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A digitally rendered 1965 Mustang restomod fastback with a wide Japanese-style body kit, shown in a three-quarter perspective view.
Vehicles

Someone Puts a Japanese-Style Widebody on a 1965 Mustang Fastback in CGI

 Flowers appear fragmented behind geometric patterned glass sculptures, panels breaking blooms into overlapping shapes of pink, red, and purple.
Sculpture

Boekhorst’s Patterned Glass Pixelates Flowers Into Shapes That Shift With Viewpoint

 Atomic violet Air Force 1 sneaker covered in shaggy purple fur, keeping the classic low-top shape and rounded toe.
Fashion

Atomic Violet Air Force 1 Goes Shaggy Purple While Keeping Its Silhouette

 Stacked offset timber volumes form a prefabricated timber house set among tall trees, with a fjord beyond.
Architecture

NOA’s DeKruif House Stacks Offset Timber Volumes to Travel With Its Owners

 Several julie curtiss paintings displayed together, including tilted laundry rooms and tarot-themed scenes on gallery walls.
Art

Julie Curtiss tilts laundry rooms and tarot readings just enough to unsettle viewers

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2015

Art

Horrifying Sculptures By Sarah Sitkin

Los Angeles based artist Sarah Sitkin creates shocking, gruesome sculptures using a mixture of media, including silicone, clay, latex and plaster. From characters without faces to…

2013

Art

Illustrator Enkel Dika

Time for a new artist in our illustration series. This time around some of the great illustrations created by Enkel Dika, a 26-year-old illustrator from Struga, Macedonië. He understands how to…

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A gallery display of susanne meister abstract paintings, layered surfaces textured with marble powder and eggshell fragments. Susanne Meister’s Abstracts Invite Touch, Built From Marble Powder and Eggshells A conveyor belt art exhibition by Finnegan Shannon, with artworks moving past seated visitors at Pioneer Works. Finnegan Shannon’s Conveyor Belt Brings Art to Seated Visitors at Pioneer Works Visitors gather among breathing inflatable sculptures that swell and sink with the rhythm of Wadden Sea tides. Visitors’ Breath Sets Meyer’s Pneuma Sculptures Swelling to Wadden Sea Tides Scale model of a sculptural stage set in a gallery, one of many zaha hadid stage designs on display. Five Hadid Stage Designs, from Mozart to Pet Shop Boys, Come Out of the Archive

VEHICLES SPOTLIGHT (view all, Vehicles spotlight)

A 1:10 scale cybertruck rc racer sits on a track with body panels removed, showing its chassis. Tesla’s 1:10 Cybertruck RC Racer Swaps Panels and Holds Four-Wheel Grip at 37 mph The lotus evija electric hypercar driving on a rural road, showing its low, wide stance and aerodynamic body. Lotus Evija Drives Like a Rocketship Yet Floats Over Potholes A mercedes-benz stirling moss slr sports car displayed with its open cockpit and no roof or windshield visible. Only 75 Mercedes-Benz Stirling Moss SLRs Were Built, None With a Roof

ARCHITECTURE SPOTLIGHT (view all, Architecture spotlight)

Neri&Hu’s Cape Town Edition Hotel Rises on Quay 7 With 6 Million Bricks

Cape Town's waterfront skyline gains a hotel built from an unstable warehouse site, where the original footprint and industrial forms shaped a new building. At its heart sits The Drum, an open cylindrical space with a 360-degree platform, letting visitors climb and take in the harbor and Table Mountain.

Brick facade of the cape town edition hotel rising on Quay 7, reinterpreting Cape Town's maritime heritage at the waterfront.

Bacteria Bind Sand Into Building Parts at ETH Zurich Without Kilns

Architecture may soon have a new collaborator: microorganisms that glue grains of sand into solid forms. Karen Antorveza Paez at ETH Zurich pairs bacteria with robotic fabrication, letting the architect set conditions while microbes do the mineralizing. The result challenges the assumption that buildings are made only by people.

A sand-based building part shaped through bacteria building materials research at ETH Zurich, made without kilns.

Teacup’s 26-Foot Summer’s Night Dream Keeps Its Bed Off the Ladder

A pocket door gives the main-floor bedroom in this Canadian-built 26-foot home a privacy that open lofts cannot match. Its 11-foot vaulted ceiling keeps vertical space open, and the loft remains better suited to lying down than lingering, making the layout feel thoughtful rather than merely compact.

A 26-foot tiny house downstairs bedroom, with the bed at floor level instead of up a loft ladder.

PHOTOGRAPHY SPOTLIGHT (view all, Photography spotlight)

A laser guide star telescope setup fires four yellow beams into a dark night sky over a mountaintop. Berdeu’s Photo from 2.5 Kilometers Shows Laser Stars as Streaks A van nuys football photographer in a yellow jacket and white scarf holds a vintage digital camera with both hands. Van Nuys Bars Longtime Football Photographer Judy Collins Despite Volunteer Coach Application A retired Adobe employee holds perfectly still outdoors, aiming a nikon z8 bird photography camera at songbirds in trees. Retired Adobe Employee Holds Still for an Hour to Photograph Songbirds Macro insect photography showing a detailed close-up of insects and spiders, the subject of Dara Ojo's book. Dara Ojo’s 290-Page Book Finds Beauty in Insects and Spiders Up Close A wide-angle lens landscape with a strong foreground shape leading the eye toward distant hills and sky. John Gravett Says Foreground Shape Matters More Than Fitting More In

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Anda Andrei hotel design portrait: two designers in conversation about a finished hotel interior and its lingering problems.

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A solitary figure stands beneath a starry night sky in nostalgic mixed-media art, arms loosely wrapped around empty air.

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A top-down view of the 8bitdo forest wonder keyboard, with brown earthy keys and small pixel animals hidden among them.

8BitDo’s Forest Wonder Keyboard Hides Pixel Animals and Brown Earth Keys in Plain Sight

A scene from shape in terrarium with turquoise seas and towering ancient machines rising over a vivid, anime-inspired landscape.

Terrarium’s Anime-Inspired Visuals Pair Turquoise Seas with Towering Ancient Machines

The Materik wristband charging cable unclipped from its strap, powering a nearby device through an 11.8-inch USB-C connector.

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VSCO company branding illustrating the vsco ai training policy covering outside AI vendors and submitted photos.

VSCO Says Outside AI Vendors Also Agreed Not to Train on Submitted Photos

Close view of a carved stone gargoyle on Paisley Abbey's roof edge.

Stonemason Carves Xenomorph-Like Gargoyle for Paisley Abbey Roof in 1993

Molecular Cloud Wireframe, a metal lattice agafay desert installation, stands against the vast, open Moroccan landscape.

Vincent Leroy Installs an Open Metal Lattice That Fragments Views of Agafay Desert

A houseplant pot whose sensor has droopy eyes; the plantique concept gives owners a soil-check cue.

PLANTIQUE Concept Gives Soil Sensors Drooping Eyes to Prompt Pot Checks

Low casitas scattered across desert sand at the amanvari baja california resort, with the sea beyond.

Amanvari Strips Desert Minimalism Back to Sea, Sand and Eighteen Casitas

A stainless steel breville eye q toaster sits on a kitchen counter, its slots holding bread being toasted.

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Aurora 275, Crosslam's 22-metre mass timber building brazil, stands in Suzano with exposed wood facade.

Crosslam Unveils 22-Metre Aurora 275, Brazil’s Tallest Mass-Timber Building in Suzano

Kengo Kuma architect work sits low within a Japanese landscape, its materials blending softly into the surrounding natural setting.

Kengo Kuma Builds Quiet Structures That Melt Into Japanese Landscapes and Coastlines

A multicolor 3d printer with four nozzles extruding colored filament onto a build plate during printing.

Co Print’s Quadro Prints Four Colors Through Separate Nozzles, Swapping Heads in One Second

Small cookie-cutter retreat units for digital nomads, set along a narrow corridor with shower and toilet doors.

Digital Nomads’ Cookie Cutter Retreat Borrows Siza’s Corridor for Its Showers and Toilets

Rendering of a planned bidi bidi refugee settlement with residential blocks, streets, and open civic space.

Ingels Says Bidi Bidi Settlement Should Be Planned as a City, Not Temporary Shelter

Scene from one of the italian star wars knockoffs, showing a sci-fi spacecraft interior and costumed characters.

Italian Studios Traded Immersion for Speed, Making Star Wars Knockoffs Like The Humanoid

A record-inspired speaker gift sits in a cozy holiday setting, its round disc design evoking vintage vinyl and festive sing-alongs.

MorningBlues Record R1 Turns Favorite Songs Into a Shared Holiday Sing-Along

A reddish-brown howler monkey walks across one of the howler monkey rope bridges strung high over forest.

Newly Named Howler Monkey Crosses Brazilian Rope Bridges Amid Growing Road Dangers

Renovated Green Sandwich House retains its exposed timber frame, adds terrazzo counters, and opens toward surrounding greenery.

Green Sandwich House Keeps Its Timber Frame and Adds Hand-Ground Terrazzo Counters

OPPO Find X10 smartphones displayed with their rear oppo find x10 camera modules, highlighting the Hasselblad-branded lens setup.

OPPO’s Find X10 Series Brings 200MP Hasselblad Cameras to Capture Everyday Beauty

A west hollywood boutique hotel on the Sunset Strip, showing bold colour and theatrical design touches.

Public West Hollywood Brings Colour and Theatre Back to the Sunset Strip

Transparent Sharge Disk Pro actively cooled USB hub with fan and yellow cable on wooden surface.

Sharge Disk Pro 2 Acts on Customer Complaints, Adding a Removable Cable and Quieter Fan

Samsung Gemini Eyewear smart glasses displayed in several frame styles on a clean white background.

Samsung’s Gemini Eyewear Ships December 10 With Nine Frame Styles

Interior of a Paris home gym where Technogym equipment sits centre stage in Harry Nuriev's design.

Technogym and Harry Nuriev Build a Paris Home Around a Gym Set Centre Stage

An international space station photo showing the orbiting station crisply captured by a BlackSky satellite against the darkness of space.

BlackSky Satellite Captures Station Crisp Despite 17,500 MPH Speed

Fashion model in a tailored winter coat over layered knitwear, styled in Milan, showing milan winter outerwear for A/W 2026.

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Zando Central Market, an example of kinshasa market architecture, shows a perforated brick skin enclosing a vast vending hall.

Zando Market in Kinshasa Gets Perforated Brick Skin Sized for 20,000 Vendors

A brass esp32 smartwatch with a metal cage around its circuit board and small display.

Huy Vector Turns an ESP32 Board Into a Brass-Caged Smartwatch

Kino 3d-printed chair with shelf by Pablo Castillo, shown as a complete seat with its reading shelf extended.

Decibel’s Kino Chair Slides a Reading Shelf Under a 3D-Printed Cantilever

Sylvia Liber's portrait of her aunt Lorraine, winner of the head on photo awards top prize.

Sylvia Liber’s Aunty Lorraine Portrait Takes Head On Photo Awards Top Prize

Eha's Hiiumaa wellness retreat on the Estonian island coast, set around a quiet seasonal rhythm

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Rosa Vásquez Espinoza leads stingless bee research in Peru, working among hives in a rural setting.

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A 40-square-metre Hyères apartment is listed here, its compact rooms opening onto a sunlit rooftop terrace.

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Marburger Farm's new exhibition hall, built from marburger farm reclaimed timber, stands among trees in Round Top.

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