• Material evidence

    Pamela Buxton looks at six projects where the choice of materials and surfaces has had a profound influence on the final outcome of the venue’s appearance

  • Reading Room, Pierres Vives

    After nearly 10 years working on the whole Pierres Vives local government building, Stephane Hof had to complete the reading room in a fraction of the time, but it nevertheless has a pleasing synergy with the exterior

  • Q+A

    Two leading design consultancies share the inside track of their thinking when it comes to materials, from favourites to sustainability

  • Top 5

    Pick of the best new products

  • Nando’s, Dundee

    For this new branch of a chain restaurant the interiors by BuckleyGrayYeoman are anything but from a kit – bespoke lighting, custom mural, and timber from Balinese huts...

  • Speirs + Major design lighting scheme for London's historic Burlington Arcade

    Speirs + Major, working alongside heritage architectural specialist Blair Associates, has designed a new lighting scheme for the Burlington Arcade in London’s Piccadilly.

  • Practice creates itself a new look in old setting

    Nottingham-based brand and packaging design consultancy We Are Pure has invested £200,000 in new offices, transforming a rundown building in one of the most historic parts of the city.

  • Doc Magic office, California

    Offices doing unexciting, albeit essential, work don’t have to look drab and boring, as Californian designers from RA-DA proved for this legal document company

  • Terminal illness

    Paris Berlin London: upgrades, rebuilds, and dreams – and ‘magic to stir the blood’. Stephen Hitchins investigates

  • Design Museum calls for new Designers in Residence

    The Design Museum in London is now accepting entries for its annual Designers in Residence programme, where young and up-and-coming designers are given a bursary to produce new work for an exhibition in September.