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Johnston Marklee Unveils Raised Pavilions for the Bass Museum's Miami Beach Expansion

Two white pavilions lifted above flood risk would add 22,000 square feet to the Bass beside Collins Park, with courtyards below and a wall that doubles as a film screen.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

The pale stone front facade and entrance steps of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach under a blue sky, photographed on 8 November 2024, a file photograph of the existing building and not of the proposed expansion

Design

Jaguar Type 01 Arrives as a 1,030hp Electric Grand Tourer With No Rear Window and the Concept's Look Intact

The first production car from Jaguar's reinvention keeps the divisive Type 00 look, with an aluminium body, no rear window, a 24-inch glass cockpit display and a 0.23 drag coefficient.

Oct 13, 2026/2 min read

The Jaguar Type 00 concept car on display in a showroom, photographed in December 2024, a file photograph of the concept that preceded the Type 01 and not of the production car

Design

Drew Henry Reset Courreges for Spring 2027 With a Pared-Back Debut at the Palais de Tokyo

The former Celine and Burberry design director stripped the venue down to let the clothes speak, zhuzhing up lean jackets with raw edges and metallic logos over baggy, zesty-coloured trousers in his first collection since succeeding Nicolas Di Felice.

Oct 1, 2026/3 min read

The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the venue where Drew Henry showed his debut Courreges collection, photographed in July 2022

Design

Choosing Light Bulbs: Lumens, Kelvin and Colour Rendering Explained, Room by Room

Watts tell you what a bulb costs to run, lumens tell you how bright it is, kelvin tells you whether it looks warm or cold, and the colour rendering index tells you whether a tomato still looks like one.

Sep 21, 2026/3 min read

A selection of LED light bulbs of different shapes and sizes laid out on a dark cloth, photographed in July 2010

Design

The Kennedy Center Voted to Close Itself for Two Years, Hours After a Judge Said Trump's Name Cannot Go on the Building

A ceiling came down in the Grand Foyer, the chief financial officer resigned, the opera left after fifty years, and the president says renovation will not start unless the appeals court lets him rename the place. Congress had given 250 million dollars.

Sep 17, 2026/3 min read

Patrons in the Grand Foyer of the Kennedy Center during an opera intermission in December 2019, under the Orrefors chandeliers, before the ceiling gave way

Design

The Bench With the Extra Armrest Is Not Being Thoughtful About Your Posture

Sloped ledges, studded window sills, armrests in the middle of a bench, blue lighting in a toilet. Defensive design is usually described as deterring antisocial behaviour, and it works by making a place slightly worse for everybody.

Sep 2, 2026/4 min read

Metal studs set into the ground in a doorway in Shoreditch, London, installed to stop people sleeping there

Design

The 400 Metre Cube Is Paused, Its Deadline Has Moved to 2040, and Its Chief Executive Has Gone

New Murabba has replaced Michael Dyke with a Public Investment Fund executive who is already running another developer. Work on the Mukaab is suspended, the district around it continues, and the completion date has slipped by a decade.

Aug 29, 2026/3 min read

The Riyadh skyline at dusk, with the Kingdom Centre and Al Faisaliah towers, photographed in 2018

Design

A Beijing Studio Put a Restaurant Inside a Live Highway Underpass and Left Half of It to the Public

MARS Studio split the space beneath a working road bridge in Tongzhou with a wall of mirrored glass. One side is a 108 square metre dining room. The other stays an open corridor for anyone walking or cycling through.

Aug 29, 2026/4 min read

The Canal Business District in Tongzhou on the eastern edge of Beijing, the district where the underpass restaurant was built

Design

Housing for Old Age Is the Hardest Brief in Architecture, and Almost Nobody Takes It Seriously

A Stirling Prize winning practice spent its first later living project doing things most retirement housing never bothers with. The design lessons transfer to any budget. The price, unfortunately, does not.

Aug 26, 2026/4 min read

The pergola and formal gardens at Golders Hill Park in London, which borders the site described in this article

Design

Frank Gehry's Largest Museum Opens in Abu Dhabi on 11 December, a Year After He Died

Ten cones rising to eighty eight metres, thirty galleries and twenty three thousand square metres of outdoor exhibition space. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is the last and biggest building by the architect who made a museum into an economic strategy.

Aug 22, 2026/4 min read

Design

One Colour Authority Named a White for 2026, the Other Named Three Blues, and Designers Are Selling Brown

Pantone chose Cloud Dancer. Dulux broke its own format and chose a family of blues. Meanwhile the survey of what interior designers say clients actually request puts chocolate brown and maximalism at the top. Three answers, one year.

Aug 22, 2026/4 min read