Shropshire washed its hands of ‘the major monument to Modernism in the county’

The saga of Shropshire Council’s former HQ Shirehall is a cautionary tale for political leaders unacquainted with the built environment, writes Leanne Tritton

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Lenka Milerová Architektka transforms stone pigsty in Czech Republic into holiday home

Lenka Milerová Architektka has converted a former pigsty in the Czech Republic into Panoší Újezd Summer House.

Richard Lareau's 1961 Bone Residence, a landmark of San Diego modernism, is for sale

Set in the canyons of Mission Hills, this post-and-beam residence – with its cedar walls and glass expanses framing views to the Pacific – is one of the finest-preserved works from the architect's career

Architect Carlo Ratti on why the Telepass equals freedom with every beep

The sixth instalment of the architect's series, 'Objectify', investigates how the Telepass brought freedom to the motorway

Athens apartment features "fluid layout" that adapts to houseguests

Sliding walls, hidden doors and a fold-down bed feature in this minimalist Athens apartment designed by Georgios Apostolopoulos.

Unfold Projects returns mid-century California residence to a "light-filled, organic oasis"

American studio Unfold Projects has renovated a modernist home in Encinitas, California, that will serve as a base for an artist residency program.

Yano Aoyama Architecture Design tops public toilet in Japan with sweeping timber canopy

Yano Aoyama Architecture Design has completed a public toilet for Tobe Zoological Park, creating two concrete blocks with a thin cedar roof.

Seven British dormer extensions that take design to another level

For our latest roundup, we've collected seven dormer extensions, from a design that takes cues from Italian palazzos to one clad in recycled plastic tiles.

Gómez Platero proposes four skyscrapers at former site of the Miami Herald

Gómez Platero has proposed "four irregularly shaped towers" as part of mixed-use development on the Miami waterfront

Inside This Austin Home Where the Interiors Are Equal Parts Autobiographical and Museum Worthy

Interior designer Jennifer Vaughn Miller and architect Paul Lamb created a new home for the collector and philanthropist’s art collection

Eight products that weld thoughtful design with metal materiality

Whether colourfully anodised or left in a brown- or silver-toned state, the following products are all made from metals.

Tiered skyscraper by SOM tops out on Chicago lakefront

A series of cascading terraces outline the North Tower skyscraper by SOM, which has topped out on a waterfront site in Chicago.

Jeffrey Berman Architect joins ENSEMBLE Architecture + Interiors

Jeffrey Berman Architect (JBA), a New York City–based healthcare architecture practice with nearly four decades of experience, has joined the global network of ENSEMBLE Architecture + Interiors.

Studio Egret West submits plans for giant £2bn Cambridge science and homes district

Studio Egret West has lodged plans for the £2 billion Crown Estate-backed redevelopment of Cambridge Business Park

Treasures of the Pharaohs

The de Young tells a story of state-building and art-making in ancient Egypt over the course of 3,000 years

Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography

From the construction of the Empire State Building to Reagan-era America, this survey captures the glamour and the hardship of life in the United States

Cechvala Architects cloaks Bratislava home with corrugated raw aluminium

Slovakian studio Cechvala Architects has completed RDH, a contemporary family home in Bratislava clad in corrugated aluminium.

AHMM’s London Electricity Building proposal knocked back by council

Tower Hamlets Council’s planning committee has voted against an Allford Hall Monaghan Morris plan to demolish and redevelop the London Electricity Building

Grzywinski + Pons clads The Kaye in aluminum panels, GFRC, and brick

New York architecture and design studio Grzywinski + Pons drew inspiration from its experience in adaptive reuse projects for The Kaye in Seattle, a new luxury high-rise.

SANAA proposal for National Museum of Ecuador selected after public backlash

A curving brick wall design by SANAA for the Museo Nacional de Ecuador (MuNA) has been selected after a previous proposal was recalled

FaulknerBrowns wins approval for Crystal Palace Sports Centre overhaul

FaulknerBrowns’ and WOO architects’ plans to renovate the post-war Grade II*-listed Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in south London have secured planning approval

Light Phone goes clamshell with "timeless" Flip model

Light has released a new clamshell version of its popular minimalist phone, combining "dumbphone" functionality with retro appeal.

Avoice launches "world's first AI agents" to run architecture studios

Promotion: San Francisco and London-based start-up Avoice has created an AI agent designed to run the entire operational side of an architecture studio. While much of the focus on artificial intelligence (AI) in the architecture profession is aimed at image generation, Avoice was designed to reduce the administrative load behind running a studio. Avoice's...

Theatre for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants among projects from Middlesex University

Dezeen School Shows: a theatre in London designed for international students, refugees, asylum seekers, early-career workers and first-generation migrants is among projects from Middlesex University. Also featured is a charity-led music library and recording studio seeking to reduce youth crime and a civic-religious space aiming to counteract loneliness. ...

Sony and Alamo Drafthouse to reopen Cinerama Dome

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and its subsidiary Alamo Drafthouse Cinema announced plans to restore and reopen Cinerama Dome.

Chicago Police Torture Justice Memorial breaks ground

Construction broke ground this month on a memorial in South Side Chicago to commemorate torture victims of the Chicago Police Department. The Chicago Torture Justice Memorial is designed by John Gay, founder of JAQ Corp International.

Dezeen Agenda features the stadiums hosting the 2030 World Cup

As part of our Future Stadium series, the latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a roundup of all 23 stadiums set to host the 2030 World Cup. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. The next World Cup will mark a centenary since the inaugural event, which was held in Uruguay in 1930. It The post Dezeen Agenda features the stadiums hosting ...

Manica unveils Kansas City Chiefs stadium topped with transparent dome

US studio Manica has unveiled the design for a 70,000-seat stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs NFL team, which will be topped with a transparent dome. The fully enclosed venue, which will replace the team's iconic Arrowhead Stadium, is set to cost $3 billion and open in 2031. According to Kansas City Chiefs CEO Clark The post Manica unveils Kansas City Chi...

Waterfront repair and craft hub among projects from University of Plymouth

Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for a waterside repair and reuse hub exploring craft, material reuse and environmental stewardship is among projects from the University of Plymouth. Also featured is a regenerative laboratory restoring Plymouth Sound's seabed and a proposal to transform polluted harbour water into a resource for marine research, industry a...

GMP Architekten renovated the Bernabéu for "full-time use"

Continuing our Future Stadium series, we look at the revamp of the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, Spain, which shows how an existing stadium can be future-proofed. Although numerous stadiums are built from the ground up every year, the reality is that many of the world's future stadiums already exist. Modern stadiums are some of The post GMP Archite...

HYAN renovates 70s home in Japan around "single, continuous" living space

Local architecture studio HYAN has renovated Green Sandwich House, a 1970s home in Japan, using a palette of timber, plaster and tiles to bring "warmth and texture" to a flexible, open living space. Named after its setting enveloped by wooded hills in Hayama, south of Tokyo, Green Sandwich House was renovated for HYAN's founders, architect The post HYAN r...

World's tallest timber tower tops out in Sydney

The Atlassian Central skyscraper, designed by SHoP Architects and BVN Architecture, in Sydney, Australia, has become the world's tallest hybrid timber tower. Designed as the Sydney headquarters for technology company Atlassian, the 180-metre-high office tower topped out earlier this week. With a hybrid structure of timber, steel and concrete it overtakes ...

A redwood-clad Kendrick Bangs Kellogg remodel brings 1970s organic modernism to market

The Chapman Residence in California – a standard suburban house totally transformed by Kellogg and the artist couple who lived in it – has been listed for the first time

Architects fear AI will cost jobs and harm profession’s next generation, RIBA finds

Nearly three-quarters of practices are now using AI on most projects but fears of staff cuts and fewer opportunities for early career architects have grown, according to a new RIBA report

This Lisbon townhouse is a dream home for wellness fanatics

Designed by McLean Quinlan to create a sense of ‘instant tranquillity’, the house is equipped with a personal gym, a sauna, and a meditation space

Waugh Thistleton submits plans for 146-unit south London co-living scheme

Waugh Thistleton has put forward plans for a 146-unit, timber-framed, co-living building in Walworth, south London

Patel Taylor gets the go-ahead for flats, hotel and co-living tower in Docklands

Patel Taylor has won planning consent for proposals for a 54-storey, mixed-tenancy residential skyscraper on the Isle of Dogs, east London

"New York's largest kaleidoscope" among immersive artworks at Edge NYC viewpoint

Design studios Softlab and Moment Factory have created seven immersive installations for the 350-metre-high Edge NYC skyscraper viewpoint at Hudson Yards, including a massive kaleidoscope and a series of pulsating globes. Edge NYC, which is the highest indoor-outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, is set on the 100th floor of Kohn Pedersen Fox's 30 T...

Student grows fuzzy fridge from bacteria to challenge norms around cooling

Designer Audrey Levy has reimagined a common household appliance with her project How to Grow a Refrigerator, applying sustainable insulating and cooling technologies that take advantage of the power of bacteria and the sun. The refrigerator, alternatively titled Xero Cool, is a compact, soft capsule made out of bacterial cellulose xerogel – a light, high...

Forbo incorporates discarded cocoa shells into Marmoleum flooring

Flooring manufacturer Forbo has revealed how agricultural waste from cacao production has been repurposed into flooring that supports cacao-growing communities in West Africa in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. According to the brand, Marmoleum Cocoa is made from up to 98 per cent natural raw materials including linseed oil, wood flour and jute. T...

James Carville and Mary Matalin’s Country Home Has a Design Narrative of “Farmers on Acid”

The political strategists worked with Washington, DC-based designer Cameron Ruppert to reimagine “The Farm” into a kaleidoscopic escape

SANAA and others to design National Museum of Ecuador

On July 19 Ecuador’s Minister of Transportation and Public Works Roberto Luque announced that SANAA, Caá Porá Arquitectura, Estudio A0, Jerome Haferd Studio, and Taller Capital Landscape have been selected to design the National Museum of Ecuador in Quito, after the public rejected the design by Studio Campo Baeza.

Gensler-designed wellness center breaks ground in South Dakota

Construction has begun on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribal Wellness Center, designed by Gensler, in Flandreau, South Dakota.

AIA’s Architecture Billings Index reports slight recovery in June

In May, the ABI score was 44.5, the lowest of the year, and it increased slightly in June to 47.3. The index still remains in, as the AIA put it, “negative territory.”

Rehabilitative prison with crafting spaces among projects from Norwich University of the Arts

Dezeen School Shows: a rehabilitative prison in a former mill with crafting and vocational spaces is among the projects from Norwich University of the Arts. Also featured is a project that explores how Brutalism can complement nature, and a proposal for wellbeing and communal social spaces inside Norwich's city walls. Norwich University of the Arts Instit...

Ali McQuaid Mitchell on how to design today’s trending bathhouses

Ali McQuaid Mitchell of Futurestudio has shaped spas and saunas into cultural destinations. She shares how she designed these bathhouses.

Breezy louvre walls enclose restaurant in Thailand by Studio Locomotive

An external skin of timber louvres filters light and air into the double-height interiors of Waankarn, a restaurant and events space in Thailand designed by local architecture practice Studio Locomotive. Located in the coastal village of Khao Lak, the space was designed to combine a bar and restaurant for the area's increasing number of tourists, The post...

Kenta Hirayama clads House in Kinuta in steel-sheet facade

Architect Kenta Hirayama has designed an "unpretentious house" in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, which features a metal facade and deliberately simple gabled roof. Called House in Kinuta, the detached home's pared-back design aims to maximise natural light while still providing enough privacy for the young family living in the densely populated area. "Located in ...

Marmoleum Cocoa flooring by Forbo Flooring

Dezeen Showroom: surface brand Forbo Flooring's Marmoleum Cocoa flooring makes use of unwanted cocoa shells – an oft-wasted by-product of the cocoa industry. Marmoleum Cocoa is an evolution of Forbo Flooring's existing Marmoleum range, which is made from up to 98 per cent natural raw materials, including linseed oil, wood flour and jute. In addition to Th...

GSA rules out £265m Mac rebuild without cash help

An estimated £265 million rebuild of the Mackintosh building will not happen without a major cash injection, the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has said

MVRDV wraps Beijing roof tiles around Chinese moon gates for fashion flagship store

Architecture studio MVRDV has designed a flagship store for Chinese fashion brand Urban Revivo in Beijing, China, with a dramatic facade informed by the roof tiles on the city's traditional houses. Located within Beijing's Sanlitun shopping district, the store sits along the main pedestrian route of the district that connects the south section, known for ...

Gensler picked for Phase 1 of 5,000-home riverside scheme opposite O2 Arena

Gensler has been appointed to deliver the first 1,500-home phase of the £2.5 billion Thameside West development on the site of a previously consented masterplan by Foster + Partners

A new portico and extension create a richly varied restoration of a popular Irish venue

Drumhalla House, a popular event space, now features a new portico and more architectural interventions, bringing it closer to the landscape, and updating and enhancing its interiors

Vanderbilt University announces new architecture college in San Francisco

Today Vanderbilt University announced that Vanderbilt San Francisco’s flagship will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design. The new college is anticipated to open in 2027, pending the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals.

MVRDV wins Shift’s new world wonder competition

Eighty architecture and design firms submitted proposals to Shift’s competition to design a new world wonder with the Shift Embassy for a Better Future, a building “to drive a global social movement.” MVRDV won the competition.

Le Corbusier Inspired This Candy Pink Villa Nestled in Singapore's Jungle

Monkeys circle the pool of this modernist home, with ultrarefined interiors bolstered by Max Lamb chairs and Noguchi lamps alike

Jeremy Melvin, World Architecture Festival curator, dies at 62

British writer, curator, and academic Jeremy Melvin, who specialized in modern and contemporary architecture, died at age 62 on July 14.

Leijia Hanrahan’s like songs about airports launches in New York

like songs about airports, a collection of texts by the late critic Leijia Hanrahan, launches in New York City at Ridgewood Commons. A revolutionary, geographer, essayist and poet, Hanrahan died in 2022.

Indoor and outdoor ceramics products that add visual interest

Textures and tone, from deep veining to shimmer effects, upgrade ceramics into visually arresting facades.

Alma-nac SEND school in former sports hall starts on site

Alma-nac's plans for a new specialist school for children with autism and additional social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs in Wigan has started on site

Burnham pledges council homes drive as Rayner returns

Angela Rayner has returned as housing secretary as the new prime minister pledged to build more council homes on his first day

Who has earned the most from the GLA’s A+U Framework?

The AJ can reveal how much has been paid to practices on the Mayor of London’s Architecture and Urbanism (A+U) framework for contracts awarded over the past three years

Categorised and themed: Brighton student show 2026

Twelve years after the AJ last commissioned a review of the University of Brighton’s end-of-year show, Derin Fadina makes a visit to his alma mater

When the air outside is dangerous, your building is either protecting you or it isn’t

Interiors of homes designed and built—or renovated—to Passive House standards are far more protected from outdoor conditions, like poor air quality due to wildfire smoke.

Arcadis and SmithGroup restore Thomas Park, a Revolutionary War site

Thomas Park, a Revolutionary War site, and Dorchester Heights Monument were recently rehabilitated by Arcadis, SmithGroup, and others.

Krueck Secton Partners is renovating two University of Illinois at Chicago buildings

A major expansion and rehabilitation effort is underway at the University of Illinois at Chicago East Campus led by Krueck Sexton Partners. The project denotes the first comprehensive renovation of a pair of Brutalist buildings, Jefferson Hall and Henry Hall, designed by SOM’s Walter Netsch and completed at UIC in 1965.

Architecture critic Jeremy Melvin dies

Former AJ and Architectural Review contributor Jeremy Melvin has died, aged 62

Disappearing rooms and clever storage transform a 1970s apartment in Athens

An apartment by Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects features a fluid interior shaped by movement and light, set within a landmark circular residential block to the north of the city

It’ll be all white: the first-ever production Ferrari Luce goes up for sale at RM Sotheby’s

Ferrari Luce Chassis 0 has been given the Ferrari Tailor Made treatment, creating this uniquely sensual white-on-white car

Architect Carlo Ratti on why the pedalò is the most democratic vessel in the Mediterranean

The fifth instalment of the architect's series, 'Objectify,' investigates how the pedalò shows that 'form follows fun'

This Roman Designer Renovated Her Historic Home with Romantic Gardens in Mind

Ludovica Malagò’s condo blends botanical influences, rainbow mosaics, and vintage straw furnishings

Sightlines: British Landscape Photography, 1840–Now

These snapshots of the great outdoors at the Yale Center for British Art range from the purely artistic to the fiercely political

Brett Whiteley: Coming Home

After a two-year renovation, the artist’s studio in Sydney reopens with a survey of the inventive, impressive work he made in the ’70s

Miró: Proof Against All

In 1958 the painter and printmaker collaborated with the French poet and fellow Surrealist Paul Éluard to create one of the most ingenious of all artist’s books

All aboard the Aston Martin Dreadnought, your virtual sanctuary from a violent world

Aston Martin digs in to create a new brand extension, this time for the digital world of Call of Duty. Enter the Dreadnought, a playable super SUV designed to give video gamers an edge

BT Tower plans unveiled: what’s in store for the Grade II-listed icon?

Orms has revealed its plans to convert London's BT Tower into a hotel. Here is what we know

LOV. Foundation

Peace-making; the valorisation and preservation of traditional crafts; the feminine approach to leadership; nature conservation; mental wellbeing; and the support of contemporary artistic creation are amongst LOV.Foundation’s main goals.

Snow Rooms Are Where the Wealthy Hide Out During Heatwaves

If you can’t stand the heat, try a snow room—or retractable walls, or an underground retreat

Ferrari’s new 849 Testarossa Spider weaves a web of desire for both drivers and bystanders

When most people think of Ferrari they probably conjure up a car like this – low, fast, and loud. We try the Testarossa across the twisty landscape of Tenerife and muse on Ferrari’s longstanding appeal

The Mini Mojito Mk2 mixes up the beach car category with a fizzing take on the classic Mini

The beach car is the ultimate holiday transport, a stripped-back machine designed for sunny climes, quiet roads and an unhurried pace. The latest car to join the club is the Crayford Mini Mojito Mk2

A Brutalist Marseille Villa Takes Inspiration from Formula 1 and Brazilian Modernism

Perched on a Mediterranean hillside, this home was designed “for someone who knows how to have a good time”

Archer Aviation wants to take you up, up and away. We talk to the American eVTOL pioneer

Archer Aviation’s Midnight aircraft is currently undergoing testing. Will the Californian company be first to market in a crowded field of eVTOL contenders?

A yoga retreat in East Hampton translates the art of wellness into architectural form

BE_Design’s Woods Retreat is a blackened temple to the principles of yogic process in a spectacular woodland location

This bucolic Somerset retreat is surrounded by wildflower meadows

London studio Daytrip reinvents a 1990s Somerset retreat by refining its interiors, clarifying its architecture, and opening it onto the British countryside

This 18th-Century Apartment in Paris Defines the “Happy Gothic” Aesthetic

Designer Clément Lesnoff-Rocard shaped a classic Marais apartment around the owners’ art collection and young children

I, Gustave Courbet: Painter and Rebel

The painter had a knack for making enemies and, as this exhibition at Museum Folkwang makes clear, his art was all the better for it

Rembrandt to Matisse: A Celebration of Works on Paper

Prints, drawings and watercolours from the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection reveal how Continental Europe inspired Irish artists, and vice versa

Inside Christian Interior Design: What Would Jesus Design?

A growing number of faith-forward interior designers are decorating homes Christ-first. Turns out it’s as good for business as it is for their souls

From Adobe Designs To Frank Lloyd Wright: The 250-Year Quest For a True American Architecture Style

These are the building aesthetics that have come to represent the nation

The Renaissance Engraver at Work

The Cleveland Museum of Art sheds light on how early engravers mastered their art – and how prints came to conquer western Europe

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

The photographer’s talent for infusing the textures of everyday Mexican life with a fantastical sensibility is on full display at SFMOMA

Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

MoMA explores how newly liberated nations expressed their independence through architecture from the late ’50s to the early ’80s

After Decades of Building Homes on Nantucket, Andrew Kotchen Finally Created His Own

Drawing on long experience crafting homes on the island, Workshop/APD founder Andrew Kotchen made a family home that feels authentic without relying on clichés

Gil Schafer, Redd Kaihoi, and Miranda Brooks Rewrite the Script for the Great American Lake House

The Vermont escape designed by three AD100 talents feels centuries in the making, straddling the worlds of fashion and an English country home

Inside the New Museum’s New Restaurant, Where Sleek Steel Meets Subterranean Design

How a cozy eatery was brought to life inside the museum’s slick, OMA-designed expansion

A Historic Los Feliz Home Is Recast to Reflect a TV Writer’s Colorful Personality

Designer Daphne Nauleau reimagined a Paul Revere Williams home to be bold and inviting

Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Eye That Listens

The Danish artist’s paintings of eerie interiors are joined by portraits, landscapes and depictions of musicians

Kave Home × RCR: personality and intention

The Art of Flowers: In Conversation with Carolin Ruggaber

Caro Ruggaber’s studio sits beside a meadow-like field that edges the River Spree — wild green pushing into what was once a heavily industrial landscape....

Frida: The Making of an Icon

The Tate explores how the Mexican artist became a pop-culture phenomenon and influenced generations of artists around the world

‘Bunjin’ in Japanese Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates the Edo-period tradition of scholars getting together to share art they had made

"Echoes of Space"

Openhouse presented “Echoes of Space,” in partnership with Expormim, Saba Italia, JOV, Japan Form and Mike Hausmann.

Collecting for the Future: 250 Years of the Albertina Museum

A chance to see highlights from one of the world’s greatest collections of prints and drawings, from Dürer’s hare to contemporary works

The Department of Euterpe (1926–2026)

The Warburg Institute’s returns to its roots with a sound installation and playful visions of a fictional century-old research faculty

Kissabō: A Contemporary Japanese Tea Bar in Berlin

On a sunny tree-lined street in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, plum-coloured noren (暖簾) — traditional Japanese split curtains — float gently in the breeze. They mark...

Wael Shawky: Drama 1882

Audiences in Paris have six weeks to catch a vivid reimagining of a crossroads in Egypt’s colonial history

Berlin on Camera: 100 Years of Photography and the Press

Snapshots of life published in newspapers in the German capital over the last century provide revealing insights into propaganda, reportage and the art of photography itself

In the Italian Manner: Spain and the Mediterranean Gothic, 1320–1420

The Prado explores the influence of the Italian painters who took their painterly innovations to Spain in the 14th century

Casa Brava

The house was first known as Casa de Ventós I, and later as Casa de la Tortuga. Today, Casa Brava stands on a hillside on a peninsula close to Sa Riera.

The Liljestrand House

A mid-century Hawaiian gem, Liljestrand House is a reminder of the value of preserving touchstones from our past.

RedDuo Galleria

For MDW, the multidisciplinary studio by Fabiola di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso opened the doors to their old flat, and it did not disappoint.

CRISTINA at MDW

CRISTINA is marking a new chapter in its trajectory: a profound, human-centric evolution of its brand identity.

Carl Hansen & Søn

During Milan Design Week, Carl Hansen & Søn also introduced two new additions to the Hans J. Wegner collection.

A Vocabulary of Form: At Home With Sculptor Veronika Janovec

“Is the equation between destruction and growth also a formula for art?” writes American postmodern novelist Kathy Acker in Against Ordinary Language: The Language of...

Tadashi Kawamata Leads Ruinart’s Latest Conversation with Nature

Tadashi Kawamata has been creating temporal installations from salvaged materials since the late 1970s — wooden accretions that appear to have grown organically from the...

Strom by Celeste Asfour: A Seasonal Café Where Reverie Meets Play

In the heart of Berlin, a quiet courtyard sits framed by historic properties that once thrummed with the energy of industry. Here, on the ground...

Sanghyeok Lee on ARC, Emptiness, and the Spaces Between

Sanghyeok Lee’s work is nothing if not balanced. It is restrained and minimal. Playful and intellectually rigorous.

Hagius: Architecture as a Medium for Wellbeing

Berlin’s vibrant Torstraße in Mitte isn’t exactly a street you’d associate with the words “calm” or “retreat”. Yet, from the moment you step into the...

TRADER HiFi Tunes Hamburg’s Coffee Culture to a New Frequency

Hamburg’s growing TRADER constellation stems from founder Vincent von Thien’s wish to offer his city more than another café. TRADER Gallery in the Schanze set...

Worlds Between Water and Waste: Leeroy New at Futurium’s Ocean Futures

At Berlin’s Futurium museum for futures thinking, the exhibition Ocean Futures (on through 31 August 2026) navigates the planet’s vast expanses of water as infrastructure,...

House Zafari: Studio Penzlien and Maj van der Linden Reframe Berlin Living

In Berlin’s diplomatic center, not far from Unter den Linden and the Brandenburg Gate, a new interior offers an unexpected lens onto domestic life in...

Child’s Play: With INDERGARTEN, Yellow Nose Studio Returns to First Principles

When Berlin-based design duo Yellow Nose Studio first removed the K from ‘kindergarten’ to name their evolving collection of objects, they opened more than a...

Architect Seamus Kowarzik: In the Details, a Dialogue

For architect Seamus Kowarzik, the shift between a building and a bench is hardly a shift at all. The same questions persist – how materials...

“History is a Battleground”: Zuzanna Czebatul and the Pergamon Altar

Zuzanna Czebatul is interested in the way monuments shape and perform power. Through her sculpture-based practice, she distorts architectural forms and cultural relics—columns, obelisks, busts—to...

Q&A: Viviane Sassen on the Body as Symbol, Surface, and Story

Over the past three decades, Dutch artist Viviane Sassen has carved a singular path through the intersecting worlds of photography, fashion, and contemporary art. Known...

Daniel Hölzl Reimagines the Architecture of Endings with ‘soft cycles’ at Berlinische Galerie

In the work of Daniel Hölzl, every ending is a nexus for new beginnings. His practice unfolds through recursive gestures—recycling, reconstitution and transformation. Through soft...

What the Land Remembers: Julian Charrière and Ruinart Engage in Conversations with Nature

On the chalky soil of Champagne, time collects in layers. Ancient sea beds, slow-growing vines, and old-world rituals compound into to a future shaped by...

George Nakashima Woodworkers: A Legacy Carved in Time

Stepping onto the grounds of George Nakashima Woodworkers feels like entering another world—a quieter, more refined realm. The soft light, unhurried sense of time, and...

The Saut Hermès 2025: A Spectacle of Airborne Precision at Paris’s Grand Palais

For three days in March, the show jumping competition Saut Hermès transformed Paris’s Grand Palais into a theatre of equestrian brilliance. Beneath the newly restored...

Unesco adds ancient Greek city Tauric Chersonese in Crimea to World Heritage in Danger list

The decision comes after calls by Ukraine to protect the archaeological site, which is now managed by a Russian Orthodox cleric appointed by Vladimir Putin

132 New York Artists Receive $903,000 in Grants

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program awards each recipient $8,000 in unrestricted cash.

Former V&A Academic Programs Head Accuses Museum of “Racist” Behavior

A recently shared letter from Yuko Kikuchi, who resigned from her post in January, asks the British institution to address its “culture of systemic racism.”

Meet the Curators of the Next “Made in LA”

Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet get the nod, Tate names a new director, and the Immigrant Artist Biennial is back for another edition.

Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue

The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.

Giant Wieners, Drag Queens, and Curtis Sliwa at “The Most American Pageant Ever!”

The absurdist performance art event at Times Square felt more like an elegy during this national moment.

Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations

After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa

Benoît Maubrey’s sound sculptures are an ‘ohmage’ to the inherent goodness in people

STIR talks to the Berlin-based sculpture artist on his journey and learnings from decades of creating public installations using upcycled loudspeakers.

More Than Cat Food reveals advertising's longest-running visual accomplice

Published by everyedition, Alberto Vieceli’s latest book is a visual archive that charts how adverts have enlisted felines to sell everything (except cat food).

A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk

Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv

Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum's Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall

Leaders of New York’s Museum of Chinese failed to persuade protesters that a $35 million grant from the city was not tied to the construction of a borough jail.

Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director

The British curator will return to London to helm the museum network beginning next year.

Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment

The suit filed by Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi concerns nearly $50,000 in payments allegedly owed to the artists.

Juliana Huxtable and Mark Bradford in Major Gift to the Zimmerli Art Museum

Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein have gifted over 70 works of modern and contemporary art to the Rutgers University museum.

Between Word and World: Creating new languages for curating design

Celebrating 25 years of MA Curating Contemporary Design, the symposium explored how language can move beyond fixed meanings to transform design-curatorial practice.

Jessica Morgan named new Tate director

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027

Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July

Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style

Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end

Museum acquisitions round-up: a Kandinsky ‘Improvisation’ and a canvas by Minimalist pioneer Agnes Martin

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Yoko Ono’s most famous performance art piece cuts both ways in Los Angeles

The artist MPA put her twist on the seminal "Cut Piece" at Redcat, in tandem with the Broad’s presentation of Ono’s traveling retrospective

Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?

An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts

House of Memories’ porous brick interstices envelope nostalgia and stillness

Designed by Studio Lagom, the building takes cues from Indian vernacular architecture, catalysed by reclaimed wood furniture from the client’s old home.

A fresh appreciation of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, who was haunted by mental illness

The most comprehensive show of the artist since the 1970s brings together more than 100 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

Head of V&A’s academic programmes resigned citing ‘racist’ and ‘culturally insensitive’ behaviours, letter reveals

Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials

Quinta de Adorigo’s sinuous timber profile mirrors Portugal’s oldest vineyards

For the legacy development in Alto Douro, Atelier Sérgio Rebelo mediates the functional efficiency of a winery with the site’s rich topographical and socio-ecological fabric.

STIR at UIA World Congress: Can Becoming planetary address our uncertain present?

The World Congress of Architects 2026 convened in Barcelona, demanding deep awareness of pre-existing physical and cultural landscapes for the futures architecture can make.

Seymour Chwast's The Picture Book Book explores his art of children's book design

STIR speaks with the celebrated American graphic designer about the new retrospective publication by gestalten that chronicles the lesser-known world of his children's books.

Arbitrary Nations by Asbestos invents new collectives through imagined flag designs

STIR speaks with the Irish creative on his ongoing project reimagining the rigidity of nation states through myriad flag designs, probing identity, community and symbolism.

West Bund Museum's Material Matters on learning through the hands and the eyes

A double solo exhibition of Sheila Hicks and Shi Hui unpacks two independent artistic worlds through material, memory and the unmediated experience of making.

We Must Imagine It by Unfold Projects advocates for regenerative art and design

Using salvaged wood, wild earth, copper remnants and more, the exhibition at ICA San Diego / North brings together 20 regional creatives exploring regenerative approaches to making.

Vitra Design Museum stirs form, colour and space for Verner Panton’s birth centenary

Taking a closer look at the comprehensive retrospective at the Vitra Schaudepot in Weil am Rhein, STIR explores the enduring relevance of the 20th-century designer.

Experimenter Curators’ Hub and the new, rhizomatic structures of the art world

This July, Experimenter Kolkata will host the 15th edition of the Curators’ Hub, where select global curators gather to broaden conceptions of curation in a circular model.

A monastic relic at the edge of time: Monologue café by SOSOKKI ANAC

A sequence of folded planes articulates this café in South Korea, which emerges as a single-storey fortress of red brick, concrete, stainless steel and orchestrated light.

The architecture of socialist science and ambitions in Soviet Scientific Institutes

Photographer Eric Lusito documents the Soviet Union’s laboratories, reactors and other scientific buildings across the former USSR landscape in a new book by FUEL.

Do Androids Dream of AGI?

Vinícius Portella argues that no democratic or socialist future will ever be possible unless digital technology is liberated for the common good

Against the Clock: Remote Work, Stolen Sleep, and the Limits of Extraction

Elvia Wilk writes that the film Sleep Dealer shows what happens when the 24/7 economy treats the body clock as an inconvenience to be overcome.

Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds: A Conversation

Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis discuss Indigenous anarchism in Indonesia.

Remembering Steve Kurtz (1958–2025) of Critical Art Ensemble, Part 1

Remembrances of Steve Kurtz by Nato Thompson, Claire Pentecost, Brooke Singer, David Garcia, Rich Pell, and Lucas Fortunato. (Part 1 of 2. )

Remembering Steve Kurtz (1958–2025) of Critical Art Ensemble, Part 2

Remembrances of Steve Kurtz by Nicola Triscott, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Samuel Ashford, Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, and Trevor Paglen. (Part 2 of 2.)

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

On May 14, the Walker Art Center will open Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love, the first major museum retrospective dedicated to the work of groundbreaking artist Suzanne Jackson.

Igshaan Adams: Unsettling Dust—The Body’s Archive

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body’s Archive, the third chapter of the Museum’s in situ series.

Maja Malou Lyse: Things to Come

The Danish Arts Foundation presents Things To Come, by Danish artist Maja Malou Lyse at the Danish Pavilion for the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Chus Martínez.

Living to Learn: Art & Education for the Common Good

Living to Learn: Art & Education for the Common Good presented by Inventory Press.

Tolia Astakhishvili: Figure of the Child and Tolia Curriculum

Figure of the Child is Tolia Astakhishvili’s first solo museum exhibition and her largest presentation to date.

Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán: Black Seas—Scores for the Sonic Eye

Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán, Black Seas—Scores for the Sonic Eye // May 9–November 22, 2026

In Another Man’s Yard

Marking the second presentation of The Bahamas at the Venice Biennale following a 13-year hiatus, the Pavilion is an intergenerational dialogue between Bahamian artists John Beadle and Lavar Munroe.

Klara Kristalova, Benjamin Orlow, Tori Wrånes: How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?

How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? is a collaborative exhibition presented by the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Mariechen Danz and Andrea Grützner

The Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections (Kustodie) at TUD Dresden University of Technology presents two parallel exhibitions in the summer semester 2026: Circuits by Mariechen Danz and Rasenstücke (Grass Patches) by Andrea Grützner.

Copper Tones for Abimis Stainless Steel Kitchens

Created using a micro-brushing technique, the new finish introduces a unique aesthetic to the tailor-made kitchens of the Atelier line

Cosentino’s Éclos Signals the End of the Quartz Era—and a Reordering of the Surface Industry

Discover how Cosentino’s Éclos challenges quartz with silica-free, layered design and recycled content. See what this shift means for architecture.

LG CLOiD™: The AI Robot Bringing Smart Homes to Life

From cooking breakfast to folding laundry, LG’s new home robot manages daily tasks with precision and ease

LEGO® SMART Play™: When the Brick Comes to Life

The new smart play system lets children build, modify, and activate their own interactive, screen-free creations that surprise and engage through responsive play

The New Samsung Speakers Designed by Erwan Bouroullec

‘An essential shape for visualising sound’: the Music Studio series reinterprets traditional loudspeakers through a point and a sphere

When Architecture Starts Hallucinating

Does generative AI redefine architecture—or dissolve it? Aaron Betsky questions AI’s promises and its real impact on design. Read more.

Casalgrande Padana Porcelain Stoneware Induction Hobs

A uniform, continuous surface with no visual interruptions, incorporating perimeter lighting or an extractor hood. Ghost, the new smart solution for the kitchen

We Used to Build Buildings. Now We Grow Them.

Architecture is evolving—materials are now grown, not built. Discover how science is redefining the future of construction and design.

Multimedia Furniture for Home and Office

USM Leica Cine Collection combines USM iconic modular design with Leica Cinema TV technology in four sideboards with integrated projector system

Are Architects Ready for Materials That Think for Themselves?

Metamaterials—once confined to physics labs—are reshaping architecture. From bricks that silence cities to walls that cloak light, these engineered materials invert the logic of design, putting geometry at the heart of performance.

Downdraft Extraction According to Falmec

Design, technology and versatility come together in three solutions designed to seamlessly integrate extraction and cooking, ensuring high performance and minimalist aesthetics

Architectures of Adaptability

Red Dot Award for Pininfarina and AC Future's AI Transformer Home Series

SKYY wins the Pierantoni Innovation Award for its Evolving Wellness Ecosystem

Sound Engineering Blends with Natural Stone

Audio brand Bang & Olufsen presents its new collaboration with Antolini: Beosound Balance Natura, a capsule collection of 16 marble-base speakers

The Power of Steam for Kitchen

From Combi steam ovens to the Sliding Hinge dishwasher, Signature Kitchen Suite appliances redefine cooking and hygiene standards with its innovative steam technology

Eco-Conscious Driving is Now a Reality

Aptera unveils its solar electric vehicle at CES 2025