This week on Dezeen, we revealed a 3D-printed tower in a small mountain village in Switzerland that was modelled on a cake.
Named Tor Alva, the 30-metre-high tower is the tallest 3D-printed tower in the world, according to its creators.
In other architecture news, Kéré Architecture unveiled a brick mausoleum for Burkina Faso’s former president.
Designed to commemorate Thomas Sankara, who was assassinated in the 1980s, the mausoleum in Burkina Faso was built using locally-sourced laterite and clay bricks.
In London, Clerkenwell Design Week took place this week. Among the highlights was an undulating house designed by Alex Chinneck and a 3D-printed “water corridor” by Arthur Mamou-Mani.
We rounded up seven key pieces of furniture that were launched over the week, including a foamless sofa, jelly-like stools and a 3D-knitted seat.
In the US, Jony Ive’s AI startup was acquired by OpenAI with the aim of creating a “new family of products”.
Ive’s design studio LoveFrom also completed a rebrand for William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco.
In other design news, technology company Dyson revealed the cordless PencilVac vacuum cleaner, which it described as “the broom of the future”.
It is billed as the “world’s slimmest vacuum cleaner”, with a body only 38 millimetres in diameter.
We interviewed Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman, who spoke about his work supporting the ongoing International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against Israel over its military action in the Palestinian territory.
Weizmann told Dezeen that the agency’s normal approach was rendered “meaningless” in the face of the Gaza war.
Popular projects this week included an Indian temple elevated above tides of the Ganges river, a CLT-framed house embedded in a Cornish cliffside and an “emotionally engaging McDonald’s” in Hong Kong.
Our latest lookbook featured homes illuminated by Isamu Noguchi’s sculptural Akari lamps.
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