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Porcelain dolls were never innocent. In “Lucid Dream”, Romanian designer Ana Samira Naomi rips them out of the glass cabinet and lets them strut in oversized satin, lace masks, and exaggerated silhouettes that flirt shamelessly with kitsch. This is not nostalgia, it’s a fever dream stitched into couture, a playful […]
In a city where glass towers scrape the sky and concrete chokes the ground, Eden Tower arrives like a dream, or a warning. Designed by the radical minds at OXMAN, this conceptual skyscraper doesn’t aim for dominance, but symbiosis. It grows, not just in form, but in function. Developed inside […]
In a city once shaped by speed and efficiency, where concrete cut through nature like a knife, Shenzhen’s Luohu district is witnessing a quiet, radical transformation. At the heart of this shift stands the newly completed Shenzhen Art High School, a structure not just of steel and stone, but of […]
In “The Inner Child,” Robert Wun opens a fragile portal between memory and couture, binding innocence and grief in a sculptural whisper of sand-toned tulle. The piece, inspired by Alessandro Manzoni’s novella The Betrothed, translates literature’s moral storms into a couture meditation — one that doesn’t merely dress the body, […]
Located on the north side of the intersection of Hulin Middle Road and Zhujiang North Road in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, The Exhibition Center is located at the central landscape plaza of the CANNANO Park. It is a dome-like structure with a diameter of about 39m and a height of 21m, […]
Fashion designer Ying Gao unveils a new series of robotic garments adorned with shimmering, self-moving shards of mirrored surfaces. These delicate fragments are assembled using medical cotton gauze enhanced with an 18-carat gold finish, then carefully stitched onto the fabric. The motion of the mirrors is powered by electronic components […]
The Kaminari Superbike takes inspiration from cyberpunk aesthetics, anime, and metal heroes, shaping a futuristic, sci-fi-themed ride. Designed by Brazilian graphic artist Braz de Pina, this conceptual superbike is available in two striking color variations. The “Silver Arrow” version gives it a sleek, bullet-like appearance, while the white model accentuates […]
In the 9th century AD, Muslim scholars made remarkable contributions to the sciences and humanities in Bagdad’s Bayt al-Hikma, or House of Wisdom, a library and research center housing the world’s largest collection of books for scholars to engage both theological and scientific matters. Today’s religious climate could use such […]
Esmeralda Dias, also known as Zalda, was one of the five finalists in a national eco-design competition while she was completing her degree in Fashion Design at ESAD in 2021. Following her studies, she secured an internship and worked for a brand that showcased at Portugal Fashion Week, simultaneously taking […]
After the Moroccan-born French artist Nicola L. began sketching eyes in the late 1960s, it was her Belgian friend Marcel Broodthaers who helped her turn them into lamps. Broodthaers, who had been making artworks from thin, vacuum-formed plastic, brought Nicola to his Antwerp factory, where she produced an edition of 50 visionary lights: […]