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Bronco office, Ripon
25 July 2013An office scheme that brings a touch of city working life to a rural North Yorkshire town was a bit like doing a residential project, says the design team
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Out of the ordinary
24 July 2013If you thought FM was all about offices, think again. There’s the museums, event centres, even the sites used in the London 2012 Olympics, all in need of precise managing
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Camper Store, Lyon
24 July 2013Stairs on which to display the client’s shoes and for customers to sit on while trying them, and pretend ones as wall graphics, are the key ingredients in this simple but effective shop interior design
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Profile - Wendy Cuthbert
23 July 2013As Wendy Cuthbert prepares to head out to South Africa as part of Barclays Bank Project Unity, its drive to transform the delivery of FM services globally, she tells us all about it
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The house that waste built
17 July 2013Made entirely of discarded materials, the Brighton Waste House is not only a reseach project and a test bed but a focus for a crucial change in culture not only in the building industry but also in everyday life, says Aidan Walker
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ME Hotel, London
17 July 2013A hotel project delayed by several years following the global financial meltdown, the ME Hotel – designed down to the last detail by Foster + Partners – was worth the wait
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if only...
11 July 2013There could be a modern Oriental space, where light, shadow and space work together
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Gregor Jackson
10 July 2013Head of retail design and branding consultancy gpstudio Gregor Jackson, with the Qatari royal family among his clients, tells Jamie Mitchell that there’s plenty more life in shops yet despite recession and the onslaught of online
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Park life for Jason Bruges in Toronto
8 July 2013Jason Bruges Studio has been commissioned to design and build an interactive art installation in granite for a Toronto park. The piece will permanently sit in a privately owned, publicly accessible park as part of a residential development in the city’s downtown entertainment district. It is entitled Front to Back, which references its location on Front Street, near to the city’s historic waterfront and Lake Ontario, which exposes the city to dramatic weather conditions year round.
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Niels Diffrient 1928 – 2013
3 July 2013Tributes to Niels Diffrient poured in as soon as the news broke that this icon of chair design and pioneer of task chair ergonomics had died. He was 84 and had been ill for some time. His wife, textile artist Helena Hermarck, who made the announcement, said he had had cancer. His obituary was the lead item in the New York Times.
