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The Edit
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NESTT by H2R and Nakkash Design Studio Casts the Basin at Two Heights
NESTT, the 11,000 square foot café and children’s play destination at Q East in Al Quoz, was designed by H2R Design with…
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Travel Special: September 2026
Fifteen properties across four continents, each one read through the single decision that made it. Hotels, resorts and restaurants, credited to the studios who shaped them.
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Hotels, restaurants and landmarks, chosen for their design and filed by the city they belong to.
Conversations
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An interview with
Selini Bishop
Founder, Chapters Marketing
In this interview, Selini talks about burning out in the first eight months, what changed in Dubai’s design industry between 2017 and 2022, the hire that let the business grow past her own capacity, how she learned to read a client before taking the work, and the one piece of advice she would give herself if she could start again.
Read the interview: An Interview With… Selini Bishop
Architecture
Dubai Design Week 2026 Is Asking How a Place Feels, and I Will Be There to Find Out
Casa Cardona Is Named After a Fruit That Lasts Two Months
At Casa Akina, the Structure Is Also the Finish
Wasl Tower Takes Its Angle From a Single Cladding Panel
Interiors
Ben Pentreath Designs Towns. The Award He Just Won Is for the Rooms
British Airways Runs One Herringbone Through All Four A380 Cabins
British Airways’ New Heathrow Lounges Keep a Detail From 1932
Camille Walala Paints an Entrance That Was Once the RIBA’s Front Door
2026 edition · 100 namesOne hundred people, studios and brands who have shaped this site
Not a popularity contest. No entry form and no vote: a record that grows every year and never resets.
Art & Culture
A Rum Fellow’s Elsewhere Was Woven in a Building Designed to Let People In
Concrete Bridge, Painted Sky: Inside the Brazilian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026
The US Pavilion Was Built by Artists, and Alma Allen Built His Own Tools
Miet Warlop Cast Her Vocabulary in Plaster for the Belgian Pavilion
Products & Objects
Read the Room
A book, and the room it explains.
One book a month on art, interiors and design, each paired with a real place we have written about. Read the book, then go and stand in the room.
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South Kensington’s cultural quarter from the V&A to Brompton Road — showrooms, mews studios and a Victorian chapel turned over each September.
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ICA Miami, the de la Cruz Collection’s second life next door, permanent public art and two parking garages worth the detour.
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