All articles by Asha

Asha

Making waves: Blueprint meets Dorte Mandrup

With a trio of buildings for the Unesco-protected Wadden Sea and a bold glacier visitor centre in Iceland, Dorte Mandrup’s eponymous practice is fast becoming a specialist in water projects. But alongside climate conscious innovation, there is contradiction and unpredictability among the Danish studio’s works

The Diary in April

Our pick of events happening this month or coming up

Top Five in April

Our pick of products new to market

Reporter: FX Talks 2019

Our next FX Talks event is coming up on 16 May, with a new venue and brilliantly eclectic list of speakers for 2019

If only… the city was transparent

Graeme Winstone of gpad London thinks how we might utilise transparency for a more integrated city

Light and Tech: Lighting Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project

Lighting expert Jill Entwistle reports from the massive project that is Crossrail on the lighting challenges encountered on the 100km-long scheme

New stores for Adidas and Versace create ‘a place of worship, where fans can gather’

New stores for Adidas in Boston and Versace in Miami create an atmosphere of the quasi-religious and put the product on a pedestal

Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard: Can heritage locations revive retail?

Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard repurposes the past to create a characterful shopping destination, plus a look at a development on Great Portland Street

Curved, cantilevered concrete: Thomas P Murphy Design Studio by Arquitectonica

Arquitectonica’s studio for the University of Miami architecture faculty is both dramatic and minimal, gestural and functional

A paradigm shift for the future of retail design

Four of the leading design consultants specialising in retail consider how creative concepts will develop in the future