World Chocolate Day

Village for Häagen-Dazs

The design for an ice cream cake, sold at the Häagen-Dazs shop on the Champs Élysées in Paris at Christmas time. Japanese design studio Nendo has created an ice cream cake, featuring a group of small chocolate houses intended to remind people…

World Industrial Design Day

Dieter RAMS

Innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful…

World Music Day

Harbin Opera House

We envision Harbin Opera House as a cultural center of the future – a tremendous performance venue, as well as a dramatic public space that embodies the integration of human, art and the city identity, while synergistically blending with the surrounding nature…

World Refrigeration Day

NBF Osaki Building

The BioSkin concept was inspired by traditional Japanese techniques to cool the air such as bamboo shading screens, called Sudare, and a water spraying technique called Uchimizu. The system comprises specialized ceramic louvres which funnel rainwater through the system. In effect, the…

friendship, consensus, synergy…

MUUM

I’m always impressed by Umut's never-ending positive attitude. He may be very difficult to convince but once he is, you can trust he will be there when you need. Murat is a great visionary and futurist. However, you can see his choosy…