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Spotify founder’s body scan startup designs a new kind of health clinic

Neko, cofounded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, is prioritizing design as it opens its first New York City clinic.

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The last starchitect: Ma Yansong’s ostentatious, otherworldly case for the architectural showstopper

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art puts the Chinese wunderkind in the brightest spotlight of his career. Ma and his longtime collaborators open up...

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Autodesk’s AI assistant could radically change how buildings are designed and built

A new AI tool from software giant Autodesk reconsiders the entire design stack.

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This building at UC Berkeley wears its earthquake prevention on the outside

UC Berkeley’s Grimes Engineering Center, a building designed with a novel structural system, is a winner of Fast Company’s 2026 Innovation by...

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The best architectural design of 2026

See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2026 Innovation by Design Awards in the architectural design category.

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LoveFrom and Moncler’s playful new collection blurs industrial design and fashion

In an exclusive interview, Jony Ive unpacks the modular outerwear line that LoveFrom co-designed with the luxury brand Moncler.

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Architectural models finally come to the browser

The software platform Motif Design brings highly complex building models into a collaboration-centric browser format.

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This famous architect died before finishing his last building. Then his son stepped in to help

César Pelli’s final building is a beautiful museum for Argentine artist Lola Mora.

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Fitbit’s founders designed a wearable for the whole family

Luffu, a health tracking app designed for families and caregivers, just unveiled a device that rethinks the wearable.

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These shockingly small houses were built to match what a 25-year-old can actually afford

A housing reform campaign in Sweden matched home sizes to the budgets of young people. The results are a call to action.

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Ikea’s new collab turns Xbox controllers into furniture

The home furnishings collection takes inspiration from the video game controller while rethinking how gaming fits into the home.

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Architects are sitting on a data gold mine, and Anthropic and other frontier AI labs can’t get to it

Seven leading-edge firms reveal how they’re building their own tools to win in the age of AI.

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This school security system displays safe evacuation routes during shootings and disasters

With this light-based system, buildings themselves show occupants the safest way to avoid an active threat or emergency.

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What should the future look like? Inside the tech-funded program to create a new aesthetic

Billionaire Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and libertarian economist Tyler Cowen have created a grant program to replace modernism—and define a new...

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To save $30 million, LAX built its new concourse outside the airport

A new concourse at LAX was built just outside the airport’s security zone, then trucked into place, speeding up the project and diversifying the...

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Who designed Dulles Airport’s $22.5 billion update? Maybe Trump himself

The D.C.-area complex could be getting a multibillion-dollar modernization. President Trump apparently played a big role in shaping its design.

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As its new bikes launch in the Bay Area, Lyft’s bikeshare ambitions are going global

San Francisco’s bikeshare program is getting a new name and upgraded bikes.

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This hotel-inspired hospital is designed to make high-risk pregnancies feel less scary

The Advanced Delivery Unit at Nemours Children’s Health in Wilmington, Delaware, takes cues from hospitality projects to ensure expectant mothers...

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A hockey-inspired bridge finally opens between the U.S. and Canada

The Gordie Howe International Bridge became a microcosm of Trump’s geopolitical disputes.

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The ignored, ugly utilities that run your home just got a major redesign

HVAC units and water heaters are going high design, with a dash of AI thrown in.

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The experience economy is heading into . . . a nuclear missile silo?

The founder of Atomika describes the festival as “Burning Man meets Davos meets Area 51.”

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GM’s AI tools could cut the car development timeline in half

The new tools will help GM design better, safer cars, faster.

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These tiny records now have their own miniature record player

Tiny Vinyl, which makes playable 4-inch vinyl records, is releasing a player to spin them.

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Ikea’s newest collection is designed for young renters on the move

These furnishings are meant to suit young urbanites’ nomadic tendencies—and the general precarity of living in a city in your twenties.

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This prefab homebuilder is moving from tiny ADUs to small-scale starter homes

Samara, the prefab homebuilder cofounded by Airbnb’s Joe Gebbia, is developing single family homes with a small footprint to meet Californians’...

13.07.2026 10

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Amid ongoing war, a new children’s hospital in Ukraine is a lifeline

Modular and prefabricated, this new wing could be a model for health care infrastructure in conflict zones.

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Visitors are the stars in the new Theodore Roosevelt presidential library

Dedicated to the life of the nation’s 26th president, the design embraces its North Dakota landscape and Roosevelt’s passion for conservation.

02.07.2026 20

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Inside Samsung’s design process to make your earbuds fit just right

An exclusive look at how the consumer electronics giant is using computational design to make everything from earbuds to smartwatches more...

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The dollhouse just got an ingenious design update

Melissa & Doug revamped the dollhouse to be more playable for the youngest children.

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Inside CAA’s new Nashville office, where a listening lounge, sports bar, and employee dressing rooms are the amenities

Talent agencies come with their own specific set of workplace requirements.

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Zoox just redesigned its robotaxis for more comfort and less stink

The new Zoox robotaxi design takes lessons from half a million rides. And from human nature.

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Peek inside the archives of a titan of 20th century architecture

The archives of the lauded Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei are heading to his alma mater, MIT, which will showcase a trove of his professional and...

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You probably haven’t heard of ‘desire lines,’ but they just reinvented this airport’s concourse

Behavioral data and the airport’s shopping-based business model became the driving elements of an eye-grabbing space.

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Bruce Springsteen’s new center in New Jersey is a jewel box monument to his music

Surrounded by a meadow of grasses and flowers, the Jersey Shore institution appears to float on a coastal dune.

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A world-class STEM university is coming to small town Arkansas

Created by Walmart heirs, the STEM university in Bentonville just got a flashy design by the Bjarke Ingels Group.

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Inside the painstaking, yearslong process of making perfect grass for the World Cup

Researchers spent years developing the grass seed mix, soil depth, and strength of the grasses that will make up the 2026 World Cup pitches.

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This famed architecture firm is bringing rare designs from its archive back to life

IBM easy chairs. Halston tubular tables. SOM dug into its archives and is making some of its best furniture commercially available.

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The racetrack is getting a long overdue makeover

All three Triple Crown racetracks are getting redesigned as horseracing as sport fights for relevance.

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The Obama Presidential Center is more than its granite tower

We spoke to the architects and urbanists behind the architectural lightning rod about their ambitious plans to give the 19-acre campus its own...

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Kevin O’Leary believes his 10,000-acre data center can be ‘beautiful’

The ‘Shark Tank’ star’s Stratos data center project in Utah has spurred vocal opposition, but he says its design sets a new standard.

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Billionaire urbanism: How Walmart heir Alice Walton engineered a small-town paradise

A tour of Bentonville, Arkansas, where one of the most remarkable urban transformations in America has taken place, courtesy of the Walton family and...

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Instead of building from scratch, this NFL team is renovating—and saving $1 billion

The Jacksonville Jaguars are among a growing number of sports teams seeing the benefits of renovating their stadiums.

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Trump’s arch now has elevators—and a $100 million price tag

Sailing through a crucial design review, the president’s monumental arch in Washington, D.C., just got a lot more expensive.

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Gantri just reinvented the wireless light. Now you can, too

The lighting company is launching a series of new wireless lamps, and giving everyone else the chance to design their own via a new platform.

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Ikea’s newest furniture makes Scandinavian design fun again

The new Ikea PS collection features a range of whimsical furnishings that could redefine the future of the company’s design approach.

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Dallas built a stunning park on top of 14 lanes of freeway

Another impressive freeway cap park re-stitches the Texas city. But the Trump administration has made other freeway cap projects unlikely.

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A waterfront glow-up is transforming Brooklyn’s polluted Gowanus Canal

More than a dozen projects are reconnecting people to the water and rebuilding the local ecology.

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You can stay overnight at this South Dakota hospital, no doctor’s appointment required

Come for the surgery, stay for the convenience.

01.05.2026 20

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The New York Red Bulls’ stunning new $100 million soccer facility brings pros and kids under one roof

The soccer team’s training facility takes lessons directly from European soccer clubs and their training academies.

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‘We are very nerdy’: An exclusive interview with Ikea’s top designer

Ikea’s global design manager Johan Ejdemo chats about the company’s priorities in 2026, the changing shape of its products, and the role AI is and...

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