• Flooring with Form and Function

    10 January 2019

    Flooring can have a vital role to play in managing how people use a space, by both assisting them to find their way around and helping to define the functions of different areas within a building. Kay Hill takes a closer look at flooring designs that are useful as well as beautiful

  • Flooring design for dementia

    9 January 2019

    Good flooring design can make life easier for people living with dementia, by reducing anxiety and limiting the risk of slips and trips, discovers Kay Hill

  • When less is definitely more

    8 January 2019

    There’s nothing quite like the purity and simplicity of a plain white backdrop. Kay Hill picks out some projects where less is definitely more when it comes to the floor

  • Turning the floor into a canvas

    7 January 2019

    In many commercial environments floors tend to be utilitarian and functional, but occasionally designers choose instead to use the space as a giant canvas. Kay Hill discovers projects where the floors get top billing

  • London Design Festival & Biennale Trend Report 2018

    4 January 2019

    Trends from the London Design Festival and London Design Biennale 2018, by Emma Caselton, senior creative strategist at Seymour Powell

  • A New Cultural Programme for Plymouth

    3 January 2019

    Plymouth is raising the bar for culture and tourism, launching the pilot for a major new art biennial, and building a £37m museum and contemporary art gallery. But will that be enough to reverse decades of economic decline? Veronica Simpson reports

  • Michael Anastassiades: 'Working for yourself is the ultimate test'

    2 January 2019

    Designer Michael Anastassiades shares the top 10 lessons he’s learned since opening his own design studio with Pamela Buxton

  • Light + Tech: Lighting Winners at the FX Awards 2018

    27 December 2018

    Jill Entwistle puts a focus on the Lighting Design and Lighting Product winners at the FX Awards 2018

  • Hallowed Ground: the design of sacred spaces

    20 December 2018

    Centres of worship hold a special place in people’s hearts, and working on a sacred space is always going to hold special challenges for the architect. Kay Hill looks at new religious buildings taking shape and talks to those who work on them

  • Resonate transform dated interiors of media empire's former home

    19 December 2018

    The Eighties’ interiors of the Northern and Shell building are updated by Resonate, with a mix of private offices and co-working spaces for its new tenants