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Focus: Wellness - Mind, body and soul
25 October 2017Wellness has replaced sustainability as the key trend in today’s workplace. We explore how designers are responding to this growing requirement
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Beauty in compromise: vGGG by Gonzalez Haase
24 October 2017A tight site with numerous restrictions in Berlin hosts a new residential building that has a complex relationship with the city
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Focus: Introduction
24 October 2017We take a sneak peek at Workplace Week 17, the event that celebrates and showcases workplace design (raising cash for charity along the way)
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Talking Points
20 October 2017Simon Marett, of LOM Architecture and Design, says the role of today’s FM is not to be underestimated.
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Stanton Williams' Musée d’arts de Nantes breathes life into the French city
17 October 2017The Musée d’arts de Nantes has reopened following a €48.8m transformation and extension by London-based practice Stanton Williams that aims to embrace its urban surroundings. It is part of a huge, 30-year push by the city to use culture to reinvent its image, culminating in the annual arts festival Le Voyage à Nantes
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Client File - Paul Ward
17 October 2017Paul Ward, of the Havas Group, discusses working with MCM Architects on a new-build HQ for the company in King’s Cross, London
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Brief Encounters - RIBA
13 October 2017Veronica Simpson reports from a recent RIBA conference where some solutions to social and economic divisions were proposed by a hard-hitting cast list of speakers
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Design Seminar - A plan for the planet
12 October 2017Toby Maxwell reports from the latest FX Design Seminar, hosted by BDP and sponsored by Universal Fibers, in which experts discussed how far sustainability has penetrated the agenda of the contract design sector.
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Amazing A' Social Design Award Designs
11 October 2017The A’Design Awards are back and seeking submissions. As the world’s leading international juried competition for design, the awards are regarded as one of the highest accolades in the creative industry. Split into a variety of categories, the awards aim to highlight the best in design across all disciplines including product design, interior, exterior and architecture.
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A game of two halves: Renzo Piano’s Centro Botín in Santander
10 October 2017Renzo Piano’s new arts centre, Centro Botín in Santander, is designed in two halves, floating above the waterside like a pair of lungs clad in ceramic — and breathing life into the Spanish city
