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When Design Understands That Starting Is the Hardest Part
7+ hour, 25+ min ago (630+ words) When Design Understands That Starting Is the Hardest Part'Yanko Design There's a particular kind of guilt that lives in the corner of a messy room. You see it, you know it needs to go, and somehow you still walk past…...
This Iconic Australian Bush House Just Hit the Market for the First Time in Over 40 Years
22+ hour, 14+ min ago (271+ words) For the first time since its completion in 1983, one of Australia's most architecturally significant homes is available to buy. The Ball-Eastaway House, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt, has been listed with Modern House at a guide price of…...
This Dark Timber House Disappears Into a Norwegian Forest
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (279+ words) The house sits on a gently sloping ridge just east of Maridalsvannet, Oslo's main water supply, in a small residential area surrounded by tall pine trees and deep forest. It's not a massive project. At 170 square meters, it's modest by…...
Zinc Studio’s Cabin Proves Prefab Can Have a Point of View
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (152+ words) Here's a question: what if your backyard pool could moonlight as a personal aquatic gym, wave pool, and lazy river " all without any permanent" Working away from a main desk often means a laptop balanced on a caf" table or…...
Mexico Just Turned Corn Waste Into 3D-Printed Buildings
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (457+ words) Most of us think of corn as food. Maybe fuel, if you're feeling generous. But a building material? That's the kind of idea that sounds like it belongs in a sci-fi pitch until you look at what Mexico-based design practice…...
OFIS Rebuilt This 122sq.m. Post-War Home Without Losing Its Soul
1+ week, 1+ day ago (157+ words) Working away from a main desk often means a laptop balanced on a caf" table or airplane tray, maybe a separate portable monitor propped up" Before glowing screens and silicon chips, engineers used slide rules to design skyscrapers and send…...
5 Products Made from Cardboard: The Bench Supports 300 Pounds - Yanko Design
1+ week, 2+ day ago (901+ words) Cardboard was once seen as just packaging, but it is now becoming a design hero. As sustainability and cost efficiency drive modern innovation, this humble material is being reimagined for far more than shipping boxes. Lightweight, strong, and easily recyclable,…...
The Sculptural Stand That Curates Jewelry Like a Miniature Modernist Gallery - Yanko Design
1+ week, 2+ day ago (156+ words) Working away from a main desk often means a laptop balanced on a caf" table or airplane tray, maybe a separate portable monitor propped up" Before glowing screens and silicon chips, engineers used slide rules to design skyscrapers and send…...
This House-Sized Clock Glows and Chimes Every 15 Minutes
1+ week, 3+ day ago (324+ words) There's something quietly magical about watching a building come alive on schedule. Clock House No. 2, a public art installation by Drawing Architecture Studio, does exactly that. Every fifteen minutes, it chimes and glows, turning timekeeping into something you can walk…...
If Sci-fi Gardening met MC Escher: Meet The Holocene House’s Floating Jungle Canopy
1+ week, 3+ day ago (219+ words) The pool doesn't sit beside the house. It doesn't occupy the backyard. It runs straight through the middle of the living space, dark-tiled and creek-like, with stepping stones crossing it at the entry. This is the organizing principle of Holocene…...