Bay Area illustrator Peter Berkowitz has constructed a tiny wooden bedroom for himself in a friend’s living room to avoid paying San Francisco‘s “absurdly high” rents. (more…)
Belarussian designer Constantin Bolimond has created a modular sex gadget made up of elements that differ in shape, texture and colour, and provide a variety of vibration, rotation and temperature settings (+ slideshow). (more…)
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has completed a new gallery to house the permanent collection of the Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. (more…)
Opinion: temporary architecture is having a “moment” in Europe, and it has some serious lessons to offer architects that are still obsessed with permanence, says Aaron Betsky. (more…)
Fed up with the beauty ideals portrayed in the media, designers are challenging body image with products, clothes and accessories that distort the figure and face, highlight preconceptions and poke fun at unrealistic trends. Here are 10 of the best we’ve seen. (more…)
Apollo Architects & Associates has completed a top-heavy building in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture containing both an art gallery and a family residence (+ slideshow). (more…)
Comments update: unrealistic body-image expectations are the hot topic this week, after Soo Kyung Bae created a collection of jewellery designed to highlight the area between a woman’s thighs. (more…)
Layers of compacted earth form walls for this house by architecture studio Blaanc, which is set in the middle of a vineyard in Portugal’s Montijo municipality (+ slideshow). (more…)
