Andrea Ponti is a Hong Kong-based Italian designer specializing in Product and Industrial Design. He has been working for 14 years, over seven in Japan and six in Hong Kong. Among his clients we can read name such as Panasonic, Philips and Samsonite. One of Andrea's latest project is Island, a double-decker driverless tram designed…
Even though harsh criticism (1), Dezeen has launched its Virtual Design Festival. As part of the event, Manchester School of Architecture gave an insight into the ateliers that make up its Master of Architecture course. This year's ateliers range from the experimental Advanced Practice studio and all-female-led feminist Praxxis unit to the Continuity in Architecture…
Keep Life is born of an intuition from the designer Pietro Petrillo. In the South of Italy during Christmas holidays Italians consume a lot of dried fruit. Pietro noted how shells, devoid of their own fruit, were composing a harmonious and irregular mantle, characterized by different shades of colors and sizes… Starting from these observations,…
Design student Eliza Hague has created a concept for inflatable greenhouses made from shellac-coated bamboo paper to help residents of Jaipur, India, grow their own food. The University of Westminster student has developed a low-cost paper-like material from bamboo pulp as a sustainable and local alternative to the polyethylene plastic sheeting typically used for polytunnels.…
Geoship is a company that creates transformational earth-friendly homes, aims to dramatically alter the housing market. The firm is proposing the creation of domes for social housing that are affordable, energy sufficient, fire and disaster resilient, and extremely long-lasting - with a potential lifespan of more than 500 years. With its cooperative project…
Founded by Nuru Karim, Nudes operates within the realm of cross-disciplinary cultures of art, architecture and computational design powered by digital “making” tools. One of their latest project is the BookWorm pavilion, located in the gardens of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum in Mumbai.
The 35-metres-long pavilion winds its way…
Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. With 300 offices in 35 countries, Ramboll combines local experience with a global knowledge-base constantly striving to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to their clients, the end-users, and society at large. The Template House project seeks…
UAUPROJECT is a design studio based in Warsaw, Poland. Founded by Justyna Fałdzińska & Miłosz Dąbrowski, graduates from Industrial Design Faculty on Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. They are exploring and experimenting with consumer oriented 3D printing for use in home production. The goal is to show that 3D printing is the best way to…
Sophie Hicks Architects was founded in 1990 by Sophie Hicks while still a student at the Architectural Association in London. The practice began by designing private houses and continues with retail, residential and design projects.
For 1A Earl's Court Square the goal was to create an urban house that was comfortable but sustainable; and that…
FORMZERO is an architectural research studio established in 2012 by Cherng Yih Lee with the ideology of reengaging the natural landscape with architecture within the urban context (previously on WeVux) . Its design very often focuses on challenging the conventional architectural typologies and boundaries of urban realm. Planter Box House is one of their…