The only way is up
Dutch architect Hans van Heeswijk employs (non) lateral thinking for his out-of-town developments
Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #3
Photographer explains how he spent hours waist deep in water to get his iconic photograph Stilt Fishermen
Damien Hirst leaves Larry Gagosian
First Jeff Koons holds show with rival gallery David Zwirner, now it emerges that Damien Hirst is off
ar+d Emerging Architecture Award winners
A Japanese glass house numbers among the winning works by architects under the age of 45
Monopoly for minimalists
US designer Matthew Hollett reduces the classic board game it to “its basic mechanics”
'Idiot' who defaced Tate's Rothko jailed for two years
Self-styled yellowist fails to escape jail sentence as judge castigates him for damaging 'gift to the nation'
Warhol surfboards hit the market
Californian surfboard shaper Tim Bessel releases first in a series of artistic collaborations
David Rockwell's Imagination Playground
Designer more used to creating spaces for Gordon Ramsay and Broadway shows creates Washington installation
M.I.A. opens India’s first biennale
The British-Tamil singer inaugurates India's largest international contemporary art event
Barber Osgerby design new £2 coin
Design studio behind the Olympic flame celebrates 150 years of the London Underground with newly minted coin
Daniel Baer on Richard Avedon's Observations
The man behind our Joel Meyerowitz retrospective discusses the photographer's legendary monograph
Ten questions for graphic artist Jamie Hewlett
The comic artist and co-creator of Gorillaz and Tank Girl talks to us about art, kids books and Japanese animation
'Lost' TV series inspires new LA art show
LOST (in LA) pairs French contemporary art with the massively successful desert island TV show - no, really
Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum 'reconnects residents with climate'
Speaking at Art Basel Miami, Jacques Herzog pledges an end to fur coat, air-conditioned culture
Portugal's eco-friendly forest resort
Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar create low key architectural gem in spa town of Pedras Salgadas
Alex Moulton 1920-2012
We celebrate the inventor of Norman Foster's favourite bicycle and one that's featured in Phaidon Design Classics
Yale Art Gallery expansion opens tomorrow
The university's incredible refurbished gallery complex includes one of Louis Kahn's earliest commissions
SANAA designs new Louvre annexe
Pritzker Prize-winning architects create Louvre Lens on the French Belgian border
Design of the Week: Akkurat
Cult designer Laurenz Brunner on the most popular Swiss typeface of the last decade
Keith Coventry talks about Junk Paintings at Pace
The former YBA on a current show of new work in London inspired by Malevich and McDonalds
Sebastiaan Bremer’s ode to the family holiday
The Dutch photographer adds splashes of ink and paint to old family photos
Jessica Dimmock on NYC's homeless gay teens
The VII photographer follows a few of New York City's homeless gay young people for The New Yorker
Temporary Printing Machine a hit at Design Miami
London design team combine screen printing with digital technology to produce a portrait machine fit for a gallery
Shore and Parr among top bankable photographers
Confidence is growing the modern and contemporary photography market, say London analysts Art Tactic
Max Dudler makes sweet music (library) in Essen
Marbled windows created from 12 photographs taken at local quarry correspond to 12 notes in a score
Frank Gehry's first building in Australia
Dubbed The Paper Bag, Sydney's new University of Technology features an undulating wall of 320,000 bricks
The highlights from Miami Art Week
Kathy Battista, director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute, reports back from last week's art fairs in Miami
School's out in Detroit
A cache of photos taken at Cass Technical School in Detroit reveal the fun before the fall
Buildings that changed the world - Brasilia, Brazil
President Juscelino Kubitschek's commission for a new capital city helped seal Oscar Niemeyer's reputation
Carlos Arroyo creates three buildings in one
Spanish architect designs ingenious reflective façade for a school for the performing arts in Belgium
What to expect from Kraftwerk at The Tate
The pioneering German electronic group play The Turbine Hall next February - here's what we think will happen
Ten questions for photographer Hélène Binet
When architects want to display their building in the best possible light (and shade) there's only one person to call
New York's AIDS memorial gets the go-ahead
A canopied garden is to be built in Greenwich Village, on the site of the city's original AIDS hospital
Taner Ceylan joins Paul Kasmin Gallery
The New York gallery announces at Miami Art Week that it now represents this smokin' Turkish painter
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil's Picasso of Concrete
Latin America's greatest architect died of respiratory failure in Rio yesterday, ten days short of his 105 birthday
Christmas with the Zumthors
Would you like to rent the Pritzker-prize winner's Swiss holiday home this season?
Terraced housing Chilean style
Santiago architects Elton + Leniz build this stepped seafront house right on the vertiginous Pacific coast
The obligatory design-related Christmas lights story
Teresa Sapey lights up Calle Serrano in Madrid - beat that Marmite!
Joel Meyerowitz shot by Fred R. Conrad
The New York Times' staff photographer compares their session to "Rembrandt going into Picasso's studio"
Beijing's pedal-powered mobile home
The two-metre wide Bao House by dot Architects is made from polyurethane and sits on the back of a tricycle
The art works that almost made the fourth plinth
Grayson Perry on a new ICA show featuring 21 works commissioned for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square
//hapo Museum in South Africa tells history of nation
Unusually named Copper-clad structure aims to do for South Africa what Libeskind's Jewish Museum did for Berlin
Neville Brody remixes the RCA's font
Graphics legend and RCA dean Brody reworks the college's classic font
French port turns its station into a theatre
Contemporary motifs meet neo-classicism when Saint-Nazaire's bomb-damaged station is renovated
Elizabeth Price wins the Turner Prize
The Jury admired the seductive and immersive qualities of the 45-year-old artist's video trilogy
The fringe fairs of Art Miami
We make sense of the myriad alternatives on offer as Art Basel Miami Beach comes to town
Cinema's snappers reassembled Marclay-style
Mishka Henner and David Oates create tribute to Christian Marclay's The Clock using photographers from movies
Designers on Design: Esquire's David McKendrick
The UK men's mag's creative director on graphic design and the world of 1980s hatchbacks
Artist of the Week: J M W Turner
The masterly British painter was considered controversial during his lifetime, but why?
Jonas Mekas, Warhol's filmmaker, comes to London
New York's leading 20th century avant-garde filmmaker has a retrospective at The Serpentine Gallery this month
Farming and music come together in Bordeaux
Parisian architecture practice SOA combines organic vertical farming with live performances. Intrigued? Read on
Zaha Hadid to build Japan’s National Stadium
With an eye on its bid for the 2020 Olympics Japan sets some strict rules for the designer of its National Stadium
It's official: video games are art (well, sort of...)
The likes of Pac-Man, SimCity, Tetris and Portal et al become part of the permanent collection at MoMA
The story behind the branding of dOCUMENTA (13)
Leftloft's Francesca Cianfarini on the truly wonderful graphic identity for the Kassel art exhibition
Susan Meiselas sends a postcard from America
Images from a run down factory in Rochester feature in Magnum's latest Postcards From America series
French architect Edouard François makes "something very ugly - to make the rest look pretty"
In his schme to revive a Parisian suburb the architect creates an architectural sandwich of differing styles
Rem Koolhaas invents the future for libraries
Plans for The Qatar National Library reveal futuristic digital hub with 300 public computers and online databases
Keith Haring goes to New Jersey
Rare works by the New York street artist get a showing next month - on the far side of the North River
Damien Hirst to design next year's Brit Award
Artist follows Vivienne Westwood and Peter Blake in designing music ceremony trophies
How one Korean artist invited the outside in
South Korean artist Young Jeong commissions his own live/work space in keeping with the natural surroundings
Stephen Shore talks Warhol, colour and creativity
Artist Doug Aitken quizzes the New York photographer about his career and the very source of creativity
Dutch architects turn Moroccan market into waterfall
Rotterdam practice TomDavid wins first place in a competition to design a sustainable square for Casablanca
Vicenza honours Palladio with new museum
The city turns one of its finest buildings, Palazzo Barbarano, into a tribute to its famous architect, Andrea Palladio
Former Pentagram partner Fernando Gutiérrez talks about Harper's Bazaar and Fabien Baron
Fernando Gutiérrez waxes lyrical about a special magazine and its inspirational art director
The Munich U-Bahn photographed by Nick Franck
Art director strips out all distractions from his photographs to reveal each location's purity, line and shape
What to expect at Art Basel Miami Beach
America's biggest art fair returns to Miami Beach Convention Center in two weeks time. Get diarizing
Buildings that changed the world - The Weissenhof Settlement, Stuttgart
How socialist ideals and an all star cast of architects including Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius revolutionised affordable housing for both blue and white colour workers on a hill just outside Stuttgart
Is Bragga the Brazilian Banksy?
Rio graffiti artist's new show in alternative streetwear store Homegrown is at odds with beach culture environs
Studio Orta replaces St Pancras Olympic rings
The Anglo-French art couple make the first piece for the international station’s Terrace Wires commission
Muji and Louis Vuitton designers reveal inspirations
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of design practice Industrial Facility discuss how city life influences their creativity
VII’s Adam Ferguson and Gary Knight in new show
Photojournalists included in new Houston exhibition alongside Philip Jones Griffiths and Jonathan Torgovnik
The Iron Curtain is lifted on Modernist architecture
Brilliant new show in Vienna looks at Socialist architecture from Russia and its satellite states
Does Gehry's memorial really look like a missile silo?
The Pritzker-prize winner's plans for The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial are rebuffed by the President's offspring
Revel in Fabian Oefner's Dancing Colours
The Swiss photographer uses flash-linked mics to capture this dazzling intersection of sound and colour
John Pawson curates Phaidon online exhibition
Churches, houses, stadia and even a police station from 20th-Century World Architecture picked for online show
Will Christo's new sculpture be the world's biggest?
That's certainly the 77-year-old artist's intention, as he revives plans for a huge work in Abu Dhabi's desert
Pilgrims’ progress inspired by great design
Aptly-named Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein build inspirational concrete structure on Mexican pilgrim route
Designers on Design: Andy Stevens
The Graphic Thought Facility co-founder on why a well-designed 80s thesaurus is 'the Led Zep of reference books'
Total’s Berlin HQ has the ripple effect
Barkow Leibinger's faceted concrete piers twist and turn, almost as if they’re plaited
MAD create new contoured village by a Chinese lake
700 apartment settlement blends with Taiping lakeside at foot of eastern China’s Huangshan Mountains
Ten questions for photographer Roger Ballen
The photographer on viewing life differently, our dark side and why birds get bored in photo shoots
Buildings that changed the world - The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
How Frank Gehry revitalised a city and its arts scene by using a computer programme he didn't quite understand
Warhol's Death and Disaster Vs Standard & Poor's
Artnet pits Warhol's deathly prints against the S&P's stock market index. Guess who comes out on top?
MoMA gets John Cage's silence
New York's Museum of Modern Art has acquired the earliest existing score to John Cage's 4'33”
Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #2
Video of the Magnum photographer describing an incredible two days spent in Niger, eating and staying with a family and observing the extraordinary marriage ritual captured in his photograph Young Wadabi Men
Rolf Müller's tidal shift
A look back at the moment a young German graduate changed the course of graphic design
See KAWS' Companion at the Thanksgiving Parade
The Brooklyn-based graffiti artist turned pop sculptor has made an inflatable version of his best-known character
20 ton 'treehouse' built in Swedish forest
"Nothing remotely similar has ever been done before" say Rintala Eggertsson Architects
Martha Rosler's garage sale on now at MoMA
New Yorkers combine Black Friday bargains with a meditation on the suburban culture of buying and selling
Dinos Chapman records sloppy techno
The elder Chapman brother is set to release an album of Throbbing Gristle-influenced electronica next year
ITV's new logo unveiled
UK broadcaster employs a colourful twist to its new online and offline identity
Hilla Becher interviewed at Paris Photo
The legendary German photographer talks about her famous series of industrial images
Pop Art goes to the dark side at the Whitney
Sinister Pop highlights the movement's darker, difficult themes of crime, depression, commercialism and war
Slum solutions in tall and short order
Two different architectural practices offer two very different visions for urban renewal
Designers on Design: Andy Altmann
Why Not Associates' principal reveals his favourite piece of graphic design
Ai Weiwei new video art shot on public bus in China
'How to Scientifically Remove A Shiny Screw With Chinese Characteristics From A Moving Vehicle In Eighteen Turns' follows the artist's attempts to remove a screw from a public bus as it passes by Beijing political hotspots
Scrabble design makeover - Comic Sans not included
If you love words and typography and obviously you do - Andrew Capener has designed the Scrabble set for you
Have Martin Parr shoot you for Christmas
The Magnum photographer and Phaidon artist will shoot 96 portraits on December 16 - book here
