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Britain's disused prisons are being turned into hotels and student accommodation
Since 2010 more than a dozen prisons in the UK have closed their doors. Declared ‘surplus to requirements’ by the Ministry of Justice, they are now being sold off to developers. The unlikely future for these buildings, which range from Victorian gaols and medieval fortresses to Sixties’ institutional blocks, could be in the form of hotels or even student accommodation.
Dutch Design Week: The Future Today
The much anticipated Dutch Design Week, taking place in Eindhoven 18 - 26 October, is promising a view of the world tomorrow in the making today, through exhbitions, workshops, seminars and parties.
Behind the scenes at the Folkestone Art Triennial
When a major arts festival is commissioned, the interaction between artists, residents and art is a vital element in the town’s enrichment. Veronica Simpson checks out the behind-the-scenes action for the Folkestone Triennial.
Royal Academy celebrates the best British buildings of the last 100 years
In partnership with the Twentieth Century Society the RA has chosen a single building for each year from 1914 to the present, showing some of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century
Is this the best building designed in 2014?
This year’s world Architecture Festival has named The Chapel in Vietnam – a community centre made largely of re-used materials – World Building of the Year.
New Tube: London’s next generation of underground trains
Specialist transport designers Priestmangoode have released pictures of their fancy new Tube Trains
British Council for Offices names Best Workplace of 2014
See the winners of this year's BCO Awards
Sony launches its 4K Ultra Short Throw Projector in New York
Interior designer and architect Campion Platt, Domus Design Collection created model rooms to show of Sony's new discreet yet powerful projector, yours for just £30,000 (as long as you live in New York)
James Holder on creating fashion brand Superdry
From selling T-shirts out of the back of his mum’s car, via Bench, to co-founding the phenomenally successful Superdry brand, design director James Holder is not one to sit back and reflect on success. He is always looking for the next new idea, whenever and wherever it comes to him: he’s an original beer-mat sketcher, he declares.
Ron Arad: save design education from bureaucracy and economics
In the first of our Listens for this education-focused issue, industrial designer and former Royal College of Art professor Ron Arad recalls his own student days, his aims at the RCA, and how he is concerned that bureaucracy and economics is now in danger of driving the curriculum.
