Some buildings house culture, and there are buildings that ‘become’ it. The Shanghai Grand Opera House, designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI), Theatre Projects, and Nagata Acoustics, belongs firmly to the second category. Completed in June 2026...

Some objects arrive in our homes with perfect surfaces and polished silence. Tides Rewoven Light does the opposite. It carries its past visibly. Its fibers remember the sea, its textures hold the marks of use, and its form tells a story of rescue rather than reinvention. Created from abandoned fishing nets and plastic...

With a smartphone in their pocket, everyone is a photographer. But clicking a good picture is still a creativity reserved for the trained. Unless you are from the Instagram generation and you know how to use filters. Clicking and then post-editing with filters and everything is so time-consuming. To give your Instagram...

Look at RIFFMATE for a second and try to name what is missing. No strings. No fretboard bristling with metal wire. No solid slab of tonewood. What remains is the silhouette of an electric guitar sketched in mid-air, a skeletal frame that holds the double-cutaway outline everyone recognizes while hollowing out almost...

The flying car has spent roughly a century as the world’s most reliable broken promise, forever arriving “in ten years” and forever staying on the concept-render carousel. So it means something that the newest headline reads less like a dream and more like a purchase order. Toyota and Joby Aviation have...

Budget tablets have always played a peculiar role in consumer electronics. They aren’t meant to be powerful; they’re meant to be just capable enough to get through a streaming queue, a few Kindle chapters, or a morning of casual browsing. Amazon’s Fire lineup has mastered that balance for years, finding a loyal...

If you’re of a certain age or generation, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is probably part of your childhood (or adulthood). It’s one of the most popular sci-fi movies to this day, and E.T. itself is one of the most beloved aliens in movie history. There has been renewed interest in it lately because director Steven...

Most design projects start with the finished object. You picture a chair, sketch it out, source the materials, and figure out how to put it together. It’s a logical sequence that’s worked for centuries. Omnibite, a joint system by Milan-based designers Eugenio Costa and Nicolò Tallone, quietly dismantles that...

Cutesy analog-inspired cameras that also serve as keychains are probably all over your feed, if it’s anything like mine. And just when you thought you might be satisfied with the one you already have (if you actually have one), they go ahead and release new designs that make you want to replace what you have, or...

Smartphones have brought the smarts of the tech world to our pockets, but there’s still scope for more. Rugged phones like Blackview XPLORE 2 and the 8849 Tank Pad Ultra have already demonstrated what smart devices built like a tank are capable of beyond their stellar protective shell. It serves as the perfect...