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Norton, the revitalised British motorcycle maker, has teamed up with Foster + Partners to create a new retail concept in keeping with the brand’s renewed focus on modern British design. The manufacturer dates back to 1898 with a long association with events like the Isle of Man TT. Since 2020, it has been owned by Indian two-wheeler titan TVS Motor Company.

Those who entered Berlin in the West after 1979 passed a building that felt like an alien entity wedged between a stark, mid-1930s exhibition centre, a motorway, and a turn-of-the-century neighbourhood. The unusual structure was squat and elongated, with spiral staircases protruding like insect legs from its exoskeleton; it seemed frozen in a mechanical forward motion. Stil...

Hope Lodge. You’d be hard-pushed to imagine a greater name for a hotel that belongs to Europe’s largest conservation project – Wildland. The name was not dreamt up by a branding agency in a boardroom, though; it came with the land. Hope Lodge sits at the mouth of Loch Hope, into which the rain drains from Ben Hope, one of two almighty mountains that guard this last gasp of ...

Whatever else you might think about London-based high-tech garment makers Vollebak, you have to admit that they’re having fun. Founded by twin brothers (and designers) Nick and Steve Tidball, Vollebak bills its garments as ‘clothes from the future’. In practice this means coats, jackets, t-shirts and more woven with a blend of eccentric materials, from silver-plated wood pu...

A collection of pastel-coloured dresses in varying silk and brocade textures protrude from a mannequin fitted with bouncy blonde curls. The look is by third-year BA student Lulu Drawbaugh and is currently on display in the ground-floor gallery at MoMu, Fashion Museum Antwerp, as part of ‘Looks, Looks, Looks – The Antwerp Fashion Department at Work’. Curated and designed by ...