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Five Key Approaches to Wellbeing in Commercial Interior Design
Five Key Approaches to Wellbeing in Interior Design: Should every project look and feel fantastic? Of course – but long before we get to that Instagrammable moment, designers need to be thinking of wellbeing and incorporating wellbeing strategies into their process.
A conversation between: Jim Biddulph & Mat Barnes, CAN Studio
Amid the many new builds one sees popping up around the country it’s not very often that you find any that stick in the mind. The same cannot be said… Read More >
Women in Lighting: The emotional dimension of light
What happens to us when we stand before an artwork? What are the paths we take around an exhibition? What attracts our attention and what stimulates our emotions? Light is… Read More >
Hybrid Working with Cameron Fry, Liqui Group
As we emerged from the Covid pandemic did you question how, and where, you wanted to work? You certainly were not the only person to reassess their working life, many… Read More >
A conversation between: Jim Biddulph & Helen Leask, Leask Architecture
Whether it’s large-scale commercial projects or intimate residential properties, an architect’s work in shaping the look and feel of a building is paramount. Invariably there is far more to the… Read More >
Designer Q&A with Rose Campbell
Rose Campbell has been featured in our Designer Muse series before, but as she’s just taken over as head of design and marketing at Newmor, we thought it was a… Read More >
The Magic Dinner
“The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, . . . an incomparable experience.” – Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun How often… Read More >
Jim Biddulph & Iain Monteith, Loader Monteith Architects
Developing a relationship between practice and education is a bedrock of architecture as a profession. But whilst RIBA’s CPD curriculum is designed to keep things fresh for practicing architects through… Read More >
A Conversation Between: Jim Biddulph & Field Day Studio
Marrying rich design concepts with tasteful material and colour palettes is no simple task. Creating spaces that are immediately warm and welcoming yet oozing with style and detail is in… Read More >
Women in Lighting: The Extraordinary Light
Details have the task of expressing that which the basic design requires in that particular point of the object: union or disjunction, tension or lightness, friction, solidity, fragility (…). Details,… Read More >
A Busy Time
It’s currently a very busy period in the development of standards and regulations. In previous columns I’ve mentioned the proposed revision of the UK’s Furniture & Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations,… Read More >
Women in Lighting: Light as a Material
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise… Read More >
Women in Lighting: See the Light, Feel the Light
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” Sometimes I wonder how many people are engaged in the process of designing a space and… Read More >