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Profile - Simon Allford
6 December 2017Simon 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
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One to Watch - Samarkand Design
28 November 2017One to Watch is Samarkand Design, with Carrie Hart and Hilly Grumbar creating lampshades with a difference.
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Koncept / Novotel, Canary Wharf
7 November 2017References 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
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Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital, Johannesburg
2 November 2017An international team from the UK and South Africa worked together to create this children’s hospital in a natural healing environment
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Profile - Jonathon Porritt
1 November 2017Leading British environmentalist and radical thinker Jonathon Porritt, one of this year’s FX Talks speakers, believes design can take the green agenda forward.
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Reporter: FX Awards 2017
31 October 2017It’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
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One to Watch - Wishnya
27 October 2017is 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
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5468796 Architecture and Factor Eficiencia / One Bucket at a Time installation, Mexico City
11 October 2017For 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
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I-AM / Jan restaurant, London
10 October 2017The food and ambience of the old kingdoms that surrounded the Caspian Sea in earlier centuries come alive with this dynamic and intimate dining space.
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Bennetts Associates / Storyhouse Theatre, Chester
6 October 2017The practice took a cinema unused for a decade and transformed it into a multi-use focal centre for the city.