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Meet Rena Dumas and RDAI, the design minds creating beautiful Hermès boutiques worldwide
The award-winning practice behind Hermès’s unique boutiques is harnessing craft and architecture to help brands bring their values to life in physical spaces.
Galician wood: Meet the manufacturer going against the grain to prop up a region
The Spanish wood-products company Finsa is breathing life into Galicia’s economy and sustaining its natural environment by dovetailing a behemoth operation with circular efficiency.
Forma follows function as Madrid’s first collectable design fair makes its debut
Forma Design Fair Madrid brings together international galleries and Spanish artisans, suggesting the city’s long-brewing design scene is finally ready for the spotlight.
Scales in comparison: Matter and Shape 2026’s theme spotlights industry giants and artisans alike
Matter and Shape returns to Paris with 76 exhibitors. The 2026 salon explores scale and how objects, from chairs to textiles, can have both personal and public impact.
That’s right! I’m getting a facelift. Parisians will be sorry
Renzo Piano is turning his hand to Paris's tallest building. Spare a thought for the Tour Montparnasse's struggles.
Three bold furniture studios making Palma a design outpost to watch
Whether you’re looking to fill an island home with beautiful designs or select some statement pieces to be shipped across sea, these three studios are the names you need to know.
Frank Darling, the mystery Canadian architect who designed Toronto
Frank Darling, the prolific architect of Edwardian Canada, designed hundreds of banks and grand buildings yet his indelible mark on the skyline is largely forgotten.
‘If you have the privilege, this is a way to survive.’ How two 1950s towers built community in São Paulo
Edifícios Locarno and Lugano, twin residential towers in Higienópolis in Brazil’s largest city, were designed by German architect Adolf Franz Heep in the 1950s. The modernist apartment blocks remain comfortable homes to this day.
Inside the Finnish Embassy in New Delhi: A landmark of Nordic architecture
Built 20 years after it was conceived, Finland’s embassy was well worth the wait. It's no wonder visitors linger to revel in the beauty of a building that’s part Indian ashram, part modernist masterpiece.
Revival or ruin? The controversial €65m makeover of Madrid’s Torres de Colón
Once a defining part of the Spanish capital’s skyline, the renovated Torres de Colón has lost much of its eccentric charm. A reminder that ‘architecture doesn’t have to appeal to everyone’.
