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Linear Rainband Floods Chiba Mall's Ground Floor—Sogo Chiba, Perier Chiba to Close Temporarily on the 14th
A linear rainband formed over Chiba on the night of the 13th, triggering an Emergency Heavy Rain Warning. Sogo Chiba, Perier Chiba, and Unimo Chiharadai will all close temporarily on the 14th—though both outlet malls and Summer Sonic 2026 will proceed as scheduled.
Using the Four Seasons as a Floor Plan: The Rooms at Zayed National Museum Change with the Weather
Agata Kurzela Studio led the interior design for Zayed National Museum, arranging meeting spaces according to the traditional Al Durour calendar and bringing in numerous Emirati designers to craft rugs, lighting, and furniture—letting the architecture itself narrate the story of time.
Porsche Relearns the Art of the Shift: 911 Carrera S Gets Manual Gearbox Back, and a Rear-Window Sticker Says It All
Bowing to buyer demand, Porsche is bringing back the six-speed manual transmission option for the 2027 911 Carrera S. For about $13,000 more, you get a walnut shift knob, titanium exhaust tips, and a lineup that now stretches to seven manual-equipped 911 variants.
IKEA Turns Its Chinese Name Into a "Peace Charm" With Ghost Festival Cake Pun
With Ghost Festival approaching, IKEA Taiwan drops a limited-edition "Home Blessing Charm Cake" that plays on the Chinese pun between "IKEA" (宜家) and "peace charm" (平安符), complete with a hidden puppy and a "prosperity" house on the bottom layer.
When Earth Stops Being Habitable: This NYC Group Show Swaps Escape Bags for Myth and Memory
603 Arts Foundation's inaugural exhibition "The Cataclysm of Binary Star Systems" runs through August 29 at Nunu Fine Art in New York, bringing together artists from Asia, Latin America and their diasporas to explore one question through astronomical mythology: what would humanity carry if forced to start over.
Selten x Watch Ho & Co. Carves Dim Sum Memories Onto the Dial—3,500 Cuts to Recreate Bamboo Steamer Texture
Selten teams up with watch community platform Watch Ho & Co. to launch the "Yum Cha" 3rd anniversary watch, featuring a hand-enameled dial that recreates the texture of a bamboo steamer, limited to 100 pieces worldwide, priced at $4,950.
The Legend GM Tried to Kill: 1963 Corvette Grand Sport Heading to Auction for Millions
Zora Arkus-Duntov set out to build 125 lightweight race cars to take down the Shelby Cobra, but Chevrolet brass shut the project down after just five were completed. Now one of those five is crossing the block at Monterey this week, with estimates reaching as high as $13 million.
LV's Rare Co-Branded Collab: Two Singer Porsche 911s, Each Built Around a Director's Obsession
For the first time, Louis Vuitton co-brands a finished product with another label, teaming up with Singer Vehicle Design to rebuild two 964-generation 911s—one for watch director Jean Arnault, one for artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière.
Chevrolet Pulls Out of China's Retail Market, But the Factory Keeps Running
Chevrolet's annual sales in China have plummeted from 760,000 units to under 9,000 in a decade. GM is pulling the badge from showrooms but keeping the factory alive, shifting to contract manufacturing for export to emerging markets while pouring all its resources into Buick and Cadillac instead.
AMG Lifts Its Four-Door GT EV Performance Onto a Taller Body: Enter the Hatchback Crossover
Mercedes-AMG has dropped a teaser shot draped in black, confirming that the GT 4-Door Coupe EV is getting a "taller-standing" sibling, with battery and power figures carried straight over from the sedan.
Time+Tide Turns Its Watch Launch Into a Music Festival: Seven Independent Brands, Seven Limited Editions
Time+Tide is turning its annual release into a full-blown music festival, hitting New York, Melbourne, and London simultaneously this September. Seven independent watchmakers each contribute one special edition, with prices ranging from $800 to $3,650.
Same Mastiha Spirit, Two Very Different Answers from Two Taipei Bars
Greek brand Skinos Mastiha Spirit teams up with Testing Room and The Public House — one deconstructs the spirit like a perfume, reworking classic cocktails; the other grafts Chios terroir onto Taiwanese tea and fruit. Eight limited-edition cocktails, all August long.
sunburn. Goes From Yilan Beach Food Truck to a Permanent Spot at NOKE in Dazhi
Founder Alex distills years of travel and surfing across California, Australia, Bali, and Taiwan's east coast into hot dogs, fresh-cut fries, and cross-brand drinks — building a Fast-Casual space in Dazhi where you can eat fast or linger for hours.
Three-Time World Champion Asked to Ride It Himself — Rough Crafts' Build Sells Out Royal Enfield's Limited Edition in 179 Seconds
After spotting the Caliber Royale at Goodwood, Freddie Spencer personally requested a ride — an encounter that ultimately sparked a globally limited run of 100 Shotgun 650 special editions, which sold out in under three minutes.
Forget the 700hp headline — Aston Martin's DB12 S is really about earning your trust in the corners
The Aston Martin DB12 S has officially launched in Taiwan, packing 700PS from its twin-turbo V8 — but it's the reworked chassis and brakes that define this "Super Tourer." Pricing starts at NT$14.88 million.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Turns 20: Drag in an Underground Reservoir, a Skate Park Rager
Copenhagen Fashion Week just turned 20, and across 34 shows, what stuck wasn't scale — it was contrast. One show staged drag as body politics inside a subterranean water reservoir; another threw open a skate park to random passersby to watch and jump in. Collina Strada also made its European debut here.
Frank Kunert Pulled the Tiny People Out of His Models — And That's When the Architecture Started Lying
German photographer Frank Kunert hand-builds his scenes at scales from 1:12 to 1:43, but early on he made a call to strip out the figurines — letting a staircase, or an apartment wedged under an overpass, tell the story on its own.
This Hokkaido House Was Designed as One Giant Window Into the Forest
Architect Yosuke Tomiya's Morimado House in Hokkaido — its name literally translating to "forest window" — uses split-level circulation and an arched opening to turn the backyard forest into scenery you can't help but run into every day.
How an Invisible House Won Over a Council: Inside Lumion Pro's Role in a London Firm's 3-Year Planning Battle
Agora Architects' fully subterranean home The Wilderness spent three years stuck in planning purgatory. What finally turned the tide was Lumion Pro's seasonal lighting and terrain simulation—a tool that ended up quietly reshaping the studio's entire design workflow.
Paola Pivi: When Everything Gets Recorded, Where Does Play Go?
From a secondhand vacuum cleaner in a Milan warehouse to a wooden clog thrown across a childhood apartment complex, Paola Pivi's essay for designboom asks a pointed question: in an age of total surveillance, how much freedom is left in play?
Old Clothes, Steel Cage, No Glue: A Fashion-Trained Architect "Welds" Building Material With a Hacked 3D Printer
Taylor Leung swapped a 3D printer's extruder for five heated metal needles, using no adhesive at all to melt down fast fashion's discarded polyester garments into a porous material—then turned it into chairs, walls, columns, and eventually a full-scale shed.
From Jerzy to Jorge: A Name Change, Two Homes of Modernism
Polish architect Jorge Zalszupin escaped the Holocaust and drifted through France before settling in Brazil, where he took a new name upon gaining citizenship and fused European rationalism with tropical woodgrain in his furniture designs—work now set to be exhibited in Milan in 2026.
A Park With No Grass: DeRoche Projects Is Growing an Edible Public Garden in Accra
DeRoche Projects has broken ground on the Backyard Community Garden in Accra, Ghana, swapping out lawns and imported paving for rammed earth, crushed palm kernel shells, and edible plantings—slated for completion in 2027.
Cracked Mirrors, Shifting Metal: Rikky Hype's Kyiv Flagship Turns Instability Into Retail Language
Designed by Temp Project, the Rikky Hype flagship in Kyiv builds a 160-square-meter space out of raw plaster, cork, and gasoline-toned metal — where mirrors are used to distort and fracture, not just reflect.