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UK designers create ‘discovery wall’ for biomedical centre, New York
Squint/Opera and Hirsch&Mann create artwork made of thousands of tiny screens and lenses for window of Belfer Research Building, part of Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in Manhattan
Announcing a unique screening of Ecopolis China at the ICA, London, 17 June
Film explores Finnish professor Eero Paloheimo and Chinese industrialist Zhang Yue’s radical visions to tackle the problems associated with the urbanisation of China and those facing the environment of the world at large
Levantina supplies Techlam tiles for new Arena Corinthians Stadium
Levantina, a pioneer in the manufacture of thin, large-format porcelain tiles in Spain, which it sells under the TECHLAM brand, has supplied 10.000 sq m of these latest-generation porcelain tiles to cover the main façades of the new Arena Corinthians stadium in Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Money off tickets to this year’s New Designers show
We’re offering you a discount on tickets to this year’s New Designers show, which takes place in June and July at the Business Design Centre in London and features some of the UK’s most talented design graduates
Antony Gormley creates ‘inhabitable sculpture’ for London hotel
British sculptor famed for his Angel of the North and One and Other has created ROOM, an abstract sculpture of a crouching man that contains a hotel suite
Amazing staircases: six of the best
We choose some of our favourite staircases, from a viewing platform in Holland to a modern floating staircase in a 300 year-old house in Tel Aviv
Herman Miller and Industrial Facility unveil new desktop storage system
Herman Miller and Industrial Facility have designed a new desktop storage system called Formwork
Beats by Dr. Dre teams up with New York art collective Snarkitecture
Art collective Snarkitecture creates limited edition all white headphones which site on a sculpted marble pillow
Amazing examples of typography in architecture
A new book by Brooklyn-based illustrators and designers Mirko Ilić Corp brings together some of the best projects involving typography in architecture, design and art
Architects design concepts to protect American cities from flooding
A urban flood defense system for Manhattan by architects BIG and Dutch One Architecture are among six ideas chosen by Rebuild by Design, an initiative that’s working to help protect US cities from flooding after Hurricane Sandy