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Open Architecture is building a concert hall in a valley north of Beijing, designed to look "as if a strange and prehistoric boulder had fallen there long ago". Read more

This showroom for a real estate developer in Guangzhou, China, is a prototype for a modular building system designed by Open Architecture to be easily moved or adapted (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house in Alabama folds open to provide seating for an open-air performance space (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Design cooperative NAU have completed this interior for Austrian bank Raiffeisen in Zurich, featuring curving walls perforated to create pictures of faces. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: this movie shows how a custom printer continually updates a copy of the Open Source Architecture Manifesto Wikipedia entry, written on a wall in the entrance to the Adhocracy exhibition at the Istanbul Design Biennial. (more…) View the full article

Visitors to the Adhocracy show at the Istanbul Design Biennial are confronted with a plotter taking the text of the Open Source Architecture Manifesto from a Wikipedia page and writing it onto a wall. (+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

This movie by designers Studio Swine demonstrates how waste plastic picked up by fishing trawlers can be transformed into chairs on board the boats. (more...) View the full article

This weekend retreat on the Australian coastline was designed by Melbourne firm Open Studio to peep over the tree canopy, offering views of a creek that runs alongside the beach (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

MAMM Design has completed a two-storey residence in Kai, Japan, featuring a long mezzanine described as a street where the family can come together (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: more than half of employees prefer a private work space, while open-plan office workers often experience too many distractions to work effectively, according to new data. (more...) View the full article

Wedge-shaped chunks are carved out of the marble-clad volume of this house in Bangkok, Thailand, which was designed by local studio Openbox Architects. Read more View the full article

Opendesk customers can now use augmented reality to see how the furniture brand's pieces look in their homes before ordering them from local makers. Read more View the full article

Open-source furniture company Opendesk has created customised workspace fittings for self-build computer brand Kano (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Studio Toogood has filled a pop-up fashion boutique in London with rubber-coated objects and glass tabletops mounted on piles of industrial fabrics. (more…) View the full article

A curved serving counter clad with a honeycomb pattern of white tiles occupies the front space of this cafe in San Francisco, California, by OpenScope Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial: Belgian design studio Unfold used open source components including a filter made of 3D printed ceramic to build this water boiler and purifier, which could be used in the developing world. (more…) View the full article

London firm Brisac Gonzalez in collaboration with Oslo studio Space Group, have won joint first place in a competition to design an opera and cultural centre in Kristiansund, Norway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is the other winning competition entry for a new opera house and cultural centre in Kristiansund, Norway, by Danish architects C. F. Møller. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A system of hydraulics opens and closes three panels of this visitor centre in Xiahuayuan Village, China, depending on the temperature outside. Read more

London fashion label Dead Lotus Couture has launched a new collection of retro womenswear made of natural latex and fake fur. Read more View the full article

Miami studio Oppenheim Architecture has overhauled a local house to allow residents to divide their time between indoors and out (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This rustic residence in Aspen has been renovated by Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture in line with the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi, which acknowledges imperfection as beauty (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture and Design has built offices in the city for an Italian construction company, with rectangular concrete volumes offset from one other and covered balconies extending from the units. Read more View the full article

A dune-like concrete shell encases the Ayla Clubhouse in Aqaba, which Oppenheim Architecture has designed to blend in with the surrounding desert in Jordan. Read more

German studio Opposite Office has proposed creating a temporary Covid-19 superhospital inside Berlin's unfinished Brandenburg airport during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article