2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (352+ words) all images by Neil Alexander Founded in New York City in 2016 by artists and educators Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters Cuillier, The Black School relocated to New Orleans in 2021, eventually purchasing land in the Seventh Ward, where Cuillier’s family has…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (79+ words) 2,977 lights rise above new york harbor | images courtesy of New York Foundation of the Arts each light represents one life lost on 9/11 the lights begin assembling into the twin towers the installation unfolds above Governors Island the towers return at…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (170+ words) Playscape Garden turns an abandoned canal-edge site into a cultural hub | all images ©Zhi Qian Jacqueline Yu the reception area extends the playscape into a recreational, relaxing, and socialising civic landscape a choreographed sequence of spaces invites people of all…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (703+ words) Together, the two fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures, which made these isolated survivors look almost impossible. They were quickly treated as examples of architecture beating fire, though their survival came down to a far messier combination of design, wind direction…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (687+ words) Designboom keep up with our daily & weekly stories Zehua Zhang Rethinks the Civic Destination on Roosevelt Island At the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, between Manhattan and Queens and overlooking the East River, New York-licensed architect Zehua Zhang proposes a…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (346+ words) There is a stool in IKEA and Xbox’s new YXSTABY collection that looks immediately familiar. Its seat is an enormous Xbox thumbstick, developed from the controller’s original 3D files and enlarged until something normally moved with one finger can support a…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (158+ words) image courtesy of Zhengzhou University in China and the University of Adelaide in Australia The results suggest that color need not be treated as merely decorative in the development of performance textiles. Instead, the challenge becomes one of engineering the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (231+ words) Ed Stiles’ Treehouse Druid Heights, 2023 | all images by Michael Schmelling That makes the book as much about what remains as about what was originally imagined. Half a century later, the surviving houses offer a glimpse into a moment when thousands…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) Noeuds Marins (Glass Knot) by François Hurtaud transforms a figure-eight knot into a limited-edition light sculpture. Drawing on a knot the designer learned to tie in Brittany during childhood, the project translates a familiar manual gesture into a fixed glass…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (140+ words) renderings by Stefania Trozzi, Diego Iacono, Nevena Ivanovic, courtesy of OMA the two towers are composed as distinct volumes with stepped and shifted massing the proposed towers stand within Taipei’s dense residential landscape the redevelopment introduces new housing into Taipei’s…...