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Flooring with Form and Function
Flooring can have a vital role to play in managing how people use a space, by both assisting them to find their way around and helping to define the functions of different areas within a building. Kay Hill takes a closer look at flooring designs that are useful as well as beautiful
Retirement done differently: Moor’s Nook by Coffey Architects
A light-filled, community-focused housing complex for the over-55s in suburban Surrey proposes a new kind of residential scheme for retirees
Flooring design for dementia
Good flooring design can make life easier for people living with dementia, by reducing anxiety and limiting the risk of slips and trips, discovers Kay Hill
Breeze block: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts by Mecanoo
Mecanoo’s National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, houses four auditoria under the largest performing arts venue roof in the world, and another one on top of it. This futuristic mega-volume creates new public space and takes its inspiration from the banyan tree
When less is definitely more
There’s nothing quite like the purity and simplicity of a plain white backdrop. Kay Hill picks out some projects where less is definitely more when it comes to the floor
Turning the floor into a canvas
In many commercial environments floors tend to be utilitarian and functional, but occasionally designers choose instead to use the space as a giant canvas. Kay Hill discovers projects where the floors get top billing
London Design Festival & Biennale Trend Report 2018
Trends from the London Design Festival and London Design Biennale 2018, by Emma Caselton, senior creative strategist at Seymour Powell
Part of the landscape: Arvo Pärt Centre by Nieto Sobejano
With the Arvo Pärt Centre, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has orchestrated a musical legacy in the heart of an Estonian forest
Michael Anastassiades: ‘Working for yourself is the ultimate test’
Designer Michael Anastassiades shares the top 10 lessons he’s learned since opening his own design studio with Pamela Buxton
Light + Tech: Lighting Winners at the FX Awards 2018
Jill Entwistle puts a focus on the Lighting Design and Lighting Product winners at the FX Awards 2018