Amy Friend's celestial interventions
Canadian photographer pierces vintage photos to let the light and lost souls shine through

Oscar Niemeyer rises again
The Brazilian architect towers over Sao Paulo courtesy of street artist Eduardo Kobra

Young designer creates new boutique hotel in Paris
Dorothee Meilichzon eschews all-pervading 50 shades of white for a splash of colour at new Hotel Paradis

Peter Zumthor reveals the secrets of Therme Vals
New video sees him discussing his philosophy, why his most celebrated structure was originally destined to be 'hollowed out' and why he 'drops his pencil' if he thinks a client simply wants to order a Peter Zumthor building

Ex-OMA architect Fernando Romero creates flying saucer-style photo museum in the Arabian desert
Mexican follows his much-admired Soumaya museum in Mexico City with an even more audacious concept

BIG architects tear it up in Fort Lauderdale
Two buildings are 'torn open' giving the neighbourhood access to the canals

Edward Hopper comes to the silver screen
Austrian director Gustav Deutsch reassembles 13 Edward Hopper paintings into a single movie

Indian protest art opens in Chicago
The University of Chicago's Sahmat Collective exhibition displays the art of India's culture wars

Bruno Quinquet's salarymen in suits
French photographer Bruno Quinquet captures 'man in suit' in its natural environment with his Salaryman Project

The show that made Harald Szeemann a star
Biennials and Beyond looks at the exhibitions, curators and artist run spaces that helped make art history

Montreal church is repurposed as a gallery
Provencher Roy + Associes Architectes addition boasts suitably Canadian features including 'glazed igloo'

The truth behind Francis Bacon's 'screaming' popes
Father figure, drag queen or distillation of Nazi iconography? New Phaidon Focus book reveals the theories behind Francis Bacon's obsessive reworking of the papal theme in his most famous Velasquez-inspired paintings

The laundromat that thinks it's a nightclub
Local designer Frederic Perers puts a whole new meaning on wash and go at Splash near Plaça Catalunya

Saul Steinberg's Americans reassembled in Germany
The artist's massive mural goes on display for the first time since it was cut up following the '58 World's Fair

What to expect from Paris Photo Los Angeles
The inaugural LA edition of the French photo event promises a moving-image strand and a fake NYC street

Dutch cyclists get floating flyover
Netherlands bridge specialists IPV Delft build motorway-style aerial intersection for two-wheeled travellers

Marcel Dzama comes to Zwirner London
Brooklyn-based artist responsible for Beck's Guero cover art has first London show in five years at new gallery

Michelangelo's final sculpture goes to jail
The Rondanini Pietà will be put on display at Milan's San Vittore prison while its permanent home is renovated

Sony World Photography Awards finalists announced
VII's Ed Kashi among the finalists in what organisers call a bumper year for entries from around the world

Pentagram rethinks the baby bottle
Legendary design agency takes its cue from takeaway coffee cups used by billions the world over

Foster + Partners designs 3D moon base
Global architecture practice uses latest rapid prototyping to imagine a lunar base for European Space Agency

Unseen images in Garry Winogrand retrospective
Unexamined archive works feature heavily in the New York Street photographer's worldwide retrospective

Mirko Borsche talks graphic design
We catch up with the Munich-based designer and creative director of Die Zeit in Germany

Tacita Dean takes on JG Ballard
The British artist follows the late novelist's advice regarding an elusive piece of land art

Deep sea hospitality planned for Dubai
It's built tall and supertall, now Dubai mines the sea depths for its latest architectural venture

Christie's closes Haunch of Venison galleries
Auction house says HoV's London gallery will "evolve into" Christie's private sale services the NY one will close

Joel Meyerowitz is a big hit in Paris
The BBC, ABC News and Le Monde alike praise his La Maison Européenne de la Photographie retrospective

HS2’s graphics are an express delivery
New agency Fernandez Waddy turn round branding for new UK rail link in record time

China indulges its love affair with the car
New range of exhibition centres by Marques And Jordy set to roll out in September

Konstantin Grcic adds to his BD Barcelona range
Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona Chair acknowledged in new design

A look inside Anselm Kiefer's studio
Phaidon Focus book goes inside the celebrated German artist's sprawling studio complex La Ribaute in France

Sandy Carson's (still) new here
Scottish photographer's love affair with adopted American homeland documented in ongoing photo series

Islamic influences inspire exhibition centre in China
Sure Architects uses West Xia Helan stone and traditional Chinese techniques to create Islamic patterning

Ten questions for milliner Philip Treacy's photographer of the last 20 years - Kevin Davies
The photographer on how to please Valentino, the etiquette of shooting Princess Anne, why it's sometimes important not to follow the brief and being the best dressed man (in a Philip Treacy hat) at The Edge's wedding

Andy's Unemployment Rate goes on sale online
Christie's publishes details of their forthcoming online-only Warhol Estate sale, running Feb 26 - March 5

Apple trademarks its stores
Interior design treatments become the latest piece of intellectual property the tech giant has registered

Tracey Emin takes over Times Square
Artist's neon love-themed artwork I Promise To Love You lights up the square this Valentine's Day

René Burri's secret life as a colour photographer
Famous the world over for his black and white photographs of Churchill, Che Guevara, and Picasso among others, the legendary Swiss Magnum photographer lays open his lifelong archive of colour photographs for the first time

Windows are reinvented in Peruvian tower concept
Translucent fibreglass composite lit by LEDs while each aperture is covered in a thin film to generate solar energy

American artist tears apart 'art speak'
US artist David Levine, accompanied by 29-year-old PhD student Alix Rule, takes down artworld prose

Diane Meyer embroiders reality in search of truth
US photographer blurs the faces and locations in her photographs with embroidery to reveal hidden histories

Big Apple's little dwellings
Winner of the AdAPT NYC micro-apartment project boasts ceiling storage space and a double wall-mounted bed

Architect Iñaki Bergera takes photos too
Spanish architect puts his career on hold to explore all things photographic

Olafur Eliasson's strobe-lit fountains come to London
Flashes "freeze something that usually our eye and brain would see in motion" he says on eve of new show

Facebook, Google, Pinterest logos given makeover
Istanbul-based agency Antrepo redesigns social networking sites taking inspiration from vintage cameras

Fashion designer quizzed in hunt for stolen Picasso
Romanian designer and TV star Catalin Botezatu was questioned as part of the Rotterdam Kunsthal investigation

New show explores racism in photography
Can photo artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin undo South African legacy?

Ai Weiwei makes new film on death of a protestor
Artist's latest attack on government features interviews with villagers over the death of Qian Yunhui

Rä di Martino's remains of an imaginary world
Abandoned Star Wars movie sets form backdrop to Italian photographer's Every World's A Stage series

What to expect from Frieze New York
The US fair promises a magic-themed speakeasy, a cemetery and the recreation of a legendary artist's restaurant

Herzog & de Meuron add to London skyline
Swiss architects to design new residential tower at Wood Wharf adjacent to Canary Wharf

Russian digital artist Olga Tobreluts gets huge retrospective at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Museum and curator Antonio Geusa pay homage to 'Helen of Troy equipped with a video camera and a computer'

New inter faith chapel points to North Star
Symbolically important Polaris provides focal point for new Florida chapel via giant skylight above wooden spire

Ferran Adrià sets out his stall
The elBulli star plans to open a market in his home town, dedicated to Catalan produce

Paris buses get new Jean Francois Porchez signage
The French master of typography develops Parisine Girouette, a clear LED script for the capital's bus network

Meet MoMA's new poet
New York's Museum of Modern Art appoints Phaidon contributor and traffic broadcast transcriber as its first poet

The accidental art of Kerry Skarbakka
Meet the US photographer who puts himself in harm's way, then clicks the shutter

Steven Holl's yin yang museums
The award-winning American architect creates twin museums for a Chinese Eco-City

Marc Quinn's baby reborn in Singapore
The British artist's sculpture of his infant son has gone on permanent display in a Singapore park

Shomei Tomatsu Remembered
The seminal Japanese photographer's life and work is commemorated across the world

Richard Prince's Picasso nudes come to London
Fourteen canvases, inspired by the great Spanish painter, go on display at Sadie Coles HQ next month

American Airlines rebrand upsets Massimo Vignelli
Design legend is not a fan of the new corporate identity that replaces the one he created 45 years ago

Rem Koolhaas creates futuristic furniture for Knoll
12-strong line featuring plexiglass swivel armchairs debuts at Salone del Mobile in April

Franck Allais subverts the city
French photographer's new series Subverting The City to debut at his first solo London show next month

MoMA and CODA create wall made from skateboards
MoMA PS1 and design agency enlist support of local skateboard company Comet for their 'Party Wall'

Bill Finger's imagined crime scenes
Inspired by Gregory Crewdson, former cameraman photographs miniature film sets - then destroys 'the evidence'

Banksy collaborator Ben Eine joins mile high club
East London street artist who became famous when David Cameron gave one of his pieces to Barack Obama during first official US visit has first ever airborne gallery in Upper Class on Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic

Warhol Studio 54 Polaroid goes for $10,000
Auction of ephemera sees bids from celebrities, ex-employees and devotees of legendary New York nightspot

New photographers stage last minute show in London
11.59 was conceived just a few days ago, is currently being put together - and opens on Wednesday!

Giant giraffe animates Paris children’s centre
French practice Hondelatte Laporte Architectes creates quirky nursery and childcare centre in Paris suburb

Adobe HQ designed by artists using its own software
New Utah HQ features graphic images created by Adobe software nestling alongside murals created by street artists El Mac and Mike Giant - obligatory indoor basketball court and rock-climbing wall included (of course)

Steven Holl lets the light in in China
'Slices' cut out of concrete exoskeletons keep the neighbours happy by allowing sunlight to shine through

Space centre opens in Slovenia
Space technology museum is based on a habitable space station concept by local resident Herman Noordung

Douglas Gordon's sharp new film series
The Turner-Prize winner returns to Morocco for his latest video series, on show during the Berlin Film Festival

New show uncovers LA has it might have been
Los Angeles' Architecture and Design Museum prepares for a show of local proposals that never broke ground

The Clock goes 24 hour at MoMA
The final full-day screening of Christian Marclay's video work takes place this weekend in New York

Hear Tate Liverpool's dawn chorus with a difference
The gallery plays music created via ahem, the bodily functions of local wildlife as part of a city-wide initiative

Protestors don Niemeyer masks to save Brasilia
The architectural founders of the Brazilian capital are invoked in a protest against plans to overhaul the city

Larry Gagosian: 'The shows in the galleries educate - I like deals!'
"If a collector comes to me and says 'teach me,' I go numb," the uber dealer tells British Vogue

Warhol inspires Sir Paul Smith's Giro D'Italia shirts
The pop artist's Monroe series inspires British menswear designer to put clashing colours on bicycle shirts

Ten questions for food critic Joe Warwick
The editor of Where Chefs Eat - the ultimate insider's guide to great food - talks about where to get a perfect burger at four in the morning, the imminent end of 'dirty food' and how waiters get their revenge on rude customers

London firm win Iraqi Parliament competition
The Stirling-prize winning firm Assemblage won the $1billion competition, with a low-cost, eco-friendly pitch

Nicola Tyson's Bowie night shots come to London
The New York artist's photographs from the seminal London club night go on show at Sadie Coles HQ this month

Can you follow Alena Zhandarova's photo story?
The 24-year-old photographer channels Sherman, Wall and Crewdson in her fictionalised self-portrait series

Matthew Barney's graphite skateboard
The American artist sticks a pencilly tip onto a skateboard in his latest Drawing Restraint series

Piano, Kusama and Kahn up for Design of The Year
Renzo Piano and Yayoi Kusama are among the Phaidon subjects up for The Design Museum's 2013 prize

Bouroullec Brothers design Ready Made Curtain
New work for Kvadrat requires a degree of user assembly but don't worry: "The charm of the imperfect in opposition to the overly sanitised interior, is something we believe in," says Erwan Bouroullec (ie: you can't mess it up)

Scorsese exhibition goes back to the director's roots
The Deutsche Kinemathek Museum pulls in Marty's childhood kitchen table for its major new exhibition

Will Chinese art continue its rise in 2013?
Warhol, Picasso and Richter outsold Chinese artists last year but can they do the same again this?

Where there's a tweet there's a photo
Larson and Shindelman search through the half-a-billion tweets sent each day to choose locations to photograph

Atrium Studio designs for Moscow's Silicon Valley
Designers look to traditional townhouse style to house scientific brainboxes outside Russian capital

Copenhagen plans for five new artificial islands
Planning Department wants to add to existing islands with new ones created by architects Tredje Natur and PK3

Nazi-looted poster art up for auction
Incredible story behind one man's battle to get back his father's graphic art collection looted by the Nazis in 1938

National Geographic photo winners
A Thai tiger, a Swiss mountain and a Kenyan dump top the US magazine's prestigious photographic contest

Damien Hirst's Brit Award revealed
The design for Hirst's 2013 Brit award is unveiled. He didn't pickle it, but he did put spots on it

Will BIG's viewing tower put Phoenix on the map?
The Danish firm reinterprets Seattle's Space Needle with push-pin style viewing tower for Arizona's state capital

Have you seen these massive sea dice?
American artist Max Mulhern launched them on 12/12/12 from Gran Canaria. Any guesses where they'll end up?

The Summer Is Over for Luc Tuymans at Zwirner NY
Phaidon artist's tenth show in 20 years - delayed by Hurricane Sandy - finally opens at Zwirner Gallery

Whale backbone inspires spiral staircase
Canadian architect Andrew McConnell works the animal's vertebrae into a beguiling upward spiral
