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Risks worth taking: FX Talks 2019
26 September 2018Nothing worth doing is ever easy, so the adage goes. Taking the simple route is always tempting but seldom rewarding, which is why those brave enough to think independently can be such valuable sources of inspiration. FX Talks returned for its second year with another engaging line-up of inspiring radical thinkers to share their individual perspectives on thinking differently
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Fly Forbo competition winner: Ernest Place, Durham, by Greenwell Design
25 September 2018Fly Forbo recognises and celebrates designers who use its products to produce exceptional spaces and places
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Jestico + Whiles design a hidden speakeasy in Manchester’s Corn Exchange
25 September 2018A bar/restaurant with the feel of a hidden speakeasy has been created by Jestico + Whiles in Manchester’s former Corn Exchange building. With trading ceasing after the Second World War, it is now a dining destination for a vibrant city
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V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma Associates
21 September 2018In Dundee, the V&A’s only museum outside of London is about to open, bringing ambitious exhibitions and stories of design and how it shapes lives to many more people than previously possible
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Levitt Bernstein unites a campus to unite the community
21 September 2018Due to a major redevelopment scheme at UCL Faculty of Laws by architecture practice Levitt Bernstein, the separate buildings of Bentham House and the Gideon Schreier wing now form a cohesive and contemporary complex for the law department of University College London
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Lessons from Venice
17 September 2018The Venice Architecture Biennale is the biggest and most important architecture exhibition in the world. With this year’s theme ‘freespace’ – investigating how architecture can go the extra mile to facilitate engagement, appreciation and utilisation by the public – there is no shortage of inspirational projects as well as those whose ideas perhaps get lost in translation
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Squire and Partners weave 6 Warwick Street into Soho’s creative scene
17 September 2018Squire and Partners set out to rework this Soho office building to reflect the area’s inherent creativity and its past inhabitants with a new facade and interiors inspired by Soho habitué Francis Bacon and his fellow Colony Room Clubbers
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FX is hiring!
13 September 2018We're looking for a new assistant editor
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And then there was light…
13 September 2018Jill Entwistle reports on updates to lighting products creating artificial daylight, and indeed offering night time scenarios too
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Christabel Balfour: One to Watch in September
13 September 2018Christabel Balfour weaves the city and the landscape into her work, simplifying their inherent complexities to the fundamentals
