March/April 2025
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Lighting design is the challenging focus in this issue. And while everyone agrees that it has always been influential, the bioluminescence pioneering movement has been conceived by the world’s best engineers, scientists and architects,
and backed by the Francis Crick Institute for biomedical discovery, and European governments, for energy-saving, money-saving and life-enhancing experimentation. To have living material that responds to touch is a considerable improvement from the OLEDs of yesteryear. We are indebted to Jill Entwistle for giving us a tour of the achievements and the brains behind them, with brilliant photography showing the beauty and depth of colour of living-light-source organisms. Continuing with the power of nature we have a great
feature on the regeneration of rural cultural landscapes from Dundee to Cornwall, where projects on revitalising tourism, museums and hospitality are big business for major and smaller practices alike in pockets of fields nationwide. Much of this is undertaken by practices that have relocated from London and other major cities to a corner of the country. And if that looks like it’s fun, try reading the feature on Difficult Sites. At the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the exhibition Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds presents 18 British projects that in different ways demonstrate the skill, ingenuity and creativity of architects in overcoming some of the most awkward and demanding conditions. It’s a great show, and eye-watering in the scale of obstacles to overcome. Crikey – whoever said that design is fluffy! See you next issue.
Theresa Dowling, editor
On the cover: Bioluminescent light sources offer
environmental advantages because they don’t require electrical power, minimise light pollution, and are self-replenishing under the right conditions. See Jill Entwistle’s report on p103
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