The Koala Bear Is the Tiny Home Built for People Who’d Rather Move Than Settle
There’s a certain kind of freedom that only comes when you stop trying to fit your life into more square footage than you actually need….
SoBA Stacks Color-Coded Blocks Into a Castle-Like Kindergarten That Defies Its Urban Surroundings
SoBA — the architecture and landscape practice led by Wang Ruo and Tang Haiyin — has completed Block Kindergarten in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, a 21-class…
8 Summer EDC Essentials So Well-Designed We Carry Them Every Single Day
Summer edits your carry down to what actually earns its place. Pockets get shallower, days stretch longer, and the patience for objects that solve problems…
Africa’s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait
Forty years is a long time to wait for a building. But when you see what’s rising in Abidjan, the delay starts to feel almost…
This Extra Wide Tiny Home Ditches the Loft and It’s Better for It
The loft bedroom is tiny home design’s most accepted cliché. Most designs in this space stack a sleeping loft above the living area and call…
8 Best Home Objects So Cleverly Designed They Make Your Entire Furniture Setup Look Boring
The most interesting objects in a room are rarely the loudest ones. They are the ones that sit quietly in plain sight, behaving like one…
TRÆ Is the Timber Tower That Turns Waste Into Architecture
There’s a word in Danish, ‘træ’, that means three things at once: tree, timber, and three. It’s a fitting name for a building that refuses…
Slide, Spiral, Learn: Bernard Tschumi Completes a Science Centre Built on Motion
A science centre that asks students to slide between floors is either a gimmick or a statement. At Institut Le Rosey, it’s unmistakably the latter….
This House in Rural India Is Actually a Bridge — and It’s Covered in Scales
Most architects would see a seven-metre-deep gorge cutting through a site and call it a problem. Vinu Daniel and his studio, Wallmakers, looked at it…
5 Best Japanese Kitchen Gadgets That Make Cooking Feel Like a Meditation Ritual
Japanese kitchen tools operate differently from their Western counterparts. They don’t promise to speed things up or reduce effort. They promise to make that effort…
San Diego Is Getting One of the Most Ambitious Military Museums in America
San Diego has always had a deep, unspoken bond with the U.S. Navy. The city is home to one of the largest military concentrations in…
5 Designer Pens That Make Every Other Gift for Him Look Lazy
Most gift guides for him are boring. A leather wallet, a whiskey set, a watch he already owns in a different color. But if the…