A personal review of design creations
Prototypes for Humanity
Engaging university talent across all science and creative disciplines from over 100 countries, the programme brings together trailblazing ideas, projects, and technologies, addressing critical challenges affecting us all. Through a wealth of input from first-rate academic work, Prototypes For Humanity in Dubai acts as a magnifying glass, raising awareness of global problems while celebrating solutions and actions that have the power to solve them.
The Energy Show & Solar Biennale
How much energy do we have and need today? This question opens The Energy Show – Sun, Solar and Human Power, an exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. The exhibition, put together by curator and designer Matylda Krzykowski and in collaboration with The Solar Biennale, is the starting point of the seven week long manifestation.
The Pacific, a human-scale skyscraper
In Vancouver, ACDF Architecture unveiled The Pacific, a new high-rise building whose façade creates a new skyscraper language in the form of new relationships between pedestrians and the building.
DIN by Konstantin Grcic for Mutina
Rational yet personal, the new DIN collection by Konstantin Grcic for Mutina reveals a rather simple mathematical pattern applying that modularity creates flexibility.
Totomoxtle: a veneer material made with Mexican corn
Totomoxtle is a veneer material created by Fernando Laposse made with husks of heirloom Mexican corn.
Solrødgård Water Treatment Plant
This week, in over 150 countries, people are stepping up to support young climate strikers and demand a dramatic change in our way of consuming and the use of fossil fuels. But water is to me the most critical element we must preserve. In Hillerød (Denmark), a new water treatment plant combines fine architecture with efficiency.