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Cao Fei Zones a Basel Museum Like a City: Seven Districts, No New Walls
Cao Fei and Small Production turn Kunstmuseum Basel's Gegenwart into a seven-district city with paint, floors, seats and signs. Closes 11 October 2026.
What a Tower Owes the Street: Zürich Rewrites Its 2001 High-Rise Rules
Zürich voters adopted stricter high-rise rules: public ground floors from 40 m, a competition for every tower, bonus floor area for affordable housing.
Blade Runner's Future Was a Retrofit: Syd Mead, the 1894 Bradbury Atrium and Umbau
Blade Runner's 2019 was shot inside the 1894 Bradbury atrium. Syd Mead's retro-deco shows why a believable future is built on existing fabric, as in Umbau.
The Smear Frame, Built in Steel: What MSCHF's Twisted Lexus Cars Teach Every Freeform Facade
MSCHF bent two Lexus cars into a render glitch made of steel. What one-click twist and bend operators really cost in panels, seams and transport on site.
Bones for a Roof: Fisac's Hollow Concrete Beam That Spans, Lights and Drains
Fisac's hollow post-tensioned bone beam spans 22 m, lights and drains a Madrid hall. Now on show in Newcastle: ask what every void in your roof does.
Gemini 4 Argon: What a $2 Frontier Model Means for a Swiss Office Stack
Gemini 4 Argon arrives at $2/$10 per million tokens with a 1M output window. What it means for tender review, nDSG data routing and Swiss office AI stacks.
Barcelona's Superblocks Run on an 1859 Rule Set: Cerdà's Chamfered Block, Read a Second Time
Barcelona's superblocks read Cerdà's 1859 chamfered grid a second time. The rule set, the measured health gains, and a GhPython sketch for your own city.
The flight path drew the skyline: Kowloon Walled City, cyberpunk's real prototype
About 350 self-built towers, 33,000 people, no architect: how the Kai Tak flight path drew Kowloon Walled City, and what Swiss offices can learn.
Kalkbreite, Read From the Rails Up: A Small City Stacked on a Working Tram Depot
Kalkbreite in Zürich, read from the rails up: VBZ depot, city ring, raised courtyard, 256 residents, and the written rules that hold the megablock together.
Linkages after Origami: Harvard and Tokyo Grow Collapsible Surfaces One Joint at a Time
A Harvard and University of Tokyo team grows deployable scissor lattices joint by joint. What it means for kinetic facades and pavilions in Switzerland.
