Having bright colours and greenery in our cities can make people happier and calmer, according to an unusual experiment involving virtual reality headsets.

Researchers in France used virtual reality to test the impact of tweaks made to urban settings

The popular image of a prison, informed by movies and TV series like Orange is the New Black, is something close to a zoo, where individuals deemed too dangerous to be allowed to roam free in society are caged like animals.

In the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel, a large and tasteful home becomes an object of infatuation.

The Las Vegas Design Center, in partnership with the American Society of Interior Designers and the University of Nevada Las Vegas, will host its first-ever career day for interior design students, offering a full day of networking and free educational seminars on April 8.

Eric Strain founded his Las Vegas architecture firm, assemblageSTUDIO, on April Fool’s Day in 1997. It was the perfect time, he says: “Nobody thought this thing would last.” A maverick architect leaving the comfort of a local blue-chip firm to advocate for desert-appropriate modern architecture? In a town where sophisticated design was the volcano at The Mirage and red-tile Mediterranean knockoffs grew like weeds across the valley? The famed interior designer Roger Thomas urged him to start a firm in Los Angeles if he wanted respect and work in Vegas