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A Modern Seattle Floating Home Takes Coastal Living to New Heights

This Lake Union residence combines Nantucket-inspired interiors with the engineering required to live directly on the water

Design Milk · EN

Two Movements, One Striking Watch From Louis Erard × Vianney Halter

The Futur Antérieur brings Vianney Halter's signature porthole design to a new limited-edition watch, pairing two automatic movements with an unexpectedly slim case

Design Milk · EN

One Place for Every Project, from First Call to Renewal

Every project in our company lived in a different place: a spreadsheet here, an email thread there, a memory somewhere else. I designed one system that tells the whole story, from the first sales call to the renewal. The problem Projects passed through many hands: sales, tendering, delivery, audits, certificates . Each team kept its own notes, so nobody could say where a project stood or whether it was making money. The ask was simple: one place to follow a project from start to finish, and see its profit or loss. Two things made it tricky. First, this is a system for records, not for control

Muzli · EN

Why Good Graphic Design Is More Than Making Things Look Beautiful

Decoding the Hidden Architecture of Design If a design looks beautiful but communicates the wrong message, has it succeeded? The research below suggests it hasn’t, because the job of good graphic design is to get something understood and acted on correctly. Beauty helps with that job. It doesn’t replace it. Graphic design works less like decoration and more like a language: it arranges signals so that people know what something is, what matters in it and what to do next. The evidence comes from places where the cost of getting that wrong is easy to measure. Looks are the first word, not the wh

Muzli · EN

What Is AI Slop in Design? 7 Signs and How to Fix Each One

Merriam-Webster picked “slop” as its 2025 word of the year. Here is how to keep it out of your screens. Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

Muzli · EN

Why Revolut built a second app & when your fintech should too?

Split your product when a new mindset arrives, not when a new feature does. That rule explains Revolut X, Coinbase’s U-turns, and why we kept banking inside walllet. Revolut’s main app already does a lot. Cards, savings, stocks, crypto, travel. Then in 2024 it built a second product, just for crypto traders. Coinbase went the other way. It folded its pro trading app into the main app, turned its wallet into an everything app, and has spent 2026 walking both decisions back. I had the same question on my desk this year. walllet started as a self-custodial crypto wallet. Then we added a bank acco

Muzli · EN

Product design with AI: “AI sucks” is the dip where most people give up

TLDR: I hear some people say “AI sucks” after one bad result and others say “’It’s easy just use AI” for everything, and I think both expect a magic button. The bad result is often the dip: the moment before you’ve learned to work with it, not proof that it doesn’t work. “AI sucks,” or “just use AI” I hear it a lot. Someone tries AI once or twice, it doesn’t give them what they wanted, and the verdict comes quickly. ‘This sucks.’ I hear the opposite just as often. ‘You can just get AI to do it’, for almost anything. Sometimes half joking: “Just let Claude do it for you, it’s easy.” They sound

Muzli · EN

The Work of Keeping a Public Building Public: The Drill Hall in Johannesburg

What happens to a building after the architecture is finished? For buildings intended to serve the public, their continued life depends on more than the physical conditions of their construction. It involves the activities that take place within them, the relationships they allow to develop, the people who occupy and shape them , and the institutional structures responsible for their upkeep. Yet these conditions are not always secured through the act of building itself. They are continually negotiated, often through forms of work that remain outside the conventional understanding of architectu

ArchDaily · EN

Time Space Existence 2027 Asks What It Means to Design with Change

The architecture biennial exhibition Time Space Existence returns for its 8th edition with more than 200 participants, from established global firms to emerging studios and academic institutions. Their work will be presented across three historic venues in Venice: Palazzo Mora, Palazzo Bembo and the Marinaressa Gardens. Many have already been confirmed, and the curatorial team is finalising the line-up.

ArchDaily · EN

The Architecture Drawing Prize Announces 11 Recipients for Its 2026 Edition

Launched in 2017, The Architecture Drawing Prize is organized annually to celebrate and showcase the art of architectural drawing across multiple formats and techniques. Co-curated by Make Architects , Sir John Soane's Museum and the World Architecture Festival (WAF), and supported by Iris Ceramica Group with ArchDaily as media partner, the ninth edition has announced the 11 recipients. This year, the drawings were selected from 168 entries from around the world, with a special prize for hand-drawing. An overall recipient will be announced at Sir John Soane's Museum in London in early 2027, wh

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Súria Library / Javier de las Heras Solé

A public space for gathering and meeting. Through repetition and pattern, this project proposes an architecture that eschews gratuitous gestures, one in which the focus is on the citizen and the ways in which they use the space. It is an architecture that recognizes and highlights existing physical, heritage, and cultural elements, integrating itself into the context and fostering the collective appropriation of the place.

ArchDaily · EN

Latin America in Focus: This Month in Architecture, Social Housing, and Heritage Recovery

This October, architecture across Latin America became a platform for exchange, bringing together discussions on inhabitation, cultural identity, emerging practices, and the relationship between the built environment and its wider context. From conversations on emerging architectural practices and material research at Design Week Mexico to new approaches to housing, landscape, and public space in Chile and Mexico , recent developments highlight how architecture responds to specific local conditions. Across the region, initiatives addressing climate adaptation and heritage recovery in the Domin

ArchDaily · EN

Why BIM Still Doesn't Know What Your Building Is Made Of

Move a wall in Revit and every plan, section and schedule follows. Change a material, though, and the team is often back in specifications, spreadsheets and drawings, checking that they all describe the same choice.

ArchDaily · EN

Black Miller House / Three Sixty Architecture

Black Miller House is conceived as a cluster of contemporary pavilions embedded within a 32-hectare coastal hill landscape. The design retains much of the existing dwelling while introducing new living and sleeping wings, creating a relaxed, climate-responsive retreat that feels grounded in the land and open to the expansive outlook. Rather than replacing the original structure, the project adopts a strategy of selective demolition, retention, and expansion, allowing the building to evolve while respecting its historical presence on the site.

ArchDaily · EN

The Invisible Brief: How Laboratory Needs Shape Research Buildings

A floor that feels solid may still be moving. Vibrations travel through the ground and across buildings, often at levels too small for people to notice. Most have little effect on everyday activities, but in some research laboratories , instruments measuring matter at the nanoscale can register movements this small, and even traffic several miles away can interfere with an experiment.

ArchDaily · EN

“Uncommercially, We Do Too Much”: Bureau de Change on Protecting Design Ambition

“The distinction between big and small practices is changing. I think we are heading towards ideas being valued more than scale.” The post “Uncommercially, We Do Too Much”: Bureau de Change on Protecting Design Ambition appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

A Real Eiffel Tower Light Becomes a Lamp Without the Kitsch

A Real Eiffel Tower Light Becomes a Lamp Without the Kitsch A miniature Eiffel Tower tells you where someone went, but rarely gives you much reason to look closer. I’m more interested in souvenirs that carry...

Yanko Design · EN

San Siro’s Proposed Replacement Uses a Concrete X-Frame to Support Its Sweeping Roof

San Siro’s Proposed Replacement Uses a Concrete X-Frame to Support Its Sweeping Roof I’m not a fan of either AC Milan or Inter Milan, but as a football fan, visiting Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, more popularly known as San...

Yanko Design · EN

Pillowy Steel Furniture Without a Stitch of Upholstery

Pillowy Steel Furniture Without a Stitch of Upholstery The steel in Sarah Naghawi’s JAWF collection looks caught halfway between a box and a balloon. Surfaces bulge, dip, and crease, giving rigid metal the...

Yanko Design · EN

The 5 Best EDC Designs of November 2026

The 5 Best EDC Designs of November 2026 The most interesting EDC upgrade here begins with something that already fits a pocket: a Zippo case. Open the lid, and there’s no lighter inside,...

Yanko Design · EN

Xbox Put a Working Series X Inside a Giant Fake Alligator

Xbox Put a Working Series X Inside a Giant Fake Alligator Finding a place for a game console usually means clearing a shelf, not making room for a reptile. Microsoft’s Xbox Series X-BITE puts a working...

Yanko Design · EN

2026 Booooooom Photo Awards: Call to Submit

Calling all photographers! Our fifth annual Booooooom Photo Awards are officially open for submissions. This year’s categories are Portrait, Nature, Street, Colour, and for the first time-ever, a special Student category. Our friends at Format are once again partnering with us to make it all happen. We’re thrilled to have an elite panel of judges … Continued

Booooooom · EN

The Art of Showing Up

Voting stickers adorn memorials to ICE victims, Jeremy Shaw talks grief and ecstasy, and a portable archive of East LA.

Hyperallergic · EN

Inside N2 Albiino’s Tactile Graphic Design for Vuoden Huiput

N2 Albiino’s graphic design for Vuoden Huiput 2025 breaks Grafia’s pyramid into Cinema 4D clay and metal paired with cobalt type. Every year since 1980, Finland’s graphic design association Grafia has...

Abduzeedo · EN