• Profile - Simon Allford

    6 December 2017

    Simon Allford, architect and co-founder of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, and one of the VIP line-up of speakers in this year’s FX Talks, tells us about the role of architects and an eight-year research project

  • One to Watch - Samarkand Design

    28 November 2017

    One to Watch is Samarkand Design, with Carrie Hart and Hilly Grumbar creating lampshades with a difference.

  • Koncept / Novotel, Canary Wharf

    7 November 2017

    References to the maritime heritage of the site are mixed with bespoke furniture in the contemporary design for this small-footprint hotel that nevertheless ascends 39 floors

  • Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital, Johannesburg

    2 November 2017

    An international team from the UK and South Africa worked together to create this children’s hospital in a natural healing environment

  • Profile - Jonathon Porritt

    1 November 2017

    Leading British environmentalist and radical thinker Jonathon Porritt, one of this year’s FX Talks speakers, believes design can take the green agenda forward.

  • Reporter: FX Awards 2017

    31 October 2017

    It’s November, so it has to be time for the FX Awards, being held in a gala event at London’s Grosvenor House hotel, 29 November, with Jimmy Carr as MC

  • One to Watch - Wishnya

    27 October 2017

    is Russia-based studio Wishnya, founded in 2013 by Dmitry Litz to design and produce lighting products, with appearances at Milan, IMM Cologne and Interlight Moscow already under his belt

  • 5468796 Architecture and Factor Eficiencia / One Bucket at a Time installation, Mexico City

    11 October 2017

    For the Mextropoli 2017 Architecture Festival, the painter’s bucket - a common sight on the streets of Mexico City - was used to create an interactive installation referencing the use of the city’s public space by the ‘viene viene’ men

  • I-AM / Jan restaurant, London

    10 October 2017

    The food and ambience of the old kingdoms that surrounded the Caspian Sea in earlier centuries come alive with this dynamic and intimate dining space.

  • Bennetts Associates / Storyhouse Theatre, Chester

    6 October 2017

    The practice took a cinema unused for a decade and transformed it into a multi-use focal centre for the city.