Have you seen Cornell's bright new Gates Hall?

Take a look at this - another beautiful academic building from Morphosis, the firm behind 41 Cooper Square

Bill & Melinda Gates Hall by Morphosis

Phaidon Outtakes #4 Massimo Bottura and poetry

Spend a little time in contemplation, and “the 25 cent glass can become a piece of art" says our skinny Italian chef

Massimo Bottura with his Carlo Benvenuto bicchieri sculptures

Gratuitous sex, death and Guy Bourdin

Why did the photographer only find true fame after his death? Our iBook author Alison Gingeras has the answer

Guy Bourdin, Roland Pierre advertisement (1982-1983)

Gombrich Explains Michelangelo

As the V&A prepares its cast of David for display, we look at why the human form held no secrets for the sculptor

Conservator Johanna Puisto unveils the cast of Michelangelo's David post conservation, Nov 2014 in the Weston Cast Court

Three things not to miss at Design Miami

A virtual coral reef, a celebration of Sottsass and Le Corbusier’s student digs all feature at next month’s fair

Coral images - Coral Morphologic

Jane Hornby’s failsafe Pumpkin Pie recipe

Our What To Bake expert offers a Brit view of Thanksgiving and remembers previous celebrations

What To Bake & How to Bake It author Jane Hornby. Photo by Matt Russell

Phaidon Outtakes #3 Massimo and the mozzarella

Our Skinny Chef has reinvented Italian cuisine, but he still delights in the arrival of some simple produce

Massimo Bottura

War's effect on peace is examined in new Tate show

Tate Modern curator Shoair Mavlian talks us through the new exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography

Shomei Tomatsu Steel Helmet with Skull Bone Fused by Atomic Bomb, Nagasaki 1963 © Shomei Tomatsu - interface. Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Luisa Lambri opens a window into her soul

Shooting Space photographer makes herself comfortable in other people's homes - then photographs the results

Palacio dos Arcos - Luisa Lambri

The quiet rise of the photo fair photographer

The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey on the artists who get ahead by working the circuit

Extreme Tourism: Lava Surfing No. 1 (2011) by Thomas Mailaender, as reproduced in The Photography Book

One thing not to miss in Amsterdam

Set in a 20's greenhouse De Kas is one of many highlights in our newly released Wallpaper* City Guide app

De Kas, Amsterdam, as featured in our new downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

How Toulouse-Lautrec mixed high art and low life

On the painter's birthday, learn how he made cabaret girls and prostitutes a worthy subject for fine art

The Salon in the Rue des Moulins (1894) by Toulouse-Lautrec, as reproduced in our monograph

Desert Modern Style celebrated in Palm Springs

New Architecture and Design Center housed in Marmol Radziner-restored E. Stewart Williams building

Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center - E. Stewart Williams/ Marmol Radziner (photo Daniel Chavkin courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum

Gombrich Explains René Magritte

The surrealist, born on this day in 1898, didn’t break with artistic techniques, he employed them on his dreams

Detail from Not to be Reproduced (1937) by René Magritte

More than one Margarita at the ambassador's house

We launched Mexico The Cookbook at a select food and drinks party last night, here's what happened

Mexico The Cookbook author Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Like clear answers? Then don't look at abstract art

A new Italian study suggests that a desire for ‘cognitive closure’ might limit our appreciation of abstract works

Warsaw Thirds (1986) by Harvey Quaytman as featured in our Harvey Quaytman monograph

Rem Koolhaas building remade as a wardrobe

Naihan Li recreates iconic Beijing CCTV building as 1:100-scale rosewood cupboard - peak irony reached

CCTV wardrobe, from Naihan Li’s I Am Monument series

Baz Luhrmann’s Art Basel Miami Beach booth

Why has the director teamed up with British music producer Nellee Hooper to host a stand at next month’s art fair?

Painting for the Ballet Jeux D'Enfant (1932) by Joan Miro

Baby it's (really) cold outside!

How Emilio Pucci, born 100 years ago today, brought style to the slopes - and the city

Astrid Heeren in Pucci Ski Jacket photographed by Peter Beard, American Vogue 1964 as featured in Phaidon's The Fashion Book

Phaidon Outtakes #2 Bottura and the beautiful game

Could our skinny Italian chef have found fame on the football pitch, rather than in the 50 Best Restaurants list?

Massimo Bottura, chef and author of Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef

The Anatomy of an Album

Graphic designer Duane Dalton's pet project sees him reducing over 75 albums to their core elements

Album Anatomy - Duane Dalton © 2014 Duane Dalton

Ed Ruscha's road rage

Does this new set of paintings signal the end of the great American painter's love of the open road?

Ed Ruscha Inner-City Make Scream 2014 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 50 inches; 100 x 127 cm ©Ed Ruscha Photo by Paul Ruscha Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery

An Athens Modernist icon is reborn

Having languished for years, Greece's Doxiadis Building gets a sympathetic makeover and a new name

OneAthens - photo courtesy of oneathens.gr

Phaidon Outtakes #1 Massimo Bottura on Picasso

Our Skinny Italian Chef tells a strange tale involving the painter, hare blood and Gertrude Stein

Massimo Bottura by Paolo Terzi

Photos that changed the world #8 Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple, Paris

On the anniversary of his birth, a look at how Daguerre took the first picture to feature a human

Boulevard du Temple 1838 - Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

The coolest architectural drawings are in The Atlas

Online architectural resource focuses on architectural drawings changing the nature of building today

The Interlace Vertical Village - Buro Ole Scheeren, Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Dexter Dalwood's Muse Music

How artists as diverse as Lou Reed, Kanye West and Bach influence and inspire the painter's work

Dexter Dalwood (top left), Half Moon Street (20140 Dexter Dalwood (top right), Andy Warhol and Lou Reed (bottom left)

One thing not to miss in Riga

The National Library of Latvia is one of many highlights in our newly released Wallpaper* City Guide app

The National Library of Latvia, as featured in our newly released Wallpaper* City Guide

How Noguchi put eastern beauty into western design

On the anniversary of his birth, learn how the designer introduced Zen-like simplicity to western living rooms

The IN50 table by Isamu Noguchi

Claude Monet and the birth of Impressionism

On the anniversary of his birth a reassessment of the public reaction to impressionism and the artist's role in it

Impression, Sunrise (1872) - Claude Monet

Tadao Ando's thatched art retreat

The Pritzker laureate pairs Mexican vernacular building techniques with his signature concrete castings

Casa Wabi by Tadao Ando

The FT’s new font is on the money

New Zealand’s Klim Type Foundry overcomes traditional newsprint typography problems with new font Financier

The printed type and the digital outlines for the FT's new Financier font. Image courtesy of Klim Type Foundry

Who to catch where at Paris Photo

The fair previews today, here's where to see Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, Roger Ballen, Martin Parr, et al

Joel Meyerowitz and Simon Baker, photo curator at Tate Modern discuss Joel's work at the Howard Greenberg Gallery booth

Watch Ferran Adrià at the FT dinner in New York

Last month Ferran hosted an FT dinner at Daniel Hum's Eleven Madison Park, here are the highlights

Ferran talking to Time's Belinda Luscombe

Introducing the new breed of photo manipulators

Our Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey on why he admires those who do more than just release the shutter

Go your own road, 2008 by Erik Johansson - As featured in The Photography Book - Image courtesy of erikjohanssonphoto.com

Our Design Classics App is back!

And to celebrate we focus on one of the 1000 timeless designs in it - Dieter Rams' 606 Universal Shelving System

606 Universal Shelving System - Dieter Rams and Vitsoe

Auguste Rodin’s battle with Balzac

On the anniversary of the sculptor’s birth we look at the botched commission that became a great work

Rodin in His Studio in Meduon, 1902. As reproduced in our Rodin monograph

Massimo Bottura drops the lemon tart on the BBC

For his Saturday Kitchen appearance the chef and Phaidon author prepared his infamous, deconstructed dessert

Saturday Kitchen, from left: Massimo Bottura, Atul Kochhar and James Martin

Ice cube refuge proposed for Slovak mountains

Atelier 8000 joins the likes of Hadid, Zumthor and Fantastic Norway in proposing eye-popping mountain retreat

Mountain Hostel - Atelier 8000

What happened when Brazil took on Modernism

How a naïve, colourful, art movement created a counterpoint to the prevailing style of the military dictatorship


Photos that changed the world #7 Telephone Booth

Lee Friedlander's 1963 photo characterised the present as a mere staging point thus capturing the flux of the 1960s

Telephone Booth, New York (1963) - Lee Friedlander

Herzog & de Meuron design Israel’s national library

Sweeping curve of stone above four subterranean floors will nestle alongside the 1960s Knesset building

National Library of Israel - Herzog & de Meuron

Can Dagarslani's search for identity

Istanbul-based architect says latest photo series is not about the people but the architectural spaces they're in

Identities - Can Dagarslani

One Thing Not To Miss In Manila

The tetrahedral Church of the Gesù is one of many highlights in our Wallpaper* City Guide app released today

Church of the Gesù, Manila as featured in the new Wallpaper* City Guide

Piet Oudolf on The High Line and restoring prairies

The New Perennial Movement cultivator and discerning gallerist's go to gardener talks us through his life and times


Gombrich Explains Hogarth

On the anniversary of his birth we find out about the 'A Rake’s Progress' creator's appeal to Puritans

A Rake's Progress: 1 The Heir (1733) by William Hogarth

Massimo Bottura takes over Shake Shack London

Famous chefs, food critics and a rescue dog named Ginger brave a chilly Covent Garden to try The Emilia Burger

Chef Nigel Haworth, Shake Shack Culinary Director Mark Rosati, chef Angela Hartnett and Massimo Bottura - photo Mat Smith

Paris Photo's Thomas Zander on this year's fair

The gallerist and committee member on picking the right edition and why everyone's mad for Garry Winogrand

Thomas Zander

5 young UK architects adapting to their environment

A Phaidon Atlas Focus on a group of projects that use local features to develop a subtle, contemporary language


Libeskind's cement chair for Marina Abramović

Not sure for how long the artist will be present if she has to sit on this - but we do admire the design

Counting the Rice - Daniel Libeskind for Moroso

René Redzepi scoops another award!

And it's another big one. He's just been named WSJ Magazine Food Innovator at a star-studded MoMA ceremony

René Redzepi - another night, another award

Gombrich Explains Manet

As the Getty buys Le Printemps for $65 million Gombrich explains why we still value this French master

Detail from Le Printemps (1881) by Edouard Manet

What to expect from Art Basel Miami Beach

A ballet about The Internet, extra VIP days and a new art-historical strand are all part of the fun of the 2014 fair

Art Basel Miami Beach

World's tallest twin towers will go up in Dubai

But the architect for the The Dubai Creek Harbour at The Lagoons remains a mystery. Could it be SOM?

The Dubai Creek Harbour at The Lagoons

'I always go for places no one’s been before' Alex Katz

'You want to go there and see whether it’s possible, and adjust the technique to your ideas,' he tells Phaidon

Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1963-64 - Alex Katz, Collection Bayerische Museum Munich

The Picasso, the Thief, His Wife & Her Cousin

Could so-called friends of Picasso have conspired against him? The prosecution in a new case alleges so

Pablo Picasso (1957), Villa La Californie, Cannes, France, by René Burri

MAD unveil their George 'Star Wars' Lucas museum

Mies van der Rohe-inspired Chicago building peaks in a ‘floating’ disc with a 360-degree observation deck

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Lake Michigan - MAD

David Bowie's Mustique garden and other tales

Gardener's Garden designer Made Wijaya on working with the Thin White Duke, why 'anal architects' are ruining landscape gardening, his love of Bali and why he thinks the current craze for zen gardens is a bit 'tragic'

Garden designer Made Wijaya. Photo by Tim Street-Porter

Milk bar is transformed for Warsaw’s bourgeoisie

Sojka & Wojciechowski rework an Eastern European Socialist staple for a 21st-century audience

Bar Prasowy, Warsaw - Sojka & Wojciechowski

Calling America! It's Margarita time!

We catch up with Margarita Carrillo Arronte, the acclaimed chef of Mexico The Cookbook, as she wows the US

Margarita Carrillo Arronte pictured with Luke Wade (left) and drummer Blaine Crews (right)

Tropical Modernism is back in Puerto Rico

Fuster + Architects' new hotel in Puerto Rico leans on the work of Henry Klumb in the region

El Blok Hotel - Fuster + Architects

How Henry Moore inspired de Kooning’s Clamdigger

And why the abstract expressionist painter wore oversized workman's gloves to produce his life-size figure

Clamdigger detail (1972) by Willem de Kooning

Jean-Michel Basquiat's 80s notebooks revealed

Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum includes 160 unseen sketch pages from 1980-87

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1986. Photo: Collection of Larry Warsh. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.  Licensed by Artestar, New York. By Gavin Ashworth, Brooklyn Museum

Three new museums for major South China city

Guangzhou urban planners attempt to multiply the Bilbao effect by three with new cultural proposal

Guangzhou Museum, Guangzhou Art Museum and Guangzhou Science Museum - Christian Kerez

Photos that changed the world #6 Self-Portrait

How Gunter Brus and the Vienna Actionists responded to atrocity and remade photography as a result

Self-Portrait, 1964 by Günter Brus. As featured in The Photography Book

Gombrich Explains Goya

A look at why the great painter of the Spanish court also depicted witches, giants and demons

Detail from Linda Maestra (1799) from Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya

How Bas Princen explains architecture in images

The Shooting Space photographer on recording places where urban expansion meets nature's contraction

Ringroad (Houston), 2005 Texas, USA - Bas Princen from Shooting Space

Massimo Bottura's Emilia Burger heads to London

The skinny Italian chef brings his gourmet burger to Shake Shack in Covent Garden next month


What Ai Weiwei told The New Yorker

Why he thinks Warhol was 50 years ahead of his time and how Lego is the perfect tool for dissent

Ai Weiwei, 2014. From his Instagram feed.

Watch the Magnus Nilsson Mind Of A Chef trailer!

New PBS clip outlines his 3 rules for life: Don't play it safe, don't try to control everything and limitation is good!

Magnus Nilsson

We love The Rijksmuseum’s new 3D visitors’ map!

Graphic designer conquers cartographical conundrum navigating 80 galleries 8,000 objects and 800 years of art

Marijn van Oosten’s Paper Pathfinder

Laura Carlin's artistic exercises for young minds

The Phaidon author demonstrates how creativity comes from an active mind not an overly tutored hand


Pentagram's monotone MIT makeover

Pentagram partner Michael Beirut gives MIT Media Lab an all-encompassing new look

MIT Lab Media rebranding - Michael Beirut for Pentagram

How to cook like Christo and Jeanne-Claude

MoMA cookbook offers 'tasty' insight into the duo's gastronomic creations but, strangely, there are no wraps

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's inclusion in Artists' Cookbook. As featured in The Cookbook Book.

Would you live in Muji's new slimline home?

Japanese manufacturer creates prefab home for the country's wrecking-ball-ready housing market

Muji's Vertical House

Great Taco Tuesday recipes to try at home

Can't make it to one of the trucks today? Here are some recipes to try tonight!


Taco Tuesday trucks are in your town today!

These are the trucks that are serving exclusive dishes from Mexico The Cookbook across America today

Cha Cha Cha St Louis

Think you know about Mexican food? Think again!

On Taco Tuesday, the 5 ways chef Margarita Carrillo Arronte is redefining Mexican food for foodies worldwide

From Mexico The Cookbook

‘Frank Gehry is a really good dancer!’ Lily Jencks

We speak to the architect and landscape designer about her Maggie's Centre work with the Pritzker laureate

Lily Jencks. Photo by Mary McCarthy

Jaime Hayon reworks Arne Jacobsen in Room 506

Spanish designer channels Jacobsen's spirit in Copenhagen hotel - one floor below the infamous Room 606

Arne Jacobsen and Jaime Hayon bed down in room 506

Foster and Hadid build Dubai-style hotels in China

The Jumeirah Group plans suite of resorts designed by Pritzker laureates

Jumeirah Wuhan by Foster + Partners

'Italians wanted to burn me at the stake!' skinny chef Massimo Bottura tells the New York Times

The Skinny Italian Chef describes to the paper's Melissa Clark the perils involved in reinventing Italian cuisine

Chef Massimo Bottura

Adam Szymczyk enters Art Review's power list

Phaidon author and documenta curator is the highest new entry at number 21

Adam Szymczyk

What's lurking inside The Astronaut's Cookbook?

Processed food sticks and bacon bars are just a couple of the treats on offer in this title from our Cookbook Book

Freeze Dried Neopolitan ice cream

Is it just us or does this skate park look like an igloo?

Cebra design a venue for ‘unorganised’ sports in the Jutland town of Haderslev, Denmark

StreetDome, Haderslev, Denmark - Cebra

When Robert Rauschenberg met Jean Tinguely

How Tinguely's use of tech inspired Rauschenberg in fulfilling his dream of a constantly changing work of art

Oracle, 1962-65 - Five-part found metal assemblage with five concealed radios: ventilation duct; car door on typewriter table, with crushed metal; ventilation duct in washtub and water, with wire basket; constructed staircase control unit housing batteries and electronic component; and wooden window frame with ventilation duct

Jean Nouvel and Patrick Blanc's sky high garden

Architect and eccentric vertical gardener team up for One Central Park in Sydney

One Central Park, Sydney, Australia - Jean Nouvel and Patrick Blanc

Simon Fujiwara studies the male nude in Jamaica

Artist hopes his work, Brother, might lead some Jamaicans to question their attitude towards the male form

Images from Fujiwara's Brother proposal, courtesy of TBA21

Nicolas Grospierre's axonometric Manhattan

How the photographer created this amazing photograph of a modernist housing estate in Łódź, Poland

Axonometric Housing Estate (Manhattan) 2008 Łódź Poland - Nicolas Grospierre

Downton Abbey creators to make new series based on René Burri and the Magnum photo agency

Carnival Films say "We can get right inside the key events of the 20th century through their lives and lenses"

The photographers of the Magnum Photo Agency with René Burri to the right holding the teeshirt

OMA reinvents the bridge (again)

Rem Koolhaas's practice manages to close the gap between two distinct Washington DC communities

OMA and OLIN's 11th Street Bridge Park

René Burri 1933 - 2014

A legendary Magnum photographer who was at the centre of so many important world events

René Burri in Mexico 1973

Gombrich Explains Sir Christopher Wren

Britain’s greatest architect, the Story of Art author writes, was able to pair baroque styles with English restraint

St Paul's Cathedral, west facade facing south, London

What we learned from Frieze London 2014

Gallerists, dealers, journos, hip-hop stars and hot Instagrammers - who liked what at Frieze 2014

Beyoncé beside a Kerry James Marshall painting at David Zwirner's London gallery

Frieze designer Edward Barber on this year's fair

How the Universal designer and partner Jay Osgerby brought a more generous, human scale to Frieze 2014

Frieze London 2014 - photo by Andrew Meredith

Hans Eijkelboom’s anti-fashion shots head to Paris

Colette stages show based on Eijkelboom’s People of the Twenty-First Century as part of Paris Photo

From People of the Twenty-First Century by Hans Eijkelboom

The RCA shows 50 years of graphic design

The Royal College of Art’s new show proves it nurtures graphics talent as ably as fine artists

RCA Football Club poster, 1971, by Ray Gregory

What do you think this wild new hotel looks like?

The Kempinski group says its luxurious new hotel on Lake Yanqi is shaped like a fish, a scallop and the sun

The Sunrise Kempinski Hotel, Beijing

Massimo Bottura King of New York!

We catch up with our skinny Italian chef as he takes NYC by storm

Massimo Bottura - First we take Manhattan

Gombrich Explains William Morris

The historian on why the Arts and Crafts movement founder railed against the aesthetics of mass production

Detail from George Frederic Watt's portrait of William Morris (1870). Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery