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The unique « rhythm and progression » of Japanese machiya townhouses helped Brewin Design Office devise the interiors of this hotel in Kyoto designed by Kengo Kuma. Read more

Responsive web design has evolved far beyond Ethan Marcotte’s 2010 three pillars of fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries. In 2026, the toolkit has expanded significantly, adding container queries, fluid typography with clamp(), and CSS Grid with intrinsic sizing. The baseline expectation is simple: a website must work on everything from a 4-inch phone to …

Light is the most powerful tool in a designer’s kit, and the most overlooked. Paint colors can be repainted. Furniture can be rearranged. But lighting determines how every other element is perceived. A beautiful room in bad light looks flat. A simple room in great light looks intentional. Here’s how to use lighting fixtures to …

Local studio LGA Architectural Partners has clad a bell-shaped pavilion in aluminium and included skylights that bring light into the centre of the structure, set in a public park in a dense residential area of Toronto, Ontario. Read more

“The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.” – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (via)

The US government has selected American design executive Peter Arnell to serve as the chief brand architect within the newly formed National Design Studio and shape the identity of a « different type of government ». Read more

Your YouTube thumbnail is the most important design asset you’ll create for a video. It’s not decoration. It’s advertising. Viewers decide whether to click in less than a second, often on a screen the size of a playing card. The difference between a video that gets 10,000 views and one that gets 100,000 is frequently …

Local studio Gresford Architects has upgraded the Old Orchard, a 1980s bungalow in Oxfordshire, with a low-impact and modern extension. Read more

From concrete council housing to monumental theatres, Brutalist London documents the myriad examples of brutalism in the UK capital. Here, author Owen Hopkins selects seven of his favourites featured in the book. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: an office chair from the 70s revived for contemporary workplaces is among 12 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Read more