This week, BIG designed buildings on stilts and IKEA hacked its own furniture
This week, BIG revealed plans for the Miami Produce Center in Allapattah, and IKEA asked Scholten & Baijings to hack two of its most popular furniture designs.
BIG's Miami Produce Center will comprise a stack of eight volumes raised on stilts above former warehouses, containing co-working offices, co-living apartments and a hotel.
The complex will also comprise three existing buildings due to be transformed into restaurants, shops, cafes and a school.
IKEA asks Scholten & Baijings to hack two of its most popular furniture designs
A collaboration between IKEA and Scholten & Baijings launched this week, after the Swedish retail giant enlisted the Dutch design duo to create fresh takes on its Klippan sofa and Poäng armchair. Grenfell Tower reimagined as a black concrete-covered memorial
Fearing that the "tragedy caused through negligence" would not be memorialised sufficiently, JAA revealed a concept to encase the burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower in a sarcophagus of black concrete.
In Ireland, Steven Holl Architects won a competition to revamp the University College Dublin campus. The proposal features buildings that reference geological forms of the Giant's Causeway.
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