This week Rick Owens created air-conditioned tracksuits
This week on Dezeen, we reported on Paris Fashion Week where fashion designer Rick Owens showed inflatable Adidas jogging suits.
Complete with tiny built-in fans that circulate air around the wearer, the jogging suits formed part of Owens' Spring Summer 27 menswear show, which took place during the city's record-breaking heatwave.
Described by Owens as a "personal air conditioning system", the tracksuits were made from the same plastic used to make hazmat suits.
In the US, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library was unveiled in North Dakota.
Set within a national park the building dedicated to American president Theodore Roosevelt was designed by Snøhetta with a hill-like green roof to blend into the surrounding countryside.
Also in America, ahead of the country's 250th birthday, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) selected 10 at-risk places deemed to be "irreplaceable".
Among the sites designated by the WMF were the IM Pei-designed Dallas City Hall, Watts Towers in Los Angeles and the City of New Orleans.
In Rotterdam, we took a look at Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis's loft apartment, which she described as "forever evolving" with her life.
"Our house is really a metaphor for how we like to live our lives," the designer told Dezeen. "It's forever evolving and very flexible."
In design news, British design studio Layer turned its attention to charging, with the aim of adding character to the usually highly practical products.
"Charging your tech is one of the most repeated interactions in daily life, yet the products that enable it are often treated as background objects," said studio head Benjamin Hubert.
Popular projects this week included a house on a rocky hillside overlooking the Aegean Sea, a brick home that draws on mid-century design principles and a London penthouse designed to resemble "house on a hill".
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