Modern design tends to be polarizing. Not everyone loves the boxy aesthetic that swaps out ornamentation for spare lines. One tenet of modernism, however, seems to be wildly popular: the open ...

Accordingly, that which goes around comes around. Again and again. An example of the ‘hot one minute, less so the next’ trend is the discipline of open concept design.

By 2015 it's estimated that three quarters of all companies will have an open plan office design. In 1994, workers had about eight square metres to call their own.

Open-concept homes are going out of style. Breadmaker/Shutterstock Juliana Ghani, an interior designer from Minneapolis, agreed, saying that seeing your kitchen constantly can also make a home ...