Olson Kundig installs double-decker elevators at the Space Needle
As part of the ongoing renovations to the Space Needle in Seattle, American architecture studio Olson Kundig and…
Peterson Rich Office designs galleries at The Met
Brooklyn-based architecture studio Peterson Rich Office has completed the design of five spaces at the Metropolitan Museum of…
Print Your Photos: It’s So Worth It
After my dad passed away a couple of years ago, I inherited his Nikon F and FTn cameras…
at the MET, sculptural mannequins are crafted from real bodies
real bodies brought into focus at the Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Art exhibition introduces…
‘We put our heads above the parapet’: Lubaina Himid on winning her 40-year battle to storm the Venice Biennale | Art and design
The Venice Biennale opening is just days away but Lubaina Himid isn’t in a rush. The artist, who…
Photographic memory is a myth – here’s what research really says about remembering
Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember…
miriam van der lubbe on shared attention in design
Over the years, I must have written hundreds of them. Letters for people facing serious injustice and violations…
Toyo Ito chooses eight favourite projects by Andrea Branzi
Italian museum Triennale Milano has unveiled the Continuous Present exhibition in Milan, which showcases works by architect Andrea…
‘I paint the kind of people I’m attracted to’: Hernan Bas on hiding from the world in Venice | Art and design
Hernan Bas has been living in Venice this year, painting tourists. He’s aware of the ironies. (He is…
Hotel Retro revives graphic luggage labels from the golden age of travel
These stickers are not only miniature relics from a history of design – tracing visual developments from art…
Traditional townhouses inform interiors of Capella Kyoto hotel
The unique “rhythm and progression” of Japanese machiya townhouses helped Brewin Design Office devise the interiors of this…
The husband and wife creating a 1920s-style black-and-white film in their basement
The film is intended to look as close as possible to the fine-grained, low-ISO films used in the…