The boardroom had everything it was supposed to have. The right table, the right chairs, the right lighting. A floor-to-ceiling window looking out over the marina. On paper it was finished. In reality it felt like a room that had not quite arrived yet. The walls were the problem. Four flat, painted surfaces with nothing to anchor the space visually. Every sound in the room — voices, the...

This question comes up in almost every nursery project we work on in Dubai. A facilities manager or school owner has done some research, seen both options, and wants to know which one is right for a children’s learning environment. The honest answer is that they are not competing products — they solve different problems, and in a nursery context, one of them is almost always the...