Furniture
Furniture
Janne Kyttanen builds 3D-printed sofa from a minimal mesh
3D-printing pioneer Janne Kyttanen has used the structures of spiderwebs and silkworm cocoons to inform the design of a sofa that he printed in a single piece. More
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Design
Design
OMA, Renzo Piano, BIG and Steven Holl build Lego structures for Olafur Eliasson installation
Architects including Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels have created Lego buildings for an installation by artist Olafur Eliasson on the High Line in Manhattan (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Herzog & de Meuron presents an alternative to "pompous and unsustainable" Expo pavilions
Milan Expo 2015: this trio of wooden pavilions was designed by Herzog & de Meuron to showcase the principles of the Slow Food movement, which promotes regional gastronomy and a slow pace of life (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Prototype designs use augmented reality to make urban cycling safer
A headset that shows cyclists safer routes through the city in realtime and a projectable blind-spot visualisation for buses and lorries are among the speculative prototypes developed by a team from Future Cities Catapult (+ movie). More
Architecture
Architecture
Triangle School by Nameless Architecture has a three-sided courtyard at its centre
A triangular courtyard is contained at the centre of this three-sided high school in South Korea by Nameless Architecture (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Erik Spiekermann's first fashion accessories are printed like wearable graph paper
German typographer Erik Spiekermann has designed his first accessories collection – a range of scarves and pocket squares with a gridded design based on printed systems of measurement (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
ETH Zurich designers create arched pavilion out of upcycled beverage cartons
Architects and engineers from ETH Zurich university have used waste material to create a vaulted pavilion for New York City's Ideas City festival (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Exhibition showcasing Irish design presents "a fusion between the old and the new"
Movie: the Liminal – Irish design at the threshold exhibition presents work by Irish designers embracing both traditional craft techniques and new digital technology, explains co-curator Alex Milton in this movie filmed in Milan. More
Architecture
Architecture
Google reveals new site for Mountain View headquarters by BIG and Heatherwick
Google has found another way to begin construction on its vast Silicon Valley campus designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio – despite losing its original land bid to social network LinkedIn. More
Architecture
Architecture
Cross-shaped artist's studio by Arquitecturia frames the base of an old ash tree
This timber-clad painting studio by Spanish studio Arquitecturia frames the trunk of an ash tree in the garden of an artist's house in Catalonia (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
SHoP Architects and West 8 design new tech district for Miami
SHoP Architects has teamed up with West 8 to design a four-block development, aimed specifically at attracting technology businesses and turning Miami into "Florida's Silicon Valley" (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Neri Oxman 3D prints "photosynthetic wearable" to host living organisms
Designer and researcher Neri Oxman has successfully 3D-printed one of her "wearable skins" and filled its hollow tubes with a bacterial luminescent liquid to represent how it could host photosynthetic organisms (+ slideshow). More
Residential
Residential
Sunflower House comprises ten cubes pointed in different directions
Located on a cliffside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, this house by Cadaval & Solà-Morales is a cluster of 10 cubes that are each oriented towards a different viewpoint (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Legs protrude through tabletops in Assembly Design's L Series
The L Series by New York studio Assembly Design is a modular collection of shelves and tables supported by poles that poke up through the horizontal surfaces (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Faceted waterfront housing in Norway conceived as "a mountain range of wood"
Both the jagged profile of Norway's mountain ranges and the gabled elevations of traditional houses informed this angular housing development in Stavanger (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Graux & Baeyens uses curved walls to convert a factory loft into a family home
Belgian studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten has transformed a warehouse loft space near Kortrijk into a family home featuring curving walls, vaulted ceilings and muted tones (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
FIELD creates sculptural virtual reality helmets for Violescence exhibition
These sculptural helmets by digital art studio FIELD incorporate Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets (+ movie). More
Interiors
Interiors
Baukuh's House of Memory features a decorative facade and a monumental yellow staircase
Pixellated faces decorate the brick facades of this civil rights centre in Milan, while a bright yellow staircase spirals up through its concrete interior. More
Design
Design
Moooi co-founder and CEO Casper Vissers steps down after 14 years
Business news: Moooi CEO Casper Vissers is to step down from the company, 14 years after co-founding the Dutch furniture and lighting brand with designer Marcel Wanders. More
Furniture
Furniture
Alexander Gendell's latest folding chair pops out of a wall mural
New York 2015: New York designer Alexander Gendell has added a chair that pops out of an artwork to his Folditure collection of fold-flat furniture (+ movie). More