This week on Dezeen, passengers travelled in Virgin's levitating Hyperloop capsules for the first time, as the company carried out a 15-second-long test trip in the Nevada desert.
Josh Giegel, CTO and co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop, and Sara Luchian, Virgin Hyperloop's director of passenger experience, were the first to experience a journey in the capsule, which travelled through an airless tunnel at 100 miles per hour.
The newly released two-seater XP-2 hyperloop vehicle was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Danish studio Kilo Design and tested at Virgin Hyperloop's DevLoop site 35 miles north of Las Vegas in Nevada.
Edel Rodriguez creates "You're fired" graphic after Donald Trump loses 2020 US presidential election
As Joe Biden emerged as the winner of the 2020 US presidential election, Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez created graphics that lampooned outgoing president Donald Trump. The illustrations depicted Trump as a toppling statue and a fired employee. Rodriguez has been a critic of Trump since his election and drawn him for a number of Time magazine covers as well as in satirical designs for German magazine Der Spiegel.
MAD tops Beijing kindergarten with red rooftop playground
Also this week, Chinese studio MAD unveiled the design for its YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten, a converted 18th-century courtyard building topped with an undulating roof that functions as a children's playspace.
"While preserving the cultural heritage of the site,...