Rome wasn’t built in a day, but you can construct quite the architectural empire with the help of SUCK UK’s Skyline wrapping paper. Gift boxes become apartment buildings, storefronts and skyscrapers of varying heights, and your bounty a miniature city in print.
An iPhone 6 is an investment. And no matter how nicely designed the phone itself is, most people will opt for a functional, attractive, case to protect it from everyday drops and dings. Lunatik’s Architek case goes one step farther. The striking cross-hatched pattern is actually a shock-absorbing diagonal grid core that was inspired by Chicago School architecture. Laid over the diagrid core is a …
Expanding on their expansive installation visualizing the magnitude of the Netherlands’ 10,000 empty government buildings at the 2010 Venice biennale, Ronald and Erik Reitveld of RAAAF partnered with a multidisciplinary team at the Sandberg Institute to explore the concept of design potential within unused spaces in a new book. “Vacancy Studies: Experiments and Strategic Interventions in Architecture” spans possibility and optimism in the practical and …