All articles by Rachakatla Srinivas
Rachakatla Srinivas
Speirs + Major honoured with four awards in a week
Speirs + Major has followed up last year’s Practice of the Decade Award at the Lighting Design Awards with a win this year in the Heritage Lighting category for Burlington Arcade. The awards were held at the end of March in London. The lighting design practice’s projects Hedonism Wine Store, Mayfair, and the Twin Sails Bridge in Poole were also commended in the small retail and exterior lighting categories respectively.
Ben, Blacksheep, and Bison – All at Ege Carpets
FX editor Theresa Dowling meets all three on a trip to Denmark to help judge the final of the Ege Carpets design competition
£7m Innovation Centre for Science Park
Work on Ryder Architecture’s four-storey £7m Innovation Centre 3 at the Liverpool Science Park has started on site.
Grimshaw submits development application for landmark tower
Grimshaw has submitted a development application on behalf of Parramatta City Council outside of Sydney for a landmark mixed-use tower that could be the tallest in Australia.
Rijksmuseum reopens better than ever
The Rijksmuseum has reopened following a 10-year transformation. Never before has a national museum undergone such a complete transformation of both its building and the presentation of its collection.
Waterloo Station retail balcony is a step up
A new retail balcony designed by SAS International for Waterloo Station has helped reduce passenger congestion and increase retail income.
Make an entrance
We look at three workplace projects shortlisted in this year’s Lighting Design Awards: two show how lighting has transformed tired reception areas, while the third uses lighting to set the tone of the space. Each shows the trend to a linear, integrated approach where the lighting is as much a graphic element as illumination
Washed up
As Aidan Walker fills up the bowl with soapy water and starts washing up the breakfast, lunch and dinner things now the family’s dishwasher has died, he ponders on the meaning of behavioural design, and how we have been led to believe – erroneously, he now knows – that we can’t live without ‘labour-saving’ devices
Moving on
Office lighting really has to change – to avoid waste, to reduce energy use, to adapt to evolving working practices and, most of all, to put people at the top of the agenda. Three leading lighting designers concerned with the workspace environment give their views on precisely how and where office lighting must move on to meet the needs of the future