Stories
Design Line: 10 - 16 February
We all know the world is a complex place and this week’s Design Line sees everyone, from governments and funding bodies to art collectives and AI, grappling with how to navigate this complexity – some, we feel, are doing a far better job than others.
Terms of Address
ProxyAddress creator Chris Hildrey on designing a system to redistribute postal addresses to help people experiencing homelessness.
Well ‘Eeled
An adaptive reuse project from architecture and design practice EBBA has turned a London eel pie shop into a Cubitts store.
A Home Is Not Always A House
For Design Reviewed #1, Matthew Turner finds a home away from home on the Elizabeth line train, with its carriage interiors designed by Map Project Office.
This Is Not a Rhinoceros
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg lets her AI rhino loose in London’s Natural History Museum, prompting philosophical questions about extinction and complicity.
Architecture in Miniature
Disegno explores Supermodels, an exhibition from Piercy&Company that highlights the pleasures of architectural model making.
Everybody Come
Yinka Ilori takes Georgina Johnson of a tour of his new Sam Jacob-designed London studio and unpacks his colourful community-minded philosophy.
The Design Line: 25 June - 1 July
Pinch punch, first of the month, it’s Design Line, with the Design Parade winners, senior leadership on the move at The Met, and drama in Ghana over David Adjaye’s landmark project.
The Biodegradable Aphrodite
Fresh lipstick and fat bacteria; Oli Stratford tours the studio of Shellworks, an experimental company making biodegradable beauty packaging.
The Design Line: 16 - 22 April
This week on Design Line, the Playdate gaming console launches, a London landmark temporarily escapes demolition, and Netflix has a rocky first quarter.
Divine Inspiration
Designer Max Lamb shares a series of objects made from Portland limestone and reclaimed wood, created for a modernist church in London.
Phyllida Barlow to install sculpture in Highgate Cemetery
Act will be installed in Highgate’s West Cemetery and explore ideas of memorialisation and Victorian society’s relationship to death.
Counterspace’s 2021 Serpentine Pavilion opens in Hyde Park
Counterspace’s 2021 pavilion has opened in Hyde Park, formed from architectural elements sampled from around the city.
Antepavilion announces two winners
Proposals by Nima Sardar of studioN, and Morgan Trowland and Julian Maynard Smith, will both be constructed for the fifth edition of London's annual pavilion competition.