Asif Khan creates “space in between” homes and workplaces with Forests installation for MINI



London Design Festival 2016: in this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen for MINI, the brand’s Oke Hauser explains why they worked with architect Asif Khan to install plant-filled pavilions across east London. (more…)

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Elon Musk announces plans to start colonising Mars in six years



Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to make humankind a “spacefaring civilisation” by starting manned missions to Mars as soon as 2022. (more…)

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Thomas Schnur exhibits furniture pieces based on objects found in the street



Beijing Design Week 2016: German designer Thomas Schnur presents six pieces of furniture adapted from common objects like traffic cones and metal barriers for an exhibition in Beijing (+ slideshow). (more…)

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10 inflatable buildings designed to blow you away



There was a time when inflatable pavilions were all the rage, but now architects are creating blow-up buildings for all kinds of uses. Here are 10 of the most inventive examples, including a mobile concert hall, a black PVC nightclub and a field of giant mushrooms. (more…)

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Barber and Osgerby base minimal wooden table on Japanese joinery



London Design Festival 2016: design duo Barber and Osgerby have created a limited-edition table constructed from just three curved pieces of oak (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Mirrored viewing platform by Natura Futura is disguised against the Ecuadorean landscape



Projecting over a hillside in the Ecuadorean countryside, this small mirrored viewpoint was designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura as a rest stop for hikers (+slideshow). (more…)

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Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s nature centre in Pittsburgh “blends with the surrounding woods”



The thin columns and wood cladding that front this educational facility in a Pittsburgh park are designed to help the building fit in with its woodland setting (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Macro Sea turns abandoned Brooklyn warehouse into New Lab co-working space



New York developer Macro Sea has turned a warehouse at Brooklyn‘s Navy Yard into a workspace for tech entrepreneurs, using the building’s “cathedral-like” steel trusswork to inform new elements (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Alessandro Zambelli creates furniture inlaid with patterns of oxidised metal



London Design Festival 2016: this furniture collection from designer Alessandro Zambelli features a puzzle of metal pieces that have been oxidised to different degrees (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Zaha Hadid’s Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre nears completion



These new photographs reveal a vast cultural complex by Zaha Hadid Architects, which is reaching its final stages of construction in the Chinese city Nanjing (+ slideshow). (more…)

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