Carlo Ratti tops Italy Pavilion at Dubai Expo with trio of boats
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has created a building that aims to investigate reusable materials and natural cooling for the Italy Pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020. More
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Carlo Ratti Associati explains how plants capture carbon in installation sponsored by oil multinational
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has defended his decision to design an exhibition about climate change sponsored by fossil-fuel giant Eni, saying the Milan design week installation is "not greenwashing". More
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Carlo Ratti Associati designs hydroponic "farmscraper" for Shenzhen
Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled plans to build a 218-metre-tall skyscraper in China that would grow crops using hydroponics, as well as contain spaces for selling and consuming the produce. More
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Carlo Ratti Associati designs MAE Museum dedicated to carbon fibre
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota have designed a museum dedicated to carbon fibre, which will be partially made from the material. More
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Disused railway yard in Milan set to become park and Olympic athletes' village
Architecture studios Diller Scofidio + Renfro, PLP Architecture and Carlo Ratti Associati have revealed plans to convert a goods yard in Milan into a park and the athletes' village for the upcoming Winter Olympic Games. More
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Carlo Ratti Associati proposes floating reservoirs to create carbon-free heating for Helsinki
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati is among four winners of the global Helsinki Energy Challenge, with a proposal to create island-like, floating seawater reservoirs that would store heat to help decarbonise the city's heating network. More
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Carlo Ratti Associati stacks tennis courts on top of each other for Playscraper building
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota have designed a concept for a tower called Playscraper, which is a temporary structure that consists of eight tennis courts layered on top of each other. More
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Carlo Ratti Associati designs "world's first fully compostable marker"
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a concept for a compostable marker pen comprising natural fibres and a water-based, edible ink that would break down within six months. More
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Carlo Ratti's digital arts centre explores "the meaning of physical space in a digital world"
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has unveiled MEET, a centre for digital culture in Milan designed to maximise chance encounters between visitors. More
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Live interview with architect Carlo Ratti as part of Virtual Design Festival
Architect Carlo Ratti spoke to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. More
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Carlo Ratti's Pura-Case uses "ozone power" to sanitise clothes
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has designed a concept for a battery-powered wardrobe purifier that uses ozone to remove bacteria and viruses from the user's clothes. More
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Shipping-container intensive care unit installed at Turin hospital
A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. More
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Carlo Ratti Associati designs shipping-container intensive care units for coronavirus treatment
Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic. More
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Carlo Ratti's Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech
Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and uses facial-recognition technology. More
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Careers guide: Marco Maria Pedrazzo describes his progression from intern to design lead at Carlo Ratti Associati
Marco Maria Pedrazzo is a strategic designer at international design practice Carlo Ratti Associati. For the Dezeen Jobs careers guide he explains how he progressed from intern to design lead. More
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Daan Roosegaarde partners with Scribit to bring space waste into people's living rooms
Designer Daan Roosegaarde is the latest creative to collaborate with Carlo Ratti's Scribit project, creating a robot-drawn illustration based on his ongoing research into space waste. More
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Carlo Ratti's orange squeezer serves juice in bioplastic cups made from the peel
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has developed an orange juice bar that turns the waste fruit peel into 3D-printed bioplastic cups to drink the contents from, as an example of the circular economy in practice. More
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Carlo Ratti uses drones to create "world's first crowdsourced graffiti"
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati used a swarm of drones to graffiti this artwork in Turin that is based on visual content submitted by hundreds of contributors. More
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Carlo Ratti imagines how Boulevard Périphérique in Paris will look in 2050
Paris' famous Périphérique ring road could have its car lanes slashed by half and replaced by a playground in the switch to driverless cars, says Carlo Ratti. More
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"China is one of the best places for experimenting" with urban technology says Carlo Ratti
All eyes should be on China in the race to develop smart cities, says architect Carlo Ratti, who is co-curating this year's Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen. More
