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Kyoto's effort to preserve and adapt machiya townhouses is less interesting as a standalone headline than as a window onto how heritage policy is shifting from protecting facades toward helping traditional buildings remain economically and socially usable. Kyoto adopted...

The story around House of EM's Loggia House in north London becomes more revealing when viewed through how a small change in level can reorganize the relationship between kitchen, garden, light, and family life more effectively than a much...

The Browns of Leith food hall and creative hub is less interesting as a standalone headline than as a window onto how a light-touch renovation can turn an old engineering works into hospitality without sanding away the evidence of...

At first glance, Nada Debs's transformation of the Okhun Gozar mosque in Tashkent looks like a story about newness; in practice, it says more about how adaptive reuse can protect an old religious structure by giving craft, education, and...

The story around Lex Pott's portable lamp for IKEA PS 2026 becomes more revealing when viewed through how a rechargeable light can become memorable through shape and color without losing the practical simplicity that makes portable lighting useful. IKEA...

Mikael Axelsson’s bright blue stool for IKEA PS 2026 is an unusually clear example of what the collection means by playful functionality. Made from solid birch, the compact seat can be set to three heights—41, 45, and 49 centimeters—through...

IKEA revived its experimental PS line in 2026 with forty-four products developed by twelve designers under an unusually open brief. The collection, the tenth edition of IKEA PS since the program began in 1995, centers on “playful functionality”: furniture...

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort emerged from Milan Design Week 2026 with a sharp criticism: luxury money and spectacle, she argued, were overwhelming the quieter forms of experimentation that once made the city’s design week feel culturally unpredictable. Her complaint...

High-pressure laminate is often asked to perform an impossible visual trick: provide the appearance of natural timber while delivering the consistency, durability, and maintenance advantages of an engineered surface. PoliLam’s Nature’s Capsule collection approaches that task by treating specific...

Vollebak’s Sonic Jacket is closer to a wearable prototype than a conventional piece of outerwear. Developed with special-effects company FBFX, the garment incorporates 180 small speakers facing inward across the torso, arms, and hood, creating a field of sound...