News: as construction of BIG’s Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant continues in Copenhagen, a video has surfaced showing a successful trial for the building’s smoke ring-blowing chimney (+ movie). (more…)
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a lighting installation that resembles the aurora borealis above a flood channel of the Netherlands’ River IJssel (+ slideshow). (more…)
News: BIG and Heatherwick Studio are collaborating on a new headquarters building for Google in Mountain View, California. (more…)
News: a concert hall with a spiky roof in Poland and a terracotta winery buried beneath the an Italian vineyard are among the five finalists in the running for the European Union’s 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award (+ slideshow). (more…)
News: waterfalls, rainbow-coloured latticework and bright red cycle lanes feature among proposals for a new bridge across London’s River Thames to rival Thomas Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge (+ slideshow). (more…)
Design Indaba 2015: the design industry has lost touch with its social and cultural values and is producing “too much shit design”, according to Hella Jongerius. (more…)
Stockholm 2015: a trio of designers created this armchair for Swedish furniture brand Blå Station that can be wheeled around on small castors. (more…)
