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Does design hold the answer to later-life loneliness?

It may not be an infectious disease, but loneliness is an epidemic that has significant consequences for health and disproportionately affects older people. Eugene Marchese, founder and CEO of Guild Living, believes that residential designs appropriate for later life could be the remedy.

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How developers can bring wellbeing concepts to the housing market

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Between beauty and the sublime: Water After All

Between beauty and the sublime: Water After All

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Coronavirus and the City

Coronavirus and the City

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A Planet to Win reveals some inconvenient truths about environmental politics

A Planet to Win reveals some inconvenient truths about environmental politics

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Architects declared, when will designers?

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How architects have allowed internment camps to fester

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18.03.20

The quiet life must be heard

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17.03.20

Theaster Gates’ Amalgam rediscovers a lost black utopia

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Andy Warhol shaped how we perceive the visual world

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09.03.20

We need to treat data as a building material

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06.03.20

Formafantasma’s century-spanning exhibition Cambio takes a holistic view of wood exploitation

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04.03.20

Freestyle and Forms of Industry: two new exhibitions open at RIBA

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Public Practice: It’s time for nationwide action on planning, not just high-level ambition

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BTS at the Serpentine: Art meets K-Pop in Connect, BTS

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Cars: Accelerating the Modern World is a serious crowd pleaser

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How the design of a building can help patients heal

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16.12.19

What went wrong with Covent Garden?

Opinion
09.12.19

Branded Protest: How protest movements create sophisticated visual identities

Opinion
05.12.19

What big tech and digital designers can learn from analogue and retro design

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03.12.19

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The women bringing contemporary design to Lake Como Design Festival

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Antao Earth from Villeroy & Boch: Where material and finish become the key design principles

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Panter&Tourron unveils cosmic-themed window displays for Hermès

The art of Italian living: Marelli arrives in Shoreditch

The women bringing contemporary design to Lake Como Design Festival

‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden

ICON 220 : Autumn/Winter 2026

HIMACS Terrazzo Designs Receive Red Dot Design Award 2026

Wood for the Trees: AHEC brings an exploration of forests to Shoreditch Design Week