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Let’s be partners
Modern clients know exactly what they want from an interior. Which is why these days wa100 firms are developing partnering relationships capitalising on their clients’ market expertise.
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Talent spot
Trade shows can be exhausting and time-consuming. To help you through this year's 100% Design we've previewed some of the best of what's on offer next month.
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Office politics
When German furniture company Vitra decided to refurbish its 20-year-old offices, originally built by Nicholas Grimshaw, it called upon British designer Sevil Peach. The result blurs the distinction between home and work.
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Sliding doors
Walters & Cohen's revamp of a basement flat in a terraced north London house creates one long space that brings the garden into the interior.
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Craic den
If you're looking for a good night out in Belfast and an example of leading-edge design visit Tatu, the new bar-restaurant designed by Box.
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Forming a bond
Manufacturers are collaborating with designers to create innovative laminates which target those architects brave enough to use these new materials outside the kitchen or bathroom.
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Industrial action
Pollard Thomas Edwards' role in the refurbishment of an Islington canalside warehouse shows how architects can profit from being their own developers.
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Inside out
On a land-locked site in urban north-west London, husband and wife team Gillian Scampton and Andrew Barnett have built a home for themselves. The house is an oasis: a calm and beautifully crafted space that opens on to four gardens.
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Grand designs
In the late 19th century, architects began to collect photographs of buildings around the world, a hobby that goes some way to explaining the eclecticism of Victorian architecture.
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Squaring the cube
Apple’s new G4 Cube, which looks set to continue the success of the iMac, is joined by other new IT developments – in the Internet and printing.
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Dutch courage
It was a brave move for Cork’s municipal art gallery to commission Erick van Egeraat to design a contemporary extension for the museum – but one which paid off.
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True colours
‘Heritage’ paint ranges are the latest weapon of paint makers in the battle for market share. But just how aesthetically or technically authentic are they?
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Colour fast
John Outram is a one-off, designing outlandish, colourful buildings that are like no other architect's work. For the new craft workshops he has designed in rural Northamptonshire, he has finally found a site as eccentric as his aesthetic.
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The collector
The RIBA Drawings Collection may be shut but its assistant curator, Neil Bingham, has never been busier. Between moving the collection to the V&A, he has written a book on design, partly inspired by his own home, and those of his friends – many of the UK’s best ...
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Beyond the fringe
A diverse group of architects are using thatch to create contemporary buildngs that belong anywhere but chocolate boxes and biscuit tins.
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Architects’ fees survey
Workloads may be up, and so, accordingly, are fee levels – but not for everybody. Architects in the South-East are doing best, but other professions, such as solicitors and PR consultants, still charge a much higher hourly rate than architects.
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Singapore swing
Nicola Turner checks into Singapore’s first ‘hip hotel’, the Gallery Evason, by William Lim Associates, and TangGuanBee Architects.
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The school system
Shaking the Foundations: Japanese Architects in DialogueEdited by Christopher Knabe and Joerg Rainer NoennPestel, London, UK£29.95, US$19.95Illustrated b&w throughout.Perhaps the easiest way to make sense of the stylistic diversity of contemporary Japanese architecture is to draw a family tree. Although rigid classification is always controversial, simply identifying the inter-generational chains ...