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Miguel Arruda – interview
Miguel Arruda studied sculpture at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts, where he would later become a professor, and serves as chair of its board of directors. He studied architecture at Lisbon’s Technical University. He is a furniture designer for several international houses, and he was the subject of a 2013 retrospective at Portugal’s fashion and design museum MUDE. He talked with Herbert Wright about the library at Vila Franca.
Jaime Hayon – 10 things I’ve learned about design
Jaime Hayon designs furniture, products and interiors through his own company, now in its 15th year. He tells us the top 10 lessons he’s learned about design in his career to date.
Nicholas Jones looks at solutions to bad acoustics in the workplace
What’s that you say? Acoustics in the workplace: we only notice noise when it’s bad! With open-plan layouts the main culprit, there’s plenty that can be done to improve in-office acoustics for worker wellbeing and privacy...
Lobbying for Mies van der Rohe
Having worked on the uncompromising IBM building in Chicago 50 years ago with his grandfather Mies van der Rohe, Dirk Lohan has been called back to help with the reception part of its conversion into a luxury Langham hotel, in which Mies’ ‘less is more’ dictum was apparently not the driving factor.
Surfaces focus – Ross Lovegrove unveils his latest work
‘This installation opens up an aesthetic territory between the deep ocean and deep space, forming a dialogue for the 21st century, between aquatic biomorphism and Nasalike intelligent systems,’ says designer Ross Lovegrove in typical bombastic form, describing his latest collaboration with French ceiling specialist Barrisol.
Less is more – and eight other architecture and design rules to live by
Here are the nine maxims every designer should keep in mind – in fact most of them are pretty valuable advice for whatever you do.
CARL HANSEN & SON CEO KNUD ERIK HANSEN - INTERVIEW
In the last (for the time being) of our look at heads of family firms, the CEO of Danish furniture manufacturer Carl Hansen & Son, Knud Erik, takes us through his career and explains how he came to be at the helm of the family firm, via shipping and a long stint of living in the Far East.
Stephen Hodder on new housing space standards
Following ongoing lobbying by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Government has agreed to introduce new housing space standards. Currently the UK builds the smallest new homes in Western Europe and in Yorkshire, which has one of the lowest population densities in the country, they are half the size of new-builds in London. Here RIBA president, Stephen Hodder, tells us why fighting to eradicate shoe-box homes with new minimum space standards has been such an RIBA crusade.
Veronica Simpson examines projects hoping to cash in on the ‘Bilbao Effect’
The Bilbao Effect is a phrase now used to justify ever more extraordinary buildings landing in some of the least likely places, from the jungles of Panama to the most impoverished parts of Northern France. We investigate extreme cultural regeneration.
Surreal estate – the art of Alex Chinneck
From a house which melts before the eyes of thousands of commuters, to a neoclassical portico which hovers precariously over London’s Covent Garden, the magical, ambitious work of Alex Chinneck suspends belief, forcing viewers to question the urban environment. Shumi Bose catches up with the young artist in a rare moment of repose, before he pulls his next reality-bending trick...
