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How important is the understanding of materiality to surface design? Check out the designed wall surfaces at the Wax Revolution salon by Kirath Ghundoo and leave us your views…

London-based designer Giles Miller's surface tiles are truly a feast for the senses - visually, texturally and spatially. What makes Miller's creations stand apart isn't the use of extraordinary materials but ordinary material used extraordinarily well…

Army barracks transform into a plush open-plan home, where warm natural materials and colours find a corresponding analogy in cuboid solid-surface forms and glass surfaces. Check it out here...

Visually stimulating scenarios give a fillip to the place as well as the onlooker. Check out innovative surface designer, Giles Miller's latest finish that simulates nature...

Giles Miller Studio is adept at designing artistic surface finishes with a play on light and shadow. Design Director of the studio, Kirstie Little talks to Ar. Sanjay Puri about #Lotus, a unique evolution of the studio's louvred surface work in this video.

The selection of the rug depends on the style of furniture, the colour and contours of the room, surface finishes and any wall adornments. For more tips check out https://bit.ly/Ambient-Rugs-IAnD

LLUM Architects renovate a single-family residence incorporating the tried and tested umber-grey-black palette but playing it up on materiality and surface finishes.

Dr. Margot Krasojevicwields her magic design wand to accomplish yet another engineering feat as she crafts a partially submerged monolithic building in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The program is a year-round proving ground for off-road testing of new model vehicles with viewing tunnels, flooded areas, and various surface and ground gradients to test the limit of the car's engineering.

Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY designs Marquise - a billowing ultra-thin, lightweight aluminum structure that entirely transforms the approach and initial experience of a standard building entrance into a dramatic experience of threshold, and an icon that redefines the public in El Paso, Texas.