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The Design section explores creativity at every scale, from furniture and interiors to experimental objects and product innovations. Design here is seen as a discipline of problem-solving and imagination, where material, craft, and technology come together to shape the spaces and tools of daily life.
Features highlight projects that push boundaries, whether through sustainable materials, digital fabrication, or rethinking everyday objects with fresh intent. From timeless classics to emerging ideas, this category captures how design continues to evolve, offering insight into the practices and philosophies that define contemporary aesthetics and function.
Philipp Aduatz’s 3D concrete printing project, in collaboration with the Austrian manufacturer incremental3d, is the 3D printed gradient furniture collection.. They collaborated on a new set of benches, a chair, and a large vase.
Nex- Architecture collaborated with Xylotek advanced timber structure specialists to create a series of inventive laminated oak pavilions that are now enhancing the public spaces of Regent’s Place in London.
The first 3D-printed large frame for historical public space – Labyrinth of Chateaugiron
By PA Next Team
The labyrinth is based on a geodesic modular system and is made from 4,500 recycled water gallons. It is fully reconfigurable for all public activities. It responds to the Center for the Arts (Les 3 Cha) program as well as the symbolic demand for a labyrinth to complete and enhance the castle’s iconic presence.
The Acoustic Diffuser Panel System project, developed in collaboration with research and development partners Rocket Science AG, Strauss Elektroakustik GmbH, and fabrication partner Aectual, focused on designing acoustically performative wall panels with spatial and sound-aesthetic properties while considering the fabrication process.
New AI technologies keep coming and coming. From AI that generates images which some consider art and some not, from AI that we can have a conversation or even do our writing works. Right now, a different way of using AI makes our cities walkability, Moonwalkers.
TOROO is a public art installation that pushes the boundaries of what is architecturally possible using bamboo splits as a building material. It combines sustainable construction with local craftsmanship to create a highly engaging architectural intervention that activates public space.
Bartlett graduates developed TerraCool to examine ancient cooling methods through advanced geometry
By PA Next Team
Bartlett graduates Dilara Temel and Lachlan Fahy have created TerraCool, a proposal created to combat the growing problem of urban heat through evaporative cooling. Its recessed ceramic elements manipulate porous material properties to cool air through evaporation.
In Bad Ombres; a series of ceramic vessels, the team has taken this experimental approach to new heights, creating visually appealing and thought-provoking vessels made from two different types of clay, which creates a gradient effect that can be seen both across the entire object and within individual extrusions.
Perpetual Spring, The Climate-Correcting Machine, a project commissioned by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, located in the heart of downtown Seoul, designed by Obra Architects.
Designed by Istanbul-based internationally acclaimed creative studio OUCHHH and curated by MASSIVart, The Eye of Mexico was the first public artificial intelligence art display in Latin America and was located in Neuchâtel Polanco, a real estate complex to the west of Mexico City.