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A place for reflection

By Katherine Houston
04 August 2015

French designers Elise Morin and Florent Albinet have created a breathtaking and engaging installation at Gayme Lake

Profile: Patricia Urquiola FX outstanding lifetime achievement award winner

03 August 2015

Recipient of the 2014 FX’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement award, Patricia Urquiola is both an architect and a designer, and believes the two disciplines have much to give to each other.

Responding to the Design Museum’s 2015 Designers in Residence theme of Migration, the four practising designers selected for the residency by a panel including Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker, explain here their ideas and motivations. Their resulting work will be on show in a shared exhibition running at the museum from 9 September, ending on 31 March next year, when the museum itself migrates to its new home in the former Commonweath Institute, Holland Park. Johnny Tucker spoke to the residents

All that glisters – OMA galleries in Milan and Moscow

03 August 2015

Since 2004, Prada and OMA have co-produced some amazing spaces, from catwalk sets to temporary museums, metamorphing stages to concept stores. At 19,000 sq m, the Fondazione Prada’s new campus for contemporary art is their biggest collaboration yet. And it’s made of foam and gold. We go prospecting in the southern fringes of Milan

The space elevator

By Katherine Houston
31 July 2015

As part of the space series, DesignCurial projects you into the future with the space elevator concept after talking with internationally acclaimed space architects Dr Barbara Imhof and Tomas Rousek