The integration of smart home technology is fast becoming the norm for households up and down the country. It’s now more important than ever for design professionals to understand smart home technology and the latest audio-visual developments to provide the service that is now fully expected by the client.

MVRDV and Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI) have completed Tianjin Binhai Library as part of a larger masterplan to provide a cultural district for the city.

Simon Williams’ quest for the perfect staircase to fit his newly-purchased five-bed family home began when he first discovered StairBox online back in the springtime of 2015.

Overlays and visual effects come together as a geometric puzzle in the latest GAN kilim collection, created by the Swedish design team Front.

Open spaces, large glass surfaces and demure forms, expressed by a minimal amount of colours, accessories or ornaments, have ruled for the past few years. The industrial look shows no signs of slowing down among designers.

Ash Bansal, Senior Designer and Project Manager at DV Architects – which carries out commercial design projects across the UK – comments on what trends he predicts will be popular in 2018.