Pandemic Urbanism
World’s First Online Hotel Opens Amidst the Pandemic
With Easter holidays off the cards due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Amsterdam platform HomeSuiteHome offered an alternative weekend vacation experience from the comfort (and social distance) of your own home.
Retail Store Meets Basketball Court in Miami
UNKNWN's flagship store in Miami is a hybrid space that combines retail with a dazzlingly colourful community basketball court offering fitness and design events.
Barcelona’s Street Vendors Produce Face Masks for Local Hospitals
Street vendors that have run out of work have turned a store into a sewing workshop that produces materials for hospitals, such as masks and medical gowns.
Graffiti Grandmas Spice up Urban Space With Colourful Street Art
LATA 65 introduces graffiti to a group of street artists you wouldn't imagine holding a spray can in a back alley.
First Senior Co-Housing For Women Only Is the Future of Independent Ageing
Many elderly don’t want to move into a care home or be dependable on their children, but still want to live where they feel happy and supported. Pollard Thomas Edwards helped to create such a place.
Giant Indoor Lawn Creates a Space for Daydreaming and Playing
The indoor-outdoor experience brought together architecture and digital soundscapes to make its guests feel the very best of summer.
Human Hotel Takes Home-Sharing to the Next Level
Human Hotel is a purpose-driven home-sharing community for creatives to host, meet and support each other.
Visit Sweden Lets You Explore The Country’s Design Culture Anywhere
Visit Sweden promotes the country's design culture with a museum that cannot be visited physically. Instead, the Swedish Design Museum offers personal experiences in private homes and packed into backpacks.
A Home Away From Home for Tokyo’s Long Commuters
Torafu Architects have transformed a five-storey building in Tokyo into an office and co-living space for the business travellers coming to the city each day.
Put Yourself on Airplane Mode With This Puffer Jacket
New York fashion brand The Arrivals has created a puffer jacket that blocks cellular and GPS signals on smartphones.
LOHA Designs High-Density Housing With Outdoor Community Space
Architecture firm LOHA designed a high-density housing solution that meets demand without compromising affordability or its community.
Is This the Climate Change-Ravaged Future of Urban Living?
Design studio Superflux has created an installation of how future homes might look like considering the realities of climate change.
