BEST of milan design week 2024

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• APTERA MOTORS (
• geodesic dome kit creates an outdoor structure
• inside mercedes-benz’s first electric G-class '580', from transparent bonnet to keyless power
• Awards
• take part in seoul design award 2024 to claim global recognition
• light soy is a portable lamp made with ocean-bound plastic
• design space alula by Sabine Marcelis and CLOUD

At La Pelota, Hermès transformed the space with a unique display featuring raw materials like brick, stone, slate, wood, and compacted earth, arranged to depict a jockey’s silk jersey on the floor. The wood-like surface formed an X-shaped platform, inviting visitors to walk upon it while admiring the diverse materials. The colorful geometric motifs of the jockey silk, planted on the floor as an indoor installation, paid homage to Hermès’ heritage in leather goods and textiles.

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This fusion of conventional and bio-based materials offers a blueprint for future architecture that prioritizes both strength and environmental responsibility. Architecture on designboom surveys the contemporary condition of the built environment, showcasing a range of innovative projects and the diverse materials and unconventional forms employed in their construction. From humble dwellings to the tallest skyscrapers, we publish breaking news stories, in-depth features, and interviews with the leading protagonists the field. Meanwhile, contributions submitted directly by our global audience of readers offer a unique cultural take on the world's architectural scene.

geodesic dome kit creates an outdoor structure

In this installation, a small device translates the biodata from organic material, the plants, into MIDI. The plants are not composing their own music, but simply giving their biofeedback, or the tiny changes in their electrical current. Love Hultén’s role is to echo these sounds into synth tunes, sharing them with the visitors of the festival too. Inside the Project Area of Sónar+D, designboom welcomes visitors to the exhibition of some of Love Hultén’s sound-generating art, including a new machine tailored and made specially for the festival.

inside mercedes-benz’s first electric G-class '580', from transparent bonnet to keyless power

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cairo design week 2024 converges art, fashion, architecture, and more for its second edition.

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Here, the brushwork creates figurative elements readily recognizable from afar but, when viewed up close, dissolve into the materiality of oil paint. Tonal variations in one color give way to interwoven schemes of colors, often with more than 30 types of bright pigments in one image. The installation provides an in-depth glimpse into his command of the medium, his wet-on-wet technique, and the emphasis on the sheer materiality of paint that defines his work. In a world now inundated with AI-rendered images, Zeng challenges viewers to recognize the superiority of painting as a time-honored art and craft.

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Casa Quinchuyaku combats erosion through strategic water infiltration techniques and utilizes a dry bath system that converts waste into compost, showcasing a commitment to minimizing environmental impact. French artist JR has unveiled his monumental public installation, La Nascita, just outside Milan Central Station. The installation features a series of printed images of rock formations meticulously applied onto aluminum slats. On display from April 9th to May 1st, 2024, La Nascita marks JR’s inaugural venture into sculptural anamorphosis, departing from his traditional medium of paper and glue. In a conversation with designboom , JR discusses how the concept of anamorphosis, with its potential for distorted images and optical illusions, has long intrigued him and influenced his artistic practice. Birgit Lohmann and Massimo Mini, founders and former directors of designboom, presented an exhibition exploring new societal models through art, architecture, and design.

take part in seoul design award 2024 to claim global recognition

Hollywood, Los Angeles is set to gain a blossoming new landmark with the unveiling of revised designs for The Star, a $1 billion vertical creative office campus envisioned by Foster + Partners. Sunset Boulevard, this project is developed by The Star LLC, with the aim to introduce a hub for Hollywood’s top content creators. Spacious floor plates, large outdoor areas, and expansive floor-to-ceiling windows will offer 360-degree views toward the cityscape, the Hollywood Sign, and California‘s Pacific coast beyond. The building’s true centerpiece will be its lush, spiraling gardens, climbing from street level all the way to the rooftop restaurant. In a dramatic response to the harsh environment of Huentelauquen, Canela, Chile, the G+D House by Guimpert Atelier Architecture, emerges as a sustainable summer residence. This wooden, stilted dwelling tackles the region’s strong winds and solar radiation head-on, transforming them into design features for a passive house solution.

seoul design award 2024 opens entries for sustainable harmony in everyday life

With this new residential project, the LA-based design team pays homage to its early modernist neighbor to create a dialogue between past and present. At Palazzo Citterio, LOEWE showcased a collection of lamps created by 24 artists and longstanding collaborators. Each piece in the collection revolves around light as its central medium, with the artists harnessing and manipulating its properties according to their unique artistic practices. Curated by Formafantasma, this multidisciplinary symposium explored the evolving relationship between the natural environment and design. Being Home reflected on the private sphere as more than just a space of comfort—it’s a dynamic refuge and an influential force shaping socioeconomic norms.

The 2024 edition of the Award continues to celebrate outstanding design solutions that tackle contemporary challenges. Another notable mention was the Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion from Thailand – a concept that created a new economic structure called eco-tourism by redesigning the oyster farm structure, and essentially inducing active cooperation from local fishermen. Another winner was the Jerrycan Bag from Korea, a bag that helps African children safely transport jerry cans (water containers), produced by Uganda women. Each of these won the second prize for the Best of Best award, showcasing exemplary creativity, participation, and impact. Through Debris, designers Shoma Furui and Kem Kobayashi aim to communicate the issue of environmental disruption subtly, using party accessories made from marine plastic collected from Makuhari Beach as material.

This eye-catching display features colorful layers of fabric gently swaying in the breeze, held down by circular plastic-like weights beneath each strand. Visitors were invited to wander through the installation, following a maze-like path to get a closer look at the materials. Straordinaria was a collaboration between Studio we+, Elica, and Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, curated by Marcello Smarrelli. Inspired by the lightness of clouds, the artwork aimed to evoke a sense of dynamism and radiance, utilizing airy materials to capture the flow of air and warmth.

CornWall panels boast not only a beautiful aesthetic but also a negative carbon footprint, storing the CO2 sequestered by the corn during its growth. Biodegradable and endlessly reusable, these panels can be simply peeled from walls and reinstalled elsewhere, eliminating waste and creating a truly sustainable design solution. Every year designboom undertakes a few innovative exhibition projects and co-organizes a selection of international design competitions with leading international companies.

This simple volume was then manipulated, informed by its adjacencies to the historical buildings on the site. To the west, the building slopes away from the existing temple, to create a thoughtful buffer while framing a new courtyard between the two buildings. The pavilion leans south, away from the historic school, opening an existing courtyard to the sky to bring in light. Meanwhile, it reaches out toward the main urban corridor, wilshire boulevard, to establish a new urban presence. The production process itself is eco-friendly, utilizing heat activation and solar power, with plans for a closed-loop recycling system in the future.