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.

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AGILE STATE OF MIND

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Mix and match • Atlas Concorde goes beyond simply offering a singular tile collection with its new modular range, Boost World.

Outdoor play • Nardi’s latest outdoor furniture collection features stools and tables that combine sustainable materials with innovative functional – and flexible – design.

ONES TO WATCH

TAKK • Transportability, ambiguity and fluidity are at the core of Takk’s smartly assembled, climate-responsive spaces and installations.

FRAGILE • One way to introduce more flexibility into architecture is to think in terms of systems, not stand-alone structures. Using modularity as the key to agility, Fragile is shaping spaces that adapt to present and future needs.

LUO • The choice of standardized components and easily accessible materials can not only reduce the costs and build time of (temporary) projects, but improve their potential for future uses, too. Luo Studio’s conscious constructions show just that.

‘A GREAT EXPERIENCE IS ONE WHERE PEOPLE FEEL THEY BELONG’ • How can the largest physical manifestations of retail – the mall and the high street – become more resilient to changing consumer behaviour? We invited two global leaders with different perspectives to explore this topic in a conversation over Zoom with FRAME editor in chief Robert Thiemann. Based in London, Lara Marrero is a principal and global retail practice area leader at Gensler. She’s a strategy director looking at the pace of forthcoming change in the context of user behaviour impact. As the head of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s concept studio, Düsseldorf-based Miguel Berraondo Egaña plans the Central European portfolio of the globally leading commercial real estate developer.

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PLANNING FOR CHANGE • When it comes to interior architecture, alterations are typically expensive and resource-consuming. And – as shown by the projects in this issue’s Look Book – they’re also unnecessary when designs anticipate change from the outset. Multifunctional, autonomous spaces that can constantly be rearranged and reprogrammed, free of designers and architects after completion, offer an opportunity to make unsustainable overhauls obsolete. Here we dissect eight design approaches that achieve embedded adaptability.

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INSIGHTS

How food retail can FLEX • From modular concepts to automated solutions, supermarkets and food retailers of all sizes are exploring agile, adaptable formats to optimize and future-proof the shopping experience.

CONNECTED FLEXIBILITY

ON GRID

ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY CENTRE

PLUG AND (RE)PLACE

Why an agile workplace is not just furniture on WHEELS • While a flexible office interior won’t produce a flexible mindset, spatial design can play a key role in amplifying a company’s agile ambitions.

FLUID FOLLIES

ALL-INCLUSIVE NEIGHBOURHOODS

ON TRACK(S) TO CHANGE

ROLLING FUNCTIONALITY

Can hybrid hospitality future-proof ADAPTIVE REUSE? • As adaptive reuse projects become the norm, designers must reckon with the prospect of preparing a building for multiple generations of purpose. Can hybrid hospitality venues provide a suitable foundation?

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