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“There’s something seriously wrong with IKEA’s most sustainable store”

February 28, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
IKEA Greenwich: IKEA's most sustainable store

IKEA claims its latest London store is its greenest ever. But how can this be true if another green building was demolished to make way for it? asks Tom Ravenscroft. Knocking down one sustainable building to build another is nonsensical. Still, this is exactly what has happened in Greenwich, London, where IKEA has just opened its latest

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Dezeen Hot List 2017: IKEA is the most newsworthy force in design, ahead of Muji and Peter Zumthor

December 20, 2017 Marcus Fairs 0

Furniture and homewares brand IKEA has topped the 2017 Dezeen Hot List of the 500 people, brands and organisations our readers most wanted to read about this year. Retailer Muji takes second place while Peter Zumthor is the highest placed architect. Donald Trump has crashed into the top five of the list, which is compiled

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1098 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman’s brief

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1908 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman’s brief

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1908 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman and her

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IKEA lab Space10 creates algae-producing pavilion in Copenhagen

September 10, 2017 Ali Morris 0

IKEA’s external innovation lab Space10 has worked in collaboration with three young architects to create a four-metre-high bioreactor dome for growing microalgae. Described by Space10 as a “food-producing architecture pavilion”, the futuristic dome houses a photo-bioreactor — a closed system that enables the high productivity of green microalgae. The dome was installed at Copenhagen’s CHART Art Fair last

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Ten thousand IKEA refugee shelters left unused over fire fears, United Nations admits

April 29, 2017 Marcus Fairs 0

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has mothballed 10,000 of IKEA’s award-winning refugee shelters over concerns about the product’s vulnerability to fire. Only 5,000 of the 15,000 shelters that UNHCR bought in 2015 have been deployed, meaning that two thirds of them, worth a total of $12,5 million, have yet to be used. The rest have remained in

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IKEA refugee shelter to be redesigned following safety fears and design flaws

April 27, 2017 Marcus Fairs 0

Deployment of IKEA’s award-winning refugee shelter was put on hold due to concerns over a range of design issues including accessibility and fire risk, Dezeen has learned. Better Shelter, the social enterprise that produces the product, said a new version of the shelter was under development to address the issues and would be launched later this year. “Following

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