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  • November 2014

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  • Is this the world’s most beautiful bike?

    • 05 November 2014

    Italian car designer Pininfarina has created a bike with all the panache of a 1930s Italian automobile

    A new and unique take on luxury hotels in London

    • 04 November 2014

    London is offering a new and unique take on luxury with a new generation of hotels.

    Public Image: designing public spaces

    • 04 November 2014

    The presence of parks, piazzas and gardens reveals the humane, interactive heart of our cities. They alone turn office, leisure and residential developments into neighborhoods. But when the public sector is relying on private-sector cash to fund these urban oases, do we get the kind of space the public wants?

    Lynn Jones - interview

    • 04 November 2014

    So why did Dr Lynn Jones, now head of furniture at Buckinghamshire New University in the historic furniture town of High Wycombe, chose to continue studying despite having two job offers made during her graduate show?

    V&A to stage Architects as Artists exhibition

    • 04 November 2014

    Exhibition of work from the V&A and RIBA archives plus new work to explore the relationship between art and architecture

    Istanbul Design Biennale 2014

    • 04 November 2014

    This month welcomes the second Istanbul Design Biennial. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, which has appointed Zoë Ryan – chair and curator of architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago – as curator.

    The top 10 undergraduate and graduate architecture schools in the US for 2015

    • 04 November 2014

    DesignIntelligence has published its annual list of the best undergraduate and graduate schools in America, with Cornell University coming top of the league of undergraduate schools and Harvard named best postgraduate school for 2015

    Back to (the New) School: the new University of Greenwich building

    • 03 November 2014

    How do you update the home of time? Architecture students at the University of Greenwich will take possession of a brand new building this term. Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng has negotiated the area's historic fabric to produce an unobtrusive, elegant solution, with high-tech roof gardens and a 'crit pit'.

    Beyond phones and drones: critical design and digital technology

    • 03 November 2014

    A small, but dedicated, constellation of designers and artists, who have long been surfing the outer reaches of speculative design and digital technology, are increasingly being courted by the mainstream. We investigate the distinctions and overlaps between critical, tech-infused design and art, the problems in securing funding for such projects, and ask what impact they might have on the wider world.

  • October 2014

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  • Photographing the night sky with the Sony a7Sdigital camera

    • 31 October 2014

    Photographer Andrew Whyte has taken some amazing photographs of the night sky over the Brecon Beacons, using the α7Sdigital camera, a professional, portable 35mm full frame interchangeable lens camera, whcih is particularly well suited to low-light conditions