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Asha
Rain Room by Random International review
Random International’s popular experiential Rain Room travels across the world to the Yuz Museum Shanghai. Johnny Tucker pays a visit and tries not to get soaked
A Light Touch
Lighting design is an essential part of mood-setting and décor in hotels, but is hard to pull off. Neil Knowles, founder and director of Elektra Lighting, explains how to get it right.
Design Central
Marco Piva’s latest hotel project shows the Italian knack for mixing styles and periods.
The reversible hotel
Guest rooms at the Ageas Bowl Hotel transform into spaces to watch cricket matches. Howzzat?
Hotels: Taking an app
Whitbread’s new high-tech and eco-friendly hotel in London’s Covent Garden, makes economic use of space. JSJ Designs found smart ways to ensure the experience is an inviting one.
Hotels: Designing in luxury
Opulence or convenience? FX looks at what guests want and what some designers have done to provide It.
Blueprint Seminar: World Toilet Day with ROCA
To mark World Toilet Day on 19 November and highlight the aims of Roca’s We Are Water Foundation, Blueprint gathered together a panel of experts to discuss sanitation in developing countries and disaster areas. The conversation at the Roca London Gallery ranged from the future of sanitation without sewers, through gender issues, to the delivery of life-changing projects
London Design Festival: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s Samsung Serif TV
The Bouroullec brothers unveiled their first electronic product at this year’s festival, a sleek television set for Samsung, that’s more a covetable design object than a piece of technological innovation
Dismaland by Banksy review
Rebecca Swirsky finds British street artist Banksy has pulled off an incredible, amusing feat at his ‘bemusement park’ Dismaland at Weston-super-Mare beach
Artist collective stands its ground in up-and-coming Vauxhall
Veronica Simpson is in London this month looking at Gasworks, a courageous group that has won out against rapacious developers.