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By repeating almost the same framing across hundreds of facades, François Prost turns Japanese love hotels into a comparable visual system rather than a collection of curiosities.
Are we cooked?! asks 30 designers whether AI is ending their profession. The yes-or-no verdict is almost useless; their metaphors, contradictions and definitions of value make a far better map of design in 2026.
Desktop 4- and 5-axis machines are arriving below $10,000. Generating the toolpaths that make them genuinely useful is a very different problem.
MillieBot splits its printed body into replaceable modules and promises an editable FreeCAD assembly. The mechanical idea is sound, although the public source trail is still hard to audit.
The Albanian Files gathers 60 firms and more than 500 projects. Read as a database rather than a coffee-table book, it reveals how architects, political power and investors meet.
Blender 5.2 keeps a light installer by hosting its new assets online. Bforartists bundles everything into the binary. Two distribution philosophies, and what offline-first really changes for a workshop.
LG PRI is offering a Laser Direct Imaging tool that exposes package patterns directly on photosensitive substrates. The gain is flexibility; its announced top resolution is still far from transistor lithography.
Lucia compresses mobile living into 25 m² and turns its roof into an interface between shelter and landscape. The spatial idea is clear; the engineering evidence for a real vessel is not public yet.
GOURDO combines mycelium and luffa to grow part of its structure. More than a “natural” object, the prototype shows what manufacturing with biology forces a designer to control.
Phillip Torrone maps a Baochip-1x's 64-bit factory UID into a deterministic composition. Same silicon identity, same piece, with no account, cloud service or generative model.