Old-world fire and new-world tech: how an iPhone’s extreme telephoto reach photographed China’s ancient art of molten sparks
At first glance, this could almost be two lions rearing against the night sky, their manes rendered in…
Allies and Morrison wins approval to redevelop Hackney’s New Era estate
The scheme has been drawn up for current owner Dolphin Living, a charitable foundation which bought the estate…
New York exhibition explores how the Wiener Werkstätte preserved the human touch of handcraft – The Art Newspaper
Operating just outside of Vienna’s historic centre a century ago, the Wiener Werkstätte aspired to handcraft beautiful objects…
urban soul project’s hospitality design translates local narratives into spatial experiences
URBAN SOUL PROJECT SHAPES QUIET CHOREOGRAPHED ATMOSPHERES Approaching hospitality as a dynamic sequence of experiences, Urban Soul…
Nan Goldin has spent 50 years photographing people. But her new film work turns away from them entirely, to focus on nature and animals
You Never Did Anything Wrong opens at the Hayward Gallery on November 24 this year, running until March…
Renzo Piano’s giant glass cube towers over the rest of the Stirling prize’s samey brick-built shortlist | Architecture
If Irvine Sellar, the larger-than-life developer who gave London the 95-storey hypodermic pinnacle of the Shard, had had…
RIBA Stirling Prize 2026 shortlist revealed
The practice, which scooped the UK’s most prestigious architecture award last year for its Appleby Blue Almshouse in…
How do you avoid overcomplicating an editorial illustration? Ana Miminoshvili has mastered the art
For editorial illustrations, the brief is the article. The first step for Georgian illustrator Ana Miminoshvili is research,…
AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2026 shortlist 4: Future reuse, Europe, retrofit revisited, decarbonisation and grassroots
These awards celebrate architectural excellence in the renewal and repurposing of existing buildings. This year’s 18 categories emphasise…
rooftop garden crowns concrete house shaped by spiraling patios
TWO CURVES GENERATE THE HOUSE’S SPIRAL PLAN AtelierM organizes this house around the relationship between two curves:…
Mhairi Coyle turns a vast open-plan room into a cosy retreat
Although the kitchen was installed during an earlier renovation, the space required refinement. One way that Mhairi accomplished…
No waste land: Tipping Point East in London, UK by Material Cultures, Resolve Collective and Yes Make
At Tipping Point East in London, Material Cultures, Resolve and Yes Make have created a centre…