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Focus: Alex McCuaig Profile
Founder and head of museum design specialist MET Studio Alex McCuaig talks to FX.
Talking Points: Ross Urwin
Creative director of Design Shanghai, Ross Urwin, explains why the event is a top choice for designers mixing the contemporary vibe with the traditional.
Fly Forbo 2016
The winner of this year’s Forbo flooring design competition Fly Forbo has been announced, winning the top prize of flights to the USA to visit Neocon.
Bay Area Behemoth: SFMOMA by Snøhetta
Architecture practice Snøhetta’s largest American building to date has just opened, seeing some of Mario Botta’s features from the 1995 original San Francisco Museum of Modern Art removed and receiving mixed reviews for its design. But with several of the new SFMOMA’s featured artists congratulating Snøhetta, it’s happy
Listen: George Ferguson
George Ferguson is an architect and a former RIBA president, who has just concluded four years running Bristol city as elected mayor. Not aligned with any political party, he used his independent status to implement radical transport, education and outreach schemes and partnerships during his time, aimed at creating a more resilient, connected and healthy city. His grand finale was devising and hosting Bristol’s European Green capital 2015 programme, harnessing the city’s rich creative, social and intellectual capital to generate enthusiasm for sustainable living
Switching place: Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension
Tate Modern’s latest extension is radical in form and surface, yet intimately relates to the vast building it joins, which opened as London’s foremost modern art gallery in 2000. The new Switch House’s angular geometry, permeability, movement and, materiality are explored by Herbert Wright, who also earlier talked to its architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
Blueprint reviews Alejandro Aravena’s 15th Venice Architecture Biennale
We share the very best of this year’s festival, curated by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena with the theme Reporting from the Front, and find a distinctive move away from starchitecture in favour of socially minded projects and research
If only we could unlock the true potential of our brain says KSS
The brain is the most powerful computer already in existence, imagine if everything we said or shared could be controlled automatically by our thoughts.
New faces and places in Southbank Place
Walk around London and you can’t fail to notice the pace at which luxury residential developments are going up. One area that’s being developed into what should be a thriving community is the area around the Shell building and Waterloo, now called Southbank Place.
Q+A: Tom Postma
The specialist show designer Tom Postma, the genius behind art show TEFAF, among others, tells FX about the challenge of art object display.