The latest fads from FADD Studio
The partners of FADD Studio, Farah Ahmed and Dhaval Shellugar met while working at Khosla Associates and recognised their skills, outlooks and expertise would complement each other’s. Farah has an internati...
Desert Flower
Fobe House is located 10 kilometres south of Marrakech, Morocco. Here, in the harsh desert landscape of flat planes, this white horizontal bungalow recalls the traditional Mediterranean whitewashe...
Contemporary country
As a rule of thumb, if you can reach somewhere in London using the tube then, while it will probably be full of urban character and infused with city cool, it is unlikely to require wellington boots or an O...
ClerkenWell designed
Now in its fourth year, Clerkenwell Design Week is bigger and better than ever and is stamping itself into the annual calendar as a major international festival of design. Clerkenwell is purported to have E...
A new riff
“I love custom-made bikes, I love dark stuff and if I could purple-velvet everything I probably would.” So proclaims Massimo Buster Minale – founder of furniture and lighting brand Buster+ Punch. He is one ...
ME London – From Building to Bathtub
“WE work from the scale of the city down to the detail of a door handle.” So reads one of the strap lines on the homepage of Foster+Partners’ website. As I discovered when, aged 22, I took my first pr...
Can architecture heal? Glass visits the newly opened Centre for Cancer and Recovery in Copenhagen
We generally accept that our physical surroundings impact our moods and feelings, but the question as to what effect they have on our physical health is less well-explored. It is commonly accepted that body and...
(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang
According to Philip Tinari, a leading curator of art and architecture in China, Yung Ho Chang can be referred to as “a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture“. This epithet refers to the historical sign...
Old fashion
Call me old-fashioned, but Midcentury Modern is my favourite date in the London Design calendar. Held at Dulwich College in South London, the fair celebrates classic and future classics in furniture and items...
Artists design
When The Sculpture House first approached me to write about their work, I didn't hesitate in my decision to meet them. Their beautiful website, launched just three weeks ago, shows an immaculately curated ...
Beauty = Detail. Glass visits Denmark’s Det Glade Vanvid restaurant with its architect Sofie Ladefoged
Tucked away on the harbour of Aarhus, side by side with semi-industrial buildings and next to a fishmonger, the black painted timber-clad shed seems rather inconspicuous, anonymous even. Only its brass signage ...
Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed o...
Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed...
East meets West London
Tucked away behind London’s Bayswater station, La Suite West hotel is housed in one of those buildings conjured up in the mind of Americans when they imagine our fair city. On a quiet street of enormous tow...
Passion for purity
“White is the most wonderful colour because within it you can see all the colours of the rainbow … The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changi...
I get by with a little help from my friends
Possibly the best piece of advice ever given is, “You don’t need to know everything. You just need to know where to find it out”. Collaborative working is the new bread-and-butter for designers; in a climat...
The new Noah’s Ark
Since the dawn of civilisation, capturing animals has been a common practice. At first, human beings were motivated by pure basic instinct – the need to survive – seeking food and protection. Subsequently c...
Eastern promise
Face it – Christmas shopping is a nightmare and here at Glass, we’re no better at it than anyone else. Over the last few weeks, we have ventured out into the freezing London weather with the very best of i...
Budget boutique
A couple of years ago, an architect friend of mine applied to be on the Apprentice UK. He got down to the last 20 shortlisted before being sent home at the final hurdle – his “business plan”. When he outlin...
InHOTim
When I was a child – and, indeed, until the day that my grandparents sold their home – nothing would make me happier than spending time in my grandparents’ garden. The garden, which to this day still forms ...
Without qualities – the space of Rem Koolhaas
When I proposed to talk about space instead of architecture, Rem Koolhaas appeared dubious – he said, “It’s difficult. Space has been the most important mystification of the Modern Movement. It is a colossal al...