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Coloured light in offices
Coloured lighting can be controversial and there are few more sensitive situations for its use than the workplace. Hoare Lea partner Dominic Meyrick considers chromaticity in the office environment
Coloured light – when to use it
It can enable a unique experience of a space, enhance identity, create character and even tell a story. Luciana Martinez, project designer at Speirs+Major, looks at four recent S+M schemes and analyses the specific role that coloured lighting played
Materials: get set, get smart
This month’s selection of new materials, presented by Annabelle Filer of SCIN, includes a smart textile for clothing that aids athletes to work out in comfort while tracking their performance
Rohan Silva: ‘UK cities are being marred by terrible corporate architecture’
Britain’s culture of property development has stifled grassroots innovation, argues Second Home co-founder Rohan Silva
Next Office explores architecture’s public-private boundaries
George Kafka talks to Alireza Taghaboni, recent recipient of the inaugural Royal Academy Dorfman Award, about his Tehran-based practice, Next Office
Reflecting on the merging and morphing of contract sectors
As workspaces are looking more like living rooms, and many of our homes have a workspace in them, Grant Gibson looks at the phenomenon of contract sectors merging
Night Moves
The contemporary nightclub is a thing of splendour, excitement and adventure. No longer is good music and an exotic cocktail enough to keep the nightlife lovers coming in – this new generation of nightclub has to provide its patrons with a journey of discovery
Let’s hear it for Birmingham!
With HS2 underway, a new station to integrate it with the city at large, districts being developed and the skyline changing year by year, it’s the place to be, says Tariq Shaikh
Civic gesture: Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art by Assemble
In its biggest architectural commission to date, Turner Prize-winning Assemble has sensitively transformed a complex of Victorian baths in Lewisham into an open, adaptable public gallery for Goldsmiths, University of London
Fly Forbo competition winner: Ernest Place, Durham, by Greenwell Design
Fly Forbo recognises and celebrates designers who use its products to produce exceptional spaces and places