WEEK IN REVIEW

tomás saraceno — winner of THE DESIGN PRIZE 2019 for the category 'in the artistic realm' — has set 32 world records with ‘aerocene pacha.’ the event marks the most sustainable flight in human history, and one of the most important experiments in the history of aviation – discover more about it here.

speaking of THE DESIGN PRIZE, we recently revealed another recipient of this year's golden madonninas! after tom sachs, winner in the category 'in the artistic realm', and new york sunshine's john margaritis and dickies, winners in the category ‘distribution’, designboom announces william sawaya and paolo moroni of sawaya & moroni as the recipients of the golden madonnina ‘lifetime achievement’ trophy. find out more and step inside their new milanese showroom with this video interview.

earlier this summer we visited k-studio’s office in lycabettus hill, athens, and spoke with co-founder dimitris karampatakis to find out more about the greek firm's roots, creative process and upcoming projects. read our conversation here, and discover more recent interviews here.

in more architecture news, amelia tavella architectes adds a copper-clad extension to a 15th-century convent in corsica, transforming it from an empty construction partially in ruins, to a functional building that celebrates traces of its history.

last, multidisciplinary designer susannah feiler develops a minimal table that changes color as you move. named ‘gratitude’, the table is hand-built using bioplastics and embedded with custom light sensitive pigments, meaning the surface reacts to the user's movements. see more submissions by our readers here, and find out here how to upload your own project here.

the weekly is an inside review curated by sofia lekka angelopoulou.