From the first moment I saw a photo of this home, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater has fascinated and inspired me. It brought me great joy to see that a three-year renovation was recently completed. I've yet to visit this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Perhaps now is the time.

This Pretext library enables some very cool stuff. Why? Websites use a system from the 1990s to determine where everything goes on screen, and every time something changes, the browser has to recalculate the positions of everything on the entire page. This makes sites slow and limits what designers can do with text.

Last week, an engineer released a free tool called Pretext that does all that layout math on its own, hundreds of times faster. It allows text to flow and reshape itself around other objects in real time, and it opens up possibilities for web design that simply weren't practical before.

Within days, developers were already building wild demos: text that reacts to physics, magazine-style layouts that rearrange in real time, and reading tools for people with dyslexia. The demos are very cool.

The Place des Montréalaises project in Montreal is a reminder that great design can be more than just beautiful to look at. It can carry meaning and purpose at the same time.

The centerpiece is a floating, inclined plane housing a vast meadow with 21 plant species across 86 clusters. Its goal was to correct the historical underrepresentation of women in public spaces by inscribing their memory directly into the city's physical landscape. I'd say they accomplished that goal.

Articles like this one frustrate me because they pick at the edges of something. In this one, they're arguing that it's not powerful enough to be an off-road vehicle. Who cares? It looks retro cool, and it's inexpensive; only we'll never have it here in the United States.

This is an interesting interview with Javier Fernández Contreras, associate professor and head of the Department of Space Design/Interior Architecture at HEAD Genève. It shows some thinking around how to incorporate new tech into design thinking. "Students now need to cultivate a combination of technical, conceptual, and ethical skills. They must be proficient in emerging digital tools – from AI-driven modeling to immersive spatial simulation – while also developing sensitivity to ecological and social contexts."