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  • December 2014

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  • Design Lighting Tokyo 2015

    • 09 December 2014

    Only in its third year and an already established part of the lighting design calendar, Design Lighting Tokyo is expecting 16,000 visitors from around the world to visit this year’s event, taking place next month.

    London's 'Cheesegrater' could be Richard Rogers' finest high-rise yet

    • 09 December 2014

    The Leadenhall Building, London’s new star skyscraper, crystallises Richard Rogers’ design philosophy and may be his practice’s finest high-rise yet. Despite realising a concept that’s more than a decade old, and being informed by even older principles forged in the high-tech revolution of the Seventies, this is structurally and symbolically a building facing into the future.

    Opinion: London's modern railway stations are a shadow of past glories

    • 09 December 2014

    Architect Chris Romer-Lee laments the replacement of London's once glorious stations with unfriendly and awkward new constructions. But does it have to be this way?

    Join FX for our annual beach party at MIPIM in Cannes

    • 08 December 2014

    Architects, developers, and designers are invited to join us for another networking party on the beach at this year’s MIPIM property show in Cannes.

    FX drawing competition 2015 - get creative

    • 08 December 2014

    FX is asking you to pick up you pencils and get creative for the FX Drawing competition 2015.

    The art of repetition: artists depict The Shard

    • 02 December 2014

    100 drawings of London by 100 famous architects and designers are going up for auction to raise money for charity Article 25.

    MVRDV’s Markthal, Rotterdam - building study

    • 02 December 2014

    Adding its own unique signature to the regeneration of Rotterdam is MVRDV’s stunning Markthal, a market hall sitting in a 10-storey, 120m-deep arch of apartments, while the vibrant Horn of Plenty mural by Dutch artist duo Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam inside the arch is trumpeted by the developer as the largest artwork in Europe.

    Erik Spiekermann – tipping: good manners, or a form of corruption?

    • 01 December 2014

    Is a tip a reward for good service, a lure for extra services, or the vainest form of egotism, asks Erik Spiekermann. Erik Spiekermann set up MetaDesign and FontShop, and is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann.

  • November 2014

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  • One to watch - Designgoat

    • 28 November 2014

    Talented duo Ahmad Fakhry and Cian Corcoran, making a stir in Ireland as Design Goat

    Eyewitness - Nice to see Ewe

    • 28 November 2014

    Gareth Gardner gets sheepish over two new installations in the window of Brook Brothers...