Read Mix Interiors issue #225

Dear Mix readers,

If there is a through-thread in this issue of Mix, it’s change, in its myriad forms. It’s a subject our interviewees are both experts in. For Zaha Hadid Architect’s Kar-Hwa Ho, design should always be reflection of society as it is today, which is why it must be adaptable and purposeful. For Charlie North, navigating change is a more immediate preoccupation – leading the newly rebranded design studio from Ennismore, now AIME.

In a first, we’ve taken a destination-centric approach to the bulk of our case studies this issue too. We look to the island of Ireland, a place defined by change; sometimes rapid and seismic, sometimes slow but meaningful. The projects we’ve explored all grapple with change in some capacity, be they workplaces devised for a different time and different expectations, or a university hub in my own native city of Belfast, that aims to reimagine the student experience for the better. Separately, Citizens Design Bureau’s Katy Marks posits radical change is needed in how we consider housing, in our regular Positive Impact feature.

There’s lots more besides, but one of the great joys of change is, of course, sometimes to be found in the unexpected.

Enjoy,

Harry McKinley
Managing Editor
Mix Interiors

For this issue’s cover design, the Gensler team has launched Brunner’s Crona Steel stacking chair into the air, causing its slats and frames to entangle and bisect. The resulting composition gestures to ‘M’ ‘I’ ‘X’ without being explicit, allowing the geometry of the furniture to speak for itself.

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