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  • Dim Sum Towers – Heatherwick Studio’s Learning Hub in Singapore

    • 15 June 2015

    The Thomas Heatherwick Studio has just completed a building for the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with the specific intention of it not being anything like any other university building in existence so far. With the Learning Hub’s stacks of circular spaces, its nickname of Dim Sum Towers, given by the students, seems particularly apt

    Curated diary – Sean Scully

    • 15 June 2015

    Dublin-born contemporary artist Sean Scully picks his top art and design events for the coming months

    Review – All of This Belongs to You, V&A

    • 15 June 2015

    The V&A’s latest exhibition ‘All of This Belongs to You’ uses spectacular commissions, recent acquistions and historical objects to propose a critical, democratic discourse around issues of publicness, privacy and ownership. Shumi Bose finds the ethos of the show to have its roots in the museum’s radical past, as well as pointing the way forwards for its East London future...

    Camper’s Life on Foot: Zonzo, the city where you can get lost, and the wasting of time

    • 15 June 2015

    Francesco Careri, founder of architecture collective Stalker and research network Osservatorio Nomade - that carries out walks in the ‘indeterminate’ or void spaces of the city - ponders the meaning of Zonzo, a city of flaneurs as described by Walter Benjamin. The text is taken from The Walking Society, the wide-ranging catalogue that accompanies the Design Museum’s exhibition on Spanish footwear brand Camper, entitled Life on Foot

    Spectacular Grand Designs house selling for £2.3m

    Featuring on Grand designs in 2010, the renowned Dome House overlooking Lake Windermere is now on sale.

    Final designs released for Two World Trade Centre

    Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of architectural firm BIG, has completed the near-impossible by fusing heritage with innovation for the final design of the Two World Trade Centre building.

    Colourful language

    • 08 June 2015

    FX brought together interiors experts from all corners of the industry to talk colour, styles, trends…and encouraging clients to be brave.

    Profile: Linzi Cassels

    • 08 June 2015

    Now design principal at Pringle Brandon Perkins+Will, Glasgow-born art student Linzi Cassels did wonder whether architecture was for her...

    The London Festival of Architecture 2015

    • 08 June 2015

    This year's London Festival of Architecture has begun, with events taking place across the capital.

    Blueprint interiors - The latest in kitchens and bathrooms

    • 04 June 2015

    Johnny Tucker uncovers food-inspired works of art plus, the latest in kitchens and bathrooms.