• Speirs + Major honoured with four awards in a week

    6 May 2013

    Speirs + Major has followed up last year’s Practice of the Decade Award at the Lighting Design Awards with a win this year in the Heritage Lighting category for Burlington Arcade. The awards were held at the end of March in London. The lighting design practice’s projects Hedonism Wine Store, Mayfair, and the Twin Sails Bridge in Poole were also commended in the small retail and exterior lighting categories respectively.

  • Sir Robert Woodard Academy, West Sussex

    6 May 2013

    For this the first new-build school for the Woodward Trust, the design by Architecture PLB aimed to give the sponsor something to shout about

  • Ben, Blacksheep, and Bison – All at Ege Carpets

    1 May 2013

    FX editor Theresa Dowling meets all three on a trip to Denmark to help judge the final of the Ege Carpets design competition

  • Rijksmuseum reopens better than ever

    29 April 2013

    The Rijksmuseum has reopened following a 10-year transformation. Never before has a national museum undergone such a complete transformation of both its building and the presentation of its collection.

  • Waterloo Station retail balcony is a step up

    29 April 2013

    A new retail balcony designed by SAS International for Waterloo Station has helped reduce passenger congestion and increase retail income.

  • Make an entrance

    24 April 2013

    We look at three workplace projects shortlisted in this year’s Lighting Design Awards: two show how lighting has transformed tired reception areas, while the third uses lighting to set the tone of the space. Each shows the trend to a linear, integrated approach where the lighting is as much a graphic element as illumination

  • George Patterson Y&R, Melbourne

    23 April 2013

    A former department store from the 19th century is now an open, airy and throughly inviting office space, fitting in with the work ethos of the client

  • if only...

    22 April 2013

    We could recreate an Urban Garden within the existing Covent Garden

  • Washed up

    22 April 2013

    As Aidan Walker fills up the bowl with soapy water and starts washing up the breakfast, lunch and dinner things now the family’s dishwasher has died, he ponders on the meaning of behavioural design, and how we have been led to believe – erroneously, he now knows – that we can’t live without ‘labour-saving’ devices

  • Moving on

    18 April 2013

    Office lighting really has to change – to avoid waste, to reduce energy use, to adapt to evolving working practices and, most of all, to put people at the top of the agenda. Three leading lighting designers concerned with the workspace environment give their views on precisely how and where office lighting must move on to meet the needs of the future