Malaika Byng
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London’s Coal Drops Yard is reborn a retail destination
A vestige of Victorian-era King’s Cross is transformed → Read More
How I live: creative entrepreneur Morgwn Rimel
Inside her colourful sanctuary in a former London chapel → Read More
Artist fills London chapel with 200 shrink-wrapped household objects
Caracas-born artist Pepe López has shipped 200 of his family’s household items to London, installing them within the gilt confines of Fitzrovia Chapel. Each object in the artwork – named Crisálida (or ‘chrysalis’) – is wrapped in film and meticulously arranged in the ornate space, as if awaiting its next shipment. Just visible beneath the polyethylene is everything from a telephone and a bicycle… → Read More
How video games and Piranesian fantasies inspired London show Strange Days
The Brutalist volumes of London’s The Store X are brought to life with 21 polyphonic video artworks for new exhibition Strange Days: Memories of the Future. Installations by John Akomfrah, Kahlil Joseph and Ragnar Kjartansson draw visitors into the building’s subterranean depths. The show, presented by The Store X and New York’s New Museum, is an anthology of video art shown in the latter over… → Read More
Beazley Designs of the Year 2018 nominees: from a plastic-free shopping aisle to Trash Isles
A plastic-free shopping aisle, a library built from ice cream buckets and LADbible’s Trash Isles are among the nominees for the 2018 Beazley Designs of the Year, unveiled at London’s Design Museum today. The 87-strong shortlist – spanning six categories, from architecture to product design – ‘question what constitutes normal,’ says Design Museum co-director Alice Black. Adds exhibition curator… → Read More
Ai Weiwei’s studio is being demolished in Beijing
Bulldozers are ripping out windows of the artist's Caochangdi space → Read More
50 dazzling Yves Klein artworks arrive at Blenheim Palace
Minimalism meets Baroque - but is it a happy pairing? → Read More
How we live: architect Rupert Scott and coworking entrepreneur Leo Wood
The duo have turned an old gin distillery into their family home → Read More
How we live: architect Rupert Scott and coworking entrepreneur Leo Wood
The duo have turned an old gin distillery into their family home → Read More
London’s Aga Khan Centre comes alive with a series of Islamic Gardens
London may have lost its Garden Bridge but now it’s got a ‘garden building’: the new Aga Khan Centre in King’s Cross, featuring a series of six courtyards, terraces and gardens inspired by Muslim societies around the world. The Muslim educational hub is a white limestone beacon designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki that will connect to a ‘ribbon’ of green spaces in the King’s Cross… → Read More
London’s Aga Khan Centre comes alive with a series of Islamic Gardens
London may have lost its Garden Bridge but now it’s got a ‘garden building’: the new Aga Khan Centre in King’s Cross, featuring a series of six courtyards, terraces and gardens inspired by Muslim societies around the world. The Muslim educational hub is a white limestone beacon designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki that will connect to a ‘ribbon’ of green spaces in the King’s Cross… → Read More
A London home inspired by a Turner painting lists for £1.25m
Taking cues from the artist's depiction of a church → Read More
Miami meets Memphis at Paradiso Ibiza Art Hotel
Miami modernism and the Memphis Group unite inside the Paradiso Ibiza Art Hotel – a new haunt putting art at the fore. Sitting in the island’s San Antonio Bay, the 60-room bolthole is part of the Concept Hotel Group, and has brightly coloured interiors by practice Ilmio Design. Courtesy of Paradiso Ibiza Art Hotel The hotel’s curvy Art Deco-style façade features a pair of vertical pink fan tails… → Read More
Postcards from the Venice launch party for our new book ‘Island’
Photography: Lodovico Colli di Felizzano The architecture crowd descended on the Venetian island of Giudecca last night to celebrate the launch of another ‘Island’: our new book, and the corresponding exhibition at the British Pavilion during the Venice Biennale. Musician, poet, and Island contributor Kate Tempest performed her latest work Caruso St John Architects and artist Marcus Taylor –… → Read More
The Spaces publishes 'Island' – a new book by Caruso St John and Marcus Taylor
With contributions from artist John Akomfrah and poet Kate Tempest → Read More
‘Detective agency’ Forensic Architecture is nominated for 2018 Turner Prize
The group uses 3D modelling to expose human rights abuses → Read More
Studiomama on how to live better on a small scale
Studiomama has built a micro neighbourhood inside a former factory hall in Milan, complete with a cluster of totem-like living spaces that can be personalised by their inhabitants. The London-based design firm’s ‘MINI Living – Built By All’ concept (on show during Milan Design Week) recalls Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena’s ‘Half A Good House’ project, which gives residents the chance to… → Read More
Inside the insane sets of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
The hand-crafted sets of Wes Anderson’s dystopian film Isle of Dogs go on show in London tomorrow, giving visitors a chance to explore his vision of Japan in 20 years time. Anderson’s fictional city Megasaki has arrived at The Store X on The Strand, along with its autocratic puppet mayor Kobayashi: a man with a vendetta against dogs. In the stop-motion animation, Kobayashi exiles all canines to… → Read More
London’s Television Centre emerges from a £1bn revamp
A slice of broadcasting history – that you can live in → Read More
Property of the week: an Amsterdam loft that’s ripe for renovation
This Amsterdam loft is being touted for renovation but we’d be tempted to leave its rough brickwork as it is…. The rugged apartment on Amsterdam’s Kerkstraat 58 is on the market via Sotheby’s International for €2.95m and is a complete blank canvas. The Collective Studio has been earmarked to transform the raw, 4176 sq m space into a luxurious city retreat with a swimming pool, private gym and… → Read More