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Japan's Gran-Prix-Style Office Chair Racing Event

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For the past 16 years, the Japan Office Chair Racing Association (JORA) has sponsored the Isu-1 GP, a Gran-Prix-style racing event. Held in ten cities around the country, the rules are pretty simple: Your vehicle is an off-the-shelf office chair that you propel with your legs. Anyone caught modifying their chair will be disqualified. And you must wear a helmet, gloves, elbow pads and knee pads.

The race courses are 200-meter loops, with a set racing time of two hours. Each team consists of three members, who can swap out, Le-Mans-style, to deal with fatigue....

Кодо-региональные понты

В Челябинске типичный код региона — 174 RUS:

Как сделать понтовый номер? Кто-то делает буквы AAA, кто-то цифры 001 или 666.

Но это для детей. Взрослые понты выходят за рамки этой системы. Серьёзные ребята не размениваются по мелочам и ставят киргизские номера 174 RUS:

Yrki Arkitektar references lava fields for summerhouse overlooking Icelandic volcano

A dark palette of concrete, metal and stone references the craggy surface of a lava field surrounding Swan Nest, a summerhouse by local studio Yrki Arkitektar overlooking one of Iceland's most active volcanoes.

Located on a rolling green site with dramatic views of the stratovolcano Hekla, the two-storey dwelling was designed for the family of Yrki Arkitektar's founder, Ásdís Helga Ágústsdóttir.

Designed to feel embedded in the landscape, Swan Nest has been partially sunk into its site, with a cubic timber-clad form sandwiched between two large retaining walls of exposed concrete.

"The project...

Ten unique vents that "tell the story of Britain's underground industrial history"

From an art nouveau column in Aberdeen to a slate-clad vent that blends into the Snowdonia landscape, authors Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens and Suzanna Prizeman have selected 10 unique ventilation shafts from their book Adventurous Vents.

Published by Particular Books, Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain documents one hundred vents, ranging from the 18th to the 21st century, which cool and ventilate underground tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy stations.

Architect Lavers and art historians Ovens and Prizeman wanted to explore vents from around Britain following the success...

Stockholm Creative Edition hopes to wake up Sweden's "sleepy" design industry

Folded paper lights and a chair woven from a single piece of rope are among the projects from emerging Swedish designers that are on show as part of the main exhibition at Stockholm Creative Edition this week.

Set in a former sewing factory, the show forms the heart of the design festival, which was pulled forward from it usual time in May to fill the void left behind by the Stockholm Furniture Fair and its associated design week after they were cancelled for this year.

"We saw an opportunity to...

I M M E R S I V E

Some experiments with Multiple exposure, infrared and ICM on a collection of photos I have taken in recent years where the theme is vegetation and trees. The idea behind this series is different from the other photo collections. Where I try to take familiar elements and meaning from the frame to engage the senses more. Here, however, there are familiar elements such as trees and vegetation that I greatly exaggerate in post-processing. As usual I interpret and incorporate the impressions that arise when I process the images into the text. With Blessings..

"For those engaged in the production of India's buildings, it's akin to seeing the warming water boiling the frogs"

India is building at an unprecedented scale but its highly fragmented construction industry is struggling to cope, writes Amit Khanna.

Two billion square feet, probably closer to three billion.

When estimating the quantity of civic urban infrastructure that India needs to build over the next few decades, the rounding error often exceeds the total built volume of entire countries. States plan their schools by the thousands, home subsidies by the millions. Road construction is measured in kilometres per day.

India's need for buildings is not an academic projection. Millions are phasing from subsistence to consumption and the country's cities are woefully inadequate to...

T__M.space tops sinuous pavilion in New Delhi with green roof

The latest Dezeen Exclusive reveals the inaugural Aranyani Pavilion in New Delhi, a curving green-roofed structure that was designed by architecture studio T__M.space to host discussions on ecology.

Named Sacred Nature, the spiralling, undulating pavilion opened in the Sunder Nursery park today, where it will remain until 20 February.

It is the first annual Aranyani Pavilion commission, which was launched by nature restoration and arts organisation Aranyani to facilitate conversations on the environment.

T__M.space created the fluidly shaped pavilion with a planted roof that rises and falls as it spirals round with the aim...

Form Us With Love unveils four-month show following Stockholm Design Week cancellation

Instead of its usual week-long Stockholm Design Week exhibition, Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has transformed its studio into an experimental showroom that will be open for four months.

With Stockholm Furniture Fair and the affiliated Stockholm Design Week postponed until 2027, Form Us With Love wanted to offer an alternative to the "compressed, high-intensity" feel of a design week show.

Named Showroom?, its exhibition was designed with slowness in mind. Rather than a static space, the adaptable interior will host a four-month programme of talks, events and...