Design
NORDAM: Rotten food becomes palatable in human-hyena synthetic biology scenario
Royal College of Art student Paul Gong has imagined how synthetic biology could be used to modify the human body so it can consume and digest rotten food. (more…)
NORDAM: Munich Creative Business Week 2015 announces events programme
Dezeen promotion: the programme of talks, conferences and exhibitions for this month’s Munich Creative Business Week is now available to view on the event’s website. (more…)
NORDAM: Monoqi buys Mydeco to extend UK reach
Business news: Berlin-based retailer Monoqi has acquired the assets of former online furniture marketplace Mydeco to help its expansion into the UK market. (more…)
NORDAM: “Like it or not, it’s an impressive feat to build a paper bag out of bricks”
Comments update: readers were quick to pass judgement on Frank Gehry’s newly opened business school in Sydney this week, which had been described as “the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag”. (more…)
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NORDAM: Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 shortlist announced
News: 40 projects have been shortlisted for the European Union’s 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award – including a woodland crematorium in Sweden and a rowing centre in a Portuguese wine region (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Swedish holiday home by Murman Arkitekter pretends to mirror a juniper grove
NORDAM: Hem acquires Discipline products to expand furniture and homeware range
Business news: furniture brand Hem has acquired the rights to over 200 products from Italian design company Discipline (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Johan Kauppi and Bertil Harström launch sound-absorbing office furniture for Glimakra
Stockholm 2015: office furniture brand Glimakra has released a collection of storage units that can also be used to reduce sound and partition areas in open-plan workspaces (+ slideshow). (more…)
Sig Nordal 