Journal — Notes after dark
Writing on light, materials and the hours between.

Materials
Forty-one shades of black
Black is never just black. Amara Okafor opens her swatch box and explains how lime, oak and bronze behave under a single warm lamp.

Process
A model lit by a single LED
Lena Vik builds every 1:50 model with one hidden light inside. It is the most honest test a design can face.

Process
Notes from a 2 a.m. site walk
Daniel Ferreira walks every site in the middle of the night at least once. Here is what the dark reveals that daylight hides.

Studio News
Harbour Light Pavilion opens in Bergen
After four years of work, the pavilion on Bergen’s inner harbour opened to the public with a winter evening of music and readings.

Essay
Why we turned off half the lights
Sigrid Holm on darkness as a design material — and how using fewer fixtures made our buildings feel brighter.
