Small but mighty: The Making of… Oko
LucidiPevere on the release of Oko for Connection by Flokk, material dignity and blurring the lines between contract and domesticity.
Like pulling teeth! In conversation with Sally Edmundson-Bird
For STAT18, we uncover the dark, sickly truth behind Sally Edmundson-Bird’s confectionary ceramics.
0161: SpaceInvader’s Virgin Media O2 HQ embodies Manchester
For telecommunications giant Virgin Media O2, SpaceInvader injects five floors of premium workplace with Manchester’s DNA.
Low-tech living: In conversation with Editional Studio
Editional Studio Co-founder Jo Sharples on sustainability, craft-driven residential design and futureproofing our homes for a new era.
Brand Britain: The Making of… Gresham
Garden sheds, Britishness and keeping it in the family: the recipe for workplace furnisher Gresham’s 50-year success.
Two Faced: AXI breathes new life into 3 Hardman Street
Thanks to AXI’s design intervention, 3 Hardman Street’s new entrance experience doesn’t have a bad side.
For anybody and everybody: Stockport’s Stockroom is a space for all.
With design led by SpaceInvader, Stockroom represents a space for all inside Stockport's Merseyside Shopping Centre.
Newport Jazz Festival: A precedent of the modern music event
How Newport Jazz Festival ran so today’s festival organisers could walk.
Reservoir Dogs and Blocked Bogs: A retrospective of The Cornerhouse, Manchester
For some reason or other, Bob Scott – a business head with one hand in Olympic bidding and the other in amateur dramatics – had taken a keen interest in those two wildly-opposed buildings that still flank Manchester’s Oxford Road Station.
Lignée Hotels plants flag in London
Grand Hotel Bellevue opens in London: a 60-key boutique hotel and first British property by French group Lignée Hotels.
Building Bilge: Buying the Big Easy
Whether you live in an EPC Zed-rated two-up two-down in the suburbs, or a Piccadilly-perimetering pigeonhole, it’s fair to say the UK property market leaves a lot of be desired.
Building Bilge: JUMBO restaurant
The story of JUMBO Floating Restaurant, one of Hong Kong’s most recognisable landmarks, starts with casino monopolist Stanley Ho, who invested some thirty million HK smackeroons into its construction back in 1976.
Building Bilge: The invention of the bachelor pad
Renting an unaffordable hovel in an up ‘n’ coming neighbourhood is hardly a new concept, but have you ever wondered how this method of dwelling became so vogue?
Through the Magpie Eye: The Pirelli Calendar
After over 90 years of burning rubber, a greased-up bright spark of the Pirelli’s UK subsidiary by the name of Derek Forsyth decided that some brand merch was in order; what better way to push sales than a dozen bare-bottomed ladies posing aside a paper planner of the forthcoming year?