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

Zaha Hadid’s worthy wooden memorial

Architect hopes her Sleuk Rith Institute for victims of the Khmer Rouge will help Cambodians reassess their past

The Sleuk Rith Institute by Zaha Hadid Architects

John Stezaker makes a movie out of film stills

The US premier of the British photo artist’s film, Blind, opens as part of a new show at the Petzel Gallery

Shadow 13 (2014) by John Stezaker

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Tobias Madison

The artist on his Frieze commission, Swiss identity and how his Sottsass museum became an artworld myth

Tobias Madison

How Bruce Nauman pushed photography forward

The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey on how the work of fine artists stops photography becoming clichéd

Self-portrait as a Fountain (1966) by Bruce Nauman

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Cally Spooner

The artist explains how she turned dreadful corporate jargon into a musical for her Frieze Film commission

Baby I Got Better Things To Be Doing With My Time, (2014) by Cally Spooner, at Frieze Film, London

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Jonathan Berger

Should we see the late Andy Kaufman as something more than a simple comedian? Yes, says this Frieze artist

Jonathan Berger

Kerry James Marshall on Look See at David Zwirner

Buying a pin ups book and finding no black women in it was a catalyst for new work the artist tells us

Untitled (Beach Towel), 2014 - Kerry James Marshall

Frieze VIPs! Keren Cytter is out to spoil your day

The artist says her hypnotic aural work for the London art fair will make Frieze's celebrity guests suffer

Keren Cytter

Ian Jeffrey on the rise of new Chinese photography

Our Photography Book author explains why classic American style human-interest photography is thriving

Subdue No 21, 2008, by Zhang Xiao. From The Photography Book

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Isabel Lewis

The artist explains why her Frieze Project is part modern-day ritual, part ancient Greece drinking party

Isabel Lewis

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Victoria Siddall

The new Frieze director talks about when Rembrandt went to Hull, whether she'll be drinking United Brothers' soup from Fukushima and that ultimate first world problem - just where do you put a Joseph Beuys grand piano?

Frieze director Victoria Siddall

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Nick Mauss

How Merce Cunningham, Christian Bérard and Kim Gordon led him to bring a ballet to the art fair next week

Nick Mauss

Hans Eijkelboom, laureate of Normcore!

Guardian Assistant Fashion Editor Lauren Cochrane on how the photographer picked up early on a 2014 trend

A page from People of the Twenty-First Century by Hans Eijkelboom

Do Ho Suh takes his Chelsea Apartment to Texas

The artist has finished his 348 West 22nd Street sculpture and is showing the rooms at The Contemporary Austin

Do Ho Suh's 348 West 22nd Street

Gombrich Explains Frans Hals

Why should we delight in this Dutch painter? Well how about the spontaneity he brought to portraiture for starters?


Snøhetta designs Norway's new banknotes

New Kroner notes combine architecture and design firm's high-concept proposals with tradition

Snøhetta’s 100 Kroner note proposal

Phaidon's Frieze interviews - Jérôme Bel

The choreographer describes how he's finding incredible stage presence in a company of disabled performers

Jérôme Bel (left), and a performer from Disabled Theatre

"Photographic collecting is overtaking fine art"

The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey has some insider tips if you're planning on starting a collection

Susie and Friends, 2008 by Alex Prager. From The Photography Book

Massimo Bottura is a hit on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The brilliant Italian chef cooks for the TV host, his guest, Billy Crudup, and sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez

Massimo Bottura on tonight's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live

Hélène Binet on the importance of slowing time down

The Shooting Space photographer tells us about spotting unseen details in the darkroom

Bruder Klaus Kapelle 2009 (Peter Zumthor) Mechernich, Germany, 2007 - Hélène Binet

In praise of ... Georgia O'Keeffe's patriotic palette

A reference to the concept of the Great American Painting, Cow's Skull soon became an American West icon

Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931

Michael Stipe and Iggy Pop create art guitars

Music and art-world stars customise guitars for Bonhams auction in aid of War Child USA

From left: Sterling Ruby, Michael Stipe and Iggy Pop's War Child guitars. Images courtesy of War Child USA

Photos that changed the world #5 Cigarette No.17

Irving Penn's series of cigarette photos turned prosaic, discarded objects into conceptual art

Cigarette No.17 (1972) - Irving Penn

Massimo Bottura's on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week!

And to whet your appetite, here's what happened when René Redzepi appeared on the show in November


5 buildings you must not miss at Open House NY

We pick our highlights from the city's annual public-access architecture event this coming weekend

Hudson Yards, New York

So why do people of the Twenty-First century still wear a Rolling Stones logo from the Twentieth?

Problem Solved author Michael Johnson on the enduring appeal of a look photographed by Hans Eijkelboom

Detail from August, Amsterdam 2003 - Hans Eijkelboom, People of the 21st Century

Snøhetta unveils 'floating' library design in Canada

Calgary design will feature arches inspired by cloud formations and will house over half-a-million books

The New Central Library, Calgary, Canada - Snøhetta

Will Tokyo's Capsule Tower dodge the wrecking ball?

These tiny apartments were built to be replaced so why are their residents fighting to save them?

Nakagin Capsule Tower

Were The Rolling Stones the first celebrity chefs?

Jagger coming round for supper again tonight? Then serve him his delightful 1967 recipe, Hot Dogs on The Rocks

Singers and Swingers in the Kitchen, as featured in The Cookbook Book

Ten questions for photographer Hans Eijkelboom

Our People of the Twenty-First Century photographer on The Sartorialist, Martin Parr and the consumer society

Hans Eijkelboom, New York - photographed by Sheila Matthes

Saving Beijing’s hutongs with UV lamps and string

reMIX Studio shows the residents of the city's oldest neighborhoods a new way of life

A-Void, Beijing - reMIX Studio

Why Iwan Baan likes to get up high

Shooting Space photographer is in a new place pretty much every other day so needs quick perspective on a city

Inner City Arts, 2008 (Michael Maltzan Architecture) Los Angeles, California - Iwan Baan

Manila’s banana-shaped business hub

Filipino practice U26 Architecture Studio offers local food producers a delightful literal design for their new offices

U26 Architecture Studio's banana-shaped business hub

Photos that changed the world #4 Dovima

Richard Avedon's 1955 photo took fashion out of the studio and sought to capture age as much as youthful beauty

Dovima with Elephants, 1955 - Richard Avedon, from the Photography Book

Five Richard Estes paintings you should know about

How to understand one of the pre-eminent photorealist artists of his generation - painting by painting

Williamsburg Bridge (1995) by Richard Estes

How Yuri Ancarani makes hard work appear noble

Italian artist's US show demonstrates the awesome achievements on offer when man works with machine

Still from Il Capo (2010) by Yuri Ancarani

An-My-Lê's conflict-free war photography

Vietnamese-born photographer takes compelling conflict shots - despite being nowhere near the real action

Small Wars, (rescue), 1999-2002, by An-My Lê

Nadav Kander on the worst of the west in China

The photographer tells us how a love of Rothko and Constructivism helped inspire his quiet Chinese landscapes

Yibin I, Bathers 2007 Sichuan Province, China - Nadav Kander. From Shooting Space

Maverick museum director plans collectors’ casino

Gambler and art lover David Walsh says MONA gambling den could swell museum coffers and draw tourists

MONA founder David Walsh hopes to draw in the art world's high rollers

How to create a tiny museum with a big impact

Seoul's Museum of War and Women's Human Rights tells a terrible tale from the confines of a suburban house

The Museum of War and Women's Human Rights by Wise Architecture

Ten questions for writer and curator Elias Redstone

The Shooting Space author and Constructing Worlds co-curator on new ways of looking at modernist icons, architecture as the backdrop to our lived experience and why he's still enthused and excited by the city

Shooting Space author Elias Redstone

In NYC? Love art books? Then we've just got to meet!

Phaidon is at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend at MoMA PS1. Come down to meet us and our authors

The New York Art Book Fair

First look at Ai Weiwei's new Alcatraz show

A million Lego bricks, Edward Snowden and Native American recordings all feature in a powerful show

Ai Weiwei, Trace, 2014 (detail); photo: Kyle Smith. Courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

What has Damien Hirst put in his new cabinet?

Butterflies, eggs, bleach and a lot of stuffed animals. If you're in Paris soon, you can see for yourself

Detail from ‘Signification (Hope, Immortality and Death in Paris, Now and Then)’ (2014) by Damien Hirst. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst/Science Ltd., All rights reserved DACS 2014

Is the new Budapest metro better than your metro?

Spora Architects reimagines two stations in the Hungarian capital with stunning results

Budapest Metro - Spora Architects

You really need to see Warhol's 'disco Rothko' chapel

If you're in LA you're in luck. Andy's serial take on site-specific, abstract painting gets a rare airing at MOCA

Shadows (1978-79) by Andy Warhol

How a 17th century painting inspired a 70s LA photo

Stephen Shore tells us how his La Brea Ave photo was organised using Claude Lorrain's compositional technique

La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, California June 21, 1975 - Stephen Shore

Schrager, Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron in NYC

Real-estate developer calls upon Phaidon author and architect and Pritzker laureates for downtown development

An exterior rendering for 215 Chrystie

Gehry brings his Bilbao effect to Panama

The Pritzker laureate employs local, colourful tin roofing in quest to put Panama on the global museum map

The Biomuseo, Panama, by Frank Gehry

So how do you restore a da Vinci masterpiece?

The Uffizi uses an entire wing of medical imaging gear, a wealth of knowledge - and no small amount of tact

The Adoration of the Magi (1481-2) by Leonardo da Vinci

Ten questions for Cristina Salmastrelli, the director of the Affordable Art Fair, New York City

She reveals how much works can go up by, why they have an artist in residence, and how they keep out the fakes

Cristina Salmastrelli, the director of the Affordable Art Fair New York City

Toyo Ito creates opera house from sprayable concrete

The Pritzker laureate's labyrinthine new structure in Taiwan is designed to act as a sound cave

Toyo Ito's Taichung Metropolitan Opera House takes shape. Images courtesy Taichung Metropolitan Opera House and Toyo Ito

Take a look inside Nike's flying physio room

Sports giant and design agency Teague conceptualise airborne recuperation zone for US basketball team

The Athlete's Plane - Teague

Photos that changed the world: #3 Moonrise

How Ansel Adams' technical skill turned a fleeting scene into the new ideal for US landscape photography

Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 by Ansel Adams

Is this really Stephen Shore’s first retrospective?

Madrid show takes in motels, postcards, high concepts and print-on-demand experiments

Stephen Shore, West Ninth Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974. From the series Uncommon Places.
All works ©Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York

Latin America’s tallest tower set for Buenos Aires

Parabolic curve is “a geometric abstraction that represents Argentina” says the government

Cinematography and Audiovisual Tower (CAT), Buenos Aires, Argentina - MRA+A Arquitectos

Tomi Ungerer gets a medal from the French president

Phaidon children's author is given Order of Merit medal by François Hollande at the Élysée Palace in Paris

Phaidon author Tomi Ungerer being presented with his Ordre National du Mérite medal by Francis Hollande

Introducing the new wave of cool Chilean architects

Latest Atlas Focus looks at practitioners working in one of the world’s most inspiring natural environments

Water Bottling Plant by Panorama Arquitectos

What Theaster Gates did last summer

Chicago artist curates show focussing on artists of color themed around the idea of a retreat

Accept the challenge of a mighty land (2014) by Kelly Lloyd. From Retreat


Remembering the LA Olympics

Rauschenberg and Hockney's pop art creations for the 1984 games go on show in Switzerland

Robert Rauschenberg's poster for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Photos that changed the world: #2 The Critic

Weegee’s 1943 photo outside the Met Opera influenced street photography, film noir and tabloid subterfuge

The Critic (1943) by Weegee as featured in The Photography Book

Why René Redzepi says Mexico is the next big thing

The chef tells the NY Times, “For many years in fine dining in Mexico, you had the cathedral on top of the pyramid.”


Jenny Holzer’s classified calligraphy

The artist looks back at an Afghan’s death in 2003 with a set of works examining the path to war


Salvador Dalí, celebrity chef

Our forthcoming cookbook anthology looks back at the master of surrealism’s 1973 foray into gastronomy

Detail from the cover of Les Dîners de Gala (1973) by Salvador Dali

Gombrich Explains Turner

The historian admired the painter’s mastery of nature and the stagecraft with which he managed his visual effects

Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842) by JMW Turner

Miami’s new observation tower could come with rides

The developers of Florida’s answer to the Eiffel Tower promise fairground-style amusements as well as views

SkyRise Miami

Our new author on how to write about art

Noah Charney, the author of The Art of Forgery, hosts a Guardian Masterclass on art writing

Dr Noah Charney. Photograph by Urska Charney

How sustainable is Foster + Partners' new airport?

It might sound like an oxymoron, but that's what the Pritzker-laureate’s firm is proposing for Mexico City

Mexico International Airport by Foster + Partners and  Fernando Romero Enterprise

Photos that changed the world: #1 Horses Trotting

Eadweard J. Muybridge's 1879 print was the first to capture animals moving, changing both photography and art

Attitudes of animals in Motion, Horses, Trotting Edginton No.34 (1879)

Why Edmund de Waal’s pots are like prisoners

The ceramicist and Phaidon author’s decision to support a British charity offers a great insight into his work

Watermark (2012) by Edmund de Waal

Could you live in this cliff house?

An Australian housing firm says its concept house could enable home building on tricky parcels of coastal land

The Cliff House by Modscape

Netflix orders Nilsson and Bottura documentaries

The online video provider's first documentary series will focus on the stories behind the world’s greatest chefs

Massimo Bottura (left) and Magnus Nilsson (right) will feature in the new Netflix series, Chef's Table

How Okwui Enwezor changed the art world

The Wall Street Journal charts the ascent of the Phaidon author, from poet to the director of the Venice Biennale

Okwui Enwezor, director of the 2015 Venice Biennale