• Balthazar bar, Copenhagen

    8 October 2013

    Thanks to Space Copenhagen what was once a dark and characterless storeroom is now a sophisticated bar, fitting right in with its location’s prestigious past

  • Designers’ dolls houses in bid for charity

    7 October 2013

    Twenty of the world’s best contemporary architects and designers will present their version of a dolls’ house in an exhibition and auction next month at Bonhams in aid of the KIDS charity.

  • Dutch design week gets a makeover

    7 October 2013

    This month sees the return of Dutch Design Week (DDW), now in its 12th annual outing, but with a few added extras this year.

  • Scottish talent on show at new BA Airport Lounge

    7 October 2013

    The work of Scottish craftsmen and artists play a major part in a new £80,000 BA business-class lounge at Glasgow Airport, designed by Glasgow-based practice Graven Images.

  • Barber Osgerby chair to sit pretty at Bodleian

    7 October 2013

    A chair design by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby has been named as the winner of the Bodleian Libraries Chair Competition.

  • Review response delights Sir Terry Farrell

    3 October 2013

    The response to the Farrell Review consultation has delighted the review chairman Sir Terry Farrell. It has had a very positive response, both to the online Call for Evidence and workshops held up and down the country, says his office.

  • New Blood: Designers in Residence 2013

    3 October 2013

    A new crop of four young up-and-coming designers has been selected to be this year’s Design Museum Designers in Residence. All will benefit from a bursary of £6,000 to continue their design investigations. Director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic said that this year’s Designers in Residence programme, now in its sixth year, ‘will explore of how design in any field can be used to convey, to create, or to reflect a sense of identity’.

  • Foster’s Triple for Sainsbury

    3 October 2013

    Refurbished galleries of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich have been unveiled.

  • Let there be light...

    1 October 2013

    We look at the lighting of two places of worship in detail, and both in stark contrast to each other – one ancient, the other very new; one white and minimalist, the other in touch with its outside setting

  • Art for art’s sake

    27 September 2013

    Is time running out for freethinking art schools and art students? The warnings have been given, and while some commercial sponsorship and bursaries are in place, they can have serious strings attached, says Veronica Simpson