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Refurbishing an Ex-Hospital to create a student accommodation

Refurbishing an Ex-Hospital to create a student accommodation

| Riccardo Del Bello | Serviced Accommodations
Following our latest article about our project for which we transformed an Ex-Hotel and Restaurant into a student accommodation, we thought it would be interesting to review another big project we ...
How we transformed a small hotel and restaurant into a student accommodation

How we transformed a small hotel and restaurant into a student accommodation

| Riccardo Del Bello | Serviced Accommodations
Hello everyone! Today, I would like to go back to a project we developed a while back in Germany which was not only one of my favourites to design for some features of the building itself but also ...
Everything you need to know about E-design

Everything you need to know about E-design

| Riccardo Del Bello | News & Lifestyle
Hello, today I would like to make an introduction to a service we will add again soon to our website which is directed at private residential clients. I am talking about E-Design. This is somethin...
5 Sustainable Interior Materials at London Design Festival 2021

5 Sustainable Interior Materials at London Design Festival 2021

| Riccardo Del Bello | Exhibitions & Design Finds
Hello everyone. Following up on last week’s report about the London Design Festival where I talked about Joy by Seeds, my favourite exhibition overall, this time I will dive into the sustainability...
London Design Festival and Design London 2021: Joy by Seeds

London Design Festival and Design London 2021: Joy by Seeds

| Riccardo Del Bello | Exhibitions & Design Finds
Hello everyone! This weekend in London it was held the London Design Festival. Within it debuted also Design London 2021, and, of course, I could not miss any of these. It has been a long time, and...
The success of hybrid spaces in 2021: The Student Hotel Case Study

The success of hybrid spaces in 2021: The Student Hotel Case Study

| Riccardo Del Bello | Serviced Accommodations
In the past couple of years, we have been hearing more and more about the evolution of hybrid shared living models. According to numerous industry experts, this will be the next step of the industr...
PBSA and Students’ Mental Wellbeing

PBSA and Students’ Mental Wellbeing

| Riccardo Del Bello | Sustainability and Well-Being
As a designer of Student accommodations for university students, especially following this difficult year and a half of pandemic, the discussion around mental wellbeing has become one of the most i...
How to Design the perfect Night’s sleep experience: a Hotel Designs Conference

How to Design the perfect Night’s sleep experience: a Hotel Designs Conference

| Riccardo Del Bello | Sustainability and Well-Being
Last month I followed one of the latest Hotel Designs Live conferences, which was centred around how to ensure the best sleeping environment and improve sleep performance in hotels. We are always o...
Dezeen Awards Sustainability Longlist: Our Top 10

Dezeen Awards Sustainability Longlist: Our Top 10

| Riccardo Del Bello | Sustainability and Well-Being
Hello everyone! Today I would like to start with some exciting news! A Designer at Heart has been longlisted in the Website of the Year Category at the Dezeen Awards for Interior Design, Design, an...
Industrial Chic Commercial Interior Design

Industrial Chic Commercial Interior Design

| Riccardo Del Bello | Interior Design Tips
We recently had the opportunity to design the interiors for a new project that had a specific brief. While still being a student accommodation, we were asked to make it suitable for a more adult au...

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