1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (308+ words) The production design behind A24's latest horror hit, Backrooms, directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, taps into the unsettling logic of liminal spaces and forgotten interiors " one so puzzling that even the crew got lost. Behind the scenes in one of…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (142+ words) More than 140 years after construction first began, Barcelona's Sagrada Fam'lia has reached a milestone few buildings can claim: The Sagrada Fam'lia is, finally, the tallest church in the world. Installation of the upper arm of the cross of the tower…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (184+ words) A first look at the new Obama Presidential Center as Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects takes AD on a private tour of the civic-minded campus in Chicago An aerial view of the Obama Presidential Center's 19. 3-acre campus, located in Jackson…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (222+ words) New York-based designer, Gabriel Hendifar, has shaped a 140-square-metre loft with carpeted platforms, layered materials, and textiles to create an atmosphere that feels at once cinematic and deeply introspective, balancing the building's industrial origins with the warmth of personal history....

1+ week, 20+ min ago  (121+ words) Bricklab co-founders and brothers Turki (left) and Abdulrahman Gazzaz (right). Bricklab, Awnings Awnings Awnings, the Hayy Jameel Fac'ade Commission 2026. The work highlights the gradual disappearance of these traditional features, reasserting their value as vernacular devices of comfort and identity. To…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (261+ words) The most recent edition's winners are Palestinian-Jordanian talent Joud Malhas and Lebanese creative Rachel Antoun for their lighting installation Where There Is Uns. The design is inspired by Gulf traditions and reimagines the Bedouin practice of lighting fires to welcome…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (767+ words) AD Middle East A "social satire" set in glitzy Miami Beach, Asha Elias's debut novel, Pink Glass Houses, is just one of the author's many accomplishments - she's also a journalist and a columnist for the Miami New Times. The book's…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (660+ words) AD Middle East In this Brentwood home in California, keeping up with the Joneses takes on a slightly different meaning when one of the neighbours is the Getty Center, Richard Meier's hilltop complex and one of Los Angeles's great repositories…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (584+ words) Artist and designer Melek Zeynep Bulut serves as Artistic Director, working alongside London Design Festival and Global Design Forum founder Ben Evans. Beatrice Galilee, Forum Content Advisor, has shaped the Forum talks programme, whose theme is Worlds in Contact, while…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (584+ words) Artist and designer Melek Zeynep Bulut serves as Artistic Director, working alongside London Design Festival and Global Design Forum founder Ben Evans. Beatrice Galilee, Forum Content Advisor, has shaped the Forum talks programme, whose theme is Worlds in Contact, while…...