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Sustainable Materials Are Reshaping Product Design
Mycelium leather, recycled composite decking, and bio-based textiles are moving from laboratory experiments to actual products. Here's what's actually working.
May 22, 2025
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A Pavilion Built From Police Riot Shields Asks What a Material Remembers
The Pangolin Shield goes up on the Strand next month, assembled from Indian police shields and rain shields over bamboo. Reuse in architecture usually argues about carbon. This one argues about meaning.
Aug 17, 2026
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Thirty Eight States Now Let You Build a Tall Building Out of Wood, and the Fire Argument Went the Other Way
Mass timber spent a decade as an architectural curiosity because codes did not have a category for it. Three new construction types changed that, and the fire testing that was supposed to kill the idea is what made the case.
Aug 18, 2026
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Qatar's 14-School Project Puts PPPs and 3D Printing Into One Big Test
A QAR 4.5 billion project for 14 schools is 80 percent complete, combining long-term private operation, local materials and printed components.
Jul 30, 2026
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Big 5 Global Is Where Next Year's Buildings Get Specified
Twenty-seven hundred exhibitors at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 November, and three co-located shows that have quietly turned a construction fair into an urban development event.
Aug 14, 2026
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Cement Is Around Seven Per Cent of Global Emissions and the Most Promising Fix Needs No New Factory
LC3 replaces part of the clinker in cement with calcined clay and limestone, cutting emissions by up to forty per cent. Around thirty five plants were producing calcined clay for cement by 2026, with more building.
Aug 20, 2026
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The 2026 Pritzker Went to an Architect Who Builds Small, Strange Things Out of Stone and Fibreglass
Chile's Smiljan Radic Clarke is the fifty fifth laureate of architecture's most significant prize, cited for work that is immediately recognisable and conceptually evasive. In a decade of megaprojects, the jury picked the opposite.
Aug 22, 2026
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Warm Minimalism Works When Texture Replaces Clutter
The most livable minimalist rooms are adding grain, woven surfaces, aged metal and imperfect objects without surrendering calm or useful empty space.
Jul 28, 2026
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London Design Festival 2026 Is Taking Shape Across the City
The September festival is beginning to reveal its citywide program, where districts, installations and small studios matter as much as headline landmarks.
Jul 28, 2026
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The Most Overlooked Thing in Your Home Is How It Sounds
Hard floors, glass walls and open plans photograph beautifully and sound terrible. Acoustic comfort is the last unfashionable part of interior design, and the cheapest to fix.
Aug 8, 2026
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Interior Design Trends 2025: After Beige
Beige's reign over neutral interiors is ending. 2025 brings warm terra cotta, mossy sage greens, and rich chocolate tones that promise rooms with actual personality.
Feb 15, 2024
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Designing From an Archive Is Harder Than Designing From a Mood Board
A twenty-three piece collection drawn from research into the Barbican's original interiors arrives this month. Working from a real archive imposes constraints that a reference image never does.
Aug 17, 2026
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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
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Riyadh’s Next Great Upgrade Is a City Designed for Everyday Life
Parks, walking routes, sports spaces and connected neighborhoods may become Vision 2030’s most meaningful contribution to daily life in the capital.
Jul 28, 2026
