One year ago...

This time last year designers were going to extreme lengths to devise and manufacture their projects, as an architecture graduate proposed hanging a skyscraper upside-down over a river (above) and another designer created stools using explosions (below).

Each of Guy Mishaly's Blast stools was made by detonating a charge inside a steel blank, ripping legs out of the sides.

Meanwhile, German designer Markus Kayser took his manufacturing machines out into the Moroccan desert to create glass objects from sunlight and sand (above).

Lastly, French designer Julien Carretero sourced timber excavated from Eindhoven’s medieval city walls to build a catapult (above) that could be used in an insurgency and architect Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox built a kiosk for skincare brand Aesop by stacking, tearing and binding over 1000 copies of the New York Times (below).