September 2025 – Page 6 – BUYEDMEDSGENERIC03

Proposal to revive Kenzo Tange's Kagawa gymnasium wins Radical Renewal Competition

September 25, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

Architect Ethan Akiyama Poh has won Dezeen and Bentley‘s Radical Renewal Competition with a concept that reimagines architect Kenzo Tange‘s disused post-war gymnasium, currently facing demolition, as a thriving civic destination. Akiyama Poh proposed reprogramming Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tange’s Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, which is currently unoccupied and threatened with demolition due to seismic and […]

Frama designs first international store in Tokyo to “reflect the architecture of wellbeing”

September 25, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone. Located in the Shibuya Parco shopping centre, Frama Tokyo displays the brand’s Care collection of fragrances and beauty products on stainless-steel shelves that cover three of its four walls. Walls […]

Five touchable tiles by Marazzi on Dezeen Showroom

September 24, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

Dezeen Showroom: from intricate tiles to stone-effect surfaces, 2025 has seen Italian manufacturer Marazzi list another handful of its products on Dezeen Showroom. Marazzi’s Terramater tiles were designed to pay homage to the aesthetic of vintage ceramics. Terramater tiles come in seven colourways and two textural finishes The collection contains seven glazed colourways, each of which […]

The Daily Heller: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter

September 24, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

My Butter is Better, the most recent installment of Stefan Sagmeister’s touring art exhibitions, is now on view at Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid through October—and tomorrow, a version takes up residence at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Mexico. The show is a selection of more than 20 paintings made from 2022–2025 that combine […]

What will it take for us to eat lab-grown steak?

September 24, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

Lab-grown meat is gaining traction. But before we consume it, we need to believe in it – and that’s where design comes in. Jane Englefield asks scientists, designers and a food critic what’s at stake. “What is meat, really?” considered emerging London-based food designer Leyu Li. “Is it defined by its molecular structure, its nutritional […]

Mirroring Dialogue exhibition spotlights design talent from London's African diaspora

September 24, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

A chaise longue shaped like a pelvic bone and vases made from timber seed pods were among the objects on show in Mirroring Dialogue, a London Design Festival exhibition centred around cultural exchange. The exhibition featured artists, designers and makers “of the African diaspora and beyond”, to highlight the diversity of creative talents that can […]

Multitude of Sins designs own material lab as “spatial memoir” of salvaged materials

September 24, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

Bengaluru studio Multitude of Sins has used rejected samples, broken prototypes and construction waste to transform an apartment into its material lab and research space. The lab, named Requiem for Ruins, is located in a former residential apartment building on the same floor as the Multitude of Sins studio. This was turned into a material […]

Proposal to turn warehouse into recycling hub takes second place in Radical Renewal Competition

September 24, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

Designer Raymond Lapiejko’s vision to transform the Hoosac Stores warehouse in Boston into a recycling hub has been awarded second place in Dezeen and Bentley‘s Radical Renewal Competition. Lapiejko‘s proposal focused on the Hoosac Stores building in Boston, Massachusetts, a wool storage facility built in 1895 within the Charlestown Navy Yard – an area historically […]

Designers turn discarded objects into one-off furnishings for Unbroken exhibition

September 24, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

A rocking horse and a basketball hoop are among the items that designers have reimagined for this London Design Festival exhibition, which includes pieces from 2LG Studio, Pearson Lloyd and more. Unbroken‘s curator, designer Francesco Feliziani, asked seven fellow creatives to salvage something destined for landfill and transform it into a functional design piece. In […]

Experimental glass brick features at “long-awaited” Detroit design exhibition

September 23, 2025October 3, 2025Admin0

Demonstrations of a new glass block type and silicone pottery featured at the Detroit Warehouse: Art and Design Fair show during Detroit Month of Design in a post-industrial building. Sited in a Boyer Campbell Building, a former automotive supply building that anchors the Detroit Design District, the exhibition featured work made by local creators. An […]