Meet the World’s First Door Grown From Fungi, Not Cut From Wood
What if the door you walk through every day was grown from fungi? Danish mycelium company Rebound and architecture studio Det Levende Hus have partnered…
Sustainable Design
Mud, Microbes, and the 46 m² Lab the Amazon Needed
Most of us picture a laboratory as a sleek, sterile box of steel and glass perched on a university campus or inside some tech park….
Researchers turned Sawdust Waste and Watermelon Seeds into Recyclable Fire-resistant Panels
Every sawmill in the world produces it. Every furniture factory, every timber yard, every construction site that cuts wood leaves behind a pile of the…
The Award-Winning Playground Built to Never Be Replaced
Most playground equipment exists to check boxes. There’s a slide, a climbing frame, maybe a wobbly bridge if the budget stretched far enough. You’ve seen…
5 Rammed Earth Homes in 2026 That Make Concrete Walls Look Outdated
The architectural world is shifting toward materials that feel grounded, honest, and deeply connected to the earth. Instead of relying on high-energy industrial products, designers…
QPearl Just Replaced Your Shampoo Bottle With One Pearl
When a product wins a design award, the first instinct is to assume it looks incredible. That’s usually the point: sleek lines, a bold color…
A Net-Zero Research Building That Actually Respects Its Landscape
Most university research facilities share a certain visual language. You know the one: utilitarian, slightly apologetic in appearance, the kind of building that exists to…
Michael Jantzen’s Garden Retreat Has 30 Panels to Rearrange by Hand
Most garden structures ask one thing of you: sit still and enjoy the shade. A pergola is a pergola, a gazebo is a gazebo, and…
5 Greenhouse-Based Designs That Use 90% Less Water Than Yours
The meeting of home design and food production is no longer a trend as it marks a fundamental shift toward self-sustaining living. The Transparent Farm…
This Brutalist Lounge Chair Is 3D-Printed From Recycled Water Bottles
Most furniture sits in a room without saying much. It fills a corner, does its job, and disappears into the background. Nako Baev’s THE OBJECT…
Old Clothes Never Die, They Just Become Flower Pots
Most of us have a box. Or a bag, or a corner of the closet where clothes go to wait for a fate we haven’t…
Meet the Electronic Dolphin, the Mini Robot That Cleans Oil Spills With Urchin-inspired Filters
A sneaker-sized robot developed at RMIT University in Australia is making a compelling case for rethinking how humanity responds to one of the ocean’s most…