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Design PRIMA Product Innovation Awards
Earlier this month saw Design PRIMA crown the winners of the very first Design PRIMA Product Design Awards.
Spectral Equalisation: Ground-breaking technology to be debuted at The ARC Show 2012
The ARC Show is pleased to announce that a variety of world-exclusive sessions will debut at next year’s conference.
Design PRIMA announces seminar programme line-up
A series of informative and thought-provoking seminar sessions are to take place within the Design PRIMA exhibition later this month.
Win a VIP Pass to The ARC Show
Get your hands on exclusive passes to the BD panel and networking event at this year’s ARC Show
Brunel Design Students To Light Up The ARC Show
Innovative designs by Brunel University’s highly rated Product and Industrial Design course students are to be showcased at The ARC Show 2012
Surface Design Show product preview
Here are some of the products that will be exhibited at the Surface Design Show to be held February 15-17 at the Business Design Centre, Islington.
Discover Children’s Story Centre by Carmody Groarke
A children’s literacy centre in London’s East End required the creation of durable, child-friendly surfaces
Simon Conder Associates’ Eastcliff houses
Two houses on the windswept Cornish coast rely on traditional passive solutions
St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel by RHWL and Richard Griffiths
The painstaking restoration of St Pancras station’s neo-Gothic Midland Grand Hotel by architects RHWL and Richard Griffiths honours George Gilbert Scott’s original vision, despite some disappointing fit-out choices.
David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Gallery
David Chipperfield’s Margate gallery celebrates its unique light but fails to open up to the town
The Dune House, Thorpeness by Jarmund Vigsnæs Architects
The latest holiday home for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project sits well with the maverick whimsy of this Suffolk seaside village
Jamie Fobert’s Shoe Galleries for Selfridges
Despite having no desire to become a specialist retail architect, Jamie Fobert is showing decided flair in the field as his Shoe Galleries at Selfridges demonstrate
DSDHA’s bijou Belgravia cosmetics store
Reconfiguring the Belgravia boutique of bespoke make-up company, Cosmetics a la Carte, required DSDHA to engage in urban planning on a miniature scale.
KBB
Room to grow old in style
The designs on show at KBB 2012 show how an ageing demographic is driving innovation, says Pamela Buxton
‘A hotel is a microcosm of a city’
KBB seminar speaker Patrick Reardon tells us why a good hotel design reflects all aspects of life
An Afternoon with BD at KBB
BD is hosting An Afternoon with BD on March 6 from 2-4pm in the ContractSpaces area of KBB
Sally Storey of Lighting Design International on the ESPA Life spa
Traditionally, hotels were frightened that low-energy lighting would create a flat and lifeless colour when dimmed.
Mark Ridler of BDP Lighting on the V&A's Fashion Galleries and working with Rafael Vinoly
In both retail and galleries, the lighting designer is trying to help people view objects clearly and accurately.
Dominic Meyrick of Hoare Lea Lighting on Centrepoint and Heathrow T3
It’s about the desire for the building to be noticed, whether that comes from the client, the architect or the letting agent.
Jeff Shaw of Arup Lighting on the Galleria in Seoul
With the Galleria fashion store in Seoul, South Korea, we used LED in a more playful way in collaboration with the architect UN Studio.
Interviews
John Pawson: master of minimalism
At 61, minimalist architect John Pawson is about to take centre stage thanks to two projects for the Design Museum.












