This year on Colossal, we published hundreds of articles across disciplines, and as we look back at those in the design world, we’re finding that readers gravitated toward stories about the world’s largest sheet of chainmail, geometric pastries, and tiny homes for bees. Be sure to take a look at 2022’s top articles across and , and check out . You can always take a trip back in time by diving into the .
English YouTuber and educator visits the largest sheet of chainmail in the world in a short documentary that reveals how the uniquely designed mesh structure has become a landmark of sustainability.
Image © Dinara Kasko
Ukrainian pastry chef brings a healthy dose of geometry to her meticulously designed cakes.
Image © Catie Newell
Conceived by Detroit-based architect and educator , this project reworks the iconic framework of an aging farm building to allow light through an unexpected aperture.
Image courtesy of A24
A tiny mollusk with a big personality, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On captivated audiences more than a decade ago with his quirky antics and endlessly entertaining use of human-sized objects. The adorable character returned this summer for a feature-length mockumentary with brilliant world-building by .
Image © Vertical Panorama Pavilion at the Donum Estate (2022), Studio Other Spaces, Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, by Adam Potts
A bold, conical structure by artist and architect Sebastian Behmann casts a vibrant kaleidoscope of 24 colors underneath its canopy.
Image © Ulf Mejergren and Antti Laitinen
In April of this year, Swedish architect and artist and Finnish artist gathered fallen branches from a forested area outside of Nykvarn and wove a structure around a tree, building a cozy refuge among the thawing spring landscape.
Image by Hiroyuki Oki, courtesy of Vo Trong Nghia Architects
The project of , a glowing welcome center of interlaced bamboo stands at the entrance of the resort in Vietnam.
Image © Green&Blue
An innovative creation of Cornwall-based , Bee Bricks are designed to establish homes for fuzzy, winged insects.
Image © World of WearableArt
Every year in Wellington, dozens of extravagant garments explode onto the stage for three weeks as part of the competition.
All images © Noritaka Minami
Artist documented the icon of Japanese Metabolism, the Nakagin Capsule Tower, that stood in the Ginza neighborhood of Tokyo from 1972 until it was demolished earlier this year.
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