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Journal
With clients like Selfridges, Stella McCartney, Ritz-Carlton Hotels and London Design Museum, Spitalfields-based Giles Miller Studio are an internationally renowned maker of innovative surfaces. From retail spaces and pop-up bars, to a cardboard...
London
When eight shipping containers beach themselves outside the Southbank Centre, your first thought might be to call the Environmental Protection Agency. But this is no ordinary jetsam. In fact, Softroom Architects have made old into new by stacking...
London
They said you couldn't engage the masses with contemporary art, but engage them they did... with not far short of 5 million visitors a year, Tate Modern has been somewhat of a sensation since it opened at the turn of the century. Coveted Basel-based...
Journal
Gloomy? Grim? Clinically depressed? Then you must live in Britain, where the country’s weather contrives to dampen even the liveliest spirits with one of the worst examples of a summer since Noah was a lad. If you’re fed up with asking...
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Judy Robinson, aka Paper Tango, is an artist on a mission to push souvenirs up the luxe ladder. Her SPOTS LONDON series of intricately laser-cut gift cards offer up chic-origami interpretations of London's many landmark buildings. Our favourite, of...
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London-based designers Studio Weave are a small practice with a very modern outlook on design, architecture, urban landscapes and planning. That's not to say you can expect to see steel, glass, and futurism gone mad... no, this is a studio...
London
Welcome to the 'temakeria'. Visitors to Brazil may have already encountered this curious little kind of fast-food eatery, where the lesser-spotted member of the sushi family has made its way to the top of the pile, and bagged itself its own time in...
Journal
Sweeping onto UK shores for the first time, Electrolux's space-age temporary pavilion has landed on top of the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall. Curiously, it joins A Room for London - another temporary space lodged atop a Southbank institution, just...
Journal
Much has been made of the Occupy movement's design credentials; there's a nice roundup of Occupy posters here, the London movement's own publication The Occupied Times was lauded in the design press, and there's even an Occupy Design Network. Much...
Journal
Hosting an evening of performance and fashion, at the end of last month, WWF's Pandamonium 2012 challenged some of the world's leading designers, artists and architects to create wearable sculptures that illustrate the vastness of the organisation's...
Journal
House of Concrete is not the prison the name suggests. Far from it, in fact. It's the HQ of Concrete, a design company responsible for some crisp, eye-catching work all over Holland and beyond. We've Hearted a couple of their previous efforts here...
Journal
We've heard all about the potential problems, we all saw Panorama's Stadiums of Hate, and, let's face it; nobody's really talked about these Euros in any sense of "grand spectacle". Little has been made of the host nation's stadiums themselves -...
City Notes
In the heart of downtown Zapopan, a neighbouring city of Guadalajara Mexico, Zorra Zapopan is the second outpost of Cervecería Zorra, a stunning project brought to fruition by esteemed studios Taller Dinamita and Taller Binario that combines a...
City Notes
Soft-launched 15 March, following an intensive restoration, Barcelona’s Grand Hotel Central has emerged as a triumph of contemporary luxury; a homage to its own weighty history and grandeur, yet breathing the fresh air of modern Catalunya....
City Notes
Opening just last month on Barcelona's Via Laietana, the road that separates the city's El Born and El Gòtic neighbourhoods, restaurant Can Bo completes the reimagined Grand Hotel Central; the street-level gastronomic concept focussing on tapas and...
City Notes
From first stepping into the kitchen aged 10, to creating supper club 'Eureka' in the family home, Flynn McGarry went on to open his first permanent fine dining restaurant, Gem, in New York City's Lower East Side at 19 years old, before going on to...
Dispatches
Picture a life where you wake up sharp, tackle the day with grit, and still have gas in the tank for what matters—sounds good, right? Modern men’s well-being isn’t about chasing some old-school macho myth; it’s about feeling solid, inside...
Dispatches
You may feel a sense of safety and security whenever you get into your car. You get this feeling because you have airbags and other safety features. Airbags have been mandatory in vehicles since 1998, and this regulation has saved countless lives...
Dispatches
Wet roads can be dangerous, especially in the spring, when rain, melting snow, and lingering debris from winter create slick and unpredictable driving conditions. Wet surfaces can result in bad falls for pedestrians, and they pose serious risks...
Dispatches
Any type of car accident is at least an annoyance. Suddenly, you’re dealing with unexpected expenses that can include everything from vehicle repair costs to medical bills. In a best case scenario, you can work out a settlement with the at-fault...