A data centre is a facility that centralizes an organization’s shared IT operations and equipment for the purposes of storing, processing, and disseminating data and applications. Though we, as users, often do not have an idea where our data are stored, data centres are utterly integral to modern society, emerging as a crucial piece of infrastructure and industrial architecture. Contemporary data centre architecture comprises colossal structures, shaped by the need to provide space for thousands of pieces of equipment, together with the security and cooling requirements.  Engineering sustainable and efficient data centres is the next design frontier for architects worldwide.

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When you think of furniture, you think of pieces made using the most traditional materials. We are conditioned to associate furniture primarily with wood, plastic, and metal. In the meantime, product designers explore the potential of cardboard as a material for short-use furniture, creating designs that are light, portable, and easy to assemble.

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It takes a long time for a tree to grow, but every day, a lot of trees are cut down to clear the lot so new buildings can be erected. Creative and environmentally conscious architects take the existing trees into account when designing a new home, thus saving trees and helping preserve nature and our oxygen supply.

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The unfortunate reality of urbanization is the lack of trees – more often than not they come in the way of urban development and fall victim to it. However, sparing them helps to preserve nature and our oxygen supply, as well as our mental health. That is why, instead of getting rid of the issue, creative architects find ways to build around it. We have selected a few great examples how a tree melds into the house, or the other way round, as a nice blend of architecture and nature.

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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has returned to the California desert after a two-year break, with immersive installations by international architects, artists, and designers, responding to the unique topography and biodiversity of the desert. Through explorations of scale, light, sound, and colors, the installations deal with the global themes such as connectedness, environmental sustainability, immigration, social behavior and architecture, pop culture, and the community.

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“Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that’s life-enhancing is worth doing,” wrote the world’s famous science fiction author Ray Bradbury. Hoping that going to space will soon just be another option people will pick for their vacation, designers cooperate with space companies to develop spaceships and space hotels that will make the dream of space tourism come true.

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According to a report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, 1 in 3 people globally still do not have access to safe drinking water. Product designers and researchers develop water filters that allow users to clean their water on a daily basis in a simple way. Innovative and sustainable, they enable us fully use the source that gives Earth life to give us life.

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The big issue with products developed for cats is that they generally have little to do with good design. Scratching posts and litter boxes for cats can often be humongous and terrible plastic items that do not harmonize with chic home interiors. Product designers offer solutions where elegance and pet design come hand in hand.

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Whether you are working from home, attending video calls, binge-watching your favourite shows or video-chatting with family, these bespoke smartphone stands will help uplift your phone/tablet experience.

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Even though the “future” shown in the cult science fiction franchise Back to the Future (1985) by Robert Zemeckis has come and gone, some of the technology the team imagined has not yet been invented. However, some of the innovations foretold in the motion picture are here. We have collected some real-life counterparts of the movies’s coolest technologies.

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