This week, we unveiled Dezeen Awards shortlists

This week on Dezeen, we introduced the shortlisted structure, inside and design tasks which might be in line to win Dezeen Awards in 2019.

Now in its second yr, Dezeen Awards recognises the world’s greatest structure, inside and design tasks, in addition to the studios and particular person architects and designers producing the most effective work.

This week we revealed the shortlisted tasks forward of the ceremony in October, together with a home in England made out of recycled cork, Europe’s first underwater restaurant, and the world’s first silent wi-fi breast pump.

John Pawson pares again Barbican residence to “a state of vacancy”

One other prize-worthy undertaking that was fashionable with readers this week was John Pawson’s overhaul of a London Barbican property residence, to which he utilized his signature minimalist aesthetic.

Pawson employed the concept of “paring away every little thing to a state of vacancy” when designing the flat, which now options pale surfaces and a handful of furnishings organized round a central timber quantity.

Lamborghini’s first hybrid manufacturing supercar can be its “quickest automobile of all time”

From minimalism to maximalism, Lamborghini revealed its first hybrid supercar to enter manufacturing this week, which it claims can be its “quickest automobile of all time”.

The Lamborghini Sián boasts a mixed thermal and electrical energy of 819 horsepower (602 kilowatts), and is ready to speed up from zero to 62 miles per hour in beneath 2.eight seconds.

Jony Ive and Marc Newson’s all-diamond ring revealed

One other lavish undertaking that hit the headlines was a hoop designed by Apple’s departing design chief Jony Ive and industrial designer Marc Newson.

Footage of the ring, which is made out of a single huge diamond, have been revealed after it was crafted bespoke for the nameless purchaser who bought it at a Sotheby’s public sale in December 2018 for US$256,250.

Snøhetta completes workplace on Norwegian Fjord that produces twice the quantity of power it makes use of

Over in structure information, Snøhetta accomplished the sustainable Powerhouse Brattørkaia workplace in Trondheim, Norway, which produces greater than double the quantity of electrical energy that it makes use of per day.

The studio hopes to set an instance for different structure corporations in mild of the local weather disaster through the use of three,000-square-metres of photo voltaic panels to supply sustainable power for itself, neighbouring buildings and metropolis transport.

Kohn Pedersen Fox slots raised gardens into Robinson Tower in Singapore

World structure agency Kohn Pedersen Fox accomplished the 175-metre-high Robinson Tower in Singapore this week.

Designed in collaboration with native apply Architects 61, the Robinson Tower is break up into two sections with a spot in between, which has been used to create a inexperienced roof terrace shaded by the tower above.

Michigan highschool designed to scale back influence of mass shootings

In America, structure agency Tower Pinkster has designed the Fruitport Excessive Faculty campus in Michigan with the purpose of lowering the variety of scholar casualties within the occasion of a mass taking pictures.

The varsity is designed in segments which might be divided by fireplace doorways that may be closed on the push of a button to shut off compartments.

Massive expanses of glazing additionally open up the sight traces into the varsity, whereas indoor hallways can be curved to chop off the shooter’s line of sight, and concrete wing partitions will present boundaries for college kids to cover behind.

New particulars of Álvaro Siza’s first US undertaking revealed in pictures

Elsewhere within the US, new renderings of Álvaro Siza’s luxurious condominium tower in New York have been revealed, providing a full take a look at the Portuguese architect’s first undertaking in America.

The photographs present the inside and exterior of the 37-storey residential constructing on 611 West 56th Avenue, which boasts a stepped kind with pale Turkish limestone cladding on its exterior, and minimal decor inside comprised of pale stone and marble, vivid white partitions and wood floors.

Bornstein Lyckefors builds pale inexperienced cabin on rural Swedish island

Different tasks fashionable with Dezeen readers this week have been a set of midcentury emojis by American design retailer Demise by Modernism, Bornstein Lyckefors’ pale inexperienced cabin on a rural Swedish island, and SO&CO’s skinny workplace constructing slotted between two buildings in Tokyo.