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Francesc Gasch

Francesc Gasch

Founder & Editor, Mainifesto

Founder and Editor of Mainifesto. Barcelona-based designer writing about architecture, design, technology and culture, with responsibility for the publication’s editorial direction and standards.

Articles by Francesc Gasch

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Founder and Editor of Mainifesto. Barcelona-based designer writing about architecture, design, technology and culture, with responsibility for the publication’s editorial direction and standards.

Product design
Editorial photograph from the stern of a research vessel off Florida, two marine researchers lowering.

SS United States is now an artificial reef. Can monitored marine benefits justify the irreversible loss of an accessible maritime design landmark?

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Architecture
Editorial photograph of a large contemporary market in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, with perforated brick.

Kinshasa’s Zando Central Market promises space for 20,000 vendors. But stall allocation, fees and operating rules will decide who can actually trade.

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Interiors
Editorial photograph illustrating the office-hospitality overlap discussed around Pedrali at Orgatec in Cologne, staged in.

Pedrali’s Orgatec presentation frames a workplace dilemma: do hospitality-inspired offices offer real choice, or make constant availability more inviting?

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Art and design events
Editorial photograph inside a contemporary museum gallery in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon district at dusk, two.

M+, MoMA and Centre Pompidou promise cultural exchange. Can their alliance defend curatorial freedom—or export the strictest partner’s limits?

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Architecture
Editorial photograph in London’s Westminster district at blue hour, showing a conservation surveyor in a high-visibility.

A fire warning at Westminster exposes the false economy of delay. Parliament must price the risks of staying put, not just the disruption of

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Interiors
Editorial photograph of a shared American college dorm during move-in, two twin XL beds and university-issued.

As American dorm rooms become influencer sets, personal expression collides with spending pressure, roommate politics and the price of belonging.

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Architecture
Editorial photograph inside a European natural history research collection: a documented magpie nest incorporating silver anti-bird.

Birds are turning anti-bird spikes into nests. Their uninvited adaptations challenge architecture to accommodate animal choices, not just approved habitats.

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Architecture
Editorial photograph in Paris’s Trocadero Gardens on an overcast autumn afternoon, visitors crossing intersecting paths while.

Chartier-Corbasson’s Paris public toilets raise a harder design question: can people find, reach and rely on an underground essential?

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Product design
Editorial photograph inside a contemporary pharmacy compounding room, a pharmacist in clean protective clothing reviewing.

CurifyLabs’ PharmaPrinter Aurum raises a design question: can automated compounding reduce repetitive work without weakening pharmacists’ judgement?

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Product design
Editorial photograph of a staged apartment homecoming at blue hour: a resident pauses with keys.

Mori makes robot companionship look like ordinary furniture. Should domestic robots invite attachment—or make their simulated affection impossible to miss?

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