California architecture studio SPF Architects has transformed its own octagonal house in the Santa Monica Mountains, combining a more open interior with extensive measures designed to improve wildfire resilience. Known as Mountain Residence, the project renovates a 1980s house set on a 17-acre (6.9-hectare) property in Los Angeles County. SPF…

Munich architecture studio Holzrausch has transformed a townhouse into a dark, theatrical interior inspired by the atmosphere of 1970s South American cinema. The project, titled Private Club, was designed for film producer Cornelia Popp and her husband. The couple developed a storyboard based on South American movies as a creative…

U.S. President Donald Trump has unveiled conceptual renderings for a major overhaul of Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC, proposing a substantial expansion around Eero Saarinen’s landmark terminal. The plan was announced by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) in partnership with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and United Airlines.…

The Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition (IPE), the world’s longest-running contemporary photography exhibition, returns to London’s Saatchi Gallery for its 167th edition this August. Running from August 7 to September 11, IPE167 brings together 48 works by photographers from around the world. The exhibition explores how contemporary photography continues…

New York-based Palestinian American artist Sabri Sundos is presenting Chasing Flowers, a new solo exhibition at Fisk Gallery in Portland, Oregon. The exhibition examines the tension between escape and engagement through recurring floral imagery. For Sundos, flowers become symbols of beauty, refuge, and resilience, offering moments of pause within a…

LOV. Foundation and XTANT have entered a long-term cultural partnership focused on craft, textiles, and the preservation of creative knowledge across generations. The collaboration debuted in Mallorca this summer through lov.YATRA is an immersive cultural programme that brings together artists, cultural figures, and changemakers to explore the island’s living artistic…

Berlin architecture studio Ænsemble has transformed a century-old country house in Brandenburg, Germany, combining preserved Wilhelminian-era details with colourful contemporary interiors. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the 700-square-metre residence had fallen into disrepair before half of the property was acquired by a family of artists. They wanted…