Mitte Oblique Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)
A broad hovering roof shelters a lush Jakarta garden with winding paths, planted terraces, and places to pause.
A green refuge hides beneath this enormous sloping roof.
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Meet the Top 3 Finalists of the 2026 World’s Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Who Inspired Thousands of Votes
Meet Champ, Tiberius, and Bean as the rescue-dog contest enters its final round.
Three rescue stories, three irresistible faces.
Science begins for Smile
The European-Chinese Smile mission has entered science operations, sharing early test images while teams continue adjusting its X-ray camera for Earth observations.
A new way to watch Earth's invisible shield.
Step inside the revamped Ghent Design Museum, a ‘touchpoint' for coming together
Ghent’s revamped design museum adds a timber-structured wing built with bricks made from the city’s construction waste.
A new museum wing rises from Ghent’s old building debris.
What Does It Take to Make Bourbon Ice Cream? We Followed the Process From Barrel to Pint
Follow the small-batch journey from bourbon barrel to hand-packed ice cream.
One bourbon barrel becomes a lot of ice cream.
Reliable Robots: Meet Johnson’s Dexterous Robotics Team
NASA's dexterous-robotics engineers demonstrate machines designed to handle cargo, operate equipment and work alongside human explorers.
Teaching space robots to lend a hand.
What does flavour feel like? This Thai recipe book uses hand-ripped collage and vivid pigments to figure it out
Sveinung Sudbø translates the sensations of Thai food into vivid hand-torn collages for Bang Cook Book.
What if a recipe showed you how flavor feels?
Sardine Eye Patches, a Magnetic Knife Stand, and More Products BA Editors Loved in September
Editors share their tested kitchen favorites, including an unexpected tinned-fish skincare collaboration.
Sardine eye patches? Not quite what you think.
October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing
NASA's October sky guide explains Algol's changing brightness and the observations behind a nebula with a witch-like outline.
The night sky has its own Halloween characters.
Swirls, beads and Art Nouveau roots: Emily Klaebe on type design as world building
Emily Klaebe builds playful typefaces from lollipop swirls, bugle-bead grids, and dramatic Art Nouveau curves.
A lollipop swirl can become a letter.
Is This Viral $60 Rye Bread Worth It? We Taste-Tested It Against 3 Less Pricey Loaves
A blind tasting pits a $60 rye loaf against three cheaper breads.
Can a $9 loaf beat the $60 one?
How Control Resonant’s art design and tech shaped its bosses, paranaturally-twisted Manhattan and more
Remedy's designers explain how animation, architecture and shifting gravity shaped Control Resonant's strange version of Manhattan.
How do you design a city that refuses gravity?
The Fig Tree house / Comas-Pont arquitectes
A Spanish family house organizes its courtyard and living spaces around a century-old fig tree.
This home's design began with a tree worth keeping.
18 Adorable Winners From the Dog Photography Awards
The 2026 Dog Photography Awards reveal portraits full of character, from a paper-crowned pit bull to a dog facing a giant cat mural.
Every dog has a story—and these portraits let it show.
Segway cargo hauler brings automotive tech to the ebike world
Segway's newest cargo ebike brings automatic shifting and smart controls to the daily haul.
Can a cargo bike borrow the convenience of a car?
Eddy Firmin Interrogates History and Colonizing Forces in Provocative Sculptures
Eddy Firmin brings ceramics, patterned surfaces and an exuberant mobile sound system into a layered exploration of Caribbean identity and cultural memory.
A car becomes a towering sound sculpture.
Photographer Finds Tenderness Inside Cuban Homes as Chaos Rages Outside
Kelly Conlin’s Tender Weather photographs find moments of care inside Havana homes, built on repeated visits and growing trust.
A small gesture can tell a whole family story.
VinFast's cheap EREV pickup is for people who hate charging
VinFast's new pickup pairs electric driving with a gasoline generator for longer trips.
The next pickup debate: a giant battery or a range extender?
Giant Sculptures of a Couple Holding Hands Reflects the Enduring Power of Love at Burning Man 2026
Michael Benisty's mirrored figures meet in a handclasp while their fragmented forms catch the desert light in Only Love Will Remain.
Two mirrored giants hold hands in the desert.
Offcuts From the Renovation of This ’70s SoCal Home Were Repurposed Into Furnishings
Unfold Projects restored a 1970s California home while turning salvaged materials into art, furnishings and even a redwood guitar.
The renovation scraps became part of the finished home.
Bio-based liquid bends wood like it's thin, pliable metal
A cellulose-derived solvent lets researchers reshape wood, opening a different route to curved forms.
Wood that curls without being cut into layers.
50+ Years of Steve McCurry’s Iconic Photos and Never-Before-Seen Images on View in NYC
An intimate New York exhibition places Steve McCurry's familiar images beside new photographs, inviting a slower look at five decades of observation.
Five decades of photographs, seen at a slower pace.
Grid Patterns—and Punchy Colors—Reorganize This 1930s Rome Flat
Margine opened up a fragmented Rome apartment with a pink kitchen, graphic tile and carefully coordinated colors.
A maze of small rooms becomes a bright, open home.
SteelSeries just re-entered the chat: I spent a month testing its new elite gaming mice
A month-long test explores SteelSeries' new ultra-wideband mice and their swappable batteries.
Can a different wireless connection make a gaming mouse feel better?
Jonny Johansson on 30 years of Acne Studios: ‘I look forward much more than I look back’
As Acne Studios turns thirty, Jonny Johansson reflects on the label's origins and a Nan Goldin campaign built around its creative community.
Thirty years of Acne, through Nan Goldin's lens.
Ferragamo SS27 Revisits the 1940s With a Fresh Eye
Maximilian Davis brings 1940s workwear into Ferragamo’s SS27 collection with strong tailoring, translucent fabrics and leather.
What happens when vintage workwear meets translucent modern materials?
Witcher 3 Remastered on Switch 2 is the portable RPG experience Nintendo fans deserve — and a huge upgrade over the Switch 1’s compromised port
A new Switch 2 appraisal revisits The Witcher 3 as a portable adventure.
An old favorite gets a fresh handheld test.
Peek inside this New Brunswick home, where cottage and cabin collide
A hilltop home combines fieldstone, cedar and sheltered outdoor rooms to frame the New Brunswick landscape where its owners once became engaged.
A cottage designed around a meaningful hilltop.
Erling Haaland's New Nike Phantom 6 Low Elite Only Shows Its True Colors When It Gets Wet
Nike’s latest Erling Haaland cleat hides a graphic beneath white ink that disappears when it touches water.
Add water and the boot reveals a second design.
Fortune's Weave is the best Fire Emblem yet — but not for the reasons you might expect
A longtime Fire Emblem player weighs the new game's world map and tactical battles.
What matters more in a sequel: new ideas or better fundamentals?
'Like stepping into the mind of a genius' – Jean Schlumberger sketches and artefacts are being preserved by Tiffany & Co. and the Musée des Arts décoratifs
A preservation project opens a window onto Jean Schlumberger's imaginative working process through jewel-like drawings and thousands of archival documents.
The drawings behind fantastical jewellery.
LEGO Unveils Icons 'Dragon Ball: Shenron & Goku' Building Set
LEGO’s announced 1,764-piece Dragon Ball set turns Shenron, the seven Dragon Balls and Kid Goku into a poseable display.
Shenron is taking shape, one brick at a time.
What time will SpaceX launch Crew-13 astronauts for NASA on Oct. 1? How to watch live (full timeline)
A viewing guide introduces the next station-bound crew and the mission's launch-day sequence.
Meet the crew before liftoff.
PATH House / Hendre Bloem Interior Design
Ochre walls, permeable brickwork and interlocking volumes turn a compact South African retreat into an exercise in light, shade and desert-coloured simplicity.
A compact retreat in warm ochre.
30 Family Portraits That Prove There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Photoshop
Bora’s Photo Shop turns family photographs and beloved pets into deliberately extravagant fantasy portraits.
Your family portrait could use a giant cosmic cat.
Wow! Watch SpaceX's Starship megarocket deploy satellites into orbit for 1st time ever (photos, video)
Onboard views show Starship releasing satellites above Earth.
A spacecraft's-eye view of satellite deployment.
Liù Lín Residence / Choo Gim Wah Architect
A long metal roof shelters an open, forest-facing Malaysian home whose steel, concrete and timber spaces welcome ventilation and greenery.
A forest home beneath one long roof.
30 Remarkably Realistic Wooden Sculptures Of Angels And Religious Figures By This Artist
Polish artist Michał Kulig carves wood into expressive figures with finely worked faces and flowing fabric.
Those delicate folds started as solid wood.
The Sonos Ace Ultra are the headphones Sonos should have made the first time
A hands-on review tests Sonos's latest over-ear headphones.
From speakers to headphones.
JUUL. Transformation of the Julianakerk / HA-HA Design & Development
A fire-damaged Rotterdam church becomes four homes, with retained brick walls and new timber construction giving the landmark another chapter.
A burned church finds a new life.
95 Ordinary Things That Became Surprisingly Interesting After Being Used For Years
A collection of well-used objects makes years of touch, weather and repetition visible in unexpected ways.
Time leaves surprisingly good stories on ordinary objects.
Nothing’s new flagship Headphone 1 Pro put you in the studio
Nothing's latest headphones put a studio-inspired switch alongside familiar controls.
A switch for a different listening perspective.
Plywood Wainscoting Brought Character and Warmth to Cookie-Cutter Walls In This Spacious Brooklyn Home
Oak plywood, vintage furniture and bold colour bring personality to a Brooklyn apartment.
Plywood makes the room.
Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper Cuts
Kanako Abe layers tiny leaves, wolves and woodland creatures into intricate paper worlds ahead of her forthcoming illustrated book.
A whole enchanted forest fits inside these hand-cut paper portraits.
Bird-inspired drone relies on sense of touch to firmly grasp branches
A Delft prototype uses flexible, sensor-lined fingers to feel its way onto a branch, then locks its grip without continuously spending power.
The clever part is not seeing the branch—it is knowing when to hold on.
Zoya Cherkassky makes sense of American life with rich, diverse paintings in New York
Zoya Cherkassky turns sandwich shops, shared meals and everyday encounters into vivid paintings in her New York exhibition American Cooking.
What does American life look like through a newly arrived painter’s eyes?
20 Vibrant Artworks By Sungho Bae Filled With Wild Textures And Unexpected Details
Sungho Bae transforms discarded plush toys and fabric into colorful, unsettling sculptures that hover between familiar objects and imagined bodies.
These extraordinary bodies began as discarded stuffed toys.
Super-strong wood-based floor slabs rival reinforced concrete
A timber-and-concrete floor prototype carries a 20-ton demonstration load while its segmented wood structure cuts the amount of reinforced concrete needed.
A floor's hidden geometry may matter as much as the material it is made from.
In a seductive new show, Henry Holland asks sculptors to consider the meaning of home
Henry Holland’s Royal Society of Sculptors exhibition turns familiar domestic objects into funny, unsettling and unexpectedly tender artworks.
A milk delivery and a pair of trainers become surprisingly strange sculptures.
BLINK 2026 Preview: The Nation’s Largest Public Light & Art Event That Will Beautify 30+ Blocks
A new preview looks ahead to BLINK’s October 8–11 return, when light installations, projections and murals are planned across Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
More than 30 blocks are preparing to become a glowing public art walk.
In One of Rome’s Most Famed and Neglected Villas, Centuries-Old Risqué Frescoes, Painted Over by Nuns, Have Reappeared
Conservators at Villa Silvestri Rivaldi are revealing painted figures and elaborate interiors long obscured beneath later layers.
A Roman villa is giving back the images its later occupants tried to hide.
Barbie provides inspiration and source material for Gomi’s new range of unique devices
Gomi mixes discarded Barbie and Ken dolls with other plastic waste to create marbled speakers, power banks and tracker tags.
Your old Barbie could come back as a pastel power bank.
This One-Of-A-Kind Colorful Habitat Near Mexico City Hides a Stylish Housing Complex
A fresh photo feature explores Javier Senosiain’s serpent-inspired housing complex near Mexico City, where curving apartments weave into the surrounding landscape.
A giant colorful serpent conceals ten apartments near Mexico City.
Photographer Calls His Total Solar Eclipse Experience ‘One of the Highlights of My Life’
Kiko Fairbairn's account pairs a carefully planned eclipse composition over a Spanish church with the practical—and emotional—reality of 106 seconds of totality.
A year of planning, a sunflower field and less than two minutes to get it right.
Mestiza Estudio built this play cafe brand like a game, fusing aesthetics to appeal to all ages
Mestiza Estudio combines geometric lettering and hand-drawn creatures for Canica, a Mexico City cafe designed for adults and children together.
A cafe identity built from a handful of playful shapes.
8 Ways to Go Analog, Turn Off Your Phone and Explore the Outdoors
Sunset gathers eight ways to slow down outside this fall, from film photography and plant pressing to watercolor sketching and paper star charts.
Try an autumn outing that leaves you with a sketch, a journal page or a roll of film.
Alien sunsets, stone spiderwebs and mysterious doors: Curiosity's top 10 photos after 5,000 days on Mars
A new Curiosity retrospective places a blue sunset, a distant mountain and a door-like natural fracture inside the rover's long visual record of Mars.
The strangest-looking things on Mars often make the best lessons in geology.
Logos and glyphs grow out of agar and grapevines in Emi Takahashi’s graphic explorations of living forms
Emi Takahashi lets slime mould, agar and duckweed shape graphic identities that blur the boundary between typography and living material.
What if a logo could literally grow?
How the 2026 Bumbershoot Arts Programming Made the Festival a Creative Success [Interview]
Organizers explain how fashion, skateboarding, wrestling, a cat circus and immersive art made Bumbershoot’s latest edition a meeting place for creative communities.
At Bumbershoot, the surprises stretched well beyond the concert stages.
VSCO Reveals the First 25 Photographers It’s Featuring on US Billboards
The first selections for VSCO's state-by-state billboard project move distinctive photographic voices from small screens toward public space.
What changes when a photograph leaves the feed and becomes part of a city?