Fact File Project: Resting Pavilion, Osaka Expo 2025 Location: Yumeshima, Osaka, Japan Area: 248 m² Architects: MIDW Structure: Jun Yanagimuro Structure Design, Toshiaki Kimura Furniture: Studio arche Year: 2025 Photography: Benjamin Hosking Yumeshima, the artificial island hosting Expo 2025 in Osaka, sits on reclaimed land with inherently weak ground conditions. Any construction on the site required the removal of a volume of soil equivalent to the weight of the proposed bui

Hòa Vang sits at the edge of Da Nang where the city has not quite arrived yet. The plots are wider here, the pace slower, and the feel of the village is still present in the way people move through their days even as new construction steadily fills in the gaps. For a young family building a home in this kind of place, the question is not simply what the house should look like but what kind of relationship it should have with everything around it. Architect Võ Văn Thành and th

Based in Milan, the practice moves easily between product design, art, fashion, and illustration, refusing to prioritize one discipline over another. Salmistraro’s work is driven by an architectural understanding of form and a deeply emotional approach to objects, where color, texture, and narrative are not applied as surface treatments but embedded into the design process itself. Her objects often feel animated, expressive, and intentionally imperfect, shaped by cultural ref