IOC designs Solari workstation in collaboration with Gensler

Dezeen Showroom: trestle legs and a customisable, J-shaped privacy screen distinguish the Solari desk system, developed by Italian office furniture company IOC in collaboration with Gensler.

The workbench can be electronically height-adjusted and used in both a seated and standing form, with an integrated alarm alerting the user when it's time to change positions.

On its own, the desk encourages collaboration and can even be used in a domestic set-up, while an optional, noise-absorbing divider screen can be added to facilitate deep work and concentration in an open-plan office.

The Solari desk system includes an optional, J-shaped privacy screen

The divider curves in at the bottom to form a distinctive J-shape that holds all of the necessary wiring while keeping floor space clear.

"Solari was conceived with a casual but distinct design language that recalls the aesthetic of a design atelier," said Mark Morton, a design director and principal at Gensler.

With a mission to "give every occupant a sense of personal space" each of the dividers is outfitted with a fabric panel, which comes in a range of vibrant Kvadrat colours and can serve as a backdrop for personal photos, notes and reminders.

Additional storage can be added on in the form of a suspended pedestal or cabinet.

Product: Solari
Product design consultant: Gensler
Brand: IOC
Contact: n.mismara@ioc.it

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AHEAD Europe hospitality awards winners to be announced in virtual ceremony

The winners of the AHEAD Europe hospitality awards will be announced on Monday in a virtual ceremony broadcast on Dezeen.

The ceremony will take place from 6:00pm UK time, and will be broadcast on Dezeen as well as on our YouTube channel.

The event will feature exclusive video content from the AHEAD Europe nominees, as well as from the judges and sponsors of the awards programme.

You can add the event to your diary by clicking this link.

The ceremony is taking place digitally rather than at a real-world event due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Championing standout hospitality projects from around the world, the AHEAD awards focuses on four different regions: Europe, MEA (Middle East and Africa), the Americas and Asia.

The 2020 AHEAD Europe competition will review projects that have opened, reopened or launched in the continent between June 2019 and May this year,

Last week, Dezeen broadcast a ceremony announcing the winners of the AHEAD MEA awards 2020.

See the full shortlist below:

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Bar, Club or Lounge

40 Elephants at Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, England
Double Standard at The Standard, London, England
Sibin at Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, England
The Lobby Bar at One Aldwych, London, England
The Malt Lounge at The Prince Akatoki, London, England

Guestrooms

Apfelhotel, Saltusio, Italy
Birch, Cheshunt, England
Boho Club, Marbella, Spain
Domes Zeen Chania, Greece
Hotel Arlberg Lech, Austria

Hotel Conversion

AMERON Frankfurt Neckarvillen Boutique, Germany
Casa Popeea, Brăila, Romania
Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, England
Stock Exchange Hotel, Manchester, England
The Standard, London, England

Hotel Newbuild

Dakota Manchester, England
Hart Shoreditch Hotel, London, England
Lindley Lindenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
Market Street Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
nhow Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands

Hotel Restoration & Renovation

Boho Club, Marbella, Spain
Château de Vignée, Villers-sur-Lesse, Belgium
La Maison d'Estournel, Saint-Estèphe, France
Treehouse Hotel London, England
Villa Arnica, Lana, Italy

Landscaping & Outdoor Spaces

Apfelhotel, Saltusio, Italy
Arua Private Spa Villas, Merano, Italy
Domes Zeen Chania, Greece
Ekies All Senses Resort, Vourvourou, Greece
The Newt in Somerset, England

Lobby & Public Spaces

Cretan Malia Park, Crete, Greece
Locke at Broken Wharf, London, England
Parīlio, Naousa, Greece
Rooms Hotel Kokhta, Bakuriani, Georgia
The Lobby Lounge at The Standard, London, England

Lodges, Cabins & Tented Camps

57 Nord, Ardelve, Scotland
Arctic Bath, Harads, Sweden
Camp Hox, Oxfordshire, England
Casa Palerm, Mallorca
Treehouses at Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham, England

Resort

Cretan Malia Park, Crete, Greece
Domes Zeen Chania, Greece
Lefay Resort and Spa, Dolomites, Italy
Parīlio, Naousa, Greece
Quinta da Comporta, Portugal

Restaurant

Decimo at The Standard, London, England
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, London, England
Helios at Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens, Greece
Memories Sven Wassmer at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Mouries at Cretan Malia Park, Crete, Greece

Spa & Wellness

Apfelhotel, Saltusio, Italy
Arctic Bath, Harads, Sweden
Hotel Arlberg Lech, Austria
Lefay Resort and Spa, Dolomites, Italy
The Newt in Somerset, England

Suite

Arua Private Spa Villas, Merano, Italy
Ekies All Senses Resort, Vourvourou, Greece
Lincoln House at Rosewood London, England
Nobel Suite at Grand Hotel Oslo, Norway
Nobu Hotel Barcelona, Spain

Visual Identity

Birch, Cheshunt, England
Boho Club, Marbella, Spain
Château de Vignée, Villers-sur-Lesse, Belgium
Hotel Arlberg Lech, Austria
Villa Arnica, Lana, Italy

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Alfredo Häberli creates "architectural" Giro Soft sofa for Andreu World

Dezeen Showroom: Furniture brand Andreu World has launched Giro Soft, a modular sofa system created by Alfredo Häberli.

In this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen for Andreu World, the Swiss-Argentinian designer shared the story behind the product.

The modular design features a series of slender upholstered seats with interchangeable legs that can be joined together to build a larger sofa.

The collection, called Giro Soft, is the result of a collaboration between Häberli and the brand that started before the pandemic.

Designer Alfredo Häberli

"We had a team relationship from the very first second," Häberli told Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in an exclusive video interview conducted over Zoom. "We have the same vision,"

"I sent some drawings at 1:1 scale and we immediately started by working on prototypes in 1:1, which for us designers is the most beautiful thing".

The seating modules come in a variety of shapes that feature a combination of straight edges, rounded ends, and 90-degree or 45-degree curves. The latter lends Giro Soft its name, as "giro" means "curved" in Italian.

Giro Soft modular sofa system designed by Alfredo Häberli for Andreu World

Häberli designed the sofa as a collection of separate, reconfigurable parts to allow users to adapt the furniture to their spatial and personal requirements.

"It's also interesting ergonomically," said Häberli. "It's extremely comfortable to sit on it, to work on it, to relax on it."

Included in the collection is an optional swivelling table that can be slotted between two seating segments.

For use in public spaces, a power outlet can be integrated into the end of a seating module.

A range of legs are also available, including sledge-like supports made from solid ash wood and injected aluminium frames that come in matt or polished, white and black finishes.

These components were designed with both structure and aesthetics in mind, said Häberli, who describes the product's base as "very architectonic".

Black Giro Soft with black aluminium legs

The legs are intended to reduce the amount of materials required to raise the sofa above the floor, thereby giving the sofa a lighter appearance.

"It's like it's flying in a way," said Häberli from his studio, which is located in Zurich in Switzerland.

"The idea came because in a dream I wanted to have the same material as the floor but I cannot come up with 30 different materials," he explained.

"We decided at the end to do it in wood, but the idea was to use the same material as the floor because it makes it even more transparent in a way – and more 'architecture' than 'design'."

Häberli envisioned customers using Giro Soft to break up large spaces as an alternative to a screen or a partition.

Large red Giro Soft sofa and small black Giro Soft sofa

"When I start working I imagine where will I use [the product]," said Häberli. "In this case, it was more in the bigger spaces than smaller ones to use it as an architectural element to divide big spaces."

"I was thinking of hotels but I was also thinking of airports. I was thinking of an office and semi-public spaces where you might have to [architecturally] divide the space."

The sofa system was designed before the outbreak of coronavirus but Häberli argues that Giro Soft could be successfully deployed in a post-pandemic world – particularly in the workplace.

"Yes, we are in a very strange period. When we started, of course, nobody was thinking of [coronavirus]," said Häberli.

"But in the meantime, I have to say it fits perfectly because it's easy to clean. It gives you the opportunity of having enough distance in between the people. And I think these two elements are essential for the future of the offices."

According to Häberli, the pandemic has also created a demand for more comfortable yet functional domestic furniture, as more people are working from home.

"How do we work at the moment? We just work on the dinner table just behind the kitchen," said Häberli. "But if we are really working several days at home, we immediately need more ergonomic items at home."

This video was produced by Dezeen for Andreu World. Giro Soft was due to launch at Milan Design Week in April this year but the annual festival was cancelled earlier due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

Product: Giro Soft
Designer: Alfredo Häberli
Brand: Andreu World
Contact: info@andreuworld.com

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Ouroboros Steak grow-your-own human meat kit is "technically" not cannibalism

A group of American scientists and designers have developed a concept for a grow-your-own steak kit using human cells and blood to question the ethics of the cultured meat industry.

Ouroboros Steak could be grown by the diner at home using their own cells, which are harvested from the inside of their cheek and fed a serum of expired, donated human blood.

The resulting bite-sized pieces of meat, currently on display as prototypes at the Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition, are created entirely without causing harm to animals.  The creators argued this cannot be said about the growing selection of cultured meat made from animal cells.

Ouroboros Steak is part of the Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition

Despite the lab-grown meat industry claiming to offer a more sustainable, cruelty-free alternative to factory farming, the process still relies on fetal bovine serum (FBS) as a protein-rich growth supplement for animal cell cultures.

FBS, which costs around £300 to £700 per litre, is derived from the blood of calf fetuses after their pregnant mothers are slaughtered by the meat or dairy industry. So lab-grown meat remains a byproduct of polluting agricultural practices, much like regular meat.

"Fetal bovine serum costs significant amounts of money and the lives of animals," said scientist Andrew Pelling, who developed the Ouroboros Steak with industrial designer Grace Knight and artist and researcher Orkan Telhan.

"Although some lab-grown meat companies are claiming to have solved this problem, to our knowledge no independent, peer-reviewed, scientific studies have validated these claims," Pelling continued.

"As the lab-grown meat industry is developing rapidly, it is important to develop designs that expose some of its underlying constraints in order to see beyond the hype."

Human cells are fed with serum from expired blood donations

Ouroboros Steak, named after the ancient symbol of the snake eating its own tail, cuts out the need for other animals by drawing exclusively on human blood and cells.

The version on display at London's Design Museum was made using human cell cultures, which can be purchased for research and development purposes from the American Tissue Culture Collection (ATCC). They were fed with a serum derived from expired human blood donations that would otherwise have been discarded or incinerated.

The grow-it-yourself kit would include mycelium scaffolds (centre) and the human serum (right)

Amuse-bouche-sized steaks are preserved in resin and laid out on a plate complete with a placemat and silverware as a tongue-in-cheek nod to American diner culture.

As part of the DIY kit, the team envisions users collecting cells from the inside of their own cheek using a cotton swab and depositing them onto pre-grown scaffolds made from mushroom mycelium.

For around three months, these are stored in a warm environment such as a low-temperature oven and fed with human serum until the steak is fully grown.

For display, the bite-sized steaks are preserved in resin

"Expired human blood is a waste material in the medical system and is cheaper and more sustainable than FBS, but culturally less-accepted. People think that eating oneself is cannibalism, which technically this is not," said Knight.

"Our design is scientifically and economically feasible but also ironic in many ways," Telhan added.

"We are not promoting 'eating ourselves' as a realistic solution that will fix humans' protein needs. We rather ask a question: what would be the sacrifices we need to make to be able to keep consuming meat at the pace that we are? In the future, who will be able to afford animal meat and who may have no other option than culturing meat from themselves?"

Ouroboros Steak was previously exhibited at the Unlikely Futures exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Although no lab-grown meat has so far approved for sale in any part of the world, the market is estimated to be worth $206 million and expected to grow to $572 million by 2025, largely due to the increasing environmental and ethical concerns about the mass rearing of livestock for human consumption.

Among the companies hoping to bring cultured meat to market are Aleph Farms, which claims to have been the first company to make a lab-grown steak. Others have focused on substituting meat entirely, with Novameat creating a 3D-printed steak from vegetable proteins.

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Ariostea unveils new marble-effect textures as part of Ultra Marmi​ collection

Dezeen promotion: floor-and wall-covering brand Ariostea has added the Michelangelo Altissimo​, Brilliant Green and Verde Saint Denis marble-look textures to its Ultra Marmi​ collection of large porcelain slabs.

The three new marble-effect textures form part of the Ultra Marmi​ collection of porcelain stoneware, which can be used to cover walls, floors as well as to make items of furniture.

Like all of the 32 colours in the Ultra Marmi​ range, each of the Michelangelo Altissimo​, Brilliant Green and Verde Saint Denis textures are available in large slabs of up to 4.5-metres squared.

Brilliant Green has been added to the Ultra Marmi​ collection

The Brilliant Green texture is designed to look like Irish green marble – a rare type of marble that is quarried in Connemara, Ireland.

Ariostea's porcelain stoneware enables users to achieve the same "soothing" effect of this rare marble on walls, floors or furniture, but with a cheaper material that is also practical and functional.

The Brilliant Green texture is designed to look like Irish green marble

"The surface of Brilliant Green has an amazing iridescent green base, in which the dense, dark shades mingle with lime and white undertones," explained the brand.

"The great attention paid to the texture and highly realistic colours conjure up images of excitingly powerful and wild nature that is also soothing, just like the green Irish landscapes," it added.

The Michelangelo Altissimo looks like Italian Carrara marble

The Michelangelo Altissimo design is made to resemble Italian Carrara marble, which is quarried in the country's Apuan Alps. The material was used extensively by artist and architect Michelangelo, from whom the texture takes its name.

The material features a snowy-white background colour that is traversed by fine grey veins.

The slabs can be used on surfaces and to create furniture

"Michelangelo Altissimo takes its name from the sculptor who, more than any other, has made this type of marble eternal," said the brand.

"It was in the q​uarries of the Apuan Alps ​that Michelangelo searched for the most beautiful blocks of marble for his creations, and it is thanks to the technological know-how​ that has developed over the years that Ariostea is now able to re-propose all its charm in its own large slabs."

Verde Saint Denis is a dark green material with white veins

The third finish is Verde Saint Denis, a marble effect that is designed to pay homage to a type of ​Italian marble from the Aosta Valley.​ The dark bottle-green material that is covered in white veins was created to meet the demand for historical-style finishes.

"To meet the trends in interior design, which has in recent years seen a growing fondness for the past, for history and traditional atmospheres, with ​Verde Saint-Denis,​ Ariostea pays homage to a magnificent type of ​Italian marble from Valle d'Aosta," explained the brand.

The material can be used for floors and walls

Each of the materials are available in slabs of 300 by 150 centimetres, 150 by 150 centimetres, 150 by 75 centimetres, 75 by 75 centimetres and 75 by 37.5 centimetres. The slabs are all six-millimetres thick.

To find out more about Michelangelo Altissimo​, Brilliant Green and Verde Saint Denis and the Ultra Marmi​ collection visit Ariostea's website.

Product: Ultra Marmi​ collection
Brand: Ariostea

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Monforte soundproof partition by Raffaella Mangiarotti for IOC

Dezeen Showroom: Monforte, created by Italian architect and designer Raffaella Mangiarotti for IOC, is a sculptural, undulating room divider that can be used to separate desks and entire self-enclosed meeting rooms.

The freestanding, mobile wall comes in different lengths from 120 to 190 centimetres and consists of a series of tubes wrapped in sound-absorbing Kvadrat fabrics.

As the screen is made up of individual modules, which are simply connected via a chain at the bottom, it can easily be reconfigured into different shapes.

The Monforte room divider can be finished in a range of fabrics and colours including blush pink

Whether running between two tables to create privacy or curving into a snail-shaped wall around a breakout area, Monforte also acts as an acoustic panel to keep out ambient noise and allow for uninterrupted working.

"When I was designing this product I had a dream of a flexible sound-absorbing screen that can shape the space in a smart and fluid way," said Mangiarotti.

"Something that you can change easily depending on the activity you are doing but also something that has a beautiful texture and rhythm."

Product: Monforte
Designer: Raffaella Mangiarotti
Brand: IOC
Contact: n.mismara@ioc.it

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Foster + Partners adopts Spot the Boston Dynamics robot dog

Architecture firm Foster + Partners has employed a robot dog named Spot, designed by Boston Dynamics, to oversee construction at Battersea Power Station in London.

The four-legged machine, which can walk up and downstairs and move across uneven ground, is being used to regularly scan the site to monitor progress at Battersea Roof Gardens.

Spot can handle uneven construction sites

A video shows Spot being welcomed into the office and presented with its own Foster + Partners lanyard and ID card, before accompanying architects around the site and performing a scan.

This information Spot collects is fed back to Foster + Partners and used to build and update a "digital twin" model of the project as it is built. The model can be used to compare the design to the built reality.

The robot is remote controlled

The architecture firm's Applied Research + Development group (ARD) collaborated with American engineering firm Boston Dynamics to explore how a robot such as Spot can be used in the context of construction.

Spot is remote controlled and follows a pre-mapped route again and again. The robot's four feet help it cope with rough terrain and it can explore sites that might be hazardous or uncomfortable for humans.

Spot performs a weekly scan along a set route

As well as its own sensors, Spot can carry up to 14 kilograms of equipment.

At Battersea Roof Gardens, the robot dog is able to monitor construction as it progresses, something Foster + Partners said was very useful when different teams of contractors are on site.

Spot returns weekly to follow its route and perform its scan of the site.

Architects can use the data to build accurate digital models

"The ability of Spot to repeatedly and effortlessly complete routine scans, in an ever-changing environment was invaluable not only in terms of the consistency but also the large amount of high-quality data collected," said Foster + Partners partner Martha Tsigkari.

"Through this process, we developed a sequence of scans that may help us track the project progress against timeframes as well as facilitate regular comparisons against the BIM model," she added.

"Our scans can ensure that very quick and accurate changes to the newly designed system could be made to accommodate the differences captured by the scans – all in a matter of days. This could result in savings both in terms of time and money."

The scans can detect rates of progress

Battersea Roof Gardens is part of the conversion of Battersea Power Station, a decommissioned coal-fired power plant, into a mixed-use complex that will include apartments, a hotel with a rooftop infinity pool and an Apple headquarters.

Battersea Roof Gardens is part of phase three of the redevelopment and will encompass housing and a 250-metre-long garden overlooking the Thames. Foster + Partners, the architecture firm founded by Norman Foster in 1967, is collaborating on phase three with Frank Gehry's architecture practice.

More animal-inspired robots include Samsung's pet-like personal care robot that responds to voice commands, and MIT's backflipping mini cheetah robot.

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Mikhail Riches releases visuals for carbon-neutral housing scheme in York

Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches has unveiled details of a low-rise Passivhaus housing it is designing in York, UK, which will be net-zero carbon when in use.

The scheme is being developed by Mikhail Riches for the City of York Council's Housing Delivery Programme and will encompass seven sites across the city.

With over 600 homes set to be built, it will become the largest Passivhaus and net-zero carbon housing scheme in the country.

Mikhail Riches is developing seven sites of low-rise housing in York

London studio Mikhail Riches' goal for the Housing Delivery Programme is to provide affordable homes with low-energy bills and encourage residents to live low-carbon lifestyles.

This will be achieved through energy-efficient designs and the use of renewable energy technologies, alongside the provision of sustainable transport methods and allotment space for residents to grow their own food.

"The developments are really trying to promote a low-carbon lifestyle through low car ownership, sustainable transport methods and food growing," project architect Sophie Cole told Dezeen.

"This allows for landscapes to focus on people rather than cars, we're providing ample space for bike storage, growing opportunities, and spaces for children to play safely and communities to meet."

All housing will be orientated to maximise solar gain

Mikhail Riches is currently in the process of developing three sites of the sites, two of which have been submitted for planning.

They will have a range of one to five beds dwellings, provided through flats and low-rise houses with a range of accessibility levels.

There will also be multi-generational dwellings that have an attached, self-contained space for elderly relatives or younger family members seeking independence.

The numbers of different dwellings across the sites depends on their area and the specific needs of the immediate communities, identified through public consultations. They do, however, all utilise the same passive solar designs and rigorous Passivhaus energy standards, like its Stirling prize-winning Goldsmith Street in Norwich. 

Shared green spaces will feature fruit trees. Visual is by Mikhail Riches

"Similarly to Goldsmith Street, one of the key principles is that it's a passive solar scheme," Cole explained. "We're trying to get elevations facing south where possible in order to achieve Passivhaus in a cost-effective way."

Passivhaus is an international energy performance standard intended to dramatically reduce the requirement for space heating and cooling.

This forms a foundation for the studio to then make the developments net-zero carbon in operation, through the use of air-source heat pumps and photovoltaic arrays on rooftops.

"All the developments will be zero-carbon in operation, which means each development will generate as much energy per year as the development requires per year," Cole said.

"Passivhaus provides a great basis for this because Passivhaus already really reduces that energy requirement."

Ginnels will run between houses. Visual is by Mikhail Riches

Other elements of the scheme that Mikhail Riches has borrowed from its Goldsmith Street scheme include the contemporary interpretation of terraced streets and the use of deliberately simple materials like brick, render and tiled roofs.

The aesthetic of each Housing Delivery Programme site will be tailored to suit its immediate context, with some featuring unique details that pay homage to features of nearby buildings.

Mikhail Riches' landscape design will ensure most dwellings across the Housing Delivery Programme have private outdoor space. All of them will have access to semi-private and public green areas that encourage interaction between residents.

This will be possible because of the studio's early decision to design the landscapes around people, banishing car spaces to the perimeters of the site.

"Most people will have their own private space, but there'll also be shared external spaces similar to the ginnels that were between the back gardens on Goldsmith Street," Cole explained.

"We'll also introduce as much opportunity for growth in numbers as possible, whether that's fruit trees, or raised beds – small scale productive landscapes for all the residents to get involved in."

An aerial drawing of one of the sites. Drawing is by Mikhail Riches

Though the scheme will not be carbon-neutral in terms of embodied energy, Mikhail Riches is continually monitoring how these emissions can be reduced or offset.

Embodied energy refers to the carbon dioxide generated through the construction of a building, including the extraction, processing and transporting of building materials.

"We are measuring embodied carbon on these projects and looking to base some of our design decisions on the outcomes of that embodied carbon analysis," Cole said.

"We're also looking to improve the embodied carbon as the programme progresses, so we will make improvements from site to site if possible."

Her words echo those of the studio's co-founder, Annalie Riches, who told Dezeen that "as a practice, we don't want to do anything that doesn't aim for zero carbon now".

Mikhail Riches is a London architecture studio founded by Riches and David Mikhail, who were formerly directors of the practices David Mikhail Architects and Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects.

In 2019, the studio was awarded the Stirling Prize for Goldsmith Street – a scheme with 105 low-energy homes designed with Cathy Hawley for Norwich council. It was hailed by RIBA president Alan Jones as "a beacon of hope" in the face of the climate emergency.

Visuals are by Darcstudio unless stated.

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