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
Möbius strip proposed for Taiwan arts centre
Culture finds a dramatic setting in Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut's Swallow's Nest concept
Your chance to win a Picasso from Sotheby's
Help an ancient Mediterranean city and get a chance to win a minor Cubist masterpiece
Andy Warhol's Perrier designs out next week
The spring water firm digs out its early eighties Warhol commissions to celebrate 150th anniversary
From skyscraper to strawscraper
Henning Larsen's Stockholm island tower given a green makeover by local architecture practice Belatchew Labs
Inside the mind of Edgar Degas
New show Degas' Method in Copenhagen takes a sideways look at the impressionist's methods and motivations
Berlin photographer empties the UAE
In Matthias Heiderich's photographs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, pedestrians are conspicuous by their absence
Mickalene Thomas’s Art Basel 70s bar installation
New York artist throws together 70s bash, gets Beyonce's sister Solange to perform and Simon de Pury to DJ
Charting the lives of great artists
The Italian design agency Accurat has charted the lives of Picasso, Dali et al. What can we learn?
Legendary rock logo artist Arturo Vega dies
RIP Arturo Vega - the man who helped The Ramones sell more teeshirts than tickets
Mont Blanc refuge is as pure as the driven snow
Geneva-based Group-H's environmentally sound climber's refuge takes shape in French alps
Is this Banksy a great place to park £100k?
An early, fully authenticated Banksy print, Love is In The Air, goes on sale this month. Is it a good buy?
What to expect from Art Basel
Despite a packed season, this key European art fair still stands out, thanks to major works by big names
War critique wins the Deutsche Börse Photo Prize
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's updating of Bertolt Brecht's Marxist War Primer takes the £30,000 prize
The history of design in six short videos
The Open University sums up six key design movements in a cute new animated series
elBulli Adrià brothers spin a yarn at new restaurant
Japanese and Peruvian food and design meet at Pakta, Barcelona courtesy of a loom and El Equipo Creativo
Viñoly’s NY apartments to be highest in the West
Around $100 million 'should' secure you a penthouse at 432 Park Avenue when it completes in 2015
The Beano as reworked by Hemingway
Red or Dead founder Wayne and wife Geraldine rework brand guidelines for classic British comic
Has Richard Prince burned his disputed paintings?
A new video apparently depicts the artist torching his work Graduation - "to show the guy what I'm prepared to do"
The Venice Biennale in pictures
As the dust settles on the 55th Biennale opening, Craig Garrett makes sense of what's on offer
OOIIO proposes 'frame hotel' on Peruvian cliff
Impossibly named Spanish architecture practice's Unbalance Hotel responds to brief from Lima promoter
Damián Ortega brings art and science together
The more basic stuff gets, the more marvellous Damián Ortega's art becomes and it doesn't come much more basic than a tool made by a chimp. Skye Sherwin takes a look at as his great new Freud Museum show, Apestraction
Peter Zumthor unveils his new LACMA
First look at plans for the LA museum the architect is referring to as "The Black Flower"
Joel Meyerowitz returns to St Louis
The city celebrates once again the series of pictures it commissioned from the photographer 36 years ago
Wilhelm Sasnal’s space and speedway series
Don't miss this brilliant new Hauser & Wirth show which plays on the notion of the fallen man
New art quarter takes shape in the Netherlands
80km south of Amsterdam, in the historical forest town of Hertogenbosch, art is finding a new home. . .
John Pawson creates installation in Palladio basilica
Minimalist architect installs Perspectives in Venice's 16th century Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore
Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg team up again in France
Habiter Autrement joins the French Pritzker-prize winner in an award-winning social housing development
David Shrigley makes 'Wild Art' shrine for Bubbles
The Turner-nominated artist has created a memorial to Michael Jackson's one-time chimpanzee companion
