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Istanbul Design Biennale 2014
This month welcomes the second Istanbul Design Biennial. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, which has appointed Zoë Ryan – chair and curator of architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago – as curator.
Back to (the New) School: the new University of Greenwich building
How do you update the home of time? Architecture students at the University of Greenwich will take possession of a brand new building this term. Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng has negotiated the area’s historic fabric to produce an unobtrusive, elegant solution, with high-tech roof gardens and a ‘crit pit’.
A staned glass window inspired by bloodletting
Gareth Gardner is looking through the blood-letting-inspired window…
Workplace design for the senses
Subtly appealing to the five senses can have unconscious benefits for business, but a good intuitive support team can add a sixth sense into the equation…
One to watch – AWAA
Three multitalented Norwegians are collectively the furniture design outfit AWAA.
Are offices a waste of space and time?
Resources are being wasted by restricting office hours, and workers prefer a virtual environment, research shows.
Workplace design – three of the best new projects
Three case studies show how a move to a new location, going hand-in-hand with creative planning and design, has given a real boost to the businesses’ staff.
Maps to Memorials: Exploring the Work of MacDonald Gill
Herbert Wright finds joy in the work of graphic designer and architect MacDonald Gill, on show at Suffolk’s Lettering Arts Centre.
Introducing architecture practice RCKa
RCKa is only six years old, yet the practice has already clocked up, among other things, a Civic Trust Award-winning youth and community centre (TNG in Lewisham, 2013), a big city art gallery (Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery, 2011), and a prestigious laboratory project — most architects have to wait 20 years to land one of those — for the world’s largest currency printer De La Rue in the Hampshire countryside.
Non-competitive advantage: Norway’s blossoming design industry
Spurred on by the country’s wealth from North Atlantic oil and gas, Norway’s design industry is blossoming. We talk to its young stars about how to project a small nation, with an almost non-existant design heritage, onto the world design stage, and discuss the benefits of collaboration over competition.