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  • October 2014

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  • Introducing architecture practice RCKa

    • 28 October 2014

    RCKa is only six years old, yet the practice has already clocked up, among other things, a Civic Trust Award-winning youth and community centre (TNG in Lewisham, 2013), a big city art gallery (Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery, 2011), and a prestigious laboratory project — most architects have to wait 20 years to land one of those — for the world’s largest currency printer De La Rue in the Hampshire countryside.

    Non-competitive advantage: Norway's blossoming design industry

    • 24 October 2014

    Spurred on by the country’s wealth from North Atlantic oil and gas, Norway’s design industry is blossoming. We talk to its young stars about how to project a small nation, with an almost non-existant design heritage, onto the world design stage, and discuss the benefits of collaboration over competition.

    New Design Britain Awards 2015 - entries open

    • 24 October 2014

    Online entries are now open for next year's New Design Britain Awards, which take place at May Design Series

    The history of the Bauhaus - infographic

    • 23 October 2014

    Created by furniture store Aram, this infographic charts the fascinating history of the Bauhaus - Germany's famous design school, from its founding by Walter Gropius to its influence on the furniture of IKEA

    Building the Sancaklar Mosque - video

    • 23 October 2014

    Watch this beautiful (and purely visual) documentary on the construction of Emre Arolat Architects' Sancaklar Mosque in Turkey, produced by SGMStudio

    Hansgrohe: sustainability is not a policy - it's a way of life

    • 22 October 2014

    What sustainability means for brassware and showering manufacturer Hansgrohe: It’s not a policy, more a way of life... says CEO Martin Mongan

    Superyachts by Zaha Hadid – we can but dream

    • 22 October 2014

    Hadid has turned her inimitable style to the superyacht, designing a family of five luxury boats with naval architect Blohm+Voss

    Design a new concrete wall tile for Domus

    • 22 October 2014

    The call is out for artists and designers to create a new concrete wall tile that will actually be manufactured and sold.

    Blurred lines: Art, design and industry

    • 22 October 2014

    We look at how artists have been involved in the interiors business in the past and ask why this continues to be such a fruitful relationship, with some surprising contemporary examples.

    Designer Rodney Fitch dies

    • 21 October 2014

    Retail design guru who founded design consultancy Fitch died on Monday 20 October