A Refugee City Plan Refuses to Treat Shelter as Enough

A Refugee City Plan Refuses to Treat Shelter as Enough

Six family plots sharing a courtyard is a modest starting point for an ambitious city plan. But I like that BIG’s Refugee Cities begins at that scale. Developed with to.org, the proposal addresses a difficult mismatch: emergency settlements can become places where people spend years, yet their housing and infrastructure aren’t necessarily planned to support…

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Titanium Smart Glasses Concept Refuses to Hide Its Tech

Titanium Smart Glasses Concept Refuses to Hide Its Tech

Fitting a computer into a pair of glasses creates an awkward design problem: the electronics need room, but the result still has to belong on someone’s face. Povilas Grigas approaches that tension without pretending it can disappear. His Glasses concept gives the hardware a deliberately different silhouette, treating smart eyewear as its own design category…

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3 Lamps Built From Objects Nobody Wanted Anymore

A room can have plenty of light and still feel oddly flat. Overhead fixtures handle the practical stuff, but they rarely give you a reason to linger at the table or look twice at a shelf. Buying another polished, anonymous lamp does not always help. Alexandre Veillon’s three designs offer a different answer: give older…

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