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Montblanc, Hamburg by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
Luxury pen maker Montblanc has just opened its latest store, its European flagship, in Hamburg, the company’s hometown. Designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance had the task of translating the brand’s detailing and narrative into its latest retail environment, ready for a roll-out through its other stores. Johnny Tucker reports
Forum for change – Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School of Government
Herzog & de Meuron’s latest building, a wedding cake-like stack of glass volumes, is home to Oxford University’s first School of Government. Funded by Britain’s richest man, Leonard Blavatnik, its centrepiece is a grand cylindrical void designed to foster collaboration and interaction between future world leaders
The art of repetition – Dorothy
UK studio Dorothy, comprising a Brummie, a Scouser and a Manc, has expanded its range of conceptual prints to include lost music venues and football stadiums.
170 Amsterdam: A treehouse in NYC’s concrete jungle
An exoskeleton makes this building stand out to fit in
Saturn-like house design labelled ‘Unidentified Floating Object’
An energy-efficient concept for living at sea from the engineers and designers at Jet Capsule
Flawless finish
It started with resolving a beauty problem at Selfridges and ended with a whole new light module. Claire Hamill and Anna Sandgren of Nulty+ review the research project that gave a new complexion to retail lighting.
Balancing act
Chad Rains, founder and creative director of Illuminationworks, looks at the pivotal role of lighting design in retail branding.
Retail lighting trends: Counter intelligence
What developments and furniture trends are in retail lighting? DPA lighting partner Gary Campbell has answers.
Richard Sapper 1932-2015
Remembering the multi-talented designer Richard Sapper, where an extensive resume saw him working with the likes of FIAT and Knoll, and who was a close associate of Alberto Alessi.
The Ones That Got Away
Six practices tell us about the projects that held so much promise, but for one reason or another have remained unrealised.
