Gagarín has been nominated to the European Design Awards 2025 in the category of "Digital installations" for "The Mammoth Table" for Climeworks.
In the spring of 2024, Climework launched its second commercial DAC+S plant, Mammoth. It is almost ten times larger and more productive in capturing CO₂ than its predecessor, Orca. It has a nominal capture capacity of 36.000 tonnes, showcasing Climeworks’ ability to follow its ambitious scale-up roadmap, reach a megatonne removal by 2030, and operate at gigatonne levels by 2050.
At the Visitor Centre, an engaging model of Mammoth was installed. Through tangible knobs, visitors can access in-depth information about the different modules within the plant and their roles in the carbon capture process.
The table was designed using birch and concrete-like materials to complement the architecture of the Visitor Centre. Its minimalistic and contemporary design fits seamlessly into the space's overall aesthetic.
Climeworks was named one of the 2025 top greentech companies by TIME! With a score of 99.3, TIME has ranked Climeworks number two on its list of the 250 major companies fighting climate change.
Earlier this year our designers received a gold award at The Association of Icelandic Graphic Designers Awards 2024 (FÍT Awards) in the "Interactive & Information Design" category for the Mammoth Model. The annual FÍT Awards celebrates the best Icelandic graphic design.
About Climeworks
Swiss company Climeworks, founded in 2009 by engineers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, is the global leader in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology, which removes carbon dioxide directly from the ambient air. The company is committed to combating global warming by providing high-quality, permanent CO₂ removal services. Climeworks opened the world's first commercial direct air capture and storage plant (DAC+S), Orca, in Iceland in 2021, where CO₂ is permanently removed from the atmosphere and then stored in Earth’s crust through a partnership with Carbfix. It has a nominal capacity of capturing 4,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.
European Design Awards
European Design Awards is a collaboration between leading European design magazines, publishers, journalists, editors, and academics. Its members come together yearly to gather, evaluate, and acknowledge the best examples of communication design on our continent.
From June 5 to 8, the vibrant city of Ljubljana will host the European Design Festival 2025, curated by the Brumen Foundation (organisers of the Slovenian Design Biennale).
The festival will feature a diverse programme of events, bringing together designers from all over Europe for an inspiring exchange of ideas, experiences and creative perspectives.
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