chiharu shiota suspends butterfly wings over warm bed at beijing’s red brick art museum

Chiharu Shiota’s major exhibition at red brick art museum   Chiharu Shiota unveils Silent Emptiness, a major solo exhibition at Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, running until August 31st, 2025. Curated by Yan Shijie, the show marks a significant milestone in Shiota’s career, presenting newly commissioned site-specific installations, infused with Eastern philosophy, personal memory, […]

interview: rotterdam’s nieuwe instituut exhibition traces emotional architecture of MAD

MAD’s Poetic Vision explored through Rotterdam exhibition   A new exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Ma Yansong: Architecture and Emotion, debuts alongside the long-anticipated opening of the MAD-designed Fenix Museum of Migration. During the exhibition’s opening, designboom spoke with Aric Chen, General and Artistic Director of the Nieuwe Instituut and curator of the […]

e.Re studio architects coats lenirra villas’ gables in dark-toned roof shingles

lenirra villa is a calming retreat embraced by Jakarta’s landscape   e.Re studio architects builds Lenirra Villa, a small-scale resort development situated on a mountainside adjacent to expansive rice fields, approximately two hours from Jakarta. The architectural approach focuses on integrating built structures within the existing natural context to preserve and enhance the site’s environmental […]

RDZ studio sculpts soft futurism into zurich café with floating cloud bar and tactile interiors

RDZ studio unveils futuristic café interior in Zurich   In Zurich’s Seefeld district, Draft. Coffee by RDZ Studio draws from Scandinavian clarity and combines it with Swiss precision. From the moment visitors approach the facade, marked by a naive-style cloud sketch logo on the front window, it’s clear this café is shaped with design intention. […]

MIT brings planetary futures and post-crisis architecture to palazzo diedo for venice biennale

MIT architecture and antikythera’s exhibition at palazzo diedo   As part of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale’s official collateral events, The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology takes over Palazzo Diedo with a double-decker exhibition examining the intersection of architecture, ecology, and planetary systems (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Organized in the Berggruen Arts & Culture […]

thanos zakopoulos transforms fallen pine into fiery symbol of rebirth at ekies resort in greece

thanos zakopoulos wraps charred pine tree in metallic mesh   At the Ekies All Senses Resort in Chalkidiki, Greece, a striking art installation by CTRLZAK’s Thanos Zakopoulos quietly emerges. Titled HO–MA–GE, a charred pine tree, stripped and sculpted, rises from the earth like a mythic relic. The site-specific work draws on natural decay and alchemical […]

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