Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi has confirmed reports that his award-winning Makoko Floating School has collapsed. (more…)
Kunlé Adeyemi’s floating school destroyed after “abrupt collapse”
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Saltwater Brewery’s edible six-pack rings protect marine wildlife
Florida-based Saltwater Brewery has used by-products from the beer-making process to create six-pack rings that can safely be eaten by marine wildlife (+ slideshow). (more…)
Watch Ikea’s Democratic Design Day live from Sweden
Hiroyuki Moriyama completes Tokyo apartment building with a perforated skin
Molekule air purifier destroys pollutants rather than collecting them
San Francisco company Molekule has partnered with London studio PostlerFerguson to design an air purifier that breaks down pollen and dust at a molecular level (+ slideshow). (more…)
Tom Chung transforms factory floor in Toronto into flexible workspace
OMA completes restoration of Venice’s Fondaco dei Tedeschi for department store takeover
Dutch architecture firm OMA has restored the historic Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, adding new entrances and wood-panelled escalators to turn the 16th-century building into a department store (+ slideshow). (more…)
Bjarke Ingels’ Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is “mountainous outside and cavernous inside”
Movie: in this exclusive video interview, Bjarke Ingels explains how his firm BIG used stacks of fibreglass boxes to create a huge undulating structure on the lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery in London. (more…)
Converse continues updates to classic designs with All Star Modern trainer
Footwear brand Converse has followed the redesign of its iconic Chuck Taylors with an update to the 1920 All Star, which replaces the shoe’s signature canvas uppers with Nike‘s knitted Hyperfuse fabric (+ slideshow). (more…)
WATG wins competition to design freeform 3D-printed house
A team of architects in Chicago has proposed a house made of 3D-printed plastic and carbon-fibre panels wrapped around glazed walls (+ slideshow). (more…)
