Interiors – Page 4
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TechnicalHorizontal lifts: A sideways move
ThyssenKrupp has come up with a lift that not only functions without cables but is also able to move horizontally as well as vertically. So what, asks Ike Ijeh, might this mean for the future of building design?
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News
Box 9 Design unwraps Decorex pavilion
Reclaimed materials and green roof are features of ‘big box’
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Features
How to manage your online reputation
It’s easy to neglect what your online presence says about you. But risky. Gemma Smith from Houzz, the online community for architecture, home renovation and design, shares some advice ahead of her seminar at Decorex next week
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Features
Decorex: Pick of the programme
Kicking off the London Design Festival, Decorex, the high-end interiors show, returns to Syon Park from September 20-23 with a packed seminar programme and 400 exhibitors. This year’s theme? The future of luxury
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Analysis
Interview: Nigel Coates on the amazement dimension
Nigel Coates talks interiors, winning work and teaching the next generation
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Technical
Apartment building, Binningen, Switzerland by Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten
In parallel with a delicate ordering of its interiors, the exterior focus of this two-storey apartment building on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland is its complex and playful render facade, writes Hugh Strange
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Technical
How to design for people who hear with their eyes
As a $60m international design competition is launched by Gallaudet, Washington’s specialist university for the deaf, its campus architect Hansel Bauman shares insights from a decade of research into DeafSpace design
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Features
A day at the office: Your guide to human happiness
How can you use design to actively influence and improve people’s lives? British Land is using its own headquarters as a test bed for incorporating wellbeing principles that it hopes will foster a happier, more productive workforce
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Technical
Interior flooring with a local twist
Amanda Birch’s study of three distinct examples of interior flooring examines work in London, Zanzibar and India by Amanda Levete, Jestico Whiles and Project Orange
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Technical
Institution of Structural Engineering by Hugh Broughton Architects
Hugh Broughton and Expedition Engineering have turned an awkwardly shaped existing office building in Clerkenwell into a showcase of structural innovation
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Building Study
National Theatre redevelopment by Haworth Tompkins
Haworth Tompkins’ £80m redevelopment of the National Theatre - a traditionally uncompromising building - is its biggest reworking since Denys Lasdun’s original design
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Technical
BIM: Early adopters
Ramboll has developed an early stage modelling process that combines the qualitative capabilities of parametric design with BIM’s algorithmic, analytical strengths. Ike Ijeh wonders where this leaves designers
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Technical
Stormen Concert Hall, Bodø, Norway by DRDH Architects
A three-auditorium concert hall was tasked not only with complementing the character of this Norwegian town, but navigating the acoustic challenges that come with a multi-purpose space
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Technical
Kavel Houses, Ghent by Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
An innovative Belgian development of four terraced houses, designed in collaboration with young families, packs a huge amount of variety into its small, irregular site
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Technical
Light at the museum
Exposure to natural light can be damaging to the rare and valuable pieces on display at museums. Amanda Birch investigates how three galleries have employed innovative lighting set-ups to keep their displays illuminated, while remaining protected from harmful ultraviolet rays
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News
Hyde Park Barracks investor wants 'world's best' to work with Quinlan Terry
Dixon Jones named as architect by rival team for site
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Features
Why designing 'tree views' into your hospital is so important
Designer, writer and television presenter Oliver Heath digs through the research to demonstrate how biophilic design can improve lives and save money for healthcare clients
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News
Benjamin Marks completes National Theatre restaurant
Temporary structure is part of Coin Street’s development plan
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Opinion
Interior designers must take a leaf out of architects' biophilic books
Designer, writer and television presenter Oliver Heath invites BD readers to share examples of using nature in interiors
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News
DRDH Architects' cultural complex opens in Arctic Circle
Firm won masterplan and both buildings in series of competitions
