The new 918 Spyder embodies the essence of the Porsche idea: it combines pedigree motor racing technology with excellent everyday utility, and maximum performance with minimum consumption. The task faced by the development team was to create the super sports car for the next decade with a highly efficient and powerful hybrid drive.
Barcelona-based architect Daniel Isern has designed ‘Meriterrani 32′, a four-storey house located in Sant Pol de Mar, Spain. The project for this house emerged from a very simple premise, to build on a very steep piece of land with a gradient of almost 100%, boasting wonderful views and on a tight budget.
Renowned architect Zaha Hadid has won a competition to design the new King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital.
London designer Benjamin Hubert ha created for Italian brand Moroso ‘Talma’, a compact new lounge chair launched last month at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.
At the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2013, two tradition-steeped car manufacturers, the BMW Group and Pininfarina, unveil the result of their debut cooperation to the global public on 24 May revealing the BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupé.
Recon Instruments, the award winning technology company behind the world’s first consumer Heads-up Display (HUD) for sports, showed at Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, which started yesterday in San Francisco, an early version of Recon Jet, a sports version of the Google Glass.
Mercedes-benz unveiled its new S-Class: with the three engineering priorities “Intelligent Drive”, “Efficient Technology” and “Essence of Luxury”, the new S-Class extends the boundaries of technology on many levels. The S-Class is not just a technological spearhead for Mercedes-Benz but for automotive development as a whole.
Located in Shanghai’s Chang Ning District, L’Avenue Shanghai is a 24-storey commercial development that includes an office tower, four-storey retail podium and four-storey basement, for a total of 140,000 square metres, that will be the the world’s largest Louis Vuitton flagship.
Nokia unveiled the Nokia Lumia 925, a new interpretation of its award-winning flagship, the Nokia Lumia 920. The Nokia Lumia 925 comes with a sleek, metal-finished design, a new AMOLED display to make it possible to view the content from more angles, and new features and advances of Nokia’s PureView imaging technology for capturing even clearer, sharper pictures.
London-based designer Sophie de Oliveira Barata, coming from an art background, with a first class honours degree at London Arts University where she studied Special Effects prosthetics for film and TV, uses her expertise for her ‘Alternative Limb Project’.