Sustainability

Specify for year ten rather than day one, and a surprising number of the materials that photograph worst on handover day turn out to be the right choice.

Fourteen rooms, sixteen weeks, a fixed reopening date and a building four hundred yards from salt water. The constraints wrote most of the design.

After a decade of gray and greige, the palette has moved toward complex, slightly muddy colors with real pigment in them. Here is how to use one without repainting in a year.

We have taken a second unit for a samples and prototyping workshop, brought two people into the technical team, and opened our detailing seminar to the public.