Housed in the interlinking buildings of a former palace, the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden celebrated its centennial in 2017 by unveiling an extensive 1,200-square-metre renovation. The surprisingly modern intervention by Amstel-based i29 Interior Architects layers simple minimalist elements over the historic framework to create a new ground-floor exhibition […]

A holistic office collection by Norm Architects for Allsteel wins the Design: Furniture Systems and Collections award.

KnitCandela, a sculptural pavilion at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, is named after Félix Candela, the Spanish and Mexican architect who used thin concrete shells in his many iconic buildings. Candela created his shells by layering wet concrete atop bulky wooden formwork. But Philippe Block – a co-director of the Zurich-based Block […]

Instead of the traditional RGB colour model used in televisions and computer screens, the Gople lamp switches between red, white and blue. This colour suite is ideal for plants, since red light enables blossoming, blue assists with vegetation and white aids with overall plant health. Of course, the Gople lamp is for people too, so […]

Part of Toronto’s ongoing waterfront revitalization, this pioneering urban landscape planned and designed by local studio Public Work is a communal corridor running under the surprisingly majestic 15-metre-high exposed-concrete bents holding up the Gardiner Expressway near Exhibition Place. A $25-million gift from a philanthropic private citizen funded this city-building initiative, which has transformed 1.75 kilometres […]

This ultra-minimalist wall light by Davide Groppi takes the Design: Lighting Fixtures prize.

This proposal by Studio VAARO and Gabriel Fain Architects was submitted to the international competition for the Barilla pavilion at the pasta manufacturer’s headquarters in Pedrignano, Italy. The Toronto-based architects designed a 15,000-square-metre visitors centre as an integral part of the landscape by tucking the building into a hillside and covering it with a green […]

The Ohm line is the first new lighting collection to come out of Sweden’s Ifö Electric in over a decade. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the company has been known for classic, minimalist fixtures made of pressed porcelain. Designed by Kauppi & Kauppi, Ohm offers a contemporary spin on its earliest models, which […]

For the reconstruction of a 10-kilometre stretch of the famous Rockaway Boardwalk in Queens, New York, which had been destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, local government officials demanded more resilient structures, rebuilt to standards that would survive future storms. The result, overseen by Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture + Urban Design, is a new […]

A light vortex that you can step into, Formwerkz Architects' creation for a Shenzhen festival takes the prize in Design: Lighting Installations.