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Eye of the beholder
This hand-painted video game took seven years to complete.
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Let the light in
A cross cut into the roof of this meditation pavilion allows sunlight to gently bathe the interior.
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Tongue-tip tests
Dutch eating designer Marije Vogelzang’s book challenges readers to experience food differently.
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High rise
The winners of the 15th annual World Architecture Festival were announced recently in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Cable me home
Future city transport looks personalised, clean and intelligent.
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Land on Water
As interest in building on water grows, MAST has come up with a flatpack modular system that will allow for floating homes.
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Filling in the gaps
Studio DRIFT employs drones to vividly reimagine history’s architectural masterpieces.
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Modern classics
Iconic furniture design studio Herman Miller collaborated with Danish design brand HAY on a collection that reimagines the classic Eames collection.
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Tulip fever
The biggest design event in Northern Europe is taking place in Eindhoven between 22 and 30 October 2022.
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On the seashore
A collaborative design from Barcode Architects and the Bjarke Ingels Group, the Sluishuis residential building slants over the water in Amsterdam.
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The house that LEGO built
Room Copenhagen launches a playful, sustainable homeware line for grown-ups
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Tableau’s Post Service creates a safe space for mental health, grief, and mindfulness
Through carefully curated design, a Copenhagen space promotes health and healing
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The Algae Dome imagines a future of architecture-powered food
Where sustainable food design and public architecture intersect.
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Bug burgers and micro-algae buns: the cookbook of the future
SPACE10 has been cooking up a storm in their Test Kitchen to bring you an unorthodox assortment of meals from the future.
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SPACE10 creates SolarVille prototype for a cleaner future
"We can actively choose to take major steps to reduce global warming and stabilise our climate.”
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Danish designer Johannes Torpe on the power of design to create universes
“To create a universe around our products we actually have to take it out into the hands of the people who have to use it."
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6 designers who use waste as inspiration for new products
From upcycling found objects into furniture, to jewellery made of e-waste and more.
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Copenhagenize Design Co. is making moves to see more bicycles in urban areas
“The bicycle is the most powerful tool in our urban toolboxes to fix our cities.”
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Johannes Torpe talks us through his process
The self-taught designer works within the fields of interior design, product design, industrial design and architecture.
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Johannes Torpe
CEO and Creative Director behind Johannes Torpe Studios.
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Flow Loop: a new shower system to save water and energy
The Danish company has developed a sustainable showering system to combat waste.
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SPACE10 open sources The Growroom
The design for The Growroom, an urban farm that looks into how living architecture can feed the city, is now open source and available for anyone to use.
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Fluid & Form
Marius Budu creates unique photographic artworks using the human body as its own canvas.
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This is Olafur Eliasson. We'll let him introduce himself
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards.
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