Ferran Adrià sets out his stall
The elBulli star plans to open a market in his home town, dedicated to Catalan produce
Paris buses get new Jean Francois Porchez signage
The French master of typography develops Parisine Girouette, a clear LED script for the capital's bus network
Meet MoMA's new poet
New York's Museum of Modern Art appoints Phaidon contributor and traffic broadcast transcriber as its first poet
The accidental art of Kerry Skarbakka
Meet the US photographer who puts himself in harm's way, then clicks the shutter
Steven Holl's yin yang museums
The award-winning American architect creates twin museums for a Chinese Eco-City
Marc Quinn's baby reborn in Singapore
The British artist's sculpture of his infant son has gone on permanent display in a Singapore park
Shomei Tomatsu Remembered
The seminal Japanese photographer's life and work is commemorated across the world
Richard Prince's Picasso nudes come to London
Fourteen canvases, inspired by the great Spanish painter, go on display at Sadie Coles HQ next month
American Airlines rebrand upsets Massimo Vignelli
Design legend is not a fan of the new corporate identity that replaces the one he created 45 years ago
Rem Koolhaas creates futuristic furniture for Knoll
12-strong line featuring plexiglass swivel armchairs debuts at Salone del Mobile in April
Franck Allais subverts the city
French photographer's new series Subverting The City to debut at his first solo London show next month
MoMA and CODA create wall made from skateboards
MoMA PS1 and design agency enlist support of local skateboard company Comet for their 'Party Wall'
Bill Finger's imagined crime scenes
Inspired by Gregory Crewdson, former cameraman photographs miniature film sets - then destroys 'the evidence'
Banksy collaborator Ben Eine joins mile high club
East London street artist who became famous when David Cameron gave one of his pieces to Barack Obama during first official US visit has first ever airborne gallery in Upper Class on Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic
Warhol Studio 54 Polaroid goes for $10,000
Auction of ephemera sees bids from celebrities, ex-employees and devotees of legendary New York nightspot
New photographers stage last minute show in London
11.59 was conceived just a few days ago, is currently being put together - and opens on Wednesday!
Giant giraffe animates Paris children’s centre
French practice Hondelatte Laporte Architectes creates quirky nursery and childcare centre in Paris suburb
Adobe HQ designed by artists using its own software
New Utah HQ features graphic images created by Adobe software nestling alongside murals created by street artists El Mac and Mike Giant - obligatory indoor basketball court and rock-climbing wall included (of course)
Steven Holl lets the light in in China
'Slices' cut out of concrete exoskeletons keep the neighbours happy by allowing sunlight to shine through
Space centre opens in Slovenia
Space technology museum is based on a habitable space station concept by local resident Herman Noordung
Douglas Gordon's sharp new film series
The Turner-Prize winner returns to Morocco for his latest video series, on show during the Berlin Film Festival
New show uncovers LA has it might have been
Los Angeles' Architecture and Design Museum prepares for a show of local proposals that never broke ground
The Clock goes 24 hour at MoMA
The final full-day screening of Christian Marclay's video work takes place this weekend in New York
Hear Tate Liverpool's dawn chorus with a difference
The gallery plays music created via ahem, the bodily functions of local wildlife as part of a city-wide initiative
Protestors don Niemeyer masks to save Brasilia
The architectural founders of the Brazilian capital are invoked in a protest against plans to overhaul the city
Larry Gagosian: 'The shows in the galleries educate - I like deals!'
"If a collector comes to me and says 'teach me,' I go numb," the uber dealer tells British Vogue
Warhol inspires Sir Paul Smith's Giro D'Italia shirts
The pop artist's Monroe series inspires British menswear designer to put clashing colours on bicycle shirts
Ten questions for food critic Joe Warwick
The editor of Where Chefs Eat - the ultimate insider's guide to great food - talks about where to get a perfect burger at four in the morning, the imminent end of 'dirty food' and how waiters get their revenge on rude customers
London firm win Iraqi Parliament competition
The Stirling-prize winning firm Assemblage won the $1billion competition, with a low-cost, eco-friendly pitch
Nicola Tyson's Bowie night shots come to London
The New York artist's photographs from the seminal London club night go on show at Sadie Coles HQ this month
Can you follow Alena Zhandarova's photo story?
The 24-year-old photographer channels Sherman, Wall and Crewdson in her fictionalised self-portrait series
Matthew Barney's graphite skateboard
The American artist sticks a pencilly tip onto a skateboard in his latest Drawing Restraint series
Piano, Kusama and Kahn up for Design of The Year
Renzo Piano and Yayoi Kusama are among the Phaidon subjects up for The Design Museum's 2013 prize
Bouroullec Brothers design Ready Made Curtain
New work for Kvadrat requires a degree of user assembly but don't worry: "The charm of the imperfect in opposition to the overly sanitised interior, is something we believe in," says Erwan Bouroullec (ie: you can't mess it up)
Scorsese exhibition goes back to the director's roots
The Deutsche Kinemathek Museum pulls in Marty's childhood kitchen table for its major new exhibition
Will Chinese art continue its rise in 2013?
Warhol, Picasso and Richter outsold Chinese artists last year but can they do the same again this?
Where there's a tweet there's a photo
Larson and Shindelman search through the half-a-billion tweets sent each day to choose locations to photograph
Atrium Studio designs for Moscow's Silicon Valley
Designers look to traditional townhouse style to house scientific brainboxes outside Russian capital
Copenhagen plans for five new artificial islands
Planning Department wants to add to existing islands with new ones created by architects Tredje Natur and PK3
Nazi-looted poster art up for auction
Incredible story behind one man's battle to get back his father's graphic art collection looted by the Nazis in 1938
National Geographic photo winners
A Thai tiger, a Swiss mountain and a Kenyan dump top the US magazine's prestigious photographic contest
Damien Hirst's Brit Award revealed
The design for Hirst's 2013 Brit award is unveiled. He didn't pickle it, but he did put spots on it
Will BIG's viewing tower put Phoenix on the map?
The Danish firm reinterprets Seattle's Space Needle with push-pin style viewing tower for Arizona's state capital
Have you seen these massive sea dice?
American artist Max Mulhern launched them on 12/12/12 from Gran Canaria. Any guesses where they'll end up?
The Summer Is Over for Luc Tuymans at Zwirner NY
Phaidon artist's tenth show in 20 years - delayed by Hurricane Sandy - finally opens at Zwirner Gallery
Whale backbone inspires spiral staircase
Canadian architect Andrew McConnell works the animal's vertebrae into a beguiling upward spiral
Jean Nouvel creates Paris art island
Pritzker-Prize winning architect oversees the redevelopment of a former Renault factory on île Seguin
The rail bridge as public art
Andrew Leicester's bridge in Los Angeles references the indigenous peoples of the San Gabriel Valley
MoMA buys flat-pack kitchen
Art museum acquires an original Le Corbusier fitted kitchen from his iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille
John Baldessari reworks the yellow school bus
The LA artist's contribution to the Art Fund's public education campaign references the chrome yellow school bus
Korea's Hae-gue Yang debuts at Haus der Kunst
Venetian blind installation in Munich is inspired by immigration and Germany's past
Frank Gehry's fish lamps alight at The Gagosian
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect shows his piscine interior lights, sculpted from a type of Formica
John Pawson designs new Schrager Miami venture
The hotel impresario's Miami Beach Edition Residences will have their own skating rink and bowling alley
Photographers' Gallery - three great collage shows
The London gallery steams ahead in championing collage as the photographic medium for 2013
Dutch artist's duck arrives in Sydney harbour
Florentijn Hofman's duck sculpture will float in Darling Harbour until January 23 as part of the Sydney Festival
What to expect from Simon Starling at The Tate
The artist is the second annual Tate Britain commission. What will he bring to the Duveen galleries?
Daniel Libeskind adds to Jewish Museum, Berlin
Architect reworks the Central Flower Market Hall, a 1960s industrial building with curving walls by Bruno Grimmek
David Bowie first new single and video in 10 years
Where Are We Now? has video directed by artist Tony Oursler referencing Bowie's time in Berlin in the Seventies
New city proposed on banks of the Ganges
Studio Symbiosis plans futuristic-looking development of regimented rectilinear towers along riverbanks of Kanpur
Zaha Hadid design becomes first 'faked' building
Chinese developers 'pay homage' to Beijing's Wangjing Soho, and they're due to complete before the original
Le Corbusier, painter, photographer and polymath, gets full NYC retrospective at MoMA next summer
Jean-Louis Cohen, author of our wonderful The Future of Architecture Since 1889, curates MoMA show
Gucci goes manga
Italian fashion house commissions Japanese artist Hirohiko Araki to produce international comic ad campaign
McDonald's furniture revamped by Patrick Norguet
Likeable Paris-based designer takes Maccy Ds upmarket with hand finished concrete furniture
Texas pavilion borrows from Mexican beach huts
Cooper Joseph Studio creates deceptively light box on three columns in our favourite material - concrete!
BIG designs with a twist in Miami
The Danish architects raise the bar for Miami condos with a truly innovative design
Chinese designers build 'cave' on the back of a bike
Liu Yang and Xu Dan create a cave of black foam on the back of a cargo bike
Martino Gamper makes a meal out of Moroso
Italian designer reworks classic furniture to dramatic effect
The Portuguese architects' straw ziggurat
The IUT Group bring modern design to bear on one of the world's oldest building materials
Holiday with Matthew Barney
Tate Tours' New York break includes a trip to the avant-garde artist's studio
Daniel Lorch's organic desk lamp
Berlin designer attends free workshop and comes up with innovative new design for Philips
Tyrolean festival venue mimics its surroundings
Architects Delugan Meissel use the crevices of the surrounding area to indicate entrances to the building
Don McCullin goes back to war
War photographer explains how 'fake tans and Jamie Oliver' made him head for Syria
Join Ed Kashi on New Year's Day in New York
The VII agency photojournalist teaches a one day workshop at The Coney Island Polar Bear Club
Haiti to get new stadium designed by Carlos Zapata
Dangerous slum area Cité Soleil to get new stadium designed with Palestinian and Haiti national team players
The Design Museum's extraordinary stories
Hundreds of designs grouped around six themes tell the incredible stories behind everyday objects
2012 in photography
It was the year when a photograph became the most widespread tweet in history, print prices began scaling the dizzy heights of the art market and a 'non-photographer' won one of the most prestigious photo prizes
2012 in design
Start-ups grew up, designer-makers emerged and the Olympics shot three young product designers to stardom
2012 in art world arguments
From Hirst Vs Hockney to Putin Vs Pussy Riot, we look at some major 'artistic differences' of the last 12 months
2012 the year performance art returned
Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary art and performance at Tate Modern, talks us through a year in which the decade-long rise in art of activism, choreography and the performative finally broke through to the mainstream
2012 in architecture
In an age of e-readers libraries seemed to pop up everywhere, emerging economies built entire cities to cope with rapid urbanisation and young guns eschewed big commissions to create something small, local and sustainable
Norman Foster reworks New York Public Library
The Pritzker-Prize winner outlines his plans for The New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #4
He ruined his cameras getting it but Dust Storm was destined to become one of Steve McCurry's best ever shots
China's post-Mao generation gets bold new show
ON | OFF takes its name from the web software routinely used to get round China's internet censorship
Pennsylvania architects build hobbit house
Extreme US Tolkien fan commissions an inspired Lord of The Rings folly for his Middle Earth memorabilia
Hauser & Wirth go mad in the country
The international contemporary art gallery plans to open a new exhibition space in the English countryside
Meghann Riepenhoff’s homemade galaxies
The photographer makes whole clusters of stars, black holes and sun flares from her dark room in San Francisco
Is China's lakeside city the future of urban planning?
China's next new city will be designed by US firm KPF, next to Hunan's regional capital, around a 40-hectare lake
Jeff Koons designs Mouton Rothschild wine label
Artist follows in the footsteps of Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and Picasso
Street art forms backdrop to India's first biennale
The inaugural Kochi-Muziris Biennale features some innovative street artworks alongside its gallery-style exhibits
Rare photographs of Buckminster Fuller surface
Hidden in the LIFE archives for over 40 years rediscovered photos capture him at work and play
Owen Hatherley blasts architectural photography
Marxist writer says contemporary architectural culture "no longer has an interest in anything but its own image" (but he saves a heap of praise for some well-respected Phaidon practitioners of the art!)
Anish Kapoor's first ever show in Australia
Artist finally makes it down under with career overview at MCA Sydney
What's going on at Gagosian?
First Koons agrees to a show with David Zwirner, then Hirst parted company, now Yayoi Kusama says she's off
Daniel Libeskind rolls out ultimate prefab
Shipped within months and built in weeks - your chance to live in a dream home, anywhere in the world
Time magazine's photojournalism of the year
James Nachtwey, Eugene Richards and photographers from VII and Magnum feature in best of 2012
Artist of the Week: Damien Hirst
Does the so-called enfant terrible of British art still have anything worthwhile to say?
Morag Myerscough on Peter Blake's Beatles cover
The colourful designer discusses the pop artist's legendary Sgt. Pepper album artwork
SOM build 'city within a city' in Abu Dhabi
Vast hospital complex by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill aims to foster a sense of community in the emirate
