The House of Peroni returns to London
This coming Friday House of Peroni residency is returning to London for the month of May, during which it will celebrate Italian culture and style. The month-long season of festivities is a great opport...
Alexander McQueen show announced at V&A London
Alexander McQueen show announced at V&A London
London is the home of McQueen. It’s as simple as that, and though simple is a stretch for the Alexander McQueen vocabulary, it’s the savage beauty of the cory...
To dream the impossible dream
Spring is now here. And to set our springtime in motion, Glass decided that one of the best ways to shine an inspiring new light on a season in which we like to see creative forces banding together would be t...
Sensing spaces: architecture reimagined
Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is an exhibition showcasing seven different spaces from architects from around the world. The concept behind the exhibition is to see how people respon...
Waldorf Astoria opens in Beijing
Hilton Worldwide and Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts have announced the opening of Waldorf Astoria Beijing, the second Waldorf Astoria hotel in China.
The hotel offers 176 luxuriously appointed guest room...
Building images
Along with the abundance of design websites, where architectural companies can promote themselves, architectural photography has become increasingly important in recent years. The photo has come to define m...
Processing, sharing Abe
“This building is very strange. It is the kind of building that makes you wonder why it is this way. It is not good or bad, ”says Hitoshi Abe as soon as he enters his office in Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, ...
Considering the quake
If you are curious about what lies beneath the skin of contemporary buildings, you might want to pay the exhibition Considering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge a visit.
The two curators, Dr Effie B...
Going to the Source
Furniture company, The Source was established by the British designer Adam Collins at the start of 2012 with the aim of creating a small and exclusive collection of hand-crafted furniture designs, as well a...
(re)Viewing 100 Contemporary Architects
“An architecture book is read three times.” At least that’s what one of my professors used to say, while I was doing my undergraduate studies at the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico. Th...
Royal returns
Even among Scandinavian design classics we find changing fashions and fads. Pieces of furniture that have been forgotten will suddenly become the latest "new" discovery. A Classic situation!
Th...
A journey into LaLa Land
Maxime Jacquet’s introduction into the world of design is far from conventional yet his story is strangely familiar, like a classic storyline to a TV show or a film. It is the story of a boy growing up in t...
Many hands make light work
What do you get when you cross an engineer with an art director and a photographer? Oh, and some furniture designers and a few industrial engineers?
Haberdashery is the fruit of such a cocktail, a multi-...
La Belle Epoque
As we landed in Geneva, ready to make the one hour drive to the Du Parc Residences, we were grimly informed by the Captain to expect rain. This wasn't actually delivered until the following day, but mattere...
London’s hidden interiors
London Hidden Interiors is a thrill. The English Heritage book satiates a curiosity, instigates a hunt and strengthens a romance with London, my fair city.
I fancy a great deal of cities: Munich, my anch...
A Modern Geppetto
The trick to interviewing someone you’ve never met before is to do your research. Not only so that you become familiar with their work but also to see if you can find out anything about their personality t...
Reiko Kaneko’s Christmas range
piggin-out
Although it is not quite December yet, it seems impossible to ignore that Christmas is just around the corner. And this is the one time of the year where it is acceptable, if not even expected, t...
Architecture in time
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For philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin, “allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things”. In this formulation, ruins constitute the material expression of places that o...
Architecture in China – speed, change, movement and dynamism!
Speed! – By David Gianotten, partner in charge of OMA, Asia
Building fast has characterised the architectural scene of China since the country adopted a more open approach to the rest of the world in the l...
A chair in our times
The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford are surrounded by centuries of traditions and thus possess a very special historic allure, which does not only surround the actual buildings, but also the ...