Interior Design

If we ask a child to draw a house, a triangular silhouette will almost certainly appear, with two sloped planes meeting at a ridge. Few architectural forms are as universally recognizable as the pitched-roof house. From a semiotic perspective, this elemental image functions as a condensed sign of shelter that, in just a few traces, synthesizes protection, interiority, and belonging. What we now read as a universal symbol, however, emerged from a concrete necessity. From Alpine chalets shedding snow to Mediterranean roof tiles mitigating summer heat, the slope responded to climate and construction challenges long before it became an aesthetic code.

RSHP has won a competition to redevelop the Rives-Défense site in La Défense, the business district of Paris. Announced during MIPIM, the project envisions the transformation of an 8-hectare site at the western edge of the district into a low-carbon mixed-use neighborhood. Commissioned by Paris La Défense, the proposal is developed by a multidisciplinary team led by RSHP and including Atelier SOIL as co-architect and urban planner, Altitude 35 as landscape architect, Arcadis as engineering consultant, as well as Atelier Franck Boutté, Urban Eco, and Mobius.

The clients had bought a plot, not far at all from their hometown, but in a surprisingly secluded setting best described as otherworldly. The idea was for a ‘getaway’ house – a private place to go to for a weekend or so – to swiftly get away from stress, work, city.

urko sánchez architects designs a collection of thatched pavilions and timber structures as a new entrance for sharjah bridi park in the UAE.

The post urko sánchez reinterprets african vernacular architecture in UAE with thatched pavilions appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

Every city contains two transportation systems. One is the visible network of roads, rail lines, sidewalks, and bus routes mapped in planning documents. The other is the invisible geography of privilege and exclusion embedded within it: the neighborhoods that received highways instead of parks, the communities whose bus routes were cut, the sidewalks that abruptly end at the edge of a district. For many years, built-environment professionals have treated infrastructure as a technical challenge. Mobility justice insists it is, fundamentally, a political one.

French Architect Marc Fornes reimagines The Architectural Folly – Like a mirage made solid, L’île Folie rises from the water in the heart of Downtown Cary Park – part pavilion, part sculpture, and entirely unexpected. More than a landmark, it is a playful reinvention of an old idea: the architectural folly.

French Architect Marc Fornes reimagines The Architectural Folly – Like a mirage made solid, L’île Folie rises from the water in the heart of Downtown Cary Park – part pavilion, part sculpture, and entirely unexpected. More than a landmark, it is a playful reinvention of an old idea: the architectural folly.

Living Continuum is a two-storey design studio and secondary residence located in Malabe, Sri Lanka, within a densely populated and rapidly urbanizing neighbourhood. Built on a compact site of approximately 7.5 perches, the project was envisioned as the architect’s own place of dwelling and practice, a space where mundane life and innovative work could exist together in continuity rather than deviation.

At Light + Building 2026 in Frankfurt, OPPLE Lighting marked its 30th anniversary with an architectural proposition rather than a retrospective. Presented under the theme “Hi Light!,” the company unveiled Light as Cloud, a booth designed by OMA. The installation also served as the international debut platform for OLL, OPPLE’s new high-end design brand. Rather than functioning as a conventional product display, the project positioned light as a spatial system—one that shapes architecture, circulation, and perception.

An Individual, a Content Creator, a Brand Founder, a Mother……When all these identities converge within a single space, this office is asked to hold far more than just “going to work.” Because the client’s work as a content creator is closely intertwined with her private life, the frequent shifting between roles gives the workplace an uneven rhythm. milanesi|paiusco set out to satisfy the needs of these multiple identities, creating a small world where good mood and inspiration can coexist.