Mirage Gstaad, a mirrored building created by American artist Doug Aitken, reflects the shifting landscape of the Alps in this exclusive video for Dezeen.

The reflective pavilion, which has previously been installed in the desert near Palm Springs, currently sits in an Alpine meadow above Gstaad, Switzerland.

As people happen upon Mirage Gstaad they can approach it and even walk inside, where the mirrored walls frame windows and skylights.

“I saw Mirage as a human-scale lens that the viewer would enter into, and in the process, they would become the work,” said Aitken.

As the seasons change around it, the mirrors that cover Mirage House create a shifting display of scenery and sky.

“I am very interested in artworks that change continuously,” continued the artist. “Artworks that change with the landscape.”

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A patent-pending technology designed by British startup The Tyre Collective to capture the unseen synthetic rubber particles expelled by car tyres has been awarded this year’s UK national James Dyson Award.

Developed by a group of graduate students from Imperial College and the Royal College of Art, the prototype can be suspended from each wheel’s steering knuckle, just above where the tyre meets the road, to capture the microplastic fragments released through friction every time the car breaks, accelerates or turns a corner.

These microscopic pieces of artificial rubber, called tyre wear, account for more than half of all particulate emissions created by vehicles on the road and are released into the air and waterways.

“We began the project looking at microplastics at large and were shocked when we discovered that tyre wear was … Read more

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