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The coronavirus pandemic will not kill the office, but we will see some striking changes when we return to work, says Helen Berresford, head of Sheppard Robson’s interiors studio. Post-pandemic offices will be reduced to 20 per cent occupancy, shared spaces will have to be rethought and a “pandemic mode” may be introduced to some workspaces, […] More
US architecture firm MASS Design Group has suggested that restaurants add barriers, remove bar seating and seek local produce sources to curtail the spread of infection and allow patrons to safely eat out following the coronavirus lockdown. The studio’s research, called Spatial Strategies for Restaurants in Response to Covid-19, comprises diagrams and case studies that detail […] More
London’s Museum of the Home has launched a UK-wide project that calls for members of the public to submit photos and personal accounts of their living experience during the coronavirus pandemic. Stay Home invites people to share up to five images of their lockdown living quarters, and asks them to answer seven questions about how […] More
Coronavirus will lead to a rise in escapist restaurant interiors, while physical menus, cash payments and buffets will largely be abandoned, according to a trends report by Dubai-based studio Roar. Roar, which is led by Pallavi Dean, worked with 170 industry professionals, as well as a focus group of nine experts, to predict ways that the Covid-19 […] More
[embedded content] In the most exotic VDF video message we received, interior designer Natalie Papageorgiadis explains how she found herself stranded in the Maldives as the world went into lockdown due to coronavirus. Papageorgiadis is the founder of London-based interior design studio Studio Natalie and appears in the video with its managing director Stuart Trevor […] More
The coronavirus crisis means we’re spending more time indoors than ever before, so Dezeen’s Natasha Levy has selected 10 films with stand-out interiors that can offer some escape from your own four walls. [embedded content] The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 The snowy mountaintops of a fictitious country in Eastern European is the backdrop for The […] More
Netflix has made all eight episodes of its documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design, which features set designer Es Devlin, architect Bjarke Ingels and interior designer Ilse Crawford, available to watch for free during coronavirus lockdown. Streaming company Netflix has made season one of its design series available on Youtube as part of an […] More
Daily coronavirus briefing: today’s architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes hacks for hands-free door opening, the Serpentine Pavilion postponement and the widths of New York’s sidewalks. Widths of New York’s sidewalks mapped to demonstrate difficulty of social distancing Urban planner Meli Harvey has created an interactive map (shown above) that tells users the widths of all of New […] More
