This podcast episode with Hill House Interiors shares the company's perspectives on the deeper implications of Covid-19. The founders, Jenny Weiss and Helen Bygraves discuss the origins of their practice and how they adapted it to respond to life during the Covid-19 pandemic. They share their insights on what the dramatic shift in daily lifestyles will mean for interior design in the longer term, and how clients changing needs may impact the design of homes in the future.
For over twenty years Hill House Interiors have been a leading force in the luxury interior design industry, establishing a flourishing multi-award-winning design practice, which has become one of the most recognised in the UK and globally today.
The CPD panel discussion in collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects explores how the post-pandemic environment has forced us to reconsider our understanding of the traditional definitions of living, working and leisure. The series intends to examine specific typologies, the conflation of boundaries, the emergence of new definitions of interior space and the consequential impact on the people who commission, design and use them.
This part of the series focuses on the hospitality and travel industries which have faced considerable challenges during the pandemic. The limited mobility and opportunities for interaction between people during this period have meant that demand has waned. On the other hand, continual restrictions has created a pent-up need to escape and to bolster one’s well-being.
Guest speakers, Kar-Hwa Ho, Head of Interior Architecture at Zaha Hadid Architects; Douglas Grieco, Senior Director of Architecture and Design at Hilton Hotels; and Mari Balestrazzi, Director of Operations for Environments at Airbnb address how hospitality as an industry foresees a fundamental change in the services that it is expected to provide, and how design can evolve to navigate these restrictions, while satisfying the needs of current lifestyles.
This part of the series focuses on the evolution of retail design. One of the fall-outs of the pandemic is undoubtedly the retail sector. The lack of access to physical spaces forced the retail industry to find new and inventive ways to communicate and distribute their goods and services in the digital landscape.
Guest speakers, Kar-Hwa Ho, Head of Interior Architecture at Zaha Hadid Architects; Sylvie Freund Pickavance, Strategy and Business Development Director at Valueretail; David McNulty, Head of Architecture at ICICLE Fashion Group discuss how evolving consumer attitudes and behaviours impact the design, use and significance of retail environments.
This part of the series focuses on adapting workspaces for the modern world. With the two areas most affected by the pandemic being the concept of ‘work’ and ‘home’, our lifestyles significantly altered and their traditionally segregated contexts were challenged while the demand for a hybrid working and living space evolved.
Guest speakers, Arjun Kaicker, Co-Head of Zaha Hadid Architects Analytics & Insights; Juergen Junker, Head of A&D Development for Vitra; and Bidisha Sinha, Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects address how workplace boundaries have blurred and what the future might hold for office environments of the future.
In this CPD session by Roca will look at practical steps that architects and designers can take to reduce a hotel’s environmental impact, whilst ensuring that levels of guest satisfaction are not compromised and balancing cost benefits for the hotel owners.
Roca has 100+ years experience manufacturing bathroom products and staying true to their core values of design, quality, innovation and sustainability.
How can nature-inspired design foster office occupant wellness? What are the key interventions that can capitalise on the return on investment in an office refurbishment?
These were some of the questions addressed in the launch event for BRE’s Biophilic Office, a world leading research project to gather the evidence for the impacts on people and business of nature-inspired design and technology.
Hear from an array of speakers for CPD led sessions, workshops, case studies and presentations on biophilic design for wellbeing and the latest research, including keynotes from Oliver Health and the Eden Project, with option to attend interactive site tours of the innovation park at BRE Watford and Biophilic Self Tour of London.
The CPD seminar by Polyflor will provide an overview of dementia and the key considerations that have to be made when looking at the specification of flooring in a dementia-led facility, dealing with the general issues relating to dementia-friendly floorcoverings.
As dementia has regular exposure in the news across the world, this puts an emphasis on designing interiors that are inclusive, future proofed and dementia-friendly. Flooring manufacturers have a duty to be open and transparent about which of their products are felt to be more suitable than others and can promote less anxiety and stress for those living with dementia in a designed space.
This boo kis a highly illustrative guide which explores how the design of interiors can impact wellbeing, enabling interior designers to understand how specific decisions about sustainable design and materials can be implemented.
Twenty First Century Cotswolds Volume II is the second book from award-winning interior designer and spatial planner Pippa Paton in which the doors are opened on a variety of extraordinary homes.
The publication 'INTERIOR DESIGN in Ukraine' covers almost 30 companies and 50+ projects commissioned in 2019-20. The book includes commercial interiors from restaurants and stores to offices, co-working spaces and other public facilities.
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