• On the drawing board: Factory by OMA

    23 October 2017

    OMA’s Manchester-based arts venue, Factory, is set to be a major new cultural hub for the North and the key to local regeneration

  • Stanton Williams' Musée d’arts de Nantes breathes life into the French city

    17 October 2017

    The Musée d’arts de Nantes has reopened following a €48.8m transformation and extension by London-based practice Stanton Williams that aims to embrace its urban surroundings. It is part of a huge, 30-year push by the city to use culture to reinvent its image, culminating in the annual arts festival Le Voyage à Nantes

  • A game of two halves: Renzo Piano’s Centro Botín in Santander

    10 October 2017

    Renzo Piano’s new arts centre, Centro Botín in Santander, is designed in two halves, floating above the waterside like a pair of lungs clad in ceramic — and breathing life into the Spanish city

  • In the studio with the Design Museum's Designers in Residence

    5 October 2017

  • Brand on a mission: IKEA teams up with NASA to imagine homes on Mars

    4 October 2017

    Letter from Älmhult: Cate St Hill visits IKEA’s 'House of Curiosity' in the remote Swedish village where the brand began, to talk about upcoming designs and collaborations — including their expansion into space

  • Bob & Roberta Smith is turning the whole town of Folkestone into an art school

    26 September 2017

    Patrick Brill — better known as the artist Bob and Roberta Smith — is on a mission to turn the seaside town of Folkestone into an art school for all, for its fourth Art Triennial and beyond. Inspired by the parlous state of the UK’s art education system, what lessons does he hope it will provide for the wider world?

  • The designer 'dragging' architecture: meet Adam Nathaniel Furman

    20 September 2017

    London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman indulges in colour, pattern and multiple historical styles — from his interiors to his installations — and argues for greater plurality in the world of architecture

  • Home away from home: Second Home Lisboa

    8 September 2017

    Following the success of their first creative workspace, Second Home Spitalfields in London, entrepreneurs Sam Aldenton and Rohan Silva have opened up shop in Lisbon, drawn by the city’s booming co-working culture and thriving tech scene. Designed by Madrid-based practice SelgasCano, it’s an unconventional office, inspired by biophilia and arranged to maximise serendipitous meetings among its diverse community

  • An oasis of calm in the City: Angel Court by Fletcher Priest

    7 September 2017

    A series of garden terraces provide a unique viewpoint from which to view the City of London at the new 27-storey tower designed by Fletcher Priest. The project has also increased local public realm by a third

  • Warsaw rising: Zlota 44 by Studio Libeskind

    4 September 2017

    A new luxury residential tower has become a dramatic addition to the skyline of Warsaw, but for both architect Daniel Libeskind and interior designer Woods Bagot, Poland’s past lies beneath the surface of its design