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Designboomfala’s porto house pairs striped marble with playful geometric forms and sculptural interiors FALA ATELIER FITS A HOUSE INTO A SKEWED PORTO PLOT On a compact plot in Porto, Portugal, fala atelier has completed a house that makes an unusually generous amount of room for geometry.

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Designboomcarpet diem and 1000 vases merge textile, ceramic, and glass art at espace commines in paris Carpet Diem and 1000 VASES unite craft works at Espace Commines Curated by Francesco Pirrello, two international design exhibitions , Carpet Diem and 1000 VASES, converge at Espace Commines in Paris…

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Designboomhow ecoLogicStudio uses living organisms to build better spaces for living Exploring the forest of ecologicstudio In 2025, a forest emerged in the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

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Designboomtraditional bamboo scaffolding and tea-waste panels shape impromptu projects’ pagoda in macau Impromptu Projects erects Bamboo Pagoda along Sai Van Lake Sited on the shoreline of Sai Van Lake in Macau , Bamboo Pagoda is a 13-meter-tall temporary pavilion designed by local practice Impromptu…

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Designboomdesignboom shop drop: objects, surfaces and furniture that go beyond the wall designboom shop drop: beyond the wall The designboom shop introduces its next curated drop, presenting creative objects and bespoke surfaces designed to bring vertical planes to life.

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Designboomdesignboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this november november exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR November’s designboom exhibition radar begins with an unlikely reunion in Paris, where two Alexander Calder mobiles return to public view after decades.

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Designboomchromatic pavilions and modular play structures activate historic istanbul rami library MILIMETRIK ARCHITECTS CONVERTS RAMI LIBRARY INTO FAMILY FESTIVAL Staged across the historic Rami Library in Istanbul , AileFest 2026 is a temporary spatial intervention designed by Turkish practice…

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A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo