We have often talked about the problems of cities, from the need for a more sustainable vision to urban heat islands, and for some years now solutions have been proposed based on the integration of greenery directly into the architectural structure of buildings: from simple pots that become part of the facade to real green…
Inspireli Awards, the world's largest global student contest, is back! With participants from 150 countries and 830+ architects on the jury, the aim of the competition is to support young talents in architecture free of charge, regardless of their social, economic or ethnic conditions.
Inspireli Awards, previously on WeVux, has no particular topic because each…
Studio.traccia is a Milan based studio, founded in 2020 by Claudia Orsetti and Luigi Olivieri. Both have worked for over 10 years around the world, gaining different experiences in a series of international studios such as SANAA, Heatherwick Studio, Tomas Saraceno and UNstudio. Claudia and Luigi works at the intersection of many worlds, using always…
This article was written for Salone del Mobile.Milano and previously published on salonemilano.it digital platform
At SaloneSatellite 2022, among the talents exhibited by the Young Balkan Designers platform was Djurdja Garcevic, a Serbian designer committed to sustainable product design in all its aspects.
An example of her approach is Meenghe, which won the designer third place in the SaloneSatellite Award 2022 because…
Located in the Mexican state of Nayarit, San Blas is one of the historic towns of the Rivera Nayarita which, through the SEDATU (Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development) and the Urban Improvement Program, has recently changed its face with a series of interventions in various public spaces, including the Muelle de San Blas…
Inaugurated in June 2020, Precollinear Park is the first placemaking intervention carried out by the non-profit cultural association Torino Stratosferica. The project is an urban regeneration that has transformed the layout of a former light metro line into a park open to the community. Torino Stratosferica was born in 2014 as a collective experiment…
Andrea Ponti Design has created another interesting mobility solution: Kite, a passenger drone designed to connect the cities of the Greater Bay Area (Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao) in the post-Covid era. The studio has been previously featured on WeVux with his driverless tram concept, Island
The restrictions that followed the Covid-19 pandemic have heavily…
WertelOberfell was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell (1975) and Jan Wertel (1976). Both studied Industrial Design in Stuttgart at the State Academy of Arts. Their work ranges from furniture, lighting and industrial products to experimental research pieces for companies such as Braun, Neff, Philips, Panasonic, Sony, DuPont Corian and many others. One of their…
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…
&Walsh, the brand new creative agency set up by Jessica Walsh in July 2019, has released an identity for the New York venture of Cairo-based restaurant, Zooba. The branding is created with the aim “to resonate with a NYC audience,” says Jessica, “while celebrating Egypt”.
The project began with a trip to the Egyptian capital…