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A curated watch on the design world — desert modernism, Mexican craft, textiles, artisan provenance, and culture — filtered through the AriMexico™ lens. Sourced from the publications shaping the conversation.
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August 18, 2026
Via Vogue
The 12 Interior Design Trends Shaping Homes in 2026
Vogue's mid-year read on 2026: lived-in interiors, layered marbles and limestones, aged woods, and a decisive turn away from perfect coordination toward rooms that feel collected over time.
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Design Week Mexico 2026: A Dialogue Between Identity, Craftsmanship, and the Future of Design in Latin America
Design Week Mexico has returned to the capital, once again positioning the city as a vital hub for Latin American innovation. We are particularly drawn to this year's focus on the intersection of ancestral craft and contemporary practice, which serves as a necessary reminder that the future of design is deeply rooted in our shared heritage.
Via ArchDaily
Where You Bank Shapes What Gets Built in Arizona
This piece highlights the critical link between local financial institutions and the built environment in Arizona. It is a refreshing perspective for our studio, reinforcing that the health of our regional architecture and design community depends on keeping capital within our own desert borders.
Via Local First Arizona
2026 AIA Arizona Design Awards Gala
The upcoming AIA Arizona Design Awards Gala at the Heard Museum is the premier event for our local community to celebrate regional excellence. We are eager to see which projects define the current standard for Sonoran Desert architecture and design innovation this year.
Via AIA Arizona
Rayon 376 Terrace by Eduardo Garretti studio
The recent completion of the Rayon 376 Terrace in Guadalajara highlights the ongoing evolution of residential architecture in the region. It is a refreshing example of how local studios are balancing contemporary urban density with the traditional spatial needs of Mexican living.
Via ArchDaily
Dezeen Awards 2026 Regional Showcases spotlight 50 projects in the Americas
It is thrilling to see Hotel Sevilla in Merida recognized among the top projects in the Americas for the 2026 Dezeen Awards. This inclusion highlights the growing global appreciation for the sophisticated, heritage-conscious hospitality design emerging from the Yucatan Peninsula.
Via Dezeen
Manuel Cervantes Céspedes on The Tectonics of Place
Manuel Cervantes remains a vital voice for our studio, as his work masterfully balances the heavy, tectonic demands of Mexican infrastructure with a sensitive, human-scale approach to place. His ongoing influence on cross-border architectural discourse continues to set the standard for how we think about urban integration in the Sonoran landscape.
Via College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Detroit Institute of Arts Presents Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture
The Detroit Institute of Arts is highlighting the profound influence of the Southwest on modernism with an upcoming exhibition on Georgia O’Keeffe’s architectural studies. We are particularly excited for the October 24 talk on adobe construction, which promises to bridge the gap between historic desert craft and contemporary design practice.
Via Detroit Institute of Arts
FAE 2026, Festival de Arquitectura en Español
The eighth edition of the Festival of Architecture in Spanish recently convened in Mexico City, utilizing landmark architectural sites as the backdrop for cross-cultural dialogue. It is refreshing to see a platform that prioritizes intellectual exchange and the shared history of Ibero-American practice over the typical project-focused industry circuit.
Via ArchDaily
Design Week Mexico 2026
Design Week Mexico returns this October for its eighteenth edition, anchoring the creative calendar in Mexico City with a robust program of exhibitions and installations. We are particularly watching the Vision and Tradition showcase at the National Museum of Anthropology, as it remains a vital touchstone for how our industry bridges ancestral craft with contemporary design language.
Via Design Week Mexico
Mexico City Stadium Interior Renovation by Cuaik CDS and Mexican Design Studios
Local multidisciplinary collective Cuaik CDS has taken on the massive interior overhaul of Pedro Ramirez Vazquez's iconic mid-century concrete colossus in Mexico City. Inserting contemporary hospitality, VIP suites, and club venues within brutalist bones is a razor-edge balancing act that demands profound respect for national heritage. This ambitious intervention proves that mid-century modern Mexican monuments can evolve gracefully without surrendering their monumental architectural soul.
Via ArchEyes
Casa R4 by Manzo de Alba Taller: Ravine House Renovation in Guadalajara
Guadalajara-based studio Manzo de Alba Taller has transformed an existing office shell perched over a steep ravine into a disciplined residential sanctuary. Rather than leveling the terrain, the renovation leans into the dramatic topography with restrained material clarity and quiet domestic poise. It is a textbook lesson in adaptive reuse that prioritizes spatial restraint over performative luxury.
Via ArchEyes
Design Week México 2026: October 5–11 in Mexico City
This year's edition widens its lens with Creative Immersions at Casa Ortega, Design House openings, the Ínédito exhibition, and a program threading contemporary design through the city's craft neighborhoods.
Via Design Week México
IA creates Craftsman-style office for AI company Notion in San Francisco
Studio IA paired Craftsman-style detailing with a minimalist technical look for AI company Notion's five-floor San Francisco headquarters, restoring hidden marble floors and wood windows inside the 1907 Monadnock Building.
Via Dezeen
Simon Weckert creates Digital Camouflage shirt to avoid AI video surveillance
Designer Simon Weckert used an adversarial AI loop to develop a colourful patterned shirt that hides the wearer from AI-powered video detection — a textile that reads as hypnotic to humans and as nothing at all to machines.
Via Dezeen
Mexico Design Week Declares 'Designing the Future'
The companion fair's theme pairs innovation and efficiency with the country's artisanal skill base — a bet that contemporary Mexican design's edge is its workshop culture.
Via G&G Magazine
Archiproducts Releases Its Official 2026 Trends Report
The materials platform's annual ebook forecasts the shapes, colors, and finishes of the year ahead — organic forms and reinterpreted craft traditions leading the domestic landscape.
Via Archiproducts
Realistic AI architectural renderings must be labelled under EU AI Act
New EU AI Act transparency rules now require realistic AI-generated architectural renderings to be labelled "AI generated" — with fines up to €15 million for firms that publish unlabelled photorealistic visuals.
Via Dezeen
ASID's 2026 Report: 9 Trends Defining the Year
The American Society of Interior Designers' annual outlook points to comfort-plus-performance materials, 'resimercial' living, and climate resilience as the forces reshaping both residential and commercial work.
Via Interior Design
Mexico City Art Week & Zona Maco's 22nd Edition
The collectible design fair returns with new, returning, and emerging galleries — a signal of Mexico City's deepening role as the hemisphere's marketplace for craft-led design.
Via Cool Hunting
Khanna Schultz infuses Hamptons house with "atmosphere of quiet contemplation"
New York studio Khanna Schultz looked to Japanese architecture for a "net-positive-energy" Hamptons house wrapped in black-stained thermally modified spruce and crowned with a large rooftop solar array.
Via Dezeen
Gresford Architects clads low-carbon Oxfordshire bungalow in cedar wood
Gresford Architects upgraded a 1980s Oxfordshire bungalow with a low-impact cedar-clad extension that aligns with EnerPHIT retrofit guidance — reusing existing structure and materials to keep embodied carbon low.
Via Dezeen
MIT researchers developing process to make houses from recycled plastic
MIT researchers have 3D-printed construction-grade floor trusses from recycled PET bottles mixed with glass fibres — arguing the waste stream could replace wood framing and ease forest pressure as the world builds toward a billion new homes by 2050.
Via Dezeen