| What Else Could It Become? |
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Dear Građevinsko – arhitektonski fakultet u Nišu team,
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New ideas do not always start from scratch. Sometimes they begin by looking at something familiar and asking: what else could it become?
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This edition follows that idea across different scales: buildings that continue to evolve, colour used with purpose, historic street paving reimagined as a contemporary floor, and a 19th-century beach basket given a new life outdoors.
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Different scales, different disciplines, but a shared impulse to rethink what is already there.
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And it leaves us with one more question: what is taking shape in your studio?
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| What Buildings Become Next |
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What if architecture is not defined by what a building is at completion, but by what it can become afterwards? What Buildings Become Next considers architecture as something that continues to evolve with time, use and changing needs.
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Colour can do much more than decorate. Colour with a Reason looks at interiors where colour guides movement, defines new interventions and becomes part of the architecture itself.
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A Beach Basket, Reimagined
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Cabrio, designed by Dirk Wynants for Extremis, reinterprets the 19th-century Strandkorb, or beach basket, as a contemporary two-seater outdoor sofa. Its adjustable soft top moves between open views and sheltered comfort, giving a familiar typology a new life outdoors. Recognised with the BIG SEE Product Design Award 2026 Grand Prix.
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When the Street Becomes a Floor
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Trafic →, designed by Marc Sadler for Listone Giordano, reinterprets the end-grain wooden paving once used on the streets of London, Paris and New York as a contemporary parquet surface. A dialogue between material history and the way we build today.
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Companies that present their innovations at a trade show keep them featured on the BIG SEE platform year-round.
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What Is Taking Shape in Your Studio?
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Applications for the BIG SEE Awards 2027 will open soon. In the meantime, if you are considering submitting a project, you can already register your interest, and we will notify you as soon as submissions begin. This helps ensure you receive timely updates and early access to submission information.
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Buildings change. Materials find new uses. Familiar ideas take on unexpected forms.
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What are you rethinking, adapting or developing right now? Simply reply to this email and share your thoughts and questions with us.
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Warm regards,
BIG SEE Team
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Zavod Big • BIG SEE
Vidovdanska 2-4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.bigsee.eu |
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