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FX selects the best new restaurants and bars
Our selection of projects that show the huge variety of designs that can deliver excellence.
Foyles war - London's new book superstore
At the beginning of the recession, London landmark bookshop Foyles took the brave step of deciding to moving lock, stock and barrel, into the site of the former Central Saint Martins building next door. As the tills start ringing in the newly opened building we take a wander around the stacks.
Graffiti and Ghosts - street art in Belgrade
Belgrade has seen a creative flowering of urban graffiti, redefining its emerging creative quarter of Savamala and spreading across the city. Moscow-based cultural researcher and facilitator Anya Likalter visited the Serbian capital to sample the street art.
Alain de Botton brings his Art as Therapy project to the Rijksmuseum
Alain de Botton is putting theory into practice. The writer and commentator on philosphy, art and architecture has recreated his book Art as Therapy at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Selecting works of art and prints from the museum he has grouped them under populist headings and used ubiquitous yellow sticky notes alongside them to help viewers form a more personal way of responding.
Justin Hardy on designing for Jamie Oliver
Since 2009 Justin Hardy has been director of design & developments at Jamie Oliver Restaurants. He has overseen the design and roll-out of many brands including Jamie’s Italian, Trattoria, Diner, Barbecoa, and Union Jack.
Architecture photographers choose their best shot
Even the most ardent architecture fans sometimes have to make do with photographs of buildings they may never get to see in real life. Luckily there are plenty of hugely talented photographers willing and able to capture these architectural marvels in their best light. To celebrate architecture photography we asked some of our favourite photographers to share the picture they're most proud of having taken, tell us about how it was made and why they like it
Bringing Skills to Market
Veronica Simpson hangs out with The Decorators – agents of change and placemaking – and finds inventiveness by the fistful.
Marc Sadler - profile
A self-professed ‘citizen of the world’, inventive designer Marc Sadler tells Emily Martin how a skiing accident started him off in sports footwear, leading on to kitchens, lighting, furniture and other adventures...
Motown to mountain: Gunnar Birkerts's new National Library of Latvia
Gunnar Birkerts, one of America’s greatest post-war architects, transformed modernism with metaphor and materiality. Now aged 89, he has realised an extraordinary glass mountain in the land of his birth - the new National Library of Latvia, a symbol of the country’s independence struggle from the Soviet Union.
Gunnar Birkerts - Interview
From Massachusetts, where he's relocated after a career in Michigan, the legendary Latvian émigré Gunnar Birkerts talks to Herbert Wright about influences, Latvia and the new National Library
