Zaha Hadid designs mountaineering museum
Three dimensional parallelogram resembling a shard of glacial ice is 'inserted' into South Tyrol mountain
Chinese Neorealist to paint Londoners
Liu Xiaodong brings his sharp reworking of Socialist Realism to the British capital
Foster backs new Thames Hub airport
Pritzker-Prize winning architect calls on the spirit of Victorian forebears "to create afresh"
Introducing Wild Art
Phaidon editor Jennifer Lawson on the book Jeff Koons - and everyone else - is talking about
François Pinault's jail-themed art show
For his debut Paris art show, Pinault will show a 'confinement' themed selection of works in a former prison
Stephen Shore goes global
A new exhibition shows the photographer's shots from Israel, Abu Dhabi and the Ukraine alongside his US work
Marina on her work, workshops and institute
Abramović reveals details of her new institute and how workshop participants deal with anger in this video
Grimshaw's museum for an art city of the future
The British practice has worked mosaics into its Koç Contemporary Art Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
When Gerald Cinamon brought Swiss Style to Britain
The great US proponent of Swiss Style graphic design enjoys a London retrospective
Maurizio Cattelan's Kenzo campaign tops poll
The artist's collaboration with the label has been voted best campaign of the season by The Business of Fashion
The Wallace shows the world's first restaurant
The Discovery of Paris: Watercolours by Early Nineteenth-Century British Artists exhibits a lost foodie spot in Paris
The Chinese hotel with a built-in waterfall
“We drew our inspiration from the quarry setting" says Atkins Design Studio
See Jakob Wagner's plane window weather shots
German photographer loves to shoot the clouds from the window of a passenger plane
Designing the Carlo Scarpa monograph
Designer Béla Stetzer talks us through his work on our forthcoming book on the mid-century modernist architect
Gilbert and George head for the High Line
The British artists will have their 1984 work, Waking, reproduced on a billboard next to Manhattan's linear park
The Photographers' Gallery shows Mass Observation
A new exhibition draws from the archives of the British project that sought to offer "an anthropology of ourselves"
Agnes Denes plans artificial islands to protect NYC
The pioneering land artist believes she can solve the city's storm challenges with a series of barrier islands
Pussy Riot take on Russian big oil
Feminist art rockers occupy oil facilities in latest video, Like a Red Prison
Warhol Museum's uncomfortable summer campaign
Pittsburgh museum puts together some suitably unnerving ads for its disturbing summer shows
Sarah Morris "My work is related to power"
“Power is always in flux and up for grabs" she tells Skye Sherwin as new White Cube show Bye Bye Brazil opens
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Is this what's in store for London's High Line?
The winner of Vauxhall's Missing Link competition draws inspiration from a cabinet of curiosities for its linear park
Have the Rotterdam Kunsthal paintings been burned?
Investigators believe a defendant's mother destroyed Picasso, Monet and Matisse works in her stove
Aspen Art Museum to open with a Shigeru Ban show
Japanese architect's first museum in the US will open with a show dedicated to his humanitarian architecture
Jeff Koons loves Phaidon's Wild Art
The iconic American artist is "blown away" by our new Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier book
Why does this photographer set his film on fire?
Peter Hoffman says his unusual technique is a comment on unsustainable consumer habits
MAD creates art museum in caves of a Chinese island
Beijing studio designs artificial island with Asia’s biggest private art museum ensconced in its caves
Introducing The Design Book
Phaidon Editor Joe Pickard previews our compact yet authoritative compendium of product design
MVRDV reinvents city living in Switzerland
Dutch architects rip up design brief and come up with something entirely different
Three new library designs put books front of mind
As their role within society changes, big name architects are queueing up to create new libraries
Simon Starling sets his sights on the stars
The Turner-Prize winner's new work draws from the southern hemisphere's late Great Melbourne Telescope
Alvar Aalto’s Artek Stool 60 gets a makeover
Rei Kawakubo, Tom Dixon, Mads Nørgaard and Monocle Magazine rework the design classic for its 80th birthday
How posters survive and thrive in a digital age
New York show Graphic Advocacy shows how the form is still the cornerstone of effective communication
New UN HQ is inaugurated in Copenhagen
Architect 3XN follows up its jaw-dropping Blue Planet Aquarium in the city with new star shaped building
Maurizio Cattelan covers windows in Toilet Paper
Images from Italian artist's biannual magazine, Toilet Paper adorn the windows of Palais de Tokyo in Paris
Zaha Hadid's new Baku building up for two awards
Heydar Aliyev Centre is short-listed for prizes at the World Architecture Festival and the Inside Festival
Designed to be different
French start up Fontegrise endeavours to create products on the edges of art and functionality
Pininfarina designs Singapore tower
Ferrari design team creates condo with garages that will light the cars within like gems
Meet the photographer whose camera gets in the way
Texas born Bobby Scheidemann's series Nothing to Hide reflects on our desire to photograph absolutely everything
Introducing the Carlo Scarpa monograph
Phaidon editor Tom Wright talks about our forthcoming book on the mid-century modernist architect
Jay-Z and Marina Abramovic at Pace Gallery
Six-hour performance at Manhattan gallery yesterday featured Abramovic, RoseLee Goldberg and Alan Cumming
Watch the Bouroullec Brothers' electric carousels
The brothers just sent Phaidon.com a video of their Quiet Motion installation at this year's Milan Furniture Fair
Meet the photographer who plays with his food
Rene Mesman's unlikely pairings are visually arresting, although gastronomically unlikely
James Turrell appears on Charlie Rose
Artist says Frank Lloyd Wright would like new Guggenheim show and thanks his aunt for turning him on to Monet
How New York collectors rework their homes
Artists, architects and clients all collaborate to produce homes that work for their residents and their collections
Google's new Kings Cross HQ
The search firm's London headquarters will complement the local area's strong industrial heritage
Zaha Hadid buys The Design Museum
The prize-winning practice will use the space as an exhibition space and to house its archive
The story behind a new Sol LeWitt mural
Six years after the artist's death, another LeWitt mural is going up in Manhattan. How did that happen?
Will Sweeney's life-threatening London show
The artist's first British show for 10 years is inspired by Mexico, aliens and the lethal effects of cigarettes
Architecture goes underground at Herzog & de Meuron’s M+ museum in Hong Kong
"For art to enter into the life of a city like Hong Kong it has to come from its own foundations," says Jacques Herzog
Ferran Adrià opens Somerset House show
"Thanks to everybody involved in nursing a project that at first seemed to be a bit mad!" he says
Ikea creates flat packs for refugees
Swedish furniture giant tackles longterm housing for the world's dispossessed
Bouroullec Brothers AIM lamp now available to buy
After reinventing the chair (and the curtain) Ronan and Erwan turn their attention to lighting
Coi's Daniel Patterson teaches the kids to cook
The innovative chef says “having the most vulnerable population eating the worst food is a terrible idea"
Kate Moss is officially collectible
Christie's will host a sale dedicated to images of the supermodel this autumn
Arles goes black and white
Unseen Guy Bourdin and Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs head up a re-examination of monochrome imagery
John Pawson talks Kuramata at the Design Museum
How the designer dissuaded the architect from becoming a monk and other tales from last night's talk
The lighter side of Chris Johanson
"My old art is really negative" says the artist, "I would never make art like that ever again."
Frank Gehry goes back to the drawing board
Architect swathes controversial Toronto towers in curvaceous cladding and adds an 'echo' of what stood before
Martin Parr turns his lens on the Swiss
The quintessentially English photographer focuses on Helvetican clichés in Think of Switzerland
NY subway commuters see the light
Architect Nicholas Grimshaw teams up with artist James Carpenter to create glass oculus over transport hub
Colman Andrews' Fourth of July barbecue choices
Our Taste of America author picks his best Independence Day treats and tells the stories behind them
Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne get retrospective
Skye Sherwin on the French sculptors loved and collected by the likes of Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs and Valentino
Industrial Facility designs neighbourhood style office
Industrial Facility and Herman Miller transform the office into a 'richer', more collaborative place to do business
René Burri receives Leica Hall of Fame Award
Swiss photographer joins Steve McCurry, Barbara Klemm and Nick Út as one of Leica's greatest ambassadors
French photographer captures false alarms
Marina Gadonneix's focus on disaster simulators explores the divide between the real and the perceived
Ferran Adrià's London show opens this Friday
elBulli: Ferran Adrià and The Art of Food opens with a talk from the great man himself
Shigeru Ban turns to wood for Swatch
The Japanese architect says timber is 'the only renewable material' and has used it extensively in this new building
Rebranding via a smoke bomb
Italian photographer Filippo Minelli Silence/ Shapes_Ongoing photo series is taken up for a new corporate identity
Punk rock meets modernism in Marseilles
Konstantin Grcic joins The Bouroullec Brothers in reworking Le Corbusier's Appartement No50
Why did Frank Gehry hire a human rights lawyer?
And which of the United Arab Emirates does he like, and which does he say is "like every cruddy city in the world"?
Will this typeface foil the spies?
South Korean designer and former state intelligence worker creates fonts to slow down eavesdropping software
New Manhattan skyscraper allows sun onto High Line
Studio Gang develops ‘solar carving’ technique that uses incident angles of the sun’s rays to sculpt building form
Ann Woo plays her cards right
New York-based Chinese photographer eschews interpretation, seeking only what's real in her new photo series
Low comedy meets high art at Slapstick!
A new exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg pairs Laurel and Hardy with Fischli and Weiss
All aboard Doug Aitken's art and music train
Station to Station promises to be a transcontinental 'nomadic happening' with artists, writers, bands and chefs
Can you see what's going on here?
We like Béla Borsodi’s optical illusion created for new VLP album, Terrain
Paintballing now part of 2013's Frieze Projects
The London art fair's annual commissions break away from the traditional canvas and plinth creations
The unsung hero of Secessionist Vienna
The often overlooked pioneer of modern design, Koloman Moser, finally gets a New York retrospective
Koolhaas' son makes a documentary about dad
Film REM is an "exploration of what architecture means to those who inhabit it and create it"
Nicholas Grimshaw's masterplan for Wimbledon
Nicholas Grimshaw and Grant Associates juggle heritage and modernity with new look for UK's home of tennis
Henning Larsen, 1925-2013
The Danish architect, known for The Royal Danish Opera House and The Malmö City Library has died, aged 87
When John Pawson met Shiro Kuramata
Deyan Sudjic describes the Japanese designer's influence, and his mentoring of one Brit in particular. . .
Giuseppe Colarusso plays with form and function
Giuseppe Colarusso's Improbabilità series is a playful exploration of objects and their uses
Take a look at India's new tree-lined apartments
Edouard François' Gurgaon 71 development sees high-rise horticulture planned for the outskirts of New Delhi
World cup football fans to be housed in floating hotels
Thousands of 'refreshed' fans celebrating their team's 2022 success in the sea - what could possibly go wrong?
Have you seen Renzo Piano's new house?
Architect's latest scheme named after ancient philosopher Diogenes who traded comfort for living in a barrel
Heatherwick denies copying Olympic cauldron
British designer says claims made by American firm Atopia that he copied its pitch are 'spurious nonsense'
OMA's Bordeaux bridge doubles as a stage
"The bridge is not the ‘event’ in the city," say OMA "but a platform that can accommodate all the events of the city.”
American designer creates sandcastle suburbia
Chad Wright's Master Plan project populates his local sea shores with the tract housing of his childhood
Artist builds his own egg-shaped home
The Exbury Egg will serve as Stephen Turner's seaside home, as he studies the effects of climate change
Ai Weiwei's animal heads unveiled in Toronto
Heads depict contemporary China's relationship with its history and how that's been eroded says curator
Arts group to be evicted from Picasso's Paris studio
The loft where Picasso painted Guernica, and other artists once resided, is now at the centre of a fresh conflict
Thea and Ethan wow young collectors at Sotheby's
Our Collecting Art for Love, Money and More advisors make friends wherever they go - last night it was Bond Street
Moleskine gets a makeover
Everyone's favourite notebook gets a new look from Milan-based graphic designers Achilli Ghizzardi Associati
Body artist Orlan sues Lady Gaga
The French artist alleges the American singer plagiarised her look, and is seeking $31.7 million
Paul McCarthy's adults-only fairytale opens today
WS redraws the German fairytale Snow White as an immersive, X-rated New York installation
Curators are the stars at Paris Nouvelles Vagues
Skye Sherwin on what to look out for at a series of shows where the curator takes centre stage over the artist
Renzo Piano's hand-made 'fragments' at Gagosian
The Pritzker-Prize winner is the subject of a retrospective at The Gagosian's 522 West 21st Street gallery
Carl Andre's hilarious Barbara Rose interview
Romp through the good old days of NY art scene gives new insight into his work and the insanity of life back then
Andy Warhol's gay archive goes on sale
The latest online Warhol sale, Eyes on the Guise, focuses on the artist's gay works to mark Pride Month
