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Andrew Wallace has created a sleek, modern Indian restaurant where the food takes centre stage.<br>  17 Jan 2005
by Anna Chambers

THE Khan Saab Indian restaurant in Manchester’s Didsbury by Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers is a modern and minimalist place to enjoy a curry. Passers-by get a full view of the restaurant, with its long, narrow interior with curved...

Wireless technology has started to take off in the UK. At present, this means freedom from cables and the ability to access the internet while on the move, but in the near future, it could be the key to many exciting new developments.  17 Jan 2005
by Anna Chambers

Imagine the day when you can turn on the heating in your home while sitting in your office, have several home computers that can access the internet and share files without being connected either to each other or to a phone line, listen to music...

LDN has completed phase one of the redevelopment of Parliament House in Edinburgh. The lush palette of materials in the judges’ library and chambers creates a perfect place for relaxation and contemplation.  17 Jan 2005
by Penny Lewis

LDN Architects has been working on plans for the £133.6million 15-year redevelopment scheme for Parliament House, the home of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, since 1999. The Scottish Court Service (SCS) owns a city block in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old...

Ben Dawson created the impressive bespoke furniture for the debating chamber and MSPs offices of Scotland\'s new parliament.  17 Jan 2005
by Penny Lewis

Ben Dawson has been making furniture for 21 years. His business has grown from two men in a garage to a highly professional operation with 30 staff, including five trained furniture and industrial designers, located in a roomy factory in Musselburgh.
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The new Genzyme Center in Massachusetts was designed not only to be green, but <br>to keep its occupants happy with daylight, air and greenery.  17 Jan 2005
by Noel Young

Perhaps the folks at Scottish Enterprise knew about the American success of the Channel 4 property programme, Location, Location, Location. Perhaps they didn’t. Whatever, they certainly chose - in architectural terms - a killer-diller location for a...

<br>Manchester’s Free Trade Hall is a building whose past incarnations include a venue for public meetings and political speeches and a concert hall. Now architect Stephenson Bell has transformed it into a luxury hotel.  17 Jan 2005
by Anna Chambers

The dulcet tones of Ella Fitzgerald, the music of Louis Armstrong and the Sex Pistols, the tales of Charles Dickens and the political speeches of Gladstone and Churchill have all resonated within the spaces of Manchester’s much-loved Free Trade Hall....

If you like the Trossachs, cooking and good food, Nick Nairn’s redeveloped cookery school is for you. There’s the added bonus that it has been carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of ‘rural twee’ or ‘celebrity cook glam’.  17 Jan 2005
by Penny Lewis

The Nick Nairn Cook School is located near Port of Menteith, a small lochside village just south of Aberfoyle. It is run for people that love food and appreciate good quality ingredients. At present lessons last a day and students get a chance to eat as...

Ralph Capper has a habit of appearing wherever the action is. He has been in the furniture business for three decades, has a ‘good eye’ for spotting talented designers and he understands the value of good design.  17 Jan 2005
by Phil Griffin

In the mid 1960s Ralph Capper worked for Leslie and Rosamind Julius who ran the famous Hille contract furniture showrooms in Albermarle Street, Mayfair. Thus, for a while, Ralph got to share a front door with Brian Epstein, the troubled and trendy...