• London Design Festival: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s Samsung Serif TV

    16 November 2015

    The Bouroullec brothers unveiled their first electronic product at this year’s festival, a sleek television set for Samsung, that’s more a covetable design object than a piece of technological innovation

  • The great outdoors: Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture school Taliesin West

    27 October 2015

    The architecture school Taliesin West, established by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1937, is like no other — students are expected to build their own shelters, wash dishes, cook and serve food. But now the great man’s living exploration of ‘learning by doing’ is under financial threat and could soon be a thing of fond memories only

  • Listen: Jim Eyre of WilkinsonEyre

    27 October 2015

    Faced with a digital revolution, public libraries are adapting and changing from anonymous municipal buildings to accessible community resources. WilkinsonEyre’s recent overhaul of Oxford’s New Bodleian (now Weston) library has opened it up to the public from a ‘closed’ university institution. Jim Eyre believes other libraries could learn from its example. Jim Eyre is a founding director of architecture practice WilkinsonEyre

  • Meet: Kacper Hamilton

    19 October 2015

    London-based designer Kacper Hamilton creates curious artefacts and experiences that aim to take the user on an emotional and spiritual journey

  • Letter from… Copenhagen

    19 October 2015

    Denmark’s global presence in design owes much to the country’s greatest modernist, Arne Jacobsen, who created a family of design classics in his furniture for Fritz Hansen. Herbert Wright checks out his architectural legacy in the Nordic bastion of urban cool that is the capital Copenhagen, and experiences colours that are reinvigorating Danish design, and the world’s favourite chair

  • State of the arts: How to get a free creative education

    13 October 2015

    Who can afford a UK arts education? As our art, design and architecture courses have become entirely bankrolled by fat fees from European and international students, resourceful educators are trying to find ways to ensure access, diversity and creativity are maintained. But it’s an uphill struggle.

  • On the drawing board: Hawkins\Brown’s Bartlett School of Architecture

    13 October 2015

  • A cut above: Zaha Hadid’s Messner Mountain Museum

    5 October 2015

    The latest Zaha Hadid project is modest in size and half-invisible from the outside. Situated in an Italian mountainscape, the Messner Mountain Museum bridges one of her earliest designs with her most recent

  • Review: Jawbone UP3

    5 October 2015

    Johnny Tucker finds he is healthier and fitter after putting Jawbone’s UP3 wearable and state-of-the-art sensors to the test

  • The Future of the Skyscraper

    5 October 2015

    Architecture practice Skidmore Owings & Merrill invited nine writers and journalists to ponder the future of tall buildings. Thomas Wensing reviews the result