The Conversation

How dedicated fragrance shops are making a little luxury feel much bigger
Despite a luxury market that’s largely contracting, fragrance is booming. The spaces being built around it now reflect exactly what makes it irreplaceable.

In Ausgabe 167/2026 von Frame

‘The is to memory while for challenge respect allowing reinvention’
Prague: a historic city protected by rigorous heritage laws and zoning regulations. Shenzhen: a rapidly expanding vision of the future. On the surface, the two locations could not feel more different in their approaches to demolition, (re)building and repurposing. But scratch deeper and you’ll find a shared drive to shape identity through spatial planning, and to create compelling, innovative urban environments. Built-world communications specialist LAUREN TEAGUE spoke to IVAN BOROŠ, partner at Prague-based Edit! Architects, and OLE SCHEEREN, founder and principal at global architecture practice Büro Ole Scheeren, about approaches to renovation, when it’s time to build anew, and what designers around the world can learn from these examples – as cities everywhere search for ways to evolve without erasing themselves.

How to keep born-digital architecture accessible, legible and meaningful
Born-digital files risk becoming the architectural equivalent of cassette tapes without a player: increasingly inaccessible as the software, hardware and skills required to read them fall out of circulation. What’s being done about it?

In Ausgabe 166/2026 von Frame

In Ausgabe 165/2026 von Frame

‘Hotels offer what workplaces often lack: community and care

FLEX FACTOR
Mara’s cross-sector evolution asserts that adaptability is the only way forward.

In Ausgabe 164/2025 von Frame