Articles by Rima Sabina Aouf

Stackable Playscapes system transforms empty lots into playgrounds

January 17, 2018 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Two Jordanian architects have devised a modular, easy-to-assemble system of street furniture to bring ad-hoc playgrounds to cities, refugee camps and other environments lacking in public space. Sarah Abdul Majid and Sandra Hiari designed the Playscapes system for use in their own hometown of Amman, where public parks are scarce. The system is made up of

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Glowing polycarbonate “lighthouse” designed to rejuvenate industrial stretch of River Thames

August 15, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

London-based studios DK-CM and The Decorators created this pop-up polycarbonate events space to test the waters for long-term cultural programming in the Thames-side town of Erith. The pavilion is located on the waterfront of Erith, a town on the outskirts of Greater London in the borough of Bexley. Made of pink and blue polycarbonate, the Erith Lighthouse

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Glowing polycarbonate “lighthouse” designed to rejuvenate industrial stretch of River Thames

August 15, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

London-based studios DK-CM and The Decorators created this pop-up polycarbonate events space to test the waters for long-term cultural programming in the Thames-side town of Erith. The pavilion is located on the waterfront of Erith, a town on the outskirts of Greater London in the borough of Bexley. Made of pink and blue polycarbonate, the Erith Lighthouse

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Apple Park employees revolt over having to work in open-plan offices

August 10, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Some Apple workers hate the open-plan layout of their new Foster + Partners-designed campus so much they might quit, according to reports circulating around Silicon Valley. A $5 billion (£3.8 billion) development eight years in the making, the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California began welcoming the tech giant’s employees in April. The remaining employees

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UK government calls for industry input on post-Brexit immigration system

August 4, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Design bodies are consulting their members on what the UK’s immigration policy should look like post-Brexit, after the government invited business sectors to submit their views on the subject. Home secretary Amber Rudd announced at the end of last week that she was tasking the Migration Advisory Committee with gathering evidence on the impacts of

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Grenfell Tower fire triggers emergency safety review across UK’s 4,000 high-rises

June 16, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The UK government has launched an emergency review of the country’s high-rise apartments following the Grenfell Tower fire, with cabinet minister Sajid Javid saying residents of similar buildings could be rehoused for their safety. The communities and local government secretary Sajid Javid told the BBC Breakfast programme this morning that an emergency fire safety review

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UK election result should spell end for hard Brexit, says Creative Industries Federation

June 9, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The UK has woken up to news of a hung parliament, prompting the Creative Industries Federation to say there is no mandate for a hard Brexit. Theresa May’s Conservative Party lost seats in yesterday’s general election, falling short of an overall majority in parliament. May had called the snap election in April on the grounds

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Nendo looks to ancient Japanese tombs for first landscape architecture project

June 8, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has now moved into urban design, unveiling its massive CoFuFun plaza near Kyoto. The plaza – located outside of Tenri Station in Japan’s Nara prefecture – is the studio’s largest architecture project after its renovation of the Siam Discovery shopping centre in Bangkok last year. It is also Nendo’s first

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“Designed in California” is the new “made in Italy” according to Design Museum exhibition

May 24, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Skateboards, Snapchat Spectacles, an early Gay Pride flag and a self-driving car sit side by side in a new Design Museum exhibition that explores how California has become the new centre of the design industry. Called California: Designing Freedom, the exhibition documents the American west-coast counterculture movements of the 1960s, and looks at how they fed into today’s

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Ministry of Design creates robot training facility lined with metal and tube lights

May 10, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architects Ministry of Design created this faceted robotics lab in Singapore to train and inspire engineers working with new automation technologies. Aluminium rods and tube lights stick out from the walls and ceiling at divergent angles inside the lab, which is used by robotics education group RACE and located within an industrial park in the

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