Saturday, October 31, 2020

Freitag's Sweat-Yourself-Shop is a tiny factory for making bags

Swiss brand Freitag has created a shop in Zurich, which is a "micro-factory" where customers can help make their own bag out of recycled tarpaulins.

Named Sweat-Yourself-Shop, the interactive retail space on Grüngasse was designed by Freitag to take their existing customisation options one step further.

Interior of Sweat-Yourself-Shop by Freitag in Zurich
Freitag bags are made of recycled truck tarpaulins

The 80-square-metre retail space was originally a standard shop for the brand but has been given a factory-style makeover.

"We were looking for a unique pilot retail experience to reduce used truck tarp leftovers from our factory," explained Freitag.

"With the new shop, customers can get further involved by assembling their bag to their own taste and getting involved in the final production steps," added the brand.

"From now on, Freitag is transferring the final stages of production and the entire responsibility for the bag's design to future owners, in our newly converted micro-factory."

Conveyor belt of Sweat-Yourself-Shop by Freitag
Customers can operate a conveyor belt of material

Founded in 1993 by graphic designers Markus and Daniel Freitag, Freitag specialises in practical bags made out of recycled tarpaulins.

Used tarpaulin bought from trucking companies in Europe are cleaned, cut up and fashioned into bags. The material, polyester fabric coated with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), makes for durable and waterproof accessories.

Conveyor belt of Sweat-Yourself-Shop by Freitag
The shop is set up as a "micro-factory" for bags

At Sweat-Yourself-Shop, customers can make their own shopper-style bag.

The interiors of the micro-factory are designed to look "functional and industrial", with grey walls and floors. Freitag painted all the machinery in Colour Index industrial green, the brand's signature shade.

WWorkshop of Sweat-Yourself-Shop by Freitag
The shopper bag is fully customisable

A rainbow of tarpaulin panels are clipped to hangers dangling from a looped conveyor belt that runs along the shop's ceiling.

Customers can press a button to power the conveyor belt, bringing more colour choices out from behind windows of frosted glass.

Sewing process of Sweat-Yourself-Shop by Freitag
Customers can watch their bag being stitched

Workshop stations allow them to pick out colours for the main bag and the outer pocket and watch them be cut and stitched together.

"The sheer amount of colour choices for tarp pieces that go into the F718 BUH shopper will probably have our part-time bag makers in the new Sweat-Yourself-Shop perspiring more heavily than the production work itself," joked the brand.

Exterior of Sweat-Yourself-Shop by Freitag
The whole process is visible through big display windows

Large windows frame the shop so that passersby can also watch the process from the street.

Sweat-Yourself-Shop is shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the small retail interior category, alongside projects including a tiny bakery in Japan and beauty brand Glossier's Seattle shop that's covered in moss.

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Thirty domestic bathrooms by architects including concrete, travertine and pink-tiled designs

Bathroom design

Making improvements to your home because you're spending so much more time there? Here are 30 bathrooms designed by architects to give you some ideas.


Minimal Fantasy apartment by Patricia Bustos Studio

Designed by Patricia Bustos Studio, this pink bathroom has shiny pink curtains and mirrors with pink frames to match the rest of the apartment in Madrid, which is almost entirely pink.


Botaniczna Apartment by Agnieszka Owsiany Studio

This bathroom in a Poznań apartment designed by Agnieszka Owsiany Studio for a couple working in medicine has travertine marble walls and a travertine basin.


House 6 by Zooco Estudio

Zooco Estudio covered the walls and floors of this bathroom in Madrid with white tiles and blue grouting. A geometric counter clad with blue tiles snakes across the ground and up the wall to form a storage closet in the space.


Porto house by Fala Atelier 

Fala Atelier used square white tiles for this bathroom in a house in Porto. The tiles are paired with marble countertops, blue cupboard doors and a large round mirror over the sink.


London apartment by Surman Weston 

Makepeace Mansions apartment by Surman Weston 

The bathroom in this apartment designed by Surman Weston is finished with hand-painted tiles that are arranged to form a black-and-white graphic pattern that mimics the housing block's mock-Tudor facade.


Unit 622 by Rainville Sangaré

Unit 622 by Rainville Sangaré

Set in an apartment within Moshe Safdie's brutalist Habitat 67 housing complex in Montreal, this bathroom designed by Rainville Sangaré has colour-changing shower screens.


Rylett House by Studio 30 Architects

Rylett House by Studio 30 Architects

Created as part of the renovation of a Victorian maisonette in London, this small en-suite bathroom is finished with a black grid of tiles and a bright yellow wall.


Cats' Pink House by KC Design Studio 

Cats' Pink House by KC Design Studio 

This holiday home in Taiwan is designed with a focus on the owner's cat and includes cat ladders, a rotating carousel-shaped climbing frame and a fluffy pink swing. Its bathroom combines larger square pink floor tiles with a wall made from terrazzo with large flecks of pink and grey.


Borden house by StudioAC

This en-suite bathroom at the front of a house designed by StudioAC has pitched walls covered in grey tiles.


Spinmolenplein apartment by Jürgen Vandewalle

Spinmolenplein apartment by Jürgen Vandewalle

This bathroom in an apartment in Ghent's tallest building is enclosed within a white lacquered-wood box and is accessed by a set of barn-style doors. Internally the bathroom is finished with earthy, pink-tone micro cement to contrast the white wood.


Cloister House by MORQ

Cloister House by MORQ

The rammed-concrete walls of Cloister House in Perth have been left exposed in the bathroom where they are softened with timber slatted floors and a timber-clad bath and sink.


Akari House by Mas-aqui

Akari House by Mas-aqui

Designed by Architecture studio Mas-aqui as part of a renovation of a 20th-century apartment in the mountains above Barcelona, this small bathroom combines red floor tiles with white wall tiles.


Louisville Road house by 2LG Studio

Louisville Road house by 2LG Studio

Created by 2LG Studio as part of a colourful overhaul of a period house in south London, this bathroom has pale marble walls and a baby-blue tiled floor. The baby-blue colour was also used for the taps and mirror surround, which contrast with the coral vanity unit.


Apartment A by Atelier Dialect

This en-suite bathroom, which forms part of a large open-plan master bedroom in an Antwerp apartment designed by Belgian studio Atelier Dialect, has a rectangular freestanding tub at its centre.

The bath is wrapped in mirrored steel to compliment a stainless-steel basin, while the walls are finished with subway tiles and mint-green paint.


House V by Martin Skoček

Martin Skoček used salvaged bricks throughout the interiors of this gabled house near Bratislava, Slovakia. The master bedroom has a dramatic en-suite bedroom with a freestanding bathtub that is alined with the apex of the pitched timber roof.


308 S apartment by Bloco Arquitetos 

308 S apartment by Bloco Arquitetos 

The bathroom in this 1960s apartment renovated by Bloco Arquitetos in Brasília incorporates white tiles as a reference to architecture in the city in the 6os. The white walls and ceiling are combined with a vanity counter and floor made from Branco São Paulo – a matte-finished granite.


Mexican holiday home by Palma

This slim shower room is tucked behind a bedroom in a holiday home designed by architecture studio Palma. It has slatted wooden doors that open directly to the exterior.


South Yarra Townhouse by Winter Architecture

South Yarra Townhouse by Winter Architecture

This bathroom designed by Winter Architecture in a Melbourne townhouse combines exposed-aggregate grey tiles and thin, horizontal white tiles with towels rails and taps made from gold-hued brass.


Edinburgh apartment by Luke and Joanne McClelland

Edinburgh apartment by Luke and Joanne McClelland

The main bathroom in this Georgian apartment in Edinburgh has glazed green tiles on the lower half of the walls and the front of the tub. Alongside the bath, a sink was placed on a restored 1960s wooden sideboard by Danish designer Ib Kofod Larsen.


Ruxton Rise Residence by Studio Four

Built for Studio Four's co-director Sarah Henry, this tranquil house in the Melbourne suburb of Beaumaris has bathrooms with surfaces covered in tadelakt – a waterproof, lime-based plaster that is often used in Moroccan architecture to make sinks and baths.


House with Three Eyes by Innauer-Matt Architekten

House with Three Eyes by Innauer-Matt Architekten

In House with Three Eyes, the bathroom has a full-height glass wall that has views out across the surrounding Austrian countryside. The marble-clad bath is positioned right next to this window so bathers can enjoy the views.


Hygge Studio by Melina Romano

Hygge Studio by Melina Romano

Brazilian designer Melina Romano designed this fern green coloured bathroom to extend from a bedroom in a São Paulo apartment. It features a striking black toilet, a corner mirror and a vanity unit built from red brick that has an open slot for storing towels and toiletries.


Ready-made Home by Azab

Ready-made Home by Azab

This en-suite bathroom in Azab's Ready-made Home is separated from the bedroom by an angled blue curtain. The triangular bathroom space is differentiated from the bedroom by its blue tiles on the floor, which extend up the front of the bath and walls.


Immeuble Molitor apartment by Le Corbusier

Immeuble Molitor apartment by Le Corbusier

This small bathroom was designed by Le Corbusier in the Immeuble Molitor apartment in Paris that was his home for over 30 years. The room, which has walls that are painted sky blue and covered with small white tiles, has a short bath and sink.


Apartment in Born by Colombo and Serboli Architecture

Apartment in Born by Colombo and Serboli Architecture

Colombo and Serboli Architecture added a new guest bathroom to this apartment in Barcelona's historic El Born neighbourhood, which has by blush-toned tiles and a circular mirror.


130 William skyscraper model apartment by David Adjaye

130 William skyscraper model apartment by David Adjaye

Built within an apartment in David Adjaye's 130 William skyscraper in New York, this bathroom is lined with serrated grey marble tiles and has a wooden sink unit with a matching profile.


Pioneer Square Loft by Plum Design and Corey Kingston

Pioneer Square Loft by Plum Design and Corey Kingston

The bathroom facilities in this loft apartment in Seattle are located in a custom-built L-shaped wooden box in one of the room's corners, which is topped with a bedroom.

A washroom, shower, toilet and sauna are each located in different boxes that are each clad in wood charred using the traditional Japanese technique known as Shou Sugi Ban.


VS House by Sārānsh

The bathroom in VS House by Sārānsh in Ahmedabad, India, combines two clashing Indian stone finishes. Floors and walls are made from flecked grey tiles, while an emerald-coloured marble surrounds the toilets and mirror.


Nagatachō Apartment by Adam Nathaniel Furman

Nagatachō Apartment by Adam Nathaniel Furman

Forming part of the brightly coloured Nagatachō Apartment, which Adam Nathaniel Furman designed to be a "visual feast", this bathroom combines a blue-tiled with milky-orange-tiled walls. A sky blue vanity unit, lemon-yellow towel rail and taps, and pink toilet complete the colourful composition.


Kyle House by GRAS

Kyle House by GRAS

This holiday home in Scotland was designed by Architecture studio GRAS to have a "monastically simple" interior. This is extended into the bathroom, which has grey walls and a shower space clad with large black tiles.

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Friday, October 30, 2020

This week Bjarke Ingels revealed his plan to redesign Earth

Bjarke Ingels

This week on Dezeen, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels unveiled his plan to stop climate change by redesigning the planet.

BIG founder Ingels explained his Masterplanet concept, which aims to "prove that a sustainable human presence on planet Earth is attainable with existing technologies" to TIME magazine.

By master planning the planet, Ingels calculated that 10 billion people could enjoy a high quality of life.

Dezeen Showroom launches
Dezeen Showroom launches with products from Vitra, Hem, Luceplan and Maruni

This week saw the launch of Dezeen Showroom – an affordable space for brands to showcase products to Dezeen's huge global audience.

The launch included furniture and lighting products by designers Jasper MorrisonStephen BurksFaye ToogoodNaoto Fukasawa and Barber Osgerby.

Enzo Mari key works
Nine designs that demonstrate the variety of Enzo Mari's works

Following the death of Italian designer Enzo Mari last week, the curators of a major retrospective of his work at the Triennale Milano chose nine of his key designs for Dezeen.

Picks by curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Francesca Giacomelli included Mari's travelling bookcase, animal children's toys and self-designed furniture proposal.

Olafur Eliasson perches giant astronomical instrument on top of glacier
Olafur Eliasson perches giant astronomical instrument on top of glacier

This week saw artist Olafur Eliasson aim to draw attention to climate change by installing an oversized armillary sphere on the summit of the Hochjochferner glacier in the Italian Alps.

Also in response to climate change, five architecture studios revealed proposals to preserving Washington DC's Tidal Basin reservoir and the National Mall, with a bridge to the White House and man-made islands among the concepts.

Cave hotel in Saudi Arabia's AlUla desert
Jean Nouvel reveals cave hotel in Saudi Arabia's AlUla desert

In Saudi Arabia, French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled his design for a hotel resort that will be carved into the AlUla desert.

Named Sharaan by Jean Nouvel, the hotel was informed by a nearby Nabatean city that was carved into the sandstone.

"Our project is celebrating the Nabateans spirit without caricaturing it," said Nouvel. "This creation genuinely becomes a cultural act."

Jony Ive
Jony Ive to design "the next generation of Airbnb products"

In other architecture and design news, online rental service Airbnb announced that it had hired Apple's former chief design officer Jony Ive to develop new products and services.

"We have made the decision to work together through a multi-year relationship to design the next generation of Airbnb products and services," said Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky.

Apartment block in Guangzhou by Fei Architects
Fei Architects designs apartment block that frames residents' daily lives in Guangzhou

Popular projects on Dezeen this week include a housing project in Guangzhou designed by Fei Architects to show off its occupants, an apartment in the Netherlands built within an old sports hall, the redesign of a 1980s apartment in Toronto that features dark quartzite, walnut and green walls.

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IOC designs Solari workstation in collaboration with Gensler

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