Dezeen Showroom: Dutch company Pretty Plastic has produced tiles for facades roofs using a notoriously hard-to-recycle material: PVC from post-consumer construction waste. Started by architects Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, Pretty Plastic makes tiles with… Read More »Tiles by Pretty Plastic
In his ongoing bid to highlight the idiosyncratic properties of various raw and manufactured materials, seasoned British designer Max Lamb has forged an intrinsically sustainable practice. He’s crafted distinctive chairs out of cardboard that, by… Read More »Max Lamb Turns Hotel Waste Into the WASTED Collection – 001
Design firm Wendover has converted the former St John’s Wood police station in northwest London into a block of nine rental apartments, organised around a central courtyard. Located at 20 Newcourt Street, close to the… Read More »Wendover converts London police station into rental housing
The inflatable Ark Nova concert hall, created by sculptor Anish Kapoor and architect Arata Isozaki in 2013, has made its way from Japan to Switzerland for the Lucerne Festival. The mobile structure, which has been inflated in Europe for… Read More »Anish Kapoor and Arata Isozaki’s inflatable concert hall makes European debut
Global interest in South Korean culture is helping Hyundai make more unusual cars, Hyundai Design Center head Simon Loasby tells Dezeen in this interview. “We’re the outsider, but a very accepted outsider, possibly because of K-pop… Read More »“We’re due a renaissance” in cool small cars says Hyundai design boss
Dezeen Showroom: Norwegian design brand Volver worked with designer Kristine Five Melvær on a range of kaleidoscopic hand tufted rugs decorated with geometric patterns. Kristine Five Melvær looked to the concept of memory to inform… Read More »Echoes rug collection by Kristine Five Melvær for Volver