This week on Dezeen, Grimshaw founder Nicholas Grimshaw passed away at the age of 85 and we reported from events in Copenhagen, Singapore, Helsinki, Oslo, London and Lake Como.
Nicholas Grimshaw, whose best-known projects include the Eden Project and the International Terminal at Waterloo Station, died this week aged 85.
The winner of the RIBA Gold Medal in 2019, he was one of the UK’s best-known and highly respected architects, as one of the early pioneers of the high-tech movement.
Following his death, we looked back at 10 high-tech highlights from his five-decade-long career.
Foster + Partners Industrial Design launched a furniture collection at LDF
In London this week, the annual London Design Festival took place. Highlights from the festival included a sculpture by Lee Broom comprising dozens of pulsing illuminated glass shades and a corn cob house made using mud from HS2 excavation sites at the V&A.
Among the launches as the festival was a plywood furniture collection by Foster + Partners Industrial Design (pictured) and a high-backed sofa by Pearson Lloyd designs designed to “deliver the right posture”.
The Inside Out, Downside Up pavilion was created for the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial
Also opening this week was the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial, which included the hand-built Inside Out, Downside Up pavilion by Slaatto Morsbøl.
We also reported on the 20th anniversary edition of Helsinki Design Week, where we rounded up five enduring Finnish design principles at the country’s biggest industry festival.
The Unnatural History Museum of Singapore formed part of Singapore Design Week
While in Singapore, we reported on the Unnatural History Museum of Singapore, which features cyborg cockroaches and bee drones, as part of Singapore Design Week.
And in Italy, we rounded up seven furnishings by emerging designers on display at Lake Como Design Festival. In Oslo, we covered an exhibition for Designers’ Saturday.
We reported on the US lighting brands adopting 3D printing
In the US, we reported on the American lighting companies that are using 3D-printing and digital manufacturing to try and fix the “extremely broken” lighting manufacturing industry.
“We are not going back to the 20th-century manufacturing system where there’s a very high set-up cost and the only way that you could make something work is by manufacturing it overseas to essentially utilise cheap lower labour costs,” Gantri founder Ian Yang told Dezeen.
A series of floating pinecone-shaped huts was one of this week’s most read projects
Popular projects this week include a series of floating pinecone-shaped huts designed to shelter ducks, an underground museum by Herzog & de Meuron and landscape designer Piet Oudolf in Philadelphia and a safari resort in Kenya.
Our latest roundups include homes illuminated by stylish skylights and buildings enveloped in rustic rough-sawn timber cladding.
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