S.Pellegrino Flagship Factory, Italy
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have been revealed as the winners of a competition to design a new headquarters and bottling plant for San Pellegrino, located in Italy. The competition brief asked architects to renovate and expand the historic home of the company, the world’s leading sparkling mineral water company, with a “truly innovative and technologically advanced design” aimed at integrating into the natural aesthetic of the surrounding terrain while responding to the iconic identity of…
Dustin Yellin's Frozen Cinema
Dustin Yellin (B. 1975, Los Angeles) is a contemporary artist living in Brooklyn, NY. He is known for his work in which the artist embeds "hundreds of little pictures, drawings and images clipped out of magazines, art books and the like" to form complex and intricate tableaux in miniature. Dustin Yellin is as known for his image-rich sculptures as he is for his entrepreneurship, reflected in his contemporary art hub, Pioneer Works, his magazine of…
Toyota GR Super Sport
The Toyota GR Super Sport Concept is a two-seat concept sports car developed by Toyota under the Gazoo Racing branding. The GR Super Sport is based on the TS050 Hybrid race car, which won Le Mans twice in 2018 and 2019, and is meant to take racing engineering from the track to the road. Toyota has been teasing the GR Super Sport hypercar for a while now, first showing a concept in early 2018…
Coral Bloom of Shurayrah Island, Saudi Arabia
The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) has revealed visuals for its new resort concept on Saudi Arabia's Shurayrah Island. Shurayrah will be one of only 22 islands selected for The Red Sea Project. Dubbed as Coral Bloom, the new resort development, designed by Foster + Partners, will be blended in the island’s pristine natural environment. TRSDC expects to welcome the first guests for the Coral Bloom resort by the end of 2022, alongside an international…
O-Tower (Infinity Loop Skyscraper), China
BIG Studio has designed the O-Tower for the new OPPO R&D Headquarters (China’s largest smartphone company) in Hangzhou. The design combines aesthetics and innovative technology in a building that will be an environmental, economical, and socially sustainable hub for innovation. Described by BIG as being infinity-loop shaped, the skyscraper was designed to "connect ground to sky in a continuous loop of collaboration". The tower, with an area of 161330 m2, sits between a natural lake,…
