Architecture

Lego should be simple, not smart

The Lego Smart Brick being introduced ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.

Trump team pitches White House ballroom, considers adding storey to part of West Wing

Architect Shalom Baranes points to a rendering during a public hearing regarding the White House ballroom construction at the National Capital Planning Commission in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. The proposed White House ballroom will cost as much as $400 million, with President Donald Trump saying it will also be equipped to host inaugurations going forward. Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg

This museum housed 120,000 works of art. Now it is empty

The Pompidou’s postmodern design, which shocked traditionalists when it was first built, in Paris, May 12, 2025. The Pompidou Center is the place to see contemporary art in Paris. Or it was, until curators put its astonishing collection into storage. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)

Global Design

Feel the beat: Discover Miami’s design pulse at high-energy South Beach

rrtravel - The Colony, iconic in bright pastel blue.
Credit: RYAN RYANDALL

Unveiling of Grand Egyptian Museum, an emblem of longevity and scale of Egypt’s civilisation

Visitors gather around the 11‑metre, 83‑tonne statue of Ramesses II in the sun‑dappled Grand Hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau, near Cairo.

Architect Frank Gehry’s essential, stunning projects

Celebrated American architect Frank Gehry left behind playful, polarising buildings across the globe.

SUSS edits Rochor campus tender after ‘unfair clauses’ flagged by Singapore Institute of Architects

Student at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) on March 12, 2020.

No need to 'break' with US over security policy, German spy chief says

FILE PHOTO: Sinan Selen, Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) looks on during a press conference about the Economic Security Report in Berlin, Germany September 18, 2025. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/ File Photo

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Dec 6, 2025

FILE Ñ President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 10, 2025. Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the political leadership in Europe. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

American superstar architect Frank Gehry dies at age 96

Frank Gehry at his architecture studio in Los Angeles in April 2021. He died at his US home in Santa Monica, California, on Dec 5.

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