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Three full-scale structures show how little housing an average 25-year-old can afford in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Umeå. Image: Courtesy Riksbyggen. Source: Fast Company . What does housing affordability look like when it is reduced to floor area? In Sweden, a new public campaign answers with three full-scale structures: 1.9 square metres in Stockholm, 3.1 square metres in Gothenburg and 4.5 square metres in Umeå. The installation, titled “Visning av verkligheten,” was created by housing cooperative Riksbyggen and BBDO Nordics to represent the calculated purchasing power of an average 25-year-old in each city. The project is deliberately physical. Instead of presenting affordability as a percentage, index or policy statistic, it gives the figures walls, corners and thresholds. The result is an architectural argument: a housing market can be technically measurable and still be difficult to comprehend until its consequences occupy space in front of us. Riksbyggen describes the campai...

The expanded partnership reaches beyond chips, linking cloud compute with CPUs, networking, open models, data systems and robotics. Image: ARDEZART editorial illustration. Source: ARDEZART AI & Content Policy . AWS and NVIDIA plan to deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across Amazon Web Services’ global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028, a commitment that signals how quickly demand for large-scale AI computing is continuing to expand. The companies announced the plan on August 26 alongside a broader extension of their 16-year collaboration. AWS and NVIDIA’s announcement names Blackwell Ultra, Rubin and Rubin Ultra GPUs among the systems involved. The headline can be read as a tripling of Amazon’s previously announced GPU expansion, but the wording requires care. AWS and NVIDIA described plans to deploy an additional 2 million GPUs, not a disclosed purchase order or a transaction with published financial terms. The earlier commitment, announced at NVIDIA GTC 2026, covered mor...

In Zushi, a compact timber home turns dismantling, reuse and possible relocation into a quiet architectural strategy for an uncertain future. Image: Takuya Seki. Source: designboom.com . A small wooden house in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan, has been designed with an unusually open-ended future. Completed in 2023 by tyfa/Takaaki Fuji + Yuko Fuji Architecture, with AREANO involved in the design, Circularity Cabin is a two-story residence measuring 59.62 square meters. Its structure is conceived not as a permanent, indivisible object, but as a collection of standard timber components that can be dismantled, reused and potentially reconstructed elsewhere. The project has attracted attention because a possible future road widening may eventually affect the site. That possibility remains conditional: there is no evidence that the house has already been moved, and neither the timing nor implementation of the road project is established. The significant point is therefore not a relocation event,...

The Japanese avant-garde artist transformed dots, nets and mirrored space into an expansive language of infinity, perception and connection. Image: NGV International. Source: designboom.com . Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist whose dots, nets and mirrored environments became some of the most recognizable images in contemporary art, has died at 97. Her studio and official website announced that she died at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026. The announcement did not disclose a cause of death. It also stated that Kusama continued to paint until her final days, maintaining a lifelong commitment to artistic production. Her studio’s announcement was independently reported by the Associated Press . The news closes the life of an artist whose work made repetition feel both intimate and cosmic. Kusama’s motifs were simple: a circle, a line, a net, a mirrored reflection. Yet through obsessive accumulation, these modest elements became environments capable of altering a view...

SMAK Architects’ Anderlecht campus layers education, childcare, sport and small-scale industry on a former industrial site. Image: Philippe van Gelooven. Source: ArchDaily . Campus Deleers, designed by SMAK Architects in Anderlecht, Brussels, brings education and urban production into a single 26,000-square-metre mixed-use development. Presented by ArchDaily , the project combines a primary school, technical secondary school, childcare, adult education, sports facilities and units for small and medium-sized enterprises. Its central architectural proposition is direct: productive spaces occupy the lower portion of the campus, while educational functions are stacked above. The arrangement turns a former industrial site into a dense civic district, while preserving room for work, learning, movement and public use within one legible structure. The result is less a conventional school building than a piece of urban infrastructure. A campus with more than one public The educational pro...

Archetype Entertainment’s cinematic science-fiction RPG EXODUS will launch on April 7, 2027, across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Image: ARDEZART editorial illustration. Source: ARDEZART AI & Content Policy . EXODUS, the story-driven science-fiction action RPG from Archetype Entertainment, will launch on April 7, 2027, for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The release date was confirmed alongside an official trailer, turning a long-running promise of a cinematic space adventure into a more concrete production milestone. Archetype’s announcement gives the project a defined arrival point, while coverage from 80 Level places the news within the broader expectations surrounding the title. The date matters because EXODUS has been discussed less as an ordinary new release than as a possible continuation of a particular design tradition: the character-focused, choice-driven space RPG. Its connection to that tradition is not an official genre label, and comparisons to Mass Effect...

A reported six-year computing agreement would tie Anthropic’s growth to one of the industry’s largest planned AI campuses. Image: ARDEZART editorial illustration. Source: ARDEZART AI & Content Policy . Anthropic is reportedly preparing to spend approximately $45 billion over six years to rent artificial-intelligence computing capacity from Nscale, in what would be one of the most consequential infrastructure commitments yet associated with a model developer. The arrangement, first reported by Bloomberg and corroborated by Reuters, is said to involve roughly 460 megawatts of capacity at Nscale’s planned data-center development in West Virginia. The deal has not been publicly confirmed by Anthropic or Nscale, so its value, duration and technical terms remain source-based rather than formally announced. According to the reporting, the computing capacity would use NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin systems, a next-generation platform intended for demanding AI workloads. The agreement would therefo...

Brasília’s celebrated modernism depended on migrant workers, compressed schedules, and a construction culture that still shapes how architecture is understood. Image: ARDEZART editorial illustration. Source: ARDEZART AI & Content Policy . Architecture’s most celebrated images often conceal the labor systems that made them possible. A new ArchDaily report on labor shortages and architecture revisits this tension through the construction of Brasília, a city planned and built at extraordinary speed on Brazil’s Central Plateau. The capital was inaugurated on April 21, 1960, after construction began in 1956–57. Its public buildings and monumental spaces are commonly associated with Oscar Niemeyer’s sculptural concrete and Lúcio Costa’s urban plan. Yet the city’s physical clarity depended on a vast, temporary workforce: tens of thousands of migrants who arrived from across Brazil and became known as candangos. A 1959 experimental census by Brazil’s IBGE recorded approximately 64,000 ...