All articles by Rachakatla Srinivas

Rachakatla Srinivas

What design can do: Discuss

This annual international conference, hosted in Amsterdam and taking place on 16 and 17 May, celebrates the power of design and the ways it can solve global issues. The conference is specifically aimed at design professionals, company leaders and government officials.

ET Quelle influence

France is taking art to the regions, with a series of 23 new, purpose-designed galleries housing sizable collections organised in a national strategy, says Stephen Hitchins. But will they go the way of the UK’s flurry of out-of-London art buildings, and become just additional public galleries by another name?

My favourite …design city

In the first of a new series in which design favourites are highlighted, Jamie Mitchell is in Miami

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Pick of the best new products

Death: A design response

Nothing is certain except death and taxes, said Benjamin Franklin. While global corporations have been getting creative with the latter, let’s celebrate the global design community’s achievements in finding new and interesting ways to engage with the former, says Veronica Simpson

BDP wins design for Cardiff and Vale College

BDP has won the competition to design the £23m, 16,000 sq m Cardiff City Centre Community Campus for Cardiff and Vale College. The college is one of the largest in Wales, serving Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, and this project brings together many of the college’s activities on to a single campus in the heart of the city.

John Pawson goes to Miami for Shrager flats

Developer Ian Schrager is back in Miami Beach, this time in the company of architect and minimalist designer John Pawson.

UK practice completes master plan & concept for Chinese museums

London-based architecture practice Office for Architectural Culture has completed the master plan and architectural concept of the 650,000 sq m Tanmen International Oceanic Fishing Culture Centre and Museums complex on the southern island of Hainan, China.

iGuzzini lights up fourth arch at Paddington

Lighting specialist iGuzzini has worked with Oxford Architects and lighting design consultancy GIA Equation on the restoration and lighting of the Edwardian fourth span at Paddington Station in London.

ME is Top-To-Toe Foster design

The ME Hotel – the first flagship hotel in which everything, from the shell of the building to the bathroom fittings, has been designed by Foster + Partners – has opened in London.