September/October 2025 REPORTER
009 Reporter This year, the FX Awards ceremony will be hosted by the brilliant impressionist Rory Bremner
010 Top Ten The best new products to come to market
013 Diary The pick of the events coming up over the next few months
014 One to Watch Founded in 2024, Shepherd& operates as an atelier
016 Profile At the end of his stint as RIBA president, Muyiwa Oki shares insights into his journey and the challenges faced
PROJECTS
021 Studio UNLTD / Pleasure Med, West Hollywood A cannabis complex draws inspiration from the ‘faded glory’ of Havana and colonial residences
022 Holloway Li / Branch, Park Terrace Hotel, New York A design studio makes its New York debut with a new members’ club
024 Stuart Melrose / Station Hill development, Reading Designer Stuart Melrose and artist Kev Munday have created a backlit mural that is part of a public realm art trail
026 Moser / On ofice, London On’s new London ofice offers diverse workspaces
027 Bit Creative / Stadler, Warsaw The HQ of a manufacturer of rail vehicles was designed with comfort central to the brief
030 Populous / Surrey County Cricket Club, London The club has unveiled expanded dressing room facilities at the Oval
FEATURES
032 Radical Thinking Area’s Andrew Denman-Davies talks about what inspired him to pursue a career in this sector
036 Brief Encounters The Belgian city of Leuven is celebrating its university’s 600th year with a festival of public art and poetry, as Veronica Simpson reports
047 LiGHT 25 Bigger and better than ever with an expanded format, LiGHT 25 is back…
048 FX Awards 2025 We reveal the finalists
Below The V&A East Storehouse ‘looks like a bland shed from the outside but inside is an Aladdin’s cave of creative inspiration and all of it accessible to anyone who wishes to drop in and explore’
CONTENTS
058 Ofice Design A journey through some of the major changes in ofice design
066 Arne Jacobsen A new book traces the career of the ‘total’ designer
076 V&A East Storehouse Diller, Scofidio & Renfro’s inspired and accessible retrofit
FOCUS
040 Lighting Two opinion pieces address the issue of creativity in lighting
050 Ofice Three designers give their views on whether post-pandemic hybrid working has changed ofice design
TECH SPEC
085 Light + Tech Jill Entwistle takes a look at the IALD Awards BACK PAGE
098 If Only… your hotel experience continued beyond your stay
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