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Education: We need to talk about art
22 August 2018With arts education at school level massively depleted and deprioritised, art galleries in the UK and Europe are filling that gap with an exciting range of engagement and education activities aimed at broadening and diversifying who gets to talk about – and make – art. Veronica Simpson reports
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Family-run lighting distributor, Atrium, is making waves
22 August 2018We speak to Ulysse Dormoy to find out more about Atrium, one of the biggest independent lighting distributors in the UK.
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Our pick from the Wood Awards 2018 shortlist
20 August 2018The Wood Awards 2018 shortlist has been revealed, and we’ve chosen a selection of shortlisted designs that we think could be worthy winners.
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Transforming an art-deco icon: Finsbury Office by BDG architecture + design
20 August 2018The practice has taken a space within The Adelphi, the art-deco icon and, while respecting its heritage, has transformed it into a modern office for the 21st century
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Leith Furniture: One to Watch in August
17 August 2018Leith Furniture was established in 2012 by husband-and-wife team Jack and Danni Leith. The unique furniture produced involves techniques such as carving, gilding, and marquetry
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Rediscovering a civic asset: York Mansion House by De Matos Ryan
16 August 2018A civic asset that few in York knew they had, this 18th-century building is now welcoming the public for historical appreciation, tours and events following a £2.4m restoration and refurbishment
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A 21st-century castle: Fjordenhus by Studio Olafur Eliasson
16 August 2018Sitting in the water at Vejle, Denmark, Fjordenhus is Studio Olafur Eliasson's first (and last) solo architectural project, embracing ‘outsider’ architecture and with hardly a right angle to be seen
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Our pick of the top A' Design Award Winners
14 August 2018The A’Design Awards are renowned worldwide as one of the most prestigious and inclusive design competitions.
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Ken Shuttleworth: ‘The only real asset we have as a practice is our people’
14 August 2018The career of Ken Shuttleworth, awarded for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Design in the FX Awards, has taken him across five decades, three continents and two major architecture practices – first Foster + Partners and then Make Architects, which he founded in 2004
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Book review: Design as an Attitude by Alice Rawsthorn
10 August 2018Alice Rawsthorn’s new book, Design as an Attitude, proposes an expansion of what we consider as design, championing its social and facilitatory role
