BART and Ronin design virtual exhibition New Horizons to launch Vredestein car tyres
Dezeen promotion: Dutch design agencies BART and Ronin have created a digital exhibition for tyre company Vredestein to launch its winter tyre and bring the new visual identity “refined by design” to life. BART and Ronin designed online exhibition New Horizons for Vredestein to launch its new products. The duo were enlisted by the company after its presentations at Geneva International Motor Show and The … Continue reading BART and Ronin design virtual exhibition New Horizons to launch Vredestein car tyres Continue Reading
US architecture firm GoCstudio has inserted a dark plywood box into an apartment in Seattle that doubles as a studio space for an amateur photographer. Western Studio is a home and studio designed for a client who enjoys photography and hosting guests. The 1,000-square-foot (92.9-square-metre) open-plan unit is located inside a commercial building in Seattle’s Belltown neighbourhood. The remodel centred around … 
Chilean architecture studio Larrou has designed a hotel near a field where sheep graze in Patagonia from wood-clad cabins that were prefabricated. Aka Patagonia hotel is located on a rural site north of Puerto Natales, a Chilean port city in southern Patagonia. Elements that form six guest cabins and the communal social area were prefabricated in a shipyard before being transported … 
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has made an illustrated online book starring its Gherkin skyscraper as part of an initiative to entertain children during the coronavirus pandemic. Named The Flying Gherkin, the book gives the Foster + Partners-designed office human features, arms and a rocket-like body, and follows it on its journey as it takes off from London to visit other buildings designed … 
Week ten of Virtual Design Festival featured live interviews with Mariam Kamara and Lee Broom, a panel discussion with Stellar Works featuring Space Copenhagen and Neri&Hu, plus the launch of our collaboration with Swiss furniture brand Vitra. Virtual Design Festival, the world’s first online design festival, runs until 10 July. For the full schedule of upcoming events, visit dezeen.com/vdf/schedule. Monday 15 June Screentime with Micha Weidmann: As part … 
Japanese studio Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects has attached an egg-shaped tomb to an “unconventional” house in the city of Sakai, Osaka prefecture. Called Minami Hanada Tomb, the project plays on idea of the Mozu Tombs – a series of vast ancient burial sites with distinctive raised mounds that the city is famous for. However, due to zoning laws, the new tomb … 
danish designer ane lykke presents kurenai light object, a massive circular lamp that blends a nordic perspective with a traditional japanese woodworking technique called kumiko. crafted in a three-dimensional grid in cypress wood, the object combines the intangible — in this case light — with physical elements like form and structure to generate and ever-changing light experience. the kunerai light … 
expressing a contemporary influence from the traditional cabin typology, gnocchi+danesi architects presents its ‘mountain refuge.’ with the minimal timber dwelling, the design team introduces a space in which human’s origins, and a connection with nature and history can be relived. the cabin is proposed as a wooden structure realized as two modules, covering a total floor area of twenty … 
This week on Dezeen, Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch predicted we’ll have pollution-eliminating biofabricated materials with the decade, and Arrival launched an electric bus. Speaking to Dezeen as part of Virtual Design Festival, Gutsch said the only solution to plastic pollution is to develop sustainable alternatives. The circular economy “will never work with the materials we have” says … 
If payments were required within 30 days throughout the whole economy, financing company Greensill says large companies would need to quickly locate $65 billion in working capital. Kate Carnell, the small business ombudsman of Australia, however, called the remark “stupid” and noted “there would be a lot of businesses trading insolvent” if firms didn’t possess the necessary funds …