DBM | 3D Transformative Digestの December 2025 の目次

Something broke in silence. Not the glass curtain walls, not the steel beams. But the belief that the American industrial office sector was immune. The belief that big buildings built for big business would always find big tenants. The belief that capital was endless. As the calendar turned into late 2025, those beliefs began to fall away. Across the nation, buildings once anchored by corporate headquarters, creative tech campuses, and warehouse-converted offices now carry the weight of their own emptiness. What remains is a ticking financial architecture: loans maturing, interest rates elevated, refinancing impossible. Together they form an economic trapdoor beneath the very spaces designed to project permanence. At the heart of the crisis lies the architecture of debt. Tens of billions of dollars in commercial real-estate loans are set…

The December issue opens with three rooms — three original DBM renders that stand as architectural witnesses to where the American office once was, and where it could go next. These spaces are not theoretical. They were born inside real industrial shells, designed as if the building itself requested a second life. Each room speaks a different design dialect. Each one carries a different emotional temperature. Together, they mark the starting line of the cinematic transformations that follow later in this issue. Before we reimagine them through the lens of Cinematic Intelligence™, we return to their origins — to the version of themselves that existed before the transformation. To the rooms as they were designed, with clarity, depth, and conviction THIS IS THE PROLOGUE THE BOARDROOM Design Style: Contemporary Executive…

EVERY DESIGN TRANSFORMATION BEGINS WITH A QUESTION: HOW MUCH CAN A ROOM CHANGE WITHOUT LOSING ITS ARCHITECTURAL SOUL? With the second wave of boardroom redesigns, Cinematic Intelligence™ confronts that question head-on. The same dimensions, the same volume, the same structural rhythm — but now interpreted through four radically different design languages: Hollywood, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Farmhouse. What makes this sequence remarkable is not the aesthetics themselves, but how the room was transformed. How algorithms interpreted light. How material palettes were rearranged without distortion. How emotional tone was recalibrated while respecting architectural integrity. How twenty-two futures were extracted from a single space without faking or flattening its identity. This article unpacks how that engine worked — through the lens of these four new styles. HOLLYWOOD REGENCY What Cinematic Intelligence…

There is a quiet migration happening inside the design industry. A shift from labor to leverage. From billable hours to intellectual property. From one projects → one payment… to one project → five income streams. The old model is cracking. The new one is multiplying. And the designers who recognize this shift early— whether they are independent, part of a boutique studio, or embedded inside a larger firm—are setting themselves up to thrive in a 2026 economy defined by: lower renovation budgets higher digital demand overloaded homeowners content-first buyers and global visual competition This article reveals exactly how designers are creating multi-income portfolios from a single project, and how subscribers can do the same—whether you're a homeowner, architect, new designer, or seasoned pro. Not by hustling harder. Not by adding…

Every design series reaches a moment where the work stops being about variation and begins to reveal something larger — a philosophy, a pattern of thought, a proof of possibility. For us, that moment arrived with the final three styles of the 22-style boardroom series: California Casual, Bohemian, and Bauhaus. These transformations don't just conclude the collection. They explain it. They reveal the deeper truth behind DBM's cinematic methodology: A room is not defined by its style. A room is defined by its intelligence — the way it interprets space, light, culture, and identity. THESE THREE STYLES EXPOSE THAT INTELLIGENCE IN FULL. CALIFORNIA CASUAL Effortless does not mean simple — and DBM proved it California Casual is a deceptively complex design language. The entire aesthetic hinges on a paradox: the…