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Slow Design Is Killing the Flat Pack Refresh Cycle
Handmade ceramics, woven blinds and vintage frames are displacing furniture bought to last three years. Designers say the grey rental box interior is finally over.
Aug 4, 2026
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Designing for 45C: What Gulf Architecture Knew Before Air Conditioning
Thick walls, small openings, shaded courtyards and wind towers were not decorative. They were a cooling system, and a glass tower in the desert is a decision to pay for that work with electricity instead.
Aug 7, 2026
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Designing From an Archive Is Harder Than Designing From a Mood Board
A twenty-three piece collection drawn from research into the Barbican's original interiors arrives this month. Working from a real archive imposes constraints that a reference image never does.
Aug 17, 2026
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Designers Went From Trying AI to Using It Every Week
Weekly use jumped from just over half of designers to nine in ten in a single year. The number that has not moved is the one everyone expected to: almost nobody is hiring fewer designers.
Aug 16, 2026
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One Colour Authority Named a White for 2026, the Other Named Three Blues, and Designers Are Selling Brown
Pantone chose Cloud Dancer. Dulux broke its own format and chose a family of blues. Meanwhile the survey of what interior designers say clients actually request puts chocolate brown and maximalism at the top. Three answers, one year.
Aug 22, 2026
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The 400 Metre Cube Is Paused, Its Deadline Has Moved to 2040, and Its Chief Executive Has Gone
New Murabba has replaced Michael Dyke with a Public Investment Fund executive who is already running another developer. Work on the Mukaab is suspended, the district around it continues, and the completion date has slipped by a decade.
Aug 29, 2026
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90,300 Empty Offices Are Becoming Flats, Which Is Four Times the 2022 Number and Still the Hard Way to Build
Office to apartment conversions rose 28 per cent this year and now make up nearly half of all planned adaptive reuse in the United States. The pipeline is real. So are the reasons most office buildings cannot be converted at all.
Aug 22, 2026
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Cement Is Around Seven Per Cent of Global Emissions and the Most Promising Fix Needs No New Factory
LC3 replaces part of the clinker in cement with calcined clay and limestone, cutting emissions by up to forty per cent. Around thirty five plants were producing calcined clay for cement by 2026, with more building.
Aug 20, 2026
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The Greenest Building Is Usually the One Already Standing, and the Arithmetic Is Not Close
Building a new home of the same size can produce up to thirteen times the embodied carbon of refurbishing the old one. That number has started appearing in planning decisions, which is how a technical argument becomes a policy.
Aug 18, 2026
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The Bench With the Extra Armrest Is Not Being Thoughtful About Your Posture
Sloped ledges, studded window sills, armrests in the middle of a bench, blue lighting in a toilet. Defensive design is usually described as deterring antisocial behaviour, and it works by making a place slightly worse for everybody.
Sep 2, 2026
