Interiors
Will bio-plastic change the face of design?
Lighting company unveils first commercial product made of sugar waste
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
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.
North Carolina Museum of Art by Thomas Phifer & Partners
Arup’s innovative solution allows the North Carolina museum’s permanent collection to be viewed by natural daylight.
Wahaca Mexican restaurant
Softroom brings vibrancy and street market chic to three Mexican restaurants
Roll out the Concrete Cloth
Two former industrial design engineering classmates have developed a Concrete Cloth that redefines the material’s uses
Oak is at the heart of Talk Talk HQ interior
Found Associates has used fumed oak parquet to set the tone for the office
Many hands make light work
With inventor and magician Adrian Westaway’s Magic Light, you just grab a beam and go
Tonkin Liu creates a little piece of heaven in Marylebone
White interior surfaces of perforated aluminium, bleached oak panels and light linoleum flooring give this penthouse apartment an ethereal beauty
Classic dining at the Whitechapel Gallery
Project Orange’s Whitechapel Dining Room makes the newly refurbished gallery’s gastronomic experience as satisfying as its cultural one
Simon Conder Associates’ Eastcliff houses
Two houses on the windswept Cornish coast rely on traditional passive solutions
Glass staircases in Apple’s Covent Garden store
The two glass stairs in Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s Covent Garden store for Apple are as amazing as the i-gadgets on sale
Dry installed underfloor heating at St Mary’s Church, West Sussex
Lee Evans Partnership solved the problem of installing underfloor heating at a medieval church without using wet trades
Surface Design Show products
A preview of some of the products that will be exhibited at this month’s Surface Design Show
Stiff & Trevillion brings stripped-back look to Jamie’s Italian
TV chef adds design ingredients to Guildford restaurant
Prefabricated flooring takes off
With its adoption in two Heathrow terminal buildings, the Technik flooring system is getting a chance to prove itself
Good vibrations at O2’s Matter nightclub
Situated inside Greenwich’s O2 building, Matter nightclub boasts a vibrating dance floor, time-saving touches and 3D projections that clubbers should love
