Journal

Ceramics Are The Foundation to Beautiful Plating

The perfect plate can enliven the experience, they can present something in a completely unique context. To many chefs, the ceramic surface is as pivotal to displaying presenting food as the dish i...

Running To Reclaim the Streets of Rio

“We are not a club, we are a crew, a cultural resistance,” explains Júnior Negão of Ghetto Run Crew. Together with his wife Gisele Nascimento, the pair use running as a creative and physical tool f...

The Romance of Running

The resurgence of running during the lockdown is a story told the world over. The past year has awoken this passion in millions, acting as a meditative escape and also a lifestyle that connects you...

Henning Larsen: Will The Pandemic Change Architecture?

The pandemic has dramatically changed the ways humanity lives and works. The almost universal introduction of 'working from home' has created a gaping crater between the quality of life in cities a...

The Therapy of Joana Choumali’s Threading

Prix Pictet winner Joana Choumali is a multi-media artist who fuses photography with embroidery. Her work depicts life in African cities with hand-stitched qualities, creating dreamlike scenes that...

Robin Chase on Reinventing Mobility for The Ideal City

Robin Chase’s work has reshaped mobility in cities and our understanding of how we can share resources. Offering a compelling vision for a greener and more multimodal future of transportation, she ...

Iso Grifo: Bridging Italian Design with American Power

In the 1960s, Europe and America were colliding over their interruptions of what makes a beautiful grand tourer. Renzo Rivolta through the Iso Grifo managed to fuse Italian design with the horsepow...

Blunt Action’s Gateway To Another Reality

Like a cosmic cocktail of nostalgic popular culture, music, and history, the rendered realities of Blunt Action harmoniously share a canvas with technology and futurism. We discuss collaboration wi...

The Rebirth of China’s Hinterlands

There is a mass migration to China's countryside after decades of urbanization, a reversal of reform is bringing newfound prosperity to the hinterlands. With economic opportunities come new archite...

A Green Sanctuary in the Shadows of Ho Chi Minh

Over the course of two decades, Ho Chi Minh has experienced an unprecedented population rise. In a bid to say true to its architectural heritage, slim and vertical facades have been transforming ne...