Jon Emmony has installed a five-storey augmented reality experience, called Digital Falls, in the atrium of Selfridges department store in London. The AR artwork saw the five-storey atrium at Selfridges transformed into a column of water inhabited by pulsing, sculptural shapes that were inspired by bioluminescent creatures. It was described by its creators…
MIT engineers have found a new way to create aerospace-grade carbon-fibre composites using only one READ
Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a “prototype city of the future” with wooden buildings and autonomous vehicles for Japanese car company Toyota near Mount Fuji in Japan. Named Woven City, the first phase of development on the site of a former car-factory will be home to 2,000 people who will test the…
Dezeen Promotion: NeueHouse is hosting a series of conversations with prominent members of LA’s creative community, including philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen, architect Kulapat Yantrasast, author Josh Kun and futurist Liam Young, to mark the opening of its latest location in Downtown Los Angeles. This month NeueHouse will open a new workspace within the city’s iconic Bradbury Building. It will have…
Dezeen promotion: British designer Ilse Crawford features in the latest short film released by Danish tap manufacturer Vola, exploring the impact of design on human wellbeing. The film, titled Wellness and Wellbeing, sees Crawford discuss how design can be effectively used to enrich our day-to-day interactions and “nudge” us into better…
The best new hotels in Europe combine rich experiences with a subtle approaches to design say the judges of this year’s AHEAD Europe awards, in this video Dezeen produced for the awards programme. The AHEAD Europe awards, which had its ceremony in London on November 18, celebrated the best in hotel…
A Room for Archaeologists and Kids by Studio Tom Emerson and Taller 5, which won the Dezeen Awards architecture project of the year award, shows that architecture “does not need to be complicated”, says judge Lyndon Neri in this movie. The wooden pavilion designed to provide shelter for archaeologists won the prestigious architecture project of the…
Green shingles cover the exterior of this octagonal, flatpack garden room in south west London, designed by Studio Ben Allen. The design of A Room in the Garden was informed by the bizarre and playful 18th-century Dunmore Pineapple pavilion in Scotland, as well as the form and colour of an artichoke….
Canadian studio Lateral Office has installed 12 oversized seesaws that light up and make sounds on the streets of New York City’s Garment District. Impulse occupies the pedestrian plazas on Broadway Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets. While on display, the block is closed to vehicle traffic. Visitors are encouraged to…
Hydbrid Air Vehicles has revealed the production-ready design of its Airlander 10 — and said the aircraft once fondly known as “the Flying Bum” might go electric in the near future. Part plane, part airship, the Airlander 10 is the world’s largest aircraft. It went viral during its early testing phase…
Design duo Kiki & Joost has created a collection of solar panels for MyEnergySkin, a Dutch company that wants to make products attractive enough to cover building facades. Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk – a couple who make work both together and separately – produced eight tile designs for MyEnergySkin….
Artist and illustrator Emily Forgot collaborated with British furniture brand Very Good & Proper on READ
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Named design project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019, Aguahoja I by Mediated Matter Group at MIT shows how materials derived from living organisms could be used in architecture, according to the jury. Mediated Matter Group, which is part of MIT Media Lab and headed by Neri Oxman, digitally designed…
Robotic construction company Apis Cor has used its technology to build the world’s largest 3D-printed building, a two-storey office in Dubai. Measuring 9.5 metres high with a floor area of 640 square metres, Apis Cor built the structure for the Dubai Municipality. The company claims it is the largest 3D-printed building ever…
A lockable wardrobe and twin-sized bed figure in this modular sleeping unit, which was conceived READ