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Focus: Department Stores
22 March 2018Department stores are being reinvented for the 21st century with an emphasis on stunning design and flexibility
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Client File - Sarah Mann
21 March 2018Sarah Mann, director of the British Council’s architecture design fashion team tells FX what she looks for when selecting practices for commissions.
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Brief Encounters
20 March 2018Veronica Simpson wonders what it would take to get a big city like London on its bike. She looks at a design scheme for cycling to be introduced in Waltham Forest
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Talking Points - Simon Erridge of Bennetts Associates
15 March 2018Simon Erridge of Bennetts Associates looks at the potential benefits of cultural investment, and uses Chester’s new Storyhouse development by the practice as an example.
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Design Seminar: The new showcases of experience
14 March 2018What impact will emerging technologies have on how we shop? How will virtual reality, augmented reality and the increased interest in wellness and sustainability impact on retail design? And what design strategies can help traditional retailers survive? Our retail design experts got stuck into the big issues at the latest in FX’s series of design seminars.
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Checkland Kindleysides/Studio AE
13 March 2018This new store for American Eagle in Manhattan has features to appeal to young customers – including free laundry facilities for nearby New York University students
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Penoyre & Prasad/Sibson Building, University of Kent
9 March 2018The practice has delivered the largest academic building for the university since it was founded in the Sixties, sitting in mature woodland without dominating it
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Profile - Jeffrey Beers
7 March 2018Architect Jeffrey Beers was mentored by the likes of Oscar Niemeyer, IM Pei and Dale Chihuly before setting up his own practice Jeffrey Beers International and becoming a leader in hospitality design
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Reporter
6 March 2018Picasso’s work from each month of 1932 goes on show at Tate Modern in the gallery’s first-ever Picasso solo show
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If only...
28 February 2018...sterile glass buildings could look like they belong, says Bex Simon
