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Rolls-Royce has announced that Anders Warming has been appointed Director of Design. He will join the company from 1 July.

ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS ANNOUNCES NEW DESIGN DIRECTOR Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has today announced that Anders Warming has been appointed Director of Design. He will join the company from 1 July. Warming, 48, joins Rolls-Royce Motor Cars from Warming Design, the company he founded in 2019. His experience includes almost 20 years in senior positions in the BMW Group, including Head of Design at MINI and Exterior Chief Designer at BMW. Outside of BMW, Warming held various senior design positions in companies including Borgward and Volkswagen. Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls...

With the shift towards alternative energy resources to power the powerful luxury supercars, BMW has taken a step ahead to create the brand’s first all-electric Gran Coupé – the BMW i4. The brand isn’t a stranger to acing electric cars, be it the iconic BMW i3 or the i8. The 2022 BMW i4 is a four-door Gran Coupé competing with Tesla Motors 3 and the Audi e-Tron GT. The vehicle is slated to be launched later in 2021. The beautiful specimen was introduced in March at the BMW Group Annual Conference in Munich. The BMW i4 will be accompanied by a BMW M Performance model as well. The...

Sustainability has become a strategic priority for the automotive industry, with automotive organizations increasingly using sustainable materials, and 62% of them claiming to have a comprehensive sustainability strategy, according to Capgemini. Since 2016, the BMW Group has used Econyl yarn, based on recycled polyamide (PA), to make the floors and floor mats for the BMW i3, BMW iX, and other models. Committed to sustainability and the process, Daniela Bohlinger, Head of Sustainability for BMW Group Design, visited Aquafil CEO Giulio Bonazzi in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where Econyl yarn is produc...

Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/ Harvard Magazine.  Located at 60 Stearns Street, the building is expected to achieve both LEED Platinum and Passive House certification. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program promotes environmentally and socially responsible building and community living through a rating system based on the number of green-building strategies utilized. Ratings range from Certified to Silver, Gold, and Platinum; of the 110,000 LEED-rated buildings in the United States, only 6 percent have earned the Platinum designation. Air compressors outside the ...