Frame

Frame is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the design of interiors and products. It offers a stunning, global selection of shops, hospitality venues, workplaces, exhibitions and residences on more than 224 pages. Well-written articles accompanied by a wealth of high-quality photographs, sketches and drawings make the magazine an indispensable source of inspiration for designers as well as for all those involved in other creative disciplines.

Frame

STORE-FRONT(IER)S

JERU SALEM • While exploring Jerusalem Design Week, Dan Handel entered the ‘unknown’ and came out both inspired and full of further questions.

VIENNA • The classical home of Mozart and Strauss, Austria’s most populous city has a more experimental side, too. Gili Merin explores how Magazin gallery is changing the architectural narrative.

BOD • The complexity of wood’s sustainability status. Will generative design replace creatives? Why young people should participate in the building process. What wearables mean for workplace wellbeing.

1 Our appetite for wood is insatiable. What if it isn’t infinitely available?

2 With the rise of generative design, do we still need architects?

3 How young people can inform the built environment

4 Can wearables help us design healthy workplaces?

IN PRACTICE • Burr Studio on not doing the same thing twice. Tatiana Bilbao on how spatial design can tackle some of the world’s big issues. Oio on working with bots to augment the creative process.

INTRODUCING • Madrid-based experimental architecture practice Burr Studio advocates for an alternative, collective approach to spatial design. With the 2008 financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic as the background of their emerging careers, the four leaders develop spaces highly attuned to modern issues.

tatiana bilbao • Spatial design plays a significant role in some of the world’s big issues, believes Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao. By constantly questioning everything, she and her team tackle topics like inequality and discrimination to arrive at spaces that aim to help people thrive instead of merely survive, regardless of their social demographic.

OiO • Born during the pandemic and distributed across Europe, Oio epitomizes its goal: to find a new model of what a design company should be. The Italian founders head what they call a ‘hybrid team of humans and machines’ to turn emerging technologies into approachable, everyday and sustainable realities.

THE NEXT SPACE • Dissecting key lessons from our think-tank The Next Space, this white paper discusses the role of spatial design in building future-proof residential habitats that are resilient to change – responding dynamically to shifts in lifestyles, life stages and life transitions.

Advancing the adaptive home

FLUID HABITATS establishing elastic abodes • Fluidity and adaptivity have become cornerstones of conversation in the spatial-design industry. But how do these concepts relate to – and have the potential to improve – residential design?

CLIMATE PLIANT PLANNING giving rise to responsible residences • The built environment – our living spaces included – generates nearly 50 per cent of annual global CO2 emissions. How can spatial design help us realize a more self-sufficient, climate-adaptive and (ultimately) energy-positive housing stock?

SOCIAL SYSTEMS building sharing and caring communities • Age, income and health: all variables that affect our living requirements. How can we shape residential environments that are inclusive and sensitive to everyone?

SPACES • Why dining spaces are borrowing the sun’s cycles. Climate exhibitions set new directions for sustainability. Fake nature grows in stores. Healthcare takes cues from the hospitality sector.

SOLAR POWER • In each issue we identify a...