Some companies move office, some have a move thrust upon them. So it went in the case of Turkish fashion and TV company Vakko. Residing peacefully in a modernist edifice adorned with vernacular modern art, company kingpin and Turkish celeb Cem Hakko
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The glass office block is synonymous with corporate architecture. Its origins can be traced all the way back to the birth of modernism and reached its apex with Mies Van Der Rohe’s Seagram building in New York. Mies and his contemporaries are long
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Adaptive reuse is a term that has become a catchphrase of contemporary architecture. The warehouse apartments and shipping container refurbs of the last decade or two have paved the way for a whole new genre of innovative design. Heritage value is
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Yushi Uehara has a manifesto with three main statements: firstly that architecture should be a logical construction to materialise the experience of the user’s activities; secondly that shocking colours change little – to make an impact you need
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Kinetic Lab of Architecture, otherwise known as KLab, is taking its show on the road to London. After sailing through the economic annihilation in Greece with hardly a gap in the job books, the firm feels ready to tackle the UK market. It’s a
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Today I’m dining with Peter Murray, founder and chairman of New London Architecture (NLA) and director of the London Festival of Architecture. Peter trained as an architect before moving into publishing, originally with Architectural Design
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Conference room by Maurice Mentjens Dutch hotel Kasteel Vaeshartelt needed a boardroom for at least 14 people, and needed it fast. Design maven Maurice Mentjens was drafted in to rework an existing space overlooking a lovely park, but sadly it only
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Southend YMCA Eco-Hub A dilapidated Victorian stables in Westcliff-on-Sea has been refurbished and rebranded as an ‘eco-hub’ – a centre for fledgling businesses and disadvantaged entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35. Funded by
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