Tag: Oliver Wainwright
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Sweatbox heaven: welcome to the sauna and steam of your dreams
From steamrooms suspended under remote Czech bridges to the Swedish robot sauna straight out of Star Wars, the spa experience is getting a guerilla makeover
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New Old review – everything you need for a techno-utopian retirement
Design Museum, LondonFrom next-gen mobility scooters to bloodstream nanobots, this pop-up exhibition explores how technology can better help an ageing population
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Fear and Love review – Grindr and a Brexit living room light up Design Museum launch show
Design Museum, LondonFrom the shocking secrets of dating apps to 3D death masks and the meet’n’greet robot, this is a fun ramble through the zeitgeist (but don’t worry, there are still floor lamps)
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A gilded fantasyland? How Trump might furnish the White House
Washington DC beware – the extravagant Trumps will be the next first family to put their identity on the president’s residence
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Design Museum review – temple to design gets the space it deserves at last
Kensington High Street, LondonThe museum can now show its permanent collection – but John Pawson’s blonde wood conversion of an imperial relic could have been so much more exciting
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From lightning suits to algae-munching drones: how design is electrifying Dubai
The splashy projects by Zaha and Foster are back in business – and in the new design microcity, the world’s greatest graduate show is showcasing inventions by the best brains from 30 different countries