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Review: Alexander Girard at the Vitra Design Museum
The vast oeuvre of American-born designer Alexander Girard, from textiles and interior design to graphics and typography, is portrayed in this exhibition at the Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein
Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners office, Leadenhall / RSH+P
After 30 years in Hammersmith, Richard Roger’s practice has relocated to one of its newest and most iconic buildings, the Leadenhall Building in the heart of the City of London. The new office consolidates the workplace for 200 staff, creates a dynamic, refreshing environment and reasserts the practice’s ‘reveal-all’ approach to design. Herbert Wright reports
Vitra Schaudepot, Vitra Campus / Herzog & de Meuron
While Herzog & de Meuron receives the plaudits for its heralded extension that is the new Tate Modern, another piece of its display work has quietly opened at Weil am Rhein, home of the Vitra Museum. Liz Farrelly reports
Mwai London-based architecture practice
If only we could move ourselves off into floating bubbles to give the Earth a breather, says MWAI
One to Watch: Cassidy+Wilson
Cassidy+Wilson is the combo of Sean and Joe who met while working at the same architecture practice. Now, their own multidisciplinary design collaboration is making waves.
Focus: Epping Forest Museum
A coherent and unified museum has been created from small and separate spaces
Focus: W Hotel, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
During the conversion of a historic building for a W hotel, layers of its past history were discovered
Focus: Stereo Kitchen, Beirut
Once a playground for the jet set, war-torn Beirut is rising from the ashes, aided by this rooftop venue
Focus: Hilton Bournemouth
A mix of yesteryear glamour and modern statements is the aim at this seaside hotel
Focus: Brunel Museum
An entrance to a Brunel pedestrian tunnel under the Thames has reopened as a modern and active space Close to Rotherhithe Overground station in south-east London, you can now step down 7m in to Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s first-ever project… one where he nearly drowned but one that was the world’s first underground theatre.