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Nathan Yong – interview

Only 36 years old, Nathan Yong is heading up his second successful design business after going off to do an MA in between ventures. Twice a Red Dot Award winner and probably best known for his humanitarian mass-production coffin, for use in major disasters, he talks to Emily Martin about his passion for design

Public space design in Dubai and Rotterdam – a tale of two cities

A city without proper public space is a city without a soul, says Veronica Simpson. But there’s more to it than fountains and piazzas

Analysis

Lighting’s next design classics

While preparing a talk for the Surfaces Design Show, which for the first time featured lighting, Iain Ruxton of Speirs + Major considered design classics

British Council in South Africa initiative

A special edition of the British Council’s Maker Libraries has gone on display at GUILD 2014 in South Africa, marking the launch of Cape Town as 2014 World Design Capital.

How the EU is protecting design ideas

While it seems to be a way of British life to deride the EU and the negative impact it has had on our lives, we cannot overlook the force for good one of its agencies has been in protecting design ideas and work. Stephen Hitchins reports

Norman Foster adds to Maggie’s Centres’ roster of design

Planning permission is being sought for a new Maggie’s Centre, designed by Foster + Partners in Manchester.

Graubünden’s new generation of architects comes of age

The Swiss alpine canton of Graubünden is fast becoming a treasure trove of new and exciting architecture thanks to a crop of local practices that are emerging from the shadow of earlier, much-lauded, practitioners from the area, not least of which is Peter Zumthor