The most talked-about room in a restaurant is not always the one with the food. Sometimes it is the bathroom, where a short break from the table becomes the image that carries the venue beyond the ...

Frameweb This season, the fashion show’s relationship with public space became impossible to ignore – as spectacular scenography collided with community displacement, environmental pressure and a ...

Exhibitions take over this edition of Openings, with each project treating space as part of the work itself. Across the selection, light and spatial staging become ways to shift how visitors read the ...

Away from the exhibition rooms and optical displays, Kopa and Maora work with existing structures in different ways. One turns an industrial building into a sports centre, while the other uses ceramic ...

Frameweb High-end hospitality spaces are returning to architecture’s oldest instinct for new reasons. Rather than rising into the sky as symbols of status, they’re retreating into the earth, ...

Frameweb Despite a luxury market that’s largely contracting, fragrance is booming. The spaces being built around it now reflect exactly what makes it irreplaceable. In the early 2000s, th ...

Museums were originally built for the solitary visitor; a new generation of European institutions is designing for everyone else.

Scenographer Oli Colman designed the set for Ethel Cain’s global tour, Willoughby Tucker Forever. FRAME goes behind the scenes with him about the makin ...

Retail façades are becoming increasingly theatrical, using interaction to capture attention long before visitors step inside. The storefront is no longer treated as a passive display surface, but as ...

In the aftermath of design’s biggest industry event, editor in chief Floor Kuitert argues that big brands choosing spectacle over purpose are squandering more than budget.