A selection of bars, cafés and restaurants where design transforms familiar rituals into moments of quiet atmosphere and wonder. A bar, café or restaurant is never only a setting for consumption. At
More than 3,000 visitors from 77 countries filled the historic Grando warehouse in Portorož for the first unified edition of BIG SEE Festival. A two-day meeting point for architecture, interior and product design,
BIG SEE Interviews is a series of intimate, unfiltered conversations between architects, not just about buildings, but about how we think, live, and imagine our future environments. In this edition, Lutz Kucher speaks
From experimental pavilions to reimagined museums, these projects reveal how architecture is reshaping the cultural experience today. Cultural buildings are no longer just containers for art. Increasingly, they are spaces that ask
Architecture, interior and product design awards, conference, debates, films, interviews, trade show and exhibitors came together in Portorož for the first unified edition of the BIG SEE Festival. On 21 and 22
The countdown has begun: applications for the EDGE Awards 2026 are open only until 17 May.Organised within EDGE Architecture Festival Budapest (18–19 June 2026), the EDGE Awards is a live international competition, where selected finalists
PULSE Ostrava 2026 Opens the Theme of Critical Cooperation The international architecture and design festival PULSE Ostrava 2026, taking place on 14–15 May in the industrial Gong hall in Dolní Vítkovice, will open the
Márton Pintér is an architect, educator, BIG SEE Nominator, and provocateur. From OMA*AMO to founding VERY GOOD OFFICE and curating the Hungarian Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, he challenges architectural norms and
“Just enough” can be understood as the point where form, space, and resources stop serving excess and start serving meaning. In the context of contemporary urban and architectural conditions, “enough” is not a fixed
Excess (1), noise (2) and complexity (3) come from our inborn drive towards bioproductivity (1), intra- and inter-species communication (2) and biodiversity (3). But our drive is too often spoiled by our conditioning and
At Ikka Home, our perspective is rooted in a deep understanding of textiles and their evolving role in contemporary interiors. With an updated, research-driven approach to materials, we work fluidly across the spectrum—from mainstream
An architect’s role in any project is identifying the line of what is just enough; this is often linked to budgets, zoning, and client requirements. Though we, as architects, are not the visionaries behind
“Just enough” is the point where something truly works—without excess, but without lack. It’s a balance between need and measure, where nothing is added just because it can be. In architecture, it means creating
Just right, or enough in interior design, is when you satisfy the needs of the space and the client at the same time, when the space allows the user to add something over time if
Simplicity in the logic of the sacred geometry.Beauty like the expression of the Divine.Sustainability in the use of construction and materials.Margareta Spajić, ArchitectStudio GRRR, Croatia This contribution is part of our ongoing survey
“All Measures of Architecture”17–19 April 2026The Open House Slovenia Architecture Festival (OHS) will open the doors of high-quality Slovenian architecture across the country for the seventeenth consecutive year. The event will take place from 17
Today’s technology allows us to walk around all the cities and towns of our world. Amazed, but also confused, young and future architects reach for someone else’s ideas, neglecting their own. Architecture has always
The answer lies in the traces of the thinking and practice of P. L. Nervi and B. Fuller and derivatives of the thinking of M. McLuhan. But equally, to consider creatively that ornament is
Just enough is when space allows us to breathe and feel at ease, without noise or excess. It is a quiet balance between function, emotion, light, and material. For me, enough in architecture is
When there is noise all around you, you must find peace within yourself. Architecture must be freed from everything that is excessive. It should reflect calmness and simplicity. We are not talking about isolating
Architecture finds its purpose not in what it adds to the world, but in what it makes possible within it: shelter, stillness, a sense of arrival. That moment when a space needs nothing more
In that case, "just enough" might mean designing spaces that balance simplicity with functionality, using strategies like: - Minimalist aesthetics to reduce visual noise - Green spaces for calm and sustainability - Adaptive reuse
Tomaž Ebenšpanger is an architect at SKUPAJ Arhitekti and an Assistant Professor at the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture. As a BIG SEE Nominator, he actively supports emerging
Two thresholds may be identified as constituting “excess.” The first concerns the predominance of images over words: Arthur Brisbane’s assertion that “a picture is worth a thousand words” must be reconsidered, for language generates
Dušan Kočlík is a furniture and interior designer, educator, curator, publicist, activist and BIG SEE Nominator. He is Head of the Institute of Interior and Exhibition Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Design,
It is necessary to do projects from the heart. It is our world and we have maximum responsibility for every wall and for every “empty” and so-called “full” space. So it is enough if we
When does a bird stop building its nest?The common tailorbird stops folding and sewing not when it is perfect, but when it is enough to hold life—a humble beauty shaped by restraint and refined
The world is in a state of imbalance; the public has largely lost faith in our institutions and in our design qualities.If the First Century of Modernism focused on architectures of abstraction and ideas,
Throughout history, architecture has consistently engaged with the challenge of addressing humanity’s needs in relation to living space, public space, cultural expression, and religious practice. Excess has been a persistent condition in both life
For me, it’s a boundary. Designing homes today means having access to infinite possibilities: materials, technologies, references, ideas. The real challenge is not creativity anymore, it’s knowing when to stop. In the past decade,
