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A’ Design Awards Announces Winners for 2019-2020

May 7, 2020 Megan Schires 0

Everyone likes to win. And if design is your passion, what could be better than winning a design award? Out of the multitude of design competitions in the world, the international A’ Design Award is the largest, and now they’ve announced their winners of the 2019-2020 competition. Winners of this prestigious award must impress a jury panel of experts – 170+ press members, academics, and design professionals – in order to receive the A’ Design Prize. In addition to the prestige, recognition, and international publicity, laureates are presented with a trophy, annual yearbook, certificate, invitation to the gala night, inclusion in the winners’ exhibit, and more.

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MYO Workspace / SODA Studio

May 7, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

MYO is a new super flexible workspace from Landsec, designed by SODA Studio. Occupying 40,000 sqft of the blocky Brutalist 123 Victoria Street, the new workspaces offer an adaptable framework for tenants rather than a prescriptive layout, which has become commonplace in contemporary office design. SODA has responded to the cellular language of the exterior architecture and brought that to the internal fit-out of the central spaces.

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Oliver Chapman Architects combines technology and craft in Flitch House

May 7, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Flitch House by Oliver Chapman Architects

Oliver Chapman Architects has added a garden room to a house in Edinburgh, combining an Arts and Crafts approach with smart-home technologies. Flitch House is an extension to an end-of-terrace family home in Trinity, built in 1895 by prominent local architect Alexander Hunter Crawford. To respect the house’s architectural character, the extension is designed by Oliver

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C’entro is a fibreglass frame to help people social distance in public parks

May 7, 2020 India Block 0
C'entro by blengini Ghiradelli for coronavirus daily briefing

Design studio SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli has created a concept for social distancing within parks, plus today’s other design-related coronavirus news. C’entro is a modular frame made of colourful fibreglass rods that would snap together to form a circle on the ground for up to two people to sit inside. Spacers between each hoop would show people the

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Escapist restaurant interiors could be “lasting design legacy of the pandemic” says Roar trends report

May 7, 2020 Natashah Hitti 0

Coronavirus will lead to a rise in escapist restaurant interiors, while physical menus, cash payments and buffets will largely be abandoned, according to a trends report by Dubai-based studio Roar. Roar, which is led by Pallavi Dean, worked with 170 industry professionals, as well as a focus group of nine experts, to predict ways that the Covid-19

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