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🇳🇱🍨 A unique ice cream creation in the Netherlands is getting attention for its unusual concept icecream designed to hel...
03/10/2026

🇳🇱🍨 A unique ice cream creation in the Netherlands is getting attention for its unusual concept icecream designed to help with headaches. Some specialty ice cream shops have experimented with adding paracetamol (acetaminophen) to vanilla ice cream, presenting it as a novelty product that combines a cold dessert with a common pain reliever. The idea plays on two things people already use for headaches: cold treats and over-the-counter medication.

However, the concept has sparked debate among health experts. While paracetamol is a widely used painkiller, mixing medication directly into food raises safety and dosage concerns, and products like this would typically require strict regulation in most countries. Because of those concerns, versions of this “headache ice cream” are usually presented more as a promotional or experimental concept rather than a widely available medical treatment. 💊🍦

Khao Yai elephant raids pool villa, dubbed VVIP guest onlineA wild elephant from Khao Yai National Park wandered into a ...
03/09/2026

Khao Yai elephant raids pool villa, dubbed VVIP guest online

A wild elephant from Khao Yai National Park wandered into a pool villa in the Khao Yai area and playfully dipped its trunk into a swimming pool, prompting amused reactions from social media users who dubbed the animal a “VVIP guest”.

Development of the world’s first curved escalator had its share of ups and downs.🎥
03/09/2026

Development of the world’s first curved escalator had its share of ups and downs.🎥

Heatherwick | MVRDV and Mecanoo
03/09/2026

Heatherwick | MVRDV and Mecanoo

A real life AutoCAD tree 🥦
03/06/2026

A real life AutoCAD tree 🥦

Ardete Headquarters + Studio Ardete | Prerna and Badrinath Kaleru
03/04/2026

Ardete Headquarters + Studio Ardete | Prerna and Badrinath Kaleru

0914 Flagship Store | TRU Architects 🇰🇷
03/03/2026

0914 Flagship Store | TRU Architects 🇰🇷

An appeals court ruled Zaha Hadid Architects can change the name of Zaha Hadid Architects and to renegotiate the terms o...
03/03/2026

An appeals court ruled Zaha Hadid Architects can change the name of Zaha Hadid Architects and to renegotiate the terms of the contract it has with the Zaha Hadid Foundation. The architecture office may no longer have to pay 6 percent of its annual earnings to the foundation.

🔴⚪️ Red and White volumes redefine daixi’s riverfront.the new culture, sports and commercial complex spans both banks of...
03/03/2026

🔴⚪️ Red and White volumes redefine daixi’s riverfront.

the new culture, sports and commercial complex spans both banks of a central river, drawing on the idea of an ‘abstract landscape’ to translate mountain and water into bold geometric forms. a curved pedestrian corridor links the two sides, framing movement and views across the historic waterway.

Antoni Gaudi’s spectacular Sagrada Família is now standing at its full height above Barcelona. The installation of the f...
03/02/2026

Antoni Gaudi’s spectacular Sagrada Família is now standing at its full height above Barcelona. The installation of the final arm on the central tower of Jesus Christ took the building to its final height of 172.5-metres.

The structure officially became the tallest church in the world in October 2025 when it overtook Germany’s Ulm Minster, a building which had held the title since 1890.

Works first started on the Sagrada Família in 1882 and have been ongoing for more than 140 years. The ambition is to complete much of the exterior structural works in 2026 to coincide with the centenary of Gaudi’s death.

📷 Basílica de la Sagrada Família

Facades - Frank Gery enjoying his Guggenheim project in Bilbao 🤜🏻✨🤛🏻
03/02/2026

Facades - Frank Gery enjoying his Guggenheim project in Bilbao 🤜🏻✨🤛🏻

Northern Chile’s Atacama is no different. The vast expanse of 49,000 square miles stretches from the Pacific coast to th...
03/02/2026

Northern Chile’s Atacama is no different. The vast expanse of 49,000 square miles stretches from the Pacific coast to the Andes. Scant precipitation—only a few millimeters of rainfall each year, plus the camanchaca, a hazy fog that occasionally barrels in from the ocean—makes it the driest nonpolar desert on the planet. Yet, astonishingly, more than 50 species of cactus alone dot this hostile landscape. Critters find ways to survive in pockets of shade or by burrowing belowground. And even deeper underfoot, rich mineral deposits have fueled many Indigenous craft traditions and, more recently, a robust mining industry. (Chile is the world’s largest exporter of copper.)⁠

In Copiapó, the administrative capital of the Atacama region, a newly inaugurated state-funded museum, the Museo Regional de Atacama, designed by Chilean architect Max Núñez, celebrates the desert’s history, both natural and manmade. The opening in January also marked an important moment for the isolated and undercapitalized community, numbering some 168,000 residents. “From here to the northern frontier with Peru, there are several cities but few places for us to think about our culture and past,” says Romina Figueroa Berríos, who was appointed museum director last September. “This is a first step in changing that. It’s a space for the public.”⁠

Read more about this monumental cultural anchor in Chile: https://brnw.ch/21x0o0J

Words by Leopoldo Villardi
Photos © Roland Halbe (1-7); Aryeh Kornfeld (8-10)⁠; Architectural Record (11)

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