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What is the big idea?
Meet the man pioneering sustainable neighbourhoods and dreaming up planet-friendly utopian cityscapes. Can his company, URB, break new ground?
Clean sweep
After revolutionising waste management in the UAE, Beeah has set a new standard for sustainability with one of Zaha Hadid’s final builds – an undulating, solar-powered, AI-controlled base in Sharjah.
What’s The Big Idea?
We profile some of the brightest founders and firms that have identified new markets and revenue streams. Plus, how to build a charming co-working space, the perfect office chair and more.
Back to nature
A former motor lodge in the Catskill Mountains has been transformed into a rustic roadside retreat.
Light touch
An architect’s plush and playful early modernist home in the Belgian town of Lier received a gentle polish from its new owners.
Silver Surfing
The long legacy of Georg Jensen’s silverware is kept safe in a secret archive to inspire today’s artists.
Down to the letter
Font foundry Sharp Type scours everything from libraries to cemeteries in its mission to create one typeface to rule them all.
Tests of time
Architecture is about more than simply ushering ideas from sketch to skyscraper. It can play a critical role in solving global issues.
How Studio Modijefsky is reinterpreting Amsterdam’s brown cafés for a new era
Interior-architecture firm Studio Modijefsky is looking to the Dutch capital’s past to inspire its forward-thinking designs.
Turning over a new leaf
The duo behind a beloved Berlin bolthole has built a beautiful new restaurant with rooms in an enchanting forest in eastern Germany.
