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Louis Vuitton and Murakami create NYC pop-up informed by Tokyo hotels

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Fashion brand Louis Vuitton and artist Takashi Murakami have created a New York City pop-up store with multiple colour-blocked rooms and furniture with rounded edges to showcase a new phase of their collaboration. Located in New York’s SoHo neighbourhood, the pop-up store celebrates the original 2003 Louis Vuitton x Murakami collaboration with updated and original […]

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Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest presents ten design projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a vehicle with an integrated drone system used to promote agriculture is included in this School Show from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME). Also included is a toothbrush designed to self-sterilise and lamps which are 3D-printed and inspired by wind and gravity. Institution: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest

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EC3 adds "inspired rental housing" with trees to Core City development in Detroit

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Architecture studio EC3 and developer Prince Concepts have created The Canopy, a series of duplex buildings in Detroit with rooftop murals, native gardens and over 100 new trees. The Canopy involved transforming an abandoned, 17,000-square-foot (1,579-square-metre) lot into a residential complex with five buildings that vary in size and shape. Each building is a duplex

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Tombot and Creature Shop create "hyper-realistic" robotic puppy for dementia patients

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US robotics company Tombot has unveiled Jennie, a battery and AI-powered robotic pet designed to provide companionship and comfort to those struggling with cognitive health. With artistic design by Muppets creator Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Jennie was created by Tombot CEO Tom Stevens in response to his mother’s dementia, which resulted in the pair re-homing a

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Serie Architects adds "memorable and timeless" hall to Indian monastery

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Architecture studio Serie Architects has used interlocking walls cloaked in hand-chiselled bricks to outline Raj Sabhagruh, a complex dedicated to Jainism in Dharampur, India. Raj Sabhagruh comprises 16,000 square metres of space for discourse, study, rest and meditation, and takes visual cues from the architecture of India’s Jain temples. Described by Serie Architects as “an

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Zaha Hadid's Bergisel Ski Jump was the most significant building of 2002

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The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series looks at Zaha Hadid’s Bergisel Ski Jump, which was the turning point in Hadid’s career. Although it’s hard to imagine now, at the beginning of the century Hadid was still called a “paper architect”, known primarily for her drawings and numerous striking, but

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BIG completes first phase of Toyota Woven City in Japan

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Car brand Toyota has announced that the first phase of its Woven City in Japan, a smart city designed by architecture studio BIG as the “future of mobility”, has reached completion. Woven City is currently being built near the base of Mount Fuji at the former 70-hectare site of Toyota Motor East Japan’s (TMEJ) Higashi-Fuji

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Kennon adds 1,182 solar panels to facade of Melbourne office building

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Architecture studio Kennon has completed the 550 Spencer office building in Australia, forming the “first building in the country” to be powered on-site by a solar facade system. Located in Melbourne, the office building is defined by pleated glass facades that sit atop a brick base. Seeking to challenge current approaches to energy use in

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Mechanical bike turns into e-bike "in a number of seconds" with CLIP device

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CLIP is a portable e-motor device that allows users to alternate between a regular mechanical bike and an electric bike without any tools. Founded in 2018 by Som Ray and Clem De Alcala in Brooklyn, New York, CLIP aims to overcome the constraints of e-bikes and existing e-bike conversion kits. CLIP is a portable e-motor that

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Yukai Engineering unveils tiny cat robot that blows on hot food and drinks

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Japanese robotics startup Yukai Engineering has debuted a portable cat-shaped robot that blows air to cool down hot food and beverages at the Consumer Electronics Show. Named Nékojita FuFu, the robot is aimed at people with heat-sensitive tongues, a condition that an online survey in Japan revealed affects nearly 47 per cent of its population.

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