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Danish brand Reform has teamed up with David Thulstrup, Note Design and Muller Van Severen for its latest set of hacked IKEA kitchens, which feature mix-and-match coloured doors and a monochromatic metal cabinet.

Reform, which specialises in the customisation of IKEA’s Metod kitchen, launched three new models at New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) yesterday.

Comprising Plate by Studio David Thulstrup, Frame by Note Design Studio and Match by Muller Van Severen, the cabinet hacks are designed to suit the “ongoing wear and tear that comes with contemporary living”.

Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen, who run Belgian design studio Muller Van Severen, similarly chose a durable material for their Match set. However, they used the wax-like high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a thermoplastic polymore more commonly used for chopping boards.

“We have always felt a love for polyethylene, with its powerful colours, but actually its real nature is a soft and warm appearance,” Muller and Van Severn told Dezeen. “It invites you to touch.”

“It is not a dead plastic with a cold and smooth surface, rather it has the appearance of candle wax or a skin,” they added.

The fronts come in six colours – white, blue, peach, green, red and brown. They can be mixed and matched to suit different tastes and home aesthetics, with a marble countertop. “Different colour combinations makes totally different characters,” said the designers. “It can be very young or rather chic or classic.”

David Thulstrup, who runs his eponymous firm in Copenhagen, drew on his own experiences for his design.

“When I was asked by Reform to make a new design, I was in the middle of designing my own kitchen,” Thulstrup told Dezeen. “Therefore, I was very focused on how to give a kitchen a sense of home, but at the same time being current and extremely simple.”

Called Plate, his set features three versions in a mix of materials, from matte, dark-brown to glossy white fronts, and a mixture of granites as well. A standout piece, however, is a cabinet with brushed-aluminium doors and a stainless steel top in a matching hue.

“The answer for me was a monolithic metal kitchen with a hand-crafted look: aluminium for the fronts and steel for the counter-top,” Thulstrup said. “The result is a product that looks sturdy but soft, solid but pleasant, contemporary but not related to time and trends.”

“I wanted the metal to be visible, to be the main character in its honesty,” he continued. “Metal is long-lasting and strong, which is extremely important for a kitchen, but it also becomes more beautiful over the years, like a soft hand-brushed aluminium that tells a story over the passing of time.”

Stockholm’s Note Design Studio aimed to break away from the minimal all-white design often associated with Scandinavia. They painted wooden doors to match Corian tops to create monochrome blue and off-white designs, and paired dark-brown oak fronts with a speckled, Corian counter for another.

“A lot of Scandinavian minimalism is basically a white room,” studio founders Daniel Hecksher and Kristoffer Fagerström told Dezeen. “The thing is that life is not white – life is not black and white,” they added. “When you exit the door, you see millions of colours.”

The studio, which previously turned IKEA kitchens into living room cabinets for Reform, designed the cabinetry to be ideal for its team of 16 architects and designers.

“Our ambition was to create a kitchen that we could actually use ourselves,” Hecksher and Fagerström said. “So I’m not sure it came from a source of inspiration – it was more about a need to create something that we – all 16 of us – could get behind and use ourselves.”

They chose solid wood fronts, rather than veneers, to ensure that they are hardwearing and long lasting.

“If you have this in the kitchen and you slam it with trays and pots and pans and cutlery, the solid wood will actually protect the other parts of the board, said the designers. “That means that the kitchen will last longer.”

“Traditionally-designed products like panel doors are traditional for a reason: they work,” they added. “It’s nice to get these little design nuggets from history.”

David Thulstrup, Note Design Studio and Muller Van Severen are the latest architects and designers to hack IKEA products for Reform. The brand has previously worked with some of the biggest names in Danish architecture such as Henning Larsen and Norm, and Cecile Manz.

Last year, Christina Meyer Bengtsson also teamed up with Reform to create a set of gold-hued kitchen cabinets for designer Stine Goya.

Plate, Frame and Match are currently on display at ICFF at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center, 34th Street and 11th Avenue. The showcase runs 19-22 May 2019 during the citywide NYCxDesign, which concludes the same day. Other launches at this year’s event include a wooden chandelier designed by New York studio RUX.

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German start-up Lilium has unveiled a five-seater jet-powered electric air taxi prototype that it plans to have operational in a number of cities around the world in the next six years.

The company revealed the design of the five-seater Lilium Jet electric aircraft last week and announced that it had completed its maiden flight earlier this month.

Lilium “expects to be fully operational in various cities around the world by 2025, although trial services will start earlier than this in several locations”, said the company in a statement. According to the start-up, it is already in talks with “a number of cities” about using the planes commercially.

The five-person design is an update on Lilium’s two-seater jet that successfully completed flight testing in April 2017.

“Moving from two to five seats was always our ambition as it enables us to open up the skies to many more travellers,” said Lilium founder and CEO Daniel Wiegand.

“Whether its friends or families flying together or business travellers ride-sharing into the city, having five seats delivers an economy of scale you just can’t achieve with two.”

Like the original two-seater, the new five-seat prototype aircraft is designed to take off and land vertically before switching to flying horizontally, making it an EVTOL (electric vertical take off and landing) aircraft.

According to the company, future passengers will be able to use the Lilium app to locate a landing pad near them, in much the same way that people currently book a journey with ride-sharing services such as Lyft and Uber.

The company expects that journeys will be comparable in price to a regular road-based taxi, but four times faster.

“We dream of a world where anyone can fly wherever they want, whenever they want,” said Wiegand.

“We’ve invested a tremendous amount of thought and care into designing an aircraft and a service that will let us deliver this, meeting society’s demands for urban air travel that is quiet, safe and environmentally positive.”

The “safe” and affordable” aircraft has a fixed wing, with no tail, rudder, propellers or gearbox, and an engine with only one moving part.

It is being piloted remotely during its test flights, but the company intends to test manned flights in future.

Unlike drone-based aircraft that expend a large amount of energy staying in the air, the Lilium Jet relies on the lift generated by its fixed wing to remain airborne. This reduces the amount of power required whilst cruising.

The full-size prototype is powered by 36 all-electric jet engines. It has a top speed of 300 kilometres per hour and a range of 300 kilometres.

“Whether it’s reducing the need for investment in ground-based infrastructure like road or rail, or opening up new areas to economic opportunities, we believe that urban air mobility has the potential to be a remarkable force for good in society,” said Wiegand.

Earlier this year, Boeing tested a prototype of its autonomous electric passenger drone in Virginia, which like the Lilium Jet has a vertical take-off and landing. The company was able to move from a conceptual design to a successfully flying prototype within a year.

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McDonald’s had a mystery on their hands. While seeking to boost milkshake sales, they were analyzing franchise data in a particular region of the U.S. when they discovered four peculiar statistics:

– 50% of all milkshakes were sold before 8 a.m.

– Customers buying the shakes were always alone.

– The milkshake was the only item they bought.

– They never drank the shake in the restaurant.

This was pretty strange behavior, so they engaged a consulting firm to find out what was going on. This obsession with data, by the way, is pretty much a core McDonald’s trait. Way back in in 1940, Dick and Mac McDonald painstakingly developed the optimal oil temperature (360 degrees) and cooking time (3.5 minutes) for the perfect French fry. The brothers’ modus operandi was to measure everything, then iterate all processes to arrive at innovation. By optimizing their menu options, their customer service, their operations, et cetera, they arrived at their biggest win of all: Time, enabling them to put an order in a customer’s hands in 170 seconds. And despite the takeover by Ray Kroc in 1961, McDonald’s remains true to its data-driven roots.

Back to the milkshakes. The consulting firm staked out several franchises like detectives, approaching and questioning milkshake-bearers as they departed. “Excuse me, but what job does that milkshake solve for you?” A strange way to frame it, but the consultants were using a formal innovation methodology, popularly referred to as Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD).

The idea is that people don’t want the product itself, but rather the outcome the product provides. The marketer and Harvard professor Theodore Levitt summed it up perfectly: “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill [bit], they want a quarter inch hole.”

Although the JTBD framework has recently received a huge boost in recognition from Clay Christensen, the business consultant known as one of the godfathers of modern innovation methods, the process originally emerged over 20 years ago with the less catchy title, Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI).

As innovation expert Tony Ulwick, the founder of ODI describes it, “Customers are not buyers, they are job executors. Competitors aren’t companies that make products like yours, they are any solution being used to get the job done.”

Here is the useful thing about using JTBD lens for your designs and your products: Solutions change a lot, but the jobs don’t; they tend to be stable over time. Consider music. We still love listening to music on the go, but in the last 25 years the tool we used to do that has profoundly changed, from the Walkman, to the iPod, to Spotify.

So in our mystery at McDonald’s, what “job” is the milkshake addressing? This is what customers told the consultants: They needed something to do during their long morning commute; something that would fill them up, keep them awake, and allow them to have one hand free. Apparently the McDonald’s milkshake, with its viscosity, calories, and coldness executed that job better than the competition. Competitors included a cream cheese bagel (messy), a banana (requires two hands to peel) and a snickers bar (too much guilt).

Once McDonald’s leadership saw their milkshake through the JTBD lens, they were able to improve upon it using a completely different strategy than they had originally planned. They offered a pre-paid card and moved the milkshakes closer to the cash register so customers could dash in and go. Sales increased sevenfold.

In Ulwick’s framework, there is an important distinction between a “solution” and an “outcome” – for instance in the milkshake example, the solution is the milkshake but the outcome is that the commuter has something to occupy his time until 10 a.m. Ulwick and Christensen have found that winning products are those that help customers get to a desired outcome better or more cheaply than other solutions.

In order to leverage JTBD, the innovator must first break the job down into an underlying process, then measure two variables from the customer’s point of view:

1) How important is the job?

2) How satisfied are they with the current solution?

All of this is anchored in the customer’s overarching desired outcome, and the best solution is the one that helps them reach it.

There’s at least two things that designers, or companies hiring designers, need to bear in mind here. One is that the solution might have nothing to do with the company’s existing product designs or form factors. Two is that the answers given in interviews may not be straightforward and will require a particular type of questioning.

I’ll give you an example. Consider Cordis Corporation, a company that manufactures the angioplasty balloon, a tool enabling cardiologists to restore bloodflow in a blocked artery. In 1993 Cordis leadership used the JTBD process to better understand what outcome cardiologists wanted, as well as the series of jobs necessary for that outcome. The idea was to iterate on their current product designs.

To gather data, they conducted dozens of interviews with surgeons, nurses, and hospital administrators. JTBD interviews are an important part of this process – and tough to do correctly. The first step is to have the participant describe their process or “job” in detail; however, participants will often describe solutions or products. For instance, surgeons would say “I use a balloon that is smooth and easy to maneuver.” In order to get to key insights, the JTBD interviewer followed up with, “Why?” Surgeons said, “I need to move quickly through tortuous vessels.” The JTBD team translated this into: “Job is to minimize the time it takes to maneuver through a winding vessel.”

When framed in this light, Cordis realized that they didn’t need to iterate on the angioplasty balloon at all; they needed a completely new tool that minimizes surgical time.

Once the JTBD team completes a sufficient number of interviews, they rate the needs and outcomes on two measurements: The importance of the outcome and the degree of satisfaction with the current solution. These ratings are then prioritized via an algorithm to provide an accurate idea of potential opportunities for product development.

For the Cordis team, the rating algorithm revealed a surprising insight: the most important job with the least satisfying solution was to stop an artery blockage from recurring. Armed with this information, Cordis went on to develop the coronary stent, which became the fastest-growing product in medical device history, delivering $1B in revenue during its first year. The company’s revenues doubled within two years. Three years after the JTBD interviews, Johnson & Johnson acquired Cordis for $109 a share.

The striking point illuminated by the JTBD methodology is that it is not the solution that’s important; the product is the method that customers use (or “hire”) to reach their ideal outcome. Once we embrace the idea that a customer’s desired outcome is what we ought to focus on, innovative design can become predictable and powerful.

Practically every prototyping tool you’d ever need exists within the realm of the Snapmaker 2.0. In its second, more expansive, open, and fine-tuned iteration, the guys at Snapmaker have put together an absolute prototyping powerhouse that literally takes up not more than a square that measures 3×3 feet. The modular device can be built to run as a 3D Printer, a Laser Engraver/Cutter, and even a 3 or even 4 Axis CNC Machine. The Snapmaker 2.0 isn’t a product as much as it’s an eco-system… a set of opportunities. An ability to practically fabricate anything you want!

At the heart of the Snapmaker is its complete metal construction and modular nature. Metal allows you to have near-perfect tolerances, it can take heat, and it’s the choice for any product that’s as heavy duty as a fabricating system. Snapmaker’s metal construction ensures its ability to perform to precision, while its modular nature gives it the ability to do any sort of fabrication you’d need. Designed to be faster, smarter, and even larger, the Snapmaker 2.0 can handle bigger projects than its previous iteration, and can deliver quality faster. Snapmaker 2.0’s modular build allows you to put together the product you need. Within a couple of minutes, you can assemble a fully-functional 3D printer that can also do laser engraving or CNC carving, just by interchanging heads and adding extra elements like a spool (for the 3D printing filament), or a vice (for CNC machining).

Snapmaker’s software guides you through the whole (incredibly simple) process. It provides a host of features that make it easy for a consumer (with relatively no skill or understanding of software) to operate it. The touchscreen interface on the Snapmaker 2.0 can alert you when the filament runs out during 3D printing (and even pause the build till you change it), while CNC carving, Snapmaker 2.0 allows any consumer to easily switch between drill bits (a task that earlier required a CNC expert), and the laser engraving module comes with a camera built into it that captures your product and lets you preview what your laser art would look like on the product, right in Snapmaker’s interface. The entire device even comes with an auto-resume feature that allows you to continue working from where you left off if there’s ever a power cut. Snapmaker can automatically recognize which tool head (3D printing, laser, or CNC) that is attaching to the machine and shows the relevant control panel on the touchscreen. The workflow and UI is simple and intuitive.

This ability to use pro-tools with just simple know-how makes the Snapmaker 2.0 an absolute game changer, giving you the power to fabricate prototypes, and even make your own products, toys, and craft materials in your own home. Perfect for freelance industrial designers, engineers, artists, craftspeople, and even in office setups like studios, teams, or start-ups, the Snapmaker 2.0 is a pretty powerful tool to put your ideas to the test. Its modular setup lets you build exactly the fabricating tool you need, allowing you to expand it, add an enclosure, or even modules like an IP Camera or an emergency kill-switch. Designed to empower you to build your ideas, the Snapmaker 2.0 brings seriously capable and powerful professional tools to anyone with a creative inkling. Go ahead! You can literally build your own production line in your home!

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The Snapmaker 2.0 is a modular 3-in-1 3D printers that unlock your full creative potential, from 3D printing to laser engraving, cutting, and CNC carving. Snapmaker 2.0 is smarter, faster, larger, and more powerful than ever before. It is a new generation of 3-in-1 3D printers that comes with everything you need!

3D Printing

Snapmaker 2.0 modular 3-in-1 3D printers are ideal for beginners who are just getting started, hobbyists who prefer more customized options, as well as engineers and designers who want to print large objects or accurate parts with outstanding print quality.

Laser Engraving & Cutting

Traditional 3D printers can only 3D print. Your Snapmaker 2.0 is completely different. With interchangeable modules, Snapmaker’s functionality can be changed quickly and effciently, just like changing lenses on a camera. Now you can make many kinds of beautiful and artistic creations using laser engraving and cutting.

CNC Carving

You can even use Snapmaker 2.0 as a CNC router to create precision 2.5D and 3D objects. It has faster working speed and a much larger workspace than the original model. It is the perfect machine to extend your interest to CNC carving.

3D Printing Samples

Snapmaker 2.0 allows you to print almost anything for your creative projects: from common applications to objects with specific mechanical properties, such as toughness, durability, and flexibility. Snapmaker 2.0 can do it all!

Laser Engraving & Cutting Samples

A wide variety of materials you find in daily life are laser engravable or cuttable, including paper, plywood, leather, acrylic, cardboard, paper, fabric, and even food like cookies and coconuts!

CNC Carving Samples

CNC carving is ideal for precisely carving or cutting hard materials. With Snapmaker 2.0, you won’t be limited with the options of plastic or soft materials, and you’ll be able to use the following materials for your creative projects: hardwood, PCB, acrylic, POM, carbon fiber sheet, and many more materials.

High Resolution

Built with high-precision parts and an overall upgraded design, Snapmaker 2.0 is able to consistently print, engrave, cut, and carve objects in high resolution. The repeatability of the machine is 0.005 mm, and the homing repeatability is 0.01mm.

Modular 3D Printer

Imagine a 3D printer that you can upgrade and customize. Snapmaker is more than just a series of machines. It’s a system of powerful modules and add-ons for creative people like you. You can enjoy a lot of new features simply by getting the new modules or new kits.

Large Workspace

Snapmaker 2.0 has three models: A150, A250 and A350. You can make large prototypes, or multiple smaller objects in one go. A350 provides the largest build volume, measuring 320 x 350 x 330 mm.

Add Ons

As an innovative Snapmaker owner, you can further enhance your creativity with a wide variety of add-ons to personalize your Snapmaker 2.0. For greater level of applications, we’ll have Enclosures, Lights, a Handwheel, an Emergency Stop Button and a Camera available for preorder soon!

Powerful Controller

Snapmaker 2.0 can support various tool heads, add-ons, multiple linear modules, and more features using simply one controller. A big reason we are able to do this is that we innovatively adopt the CAN (Controlled Area Network) bus expansion solution which was widely used in car automation. Rather than adding more ports and make a bigger control board with tangled cables, we’ve upgraded our controller to expand your creativity by providing universal ports, multiport adapters, and a CAN Hub for adding additional CAN-bus ports.

Future Expansion

The Snapmaker 2.0 is modular. It allows for one machine to fulfil many roles which reduces space and cost. Snapmaker A150, A250 and A350 can be transformed into even more powerful machines with the upcoming Snapmaker Rotary Module, High Power Laser Module, 700W Spindle Module, and longer linear modules!

All-metal

All the Snapmaker models are built to last. For Snapmaker 2.0, we pushed the boundaries of all-metal construction even further. All modules and major components are made of high strength metal. For example, both the controller board and power adapter use aluminum alloys housings for better heat dissipation; the original POM rollers are upgraded to steel rollers to deliver a higher load-bearing capacity and rigidity.

Well-made

The aerospace-grade aluminum alloys are made into precision, reliable parts of Snapmaker modules after a series of processing steps. Each manufacturing process is strictly controlled, and every part is meticulously made. Snapmaker 2.0 not only looks premium, but also consistently delivers high performance.

High-precision

Snapmaker 2.0 allows the high-precision computer-controlled tools to be readily accessible for every desk. Integrating only the finest quality components, it has high accuracy and repeatability, which allows it to 3D print, engrave and cut objects in high resolution.

Easy-to-use 3-in-1 Software

Our 3-in-1 software, Snapmakerjs, is tailor-made for your Snapmaker machines. One single and powerful software for all your tasks.

WiFi Connectivity

With the Wi-Fi feature and the USB port, you can connect your Snapmaker 2.0 to any configuration for your convenience. You can upload designs via Wi-Fi or USB flash drive and print with the touch of a button. In addition, you can update the firmware over Wi-Fi directly.

Smart Touchscreen

Snapmaker 2.0 comes with a smart touchscreen that simplifies the workflow of your daily projects, letting you manage the most-used tasks directly from the touchscreen. Similarly to a smartphone, this 5-inch (720 x 1280 pixels) movable touchscreen is equipped with a Quad Core A7 CPU @1.1GHz, running under Android OS. providing a smooth and fast interface.

Power-loss Recovery

You don’t have to worry about power outages anymore. Snapmaker 2.0 can automatically detect power-loss, and then resumes exactly where it left off. You can recover any project and get perfect printing/engraving/cutting/carving results all the time.

Easy to Assemble

3D Printing Highlights – Auto Leveling

Bed leveling is a tricky process, especially for a large heated bed and inexperienced users. To make bed leveling easier, we added an auto-leveling function. An induction sensor can probe the bed in a grid and apply mesh-based compensation that ensures you print on a level bed every time, all without the user having to go through complicated process.

Filament Runout Recovery

Equipped with a filament runout sensor, those who are looking to print a large object can now print without fear. This will prevent unfinished prints and “air printing”. Once it realizes that the filament has run out, the touchscreen will notify you to load a new filament and allow you to resume printing immediately.

Upgraded Cooling System

With Snapmaker 2.0, you can print objects with deep overhangs and get a more smooth finished surface! Cooling is just as important as heating when it comes to FDM 3D printing. For the Snapmaker 2.0, the cooling system is re-designed to cool the print in the most efficient way.

Flexible Platform

Removing a print is now easier than ever. Just lift the plate and flex it, no matter the size or shape of your print. As the heated bed uses a magnetic design, you can easily remove and put back the print sheet, or change it with the laser cutting work table or CNC carving in one minute.

Laser Highlights – Built-in Camera

The built-in camera allows you to preview your design with whatever material you use. You can edit your design and precisely position it exactly where you want it to be. What you see is what you get!

Draw, Cut and Capture

Laser cutting can be as easy as drawing. The Snapmaker 2.0 can recognize and transform your drawing into a vector image for laser engraving or cutting. Furthermore, you can edit the converted vector image directly in the Snapmaker software to fit into all your creative projects!

Faster Engraving

Faster is better. We added the Line (Normal Quality) mode to provide you a fast engraving option for grayscale images. This feature can save you hours when engraving big grayscale images. The quality is still very good compared to the original Dot (High Quality) mode.

Aluminum Grid Table

The Aluminum Grid Table is specially designed to prevent damage to the bed by defocusing the laser beam during cutting. It is removable and super firm.

CNC Highlights – ER11 COLLET

Snapmaker 2.0 features a fully upgraded CNC module. Using the standard ER11 Collet, it guarantees a better concentricity that allows for faster CNC carving speed and larger step down, which saves your time significantly. It also supports over one hundred carving and cutting bits. The diameters of the bits range from 0.5mm (0.020 inches) to 6.35mm (0.250 inches).

Wasteboard and Clamping Kits

Each Snapmaker 2.0 comes with an MDF wasteboard. It’s removable and it can protect the bed from damage as well as providing a smooth and leveled surface for precise CNC carving. Furthermore, you can use the provided aluminum clamping kits to hold down the materials more easily and more reliably.

Dust Resistance

Snapmaker 2.0’s linear module has been upgraded for easy maintenance. The leadscrew, driver chip and precision parts are completely enclosed in the aluminum alloys housings. It eliminates the problem of dirt accumulation, resulting in better durability.

Specifications

How Snapmaker 2.0 is made

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Architects from Zaha Hadid Architects, Heatherwick Studio and AL_A were among participants in a five-kilometre race in London’s Hyde Park, raising £60,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners director Ivan Harbour and AHMM cofounder Simon Allford were also among the 122 runners that took part in this year’s edition of the HD5K race, along with designer Jason Bruges and architect Simon Smithson.

Other participants included Ben Hobson, Rebecca Grove and Pauline Zberro of Dezeen, plus employees from Hopkins Architects, Allies and Morrison, Make, and John McAslan + Partners.

The HD5K race is organised by architectural visualisation studio Hayes Davidson in honour of its late founder Alan Davidson, who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2012. Davidson died in August 2018, aged 58.

Now in its second year, the race managed to raise even more than in 2018, when the total donated was £52,000.

“We are delighted and grateful to once again feel the support of so many friends of the studio,” said David Bullock, joint managing partner of Hayes Davidson, “and it’s an honour to carry on Alan’s legacy in this annual event.”

“To be able to raise money for the MND Association, a charity incredibly important to us is wonderful, and knowing that we are supporting others suffering from this incurable cruel disease is what drives us to make the event a success.”

The route started at Hyde Park bandstand at 7pm on Thursday 16 May, and took runners around the Serpentine lake and Speakers Corner.

Taylor Rogers from Hopkins Architects was first to cross the finish line, in 16 minutes 29 seconds. He was followed by last year’s winner, Giacomo Pelizzari from Takero Shimazaki Architects, in second, and Ciaran Garrick from Allies and Morrison in third.

The fastest female was Cheryl Evans from AHMM, who completed the race in 20 minutes 10 seconds, followed by Hanna Martin-Merchant from AL_A and Koryn Steinbok from Chris Dyson Architects.

Other participating firms included: Andrews Landscaping, Assael Architecture, Buckley Gray Yeoman, Caro Communications, Collado Collins Architects, Conisbee, Expedition Engineering, Glenn Howells Architects, Groupwork, HAL Architects, Heah&Co, Howard Pease, JLL, John Robertson Architects, Lipton Rogers, ORMS, Penoyre & Prasad, Pilbrow and Partners, PLP,  Stiff + Trevillion Architects, Stirling & Co, and Studio Egret West.

The six winners received prizes from the World Architecture Festival, the Design Museum and Ali Tomlin. Other events sponsors included Dezeen and furniture brand Vitra.

The Alan Davidson Foundation coordinated the fundraising and matched the £30,000 raised by runners, bringing the total up to £60,000.

“The MND Association is grateful to the Alan Davidson Foundation, Hayes Davidson and the wider architecture and design industry for its support in the fight against MND through the annual HD5K event,” said Sally Light, CEO at the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

“It is heartening to see colleagues and friends joining together and raising vital awareness and funding for this brutal disease.”

The Alan Davidson association hopes to make the charity event an annual fixture.

Donations for 2019 can still be made by visiting www.justgiving.com/alan-davidson-foundation.

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