Mainifesto — Architecture, Design & AI Perspectives

Independent critical perspectives on architecture, interiors, product design and technology, shaped by human editorial direction and AI-assisted publishing.

Editorial photograph on Oxford Street, central London, during the first permanent pedestrianisation phase in late October.

Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation must be judged by arrival points, seating, step-free routes and deliveries—not simply by the absence of cars.

Editorial photograph from an accessible hillside overlooking a vast hydropower reservoir in western Ethiopia’s Blue Nile.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam exposes a design conflict: who controls the operating rules that distribute electricity, water security and drought risk?

Editorial photograph of a staged early-2000s American suburban living room, beige carpet, patterned sofa, oak television.

Primetime’s recreated suburban interiors expose how familiar rooms manufacture trust—and how hidden cameras turn domestic privacy into broadcast spectacle.

Editorial photograph from a public sidewalk in Newport Beach, California, looking toward an early modernist coastal.

The Lovell Beach House sale exposes a gap in heritage protection: who funds conservation, and what public access should private owners provide?

Editorial photograph on Santiago de Chile’s metropolitan edge at early morning, showing low-rise subsidised housing beside.

Santiago’s social housing exposes a false economy: cheap land can mean costly journeys. When does peripheral development become the expensive public choice?

Editorial photograph of a sculptural outdoor gathering place in a New Zealand landscape, with several adults.

Nebbia’s Interlude asks a provocative question: should millennium-long design guarantee permanence—or leave future generations free to change it?

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