Instagram users offer a preview of The Broad museum in Los Angeles
The Broad museum designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro is set to open in September, heralding an architecture boom in Los Angeles. More
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MAD proposes conceptual "vertical village" for LA as alternative to sprawl
Chinese firm MAD Architects has proposed a futuristic housing scheme for LA that features sculptural towers wrapped in gardens and connected by sky bridges. More
CHA:COL creates a live-work space in LA using hacked IKEA products
American studio CHA:COL has incorporated modified IKEA products into a unit that serves as an office and apartment for two visual artists in Los Angeles. More
Constructed Images: Simon Kennedy distorts the interior of a disused London laboratory
Photo essay: British photographer Simon Kennedy documents an old laboratory at University College London in this series of manipulated images, which each come in positive and negative forms (+ slideshow). More
Office Mian Ye wraps a Maryland home in wood battens made of knotty cedar
This family home in Maryland by Office Mian Ye is sheathed in a wooden brise-soleil, enabling views of the landscape while also offering privacy (+ slideshow). More
Photo-realistic renderings depict an imaginary house in a wild seaside landscape
Visualisation studio Bloomimages has created a series of hyper-realistic renderings depicting a home and studio for an artist in the ageing concrete structures of an old shipyard on the edge of the North Sea (+ slideshow). More
Wonmin Park adds resin table and bookcase to Haze furniture series
Korean artist Wonmin Park is exhibiting a new table and bookcase from his resin furniture series at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. More
Pitsou Kedem brings together translucent, transparent and opaque materials for family house
Concrete slabs, translucent glass planks and frameless window walls offer varying degrees of privacy for this house in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan by Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More
NK Guy documents 16 years of creating and destroying Burning Man's temporary "city"
Photo essay: Canadian photographer NK Guy first went to Burning Man festival in 1998, and has returned to the Nevada desert each year since to shoot the artworks that spring up then vanish just as quickly (+ slideshow). More
Archiplan Studio blends old and new for restoration of early 20th-century Italian villa
Archiplan Studio has rejuvenated the interior of a villa in northern Italy, reviving original wallpapers and furnishings, and pairing them with contemporary details (+ slideshow). More
Joseph Joseph aims to reinvent microwave cooking with M-Cuisine collection
London kitchenware brand Joseph Joseph has developed a collection of containers for microwave cooking that can be used to prepare full meals rather than just heating up leftovers (+ slideshow). More
ODOS Architects creates introverted house on "undevelopable" site in Dublin
Designed to look like a garden wall, this seemingly windowless brick house in Dublin was created by ODOS Architects to reference an orchard that once occupied the site (+ slideshow). More
Décadrages' BedUp lifts up to the ceiling when not in use
Instead of folding against a wall, this space-saving bed by French furniture manufacture Décadrages can be hoisted up to the ceiling to create more room in studio apartments. More
Explore images of imaginative art and design studios on our updated Pinterest board
Artists and designers often chose the most dramatic locations to build their workspaces. We've updated our dedicated Pinterest board with some of the most interesting and beautiful recent examples, including a studio submerged into the side of a cliff and a cabin perched above a babbling stream.
Golden aluminium featuring cube patterns clads walls of university building by AVDK
Aluminium sheets perforated with a geometric pattern create angled facets around the windows of this university student centre in Kortrijk (+ slideshow). More
Nina Simone influences Estudio Sputnik's sofa for Missana
Spanish furniture brand Missana has launched the Simone sofa, designed by Estudio Sputnik to reference a grand piano and named after the famous jazz and blues artist. More
Simon Landrein depicts sci-fi landscapes for Silkie's Love Affair music video
Music: animator Simon Landrein takes viewers on a journey through futuristic cities and into outer space in Silkie's Love Affair music video (+ movie). More
Islington extension by Coffey Architects brings in light through a sunken courtyard
A sunken courtyard brings daylight down into the new living room and study of this north London home, added by Coffey Architects in place of an old garage. More
This week, Gehry continued his dominance of LA's architecture boom
Frank Gehry unveiled plans for a development of five buildings along Los Angeles' Sunset Strip this week, adding to the architect's list of projects in his home city – which is experiencing a surge of high-profile architecture projects. More
Stereo Architektur builds wooden "house within a house" inside Basel factory
Swiss architecture studio Stereo Architektur has completed its first project: a wooden structure that transforms a former Basel machine factory into a shared working space (+ slideshow). More