Tomás Saraceno premiers a new installation at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi. Photograph: Ela Bialkowska / OKNO Studio Get a bitesize overview of the week’s headlines and Inclusivity and representation: ...

&Tradition’s hybrid art-design exhibition aims to highlight the Copenhagen-based brand’s global perspective, inviting five designers and design studios from across the globe to explore the Couldn’t ...

In 1964, US photographer Tony Vaccaro travelled to Finland to snap Finnish brand Marimekko’s textiles for Life magazine. His arresting images include an aerial shot of a gigantic parasol emblazoned ...

Behind an unassuming entrance, the Aalto House nestles into the hillside of Riihitie in Helsinki’s leafy Munkkiniemi neighbourhood. From the quiet residential street it might take visitors to Aino and ...

In my 1980s suburban childhood, playing in public space was limited to the local park or recreation ground. The common British playground – rusty or graffiti-covered variations on a roundabout, ...

“I have this image of Swarovski being all bling-bling and glamorous,” says Maarten Baas, discussing Thought Cloud, his installation for the luxury brand’s Digital Crystal ...

Isle of Dogs Pumping Station.Photo by Reading Tom via Flickr Popular between the 1970s and 90s, postmodern architecture featured houses with curving forms, bright colours ...

Now open to the public, architect Konstantin Melnikov’s Moscow home was at the heart of a bitter ownership dispute that pitted its use as a ...

Architecture Icon: Mies van der Rohe’s domestic masterpiece in Brno has survived everything the 20th century could throw at it Nearly a century after its construction – including a time when its ...

What if fashion could capture carbon instead of being a major contributor to the world’s emissions? Post Carbon Lab designer DJ Lin explains the studio’s ...

BIG’s Serpentine Pavilion, which stacks numerous repeating units, is characteristic of the firm’s designs. Image: George Rex / Creative Commons. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels heads BLOX by OMA on the ...

First a student then a teacher at the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer designed many innovative pieces. His Wassily chair is the most iconic Words by Debika ...