spaces that flow between the kitchen, dining room, and living room, with furnishings integrated into architectural niches.
Renovation
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Spain's Cosmic Mother of Modernism

MADRID - The most famous portrait of Maruja Mallo depicts the artist covered from head to toe in seaweed. She is crowned and draped with long, rope-like strands of kelp, her arms raised triumphantly like an all-powerful marine goddess. This unconventional photograph, snapped in 1945 by the poet Pablo Neruda on a Chilean beach, was no doubt carefully orchestrated by the Spanish artist, who viewed herself as an extension of her unique work, where female energy is a conduit for natural and even cosmic forces.
Arts
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

BM House / ErranteArchitetture

Luca Bosco + 34 Category: Houses, Renovation Design Team: Sarah Becchio, Paolo Borghino Collaborators: Andrea Loi, Francesco Sordo, Ilaria Boggiatto, Emma Colella, Margherita Randazzo Site Construction Supervision: Paolo Borghino Structural Design And Construction Site Safety: Fabio Borello Window/Door Frames: BrunettoLegno Timber Construction: Clen Legnami More SpecsLess Specs Luca Bosco Text description provided by the architects. At the entrance to the Po Valley, in the province of Cuneo,
Renovation
Design
fromDocumentjournal
1 month ago

Craft, cinema, and the Italian eye at Persol

Persol's new collection channels film noir while exemplifying Made in Italy craftsmanship that balances artisanal handwork and modern manufacturing.
#venice-biennale-2026
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

hotel roma: nicole cherubini exhibits surrealist ceramic sculptures at friedman benda

Nicole Cherubini's Hotel Roma features hand-built ceramic sculptures combining collage-like motifs, layered glazes, and Surrealist/feminist themes referencing Leonora Carrington and wartime resilience.
Design
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Why the Mendini exhibition made me feel like I shouldn't be there

Exhibitions of once-radical design risk feeling familiar unless curators explain historical significance and design intentions to engage non-expert visitors.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Miart Marks 30 Years With a Splashy, Jazz-Inspired Edition

This year's theme, 'New Directions,' ties the fair to the legacy of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, treating jazz as a working method rather than a metaphor. It's a balance of structure and freedom, shaped by listening to galleries, to collectors, and to the wider moment we're living through. The move to the South Wing at Allianz MiCo reinforces this approach with a more compact, layered layout that sparks encounters across works, media, and generations,
Arts
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

ENESS installs luminous inflatable boulders in bologna's historic piazza maggiore

Inflatable luminous 'boulders' transform Piazza Maggiore into a temporary, interactive field evoking monumental geology, blending iwagumi balance with responsive light and sound.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

When Art Came First: Spatial Experiments That Shaped Architecture in Latin America

Artistic practices in mid-20th-century Latin America pioneered spatial concepts later integrated into architecture, emphasizing collective use and bodily experience.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

yellow diamond windows pierce angular concrete staff house by bergmeisterwolf in italy

A narrow concrete staff house aligns with the state road, using incised yellow-framed windows and an OSB-lined interior to mediate tight Alpine infrastructure and warmth.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

mini cauldron by carlo ratti casts flame into vertical vortex for 2026 milan winter olympics

The design of the mini cauldron displays sculpted blades formed in the shape of a bigger torch. The opening on the sides allows for ventilation and a peek at the flames, and the CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati team says that the arrangement relies on the Venturi effect, drawing in more air to keep the combustion going. The team adds that the system can operate for up to negative 20 degrees Celsius and other extreme conditions.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Playful and Ironic: The Legacy of Postmodernist Architecture in the United States

Postmodernism began as a critique of modernism's exhausted promises. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, many designers no longer treated modernism as radical or socially redemptive. Urban renewal projects accelerated the demolition of historic neighborhoods, and landmark preservation battles raised urgent questions about what the United States valued and, ultimately, protected. The loss of major civic icons, including New York's Penn Station, sharpened public awareness that progress often arrives through erasure.
Design
Design
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Minimalism had its moment: now designers say this aesthetic is dominating 2026 - Silicon Canals

Interior design is shifting from minimalist, sparse aesthetics to a colorful, textured maximalist revival emphasizing personality and lived-in warmth.
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