Tracey Ingram

Amsterdam

Writer at Freelance

Editor-at-Large at Frame

Managing editor at Frame Magazine

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Articles

‘We’ve become a living laboratory for disaster opportunism’

Jan 6, 2025 | shorturl.at | Tracey Ingram

As we navigate the complexities of the climate crisis, it’s essential to broaden our perspective and recognize the interconnectedness of our world. How can nations that have long struggled with the realities of climate change move from being living laboratories of disaster opportunism to living laboratories of climate optimism?
Form follows material availability at this Czech marketing agency’s renewed HQ

May 20, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

Kurz Architects was tasked with finding affordable and accessible sustainable materials for the renovation of Czech Promotion’s headquarters in Prague. Key featuresAlongside facilitating movement and communication, Kurz Architects’ goal when renewing Czech Promotion’s workspace was to create an eco-conscious interior while reflecting one of the marketing agency’s philosophies: ‘to design functional solutions that maximize the desired effect at the lowest possible cost’.
Out to prove your craft as a producer? Embed it in your interiors, like Von Köck in Vienna

May 15, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

Von Köck teamed up with Smartvoll for a renovation that showcases the luxury jeweller’s quality and expertise. Key featuresJust shy of its 30th anniversary at number 22 on Graben, a stretch in Vienna known for its glamourous stores and restaurants, local luxury jewellery brand Von Köck reveals its updated look, the result of a collaboration with architecture firm Smartvoll.
Roll up! Roll up! Centre Pompidou and MuMo (literally) bring the museum to new crowds

Mar 29, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

Borrowing travelling funfair tropes, Hérault Arnod and Krijn de Koning designed a colourful unfolding museum on wheels that brings culture to communities who need it. Key featuresIf the kids don’t come to the museum, bring the museum to the kids. That’s the mantra behind MuMo, which sends mobile museums around the world to meet children – particularly those with less access to culture – where they are: at schools, sports centres and in the hearts of their communities.
Wow Concept’s second Madrid store wasn’t designed as a store. Here’s why

Mar 28, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

Client Wow Concept Floor Area 3,850 sq-m Furniture Grupo Malasa, BRAND iC Lighting Luzco Flooring Porcelanosa, RCR Industrial Flooring Coating Mortex Tapping into explorable IRL retail as a counterpoint to online shopping, Culdesac designed an intuitive purchasing environment for Wow’s customers.
An invisible material is the key wellbeing ingredient in a Foster + Partners workplace

Mar 21, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

Going back to basics, Foster + Partners prioritizes natural light in its design of a wellbeing-oriented workspace in London’s Battersea Power Station redevelopment. Key featuresElectric Boulevard at the newly redeveloped Battersea Power Station is a pedestrianized high street that combines retail, homes, hospitality – and now, a workplace.
Can hospitality design help fine dining become fine(r) dining?

Mar 20, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

As the experience economy continues to thrive, attention spans reportedly are narrowing and climate consciousness is gaining urgency, innovative restaurants are rethinking the fine-dining experience. From shelter-in-place-induced home dining to the delivery craze spurred by the likes of Deliveroo and Uber Eats, the restaurant scene has experienced a few years of upheaval.
SelgasCano proves you can protect a home from sun while maximizing views

Mar 19, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

Fully embracing its Los Angeles site, a hillside home relies on a recycled-aluminium structure to simultaneously provide shade and frame the scenery. Key featuresFrom its hillside perch in Mount Washington, the southwest-facing property that’s now home to La Canaria house enjoys sweeping 180-degree views over central Los Angeles. SelgasCano and Diego Cano-Lasso’s conundrum?
How is consumer hunger for escapism playing into experiential design?

Mar 18, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

Challenging times are breeding an expectation for the unexpected. Enter the escapist experience. Gen Z is embroiled in an affair with escapism. It’s no wonder. A daily (doom)scroll through the news doesn’t make the here and now seem all that appealing. In fact, the findings of a 2022 McKinsey study suggest Gen Z is the generation with the ‘least positive life outlook’: one in four respondents reported feeling emotionally distressed, almost twice as many as millennials and Gen X.
To address the climate crisis, designers need to become undesigners. Here’s why

Mar 12, 2024 | frameweb.com | Tracey Ingram

The age of abundance is over. Should designers respond in kind by producing the bare minimum? Designers have always been problem solvers. Now they have a new set of problems. Scratch that. The problems aren’t exactly new, but they’ve become inescapable. Climate change became the climate crisis. Concrete and steel, two of the most used construction materials, were revealed as colossal carbon emitters, along with the entire construction industry.