All articles by Asha
Asha
Flooring Focus: Designer choices
Oliver Heath and other leading designers take us inside their projects and reveal why flooring is so important.
Flooring Focus: Products
A selection of new and innovative flooring products to inspire, thrill clients and create sensational design schemes
Pond life – King’s Cross Pond Club
This summer, visitors to the King’s Cross Pond Club will be able to take a dip in Britain’s first naturally filtered bathing pond, located squarely in the middle of one of London’s busiest construction sites. Aquatic plants will purify the water, even as the neighbouring diggers and cranes busy themselves with concrete and dirt. Shumi Bose speaks to artist Marjetica Potrč and Ooze architects, whose collaborative projects allow a glimpse of alternative ways of living
Review: Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty
Cate St Hill steps into the wicked world of the famous fashion designer and couturier and finds a show not to be missed, have you go your ticket?
Flooring Focus: Case studies
We look at six projects that illustrate the importance of flooring in a successful project
Eyewitness: Gareth Gardner experiences tunnel vision in King’s Cross
Clementine Fletcher-Smith and Speirs + Major principal, Keith Bradshaw, review their work.
Review – All of This Belongs to You, V&A
The V&A’s latest exhibition ‘All of This Belongs to You’ uses spectacular commissions, recent acquistions and historical objects to propose a critical, democratic discourse around issues of publicness, privacy and ownership. Shumi Bose finds the ethos of the show to have its roots in the museum’s radical past, as well as pointing the way forwards for its East London future…
Dim Sum Towers – Heatherwick Studio’s Learning Hub in Singapore
The Thomas Heatherwick Studio has just completed a building for the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with the specific intention of it not being anything like any other university building in existence so far. With the Learning Hub’s stacks of circular spaces, its nickname of Dim Sum Towers, given by the students, seems particularly apt
Camper’s Life on Foot: Zonzo, the city where you can get lost, and the wasting of time
Francesco Careri, founder of architecture collective Stalker and research network Osservatorio Nomade – that carries out walks in the ‘indeterminate’ or void spaces of the city – ponders the meaning of Zonzo, a city of flaneurs as described by Walter Benjamin. The text is taken from The Walking Society, the wide-ranging catalogue that accompanies the Design Museum’s exhibition on Spanish footwear brand Camper, entitled Life on Foot
Curated diary – Sean Scully
Dublin-born contemporary artist Sean Scully picks his top art and design events for the coming months