• Design news: solar power to go, graphic rewilding and virtual meetings

    Design news: solar power to go, graphic rewilding and virtual meetings
    The history of the London flat, the woman reshaping Nigeria and meeting podsThis month’s design news looks at buildings in Africa and London and investigates how architects shape our cities. It also offers ways of getting away from it all with green energy on the go and 3D meeting pods that put Zoom to shame. Continue reading...
  • ‘Impactful and beautiful’: how US homeless shelters are getting a radical redesign

    ‘Impactful and beautiful’: how US homeless shelters are getting a radical redesign
    New approach focuses on how physical environment shapes people’s lives, harnessing the therapeutic power of designTell us: have you struggled with the US housing crisis?When a former resident of the Path Home Family Village in Portland, Oregon, called and asked if he and his partner could get married at the shelter, Brandi Tuck, the executive director, knew that the shelter’s redesign had truly worked.“Homelessness is the hardest, most power-stripping experience a family can ha

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