Chilean architects Guillermo Hevia García and Nicolás Urzúa have created a concealed garden fenced in by distorting mirrors for the Santiago edition of MoMA’s Young Architects Program (+ movie). (more…)
Eighty-five modular foam seats modelled on “common concrete building blocks” will stack to form a beach installation by French furniture brand Smarin during the Cannes Film Festival (+ slideshow). (more…)
Now that the dust has settled on Milan design week, we’ve put together a newsletter featuring our pick of the top trends, shows, products and new stories, including a surreal sexual rehabilitation clinic (pictured) and Patricia Urquiola’s revamp of Italian brand Cassina.
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Car brand BMW has worked with the US Paralympic team to create a racing wheelchair that they claim to be both faster and more comfortable than previous models. (more…)
The developer of New York’s Two World Trade Center tower, Silverstein Properties, is uncertain whether it will retain Bjarke Ingels Group for the project or go with original architect Foster + Partners. (more…)
Today’s Google Doodle features an illustration of American writer and urban planning activist Jane Jacobs, who successfully campaigned against major infrastructure projects in New York and Toronto. (more…)
Benjamin Hubert, Alison Brooks and dRMM are among the architects and designers that will create installations for this year’s London Design Festival, which is also set to include a crazy golf course designed by the late Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). (more…)
Milan 2016: Indra Nooyi, CEO of giant food-and-drink conglomerate PepsiCo, established an in-house design team three years ago after noticing the brand’s products looked the same as everyone else’s. At an event in Milan last month she explained the impact it has had – and why she personally attended the design fair (+ transcript). (more…)
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has been chosen to create the United Arab Emirates’ national pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, with a design modelled on bird’s wings (+ slideshow). (more…)
