The Colombian capital sits high on a plateau in the Andes at over 8,500 feet, cradled by steep green mountains. Here, design heritage and culture can be found in markets and murals, metal and thread, in historic places and purpose-built spaces. In the city's historic center, the Museo Botero and the Museo del Oro anchor...
5 Best 90s Tech Gadgets Making A Comeback In 2025
The 90s promised us a digital future but delivered something better: gadgets you could actually touch. While today’s tech disappears into glass rectangles and cloud subscriptions, that decade gave us physical media, tactile buttons, and devices that felt personal. You owned them completely. No updates required, no...
This Abandoned Greenhouse Is Now a Pavilion With a Rotating Moon
Sometimes the most extraordinary transformations happen when architects listen to poetry. In Huizhou, China, Shanghai-based Atelier Guo has turned an abandoned greenhouse into something that feels like pure magic, creating the Moon Pavilion that bridges ancient verse with contemporary design. The story begins with an...
preview visit of inaugural hiroshima international architecture festival 2025
hiroshima international architecture festival launches in japan designboom visits Japan’s inaugural Hiroshima International Architecture Festival 2025, which runs from October 4 to November 30 across the twin cities of Fukuyama and Onomichi. Conceived as a triennial event by the Kambara–Tsuneishi Cultural...
These 35W USB-C Chargers Look Like Marvel’s Infinity Stones
Phone chargers have become the most boring, forgettable tech accessories we own. Most people grab whatever generic white brick came in the box and call it a day, treating these essential tools like necessary evils rather than opportunities for personality or style. The charging market has prioritized function over form...
renzo piano breaks ground on hanoi’s opera house, crowned with shimmering dome
Renzo Piano’s ‘Island of Music’ breaks ground in Hanoi Hanoi’s Westlake Opera House, a new cultural landmark designed by architect Renzo Piano and named Isola della Musica (Island of Music), breaks ground on the Quang An Peninsula by Đầm Trị Lake. Scheduled for completion in 2027, the complex features a...
manuel álvarez diestro turns football goalposts into architectural observation frames
geometry of Football goalposts becomes a photographic frame Manuel Álvarez Diestro turns the geometry of football goals into a lens to explore urban growth and the boundaries of architecture. There is a fragile line of thought about whether football goals belong to architecture. Two posts and a crossbar that define no...
mercedes-benz reveals vision iconic with art deco designs & paint that captures solar energy
Mercedes-benz vision iconic brings over art deco style Mercedes-Benz introduces Vision Iconic, a vehicle with Art Deco designs and a car paint as thin as a wafer that can harness solar power. Unveiled in Shanghai on October 14th, 2025, the automobile, especially its hood, draws design cues from the Mercedes-Benz Typ...
with its iconic, serpentine architecture by SANAA, grace farms turns ten years old
a decade of grace farms Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut, has marked its tenth anniversary with a new collection of installations and programming in and around SANAA’s iconic, serpentine River Building. Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the glass-and-steel structure drifts across an 80-acre...
This 3-in-1 EDC Flashlight Illuminates Things You Can’t See, Thanks to a Built-In UV Light
Most EDC flashlights don’t look beyond the light itself. Some that do, probably pack features like bottle openers or glass-breakers into the flashlight’s body. It’s rare for EDC flashlights to offer multiple light sources – and the select few that do often only look at two light sources – a directional torch...