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Sowmya Thuniki
The best new flooring products
Emily Martin looks at new flooring products, including a conservation-minded floor tile that contains remnants of old fishing nets
Dexter Moren – 10 things I’ve learned about design
In the first of a new feature, hotel design specialist Dexter Moren, of Dexter Moren Associates, tells Pamela Buxton the most important things he’s learned in his 20 years in the design business
Got it covered!
We asked design practices Woods Bagot and Marta Nowicka & Co to respond to a brief detailing a temporary show space for fictitious start-up company Exetera, selling three exciting but boring-looking 3D printers. Flooring was to be used to delineate space and focus the product
New urban quarter unveiled for historic London site
Sheppard Robson, Maccreanor Lavington and Piercy&Company have revealed detailed facade designs for buildings located within Barts Square – a new urban, 3.2 acre mixed-use quarter in the City of London’s Smithfield Conservation Area.
Chair fit for a prince
A competition run by The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers to design a high chair for Prince George has been won by Katie Walker. Her entry was one of five shortlisted, along with those from other eminent Bespoke Guild Mark holders Matthew Burt, David Colwell, Jake Phipps, and James Ryan.
Museum’s new extension opens under new name
The new extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, designed by Berman Guedes Stretton, has officially opened this month under its new name, The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. The practice won the RIBA national competition for the extension in 2008.
Interview: LEGO builder Duncan Titmarsh
Emily Martin talks to LEGO Certified Professional Duncan Titmarsh, who takes his fun job of building models out of the plastic bricks very seriously, and so does business, which is keeping his company Bright Bricks very busy indeed
PearsonLloyd products take three awards
Industrial Design Studio PearsonLloyd has received three Focus Open awards in the Baden-Württemberg International Design Awards.
Win a trip to Chicago and NeoCon in the Forbo design competition
Highly praised in last year’s entries to the Forbo Flooring’s Fly Forbo design competition was the Thomson roll-out to its flagship travel stores, using Forbo’s wide portfolio including Westbond, Tessera carpet tiles and Sarlon vinyl.
Thomas Heatherwick designs Green Bridge for London
Heatherwick Studio and actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley have developed an idea for a new pedestrian ‘garden bridge’ across the Thames in London; a scheme to connect South Bank and Temple with a garden.