Brasilia's Cathedral designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer ©AFP From COMMENT 5:38am

Brazilian architect Niemeyer dies

Modernist designer shaped country’s image

Omlet’s Eglu hen house Nov 30, 2012

In safe hands

RCA students are being urged to put sustainability at the heart of all their work

François-Xavier Lalanne’s marble bird egg table Nov 30, 2012

The Design Market: Buyers follow the flock

Lalanne sales flow, Louis XV excites, and airport art takes off

Illustration by Kai and Sunny ©Kai and Sunny From HOUSE & HOME Nov 30, 2012

Scent of a building

Whether we like it or not, smell is intrinsic to the personality of a place: every one of our homes is individual, and could be more so

Art deco hotels in Miami’s South Beach district ©Alamy Peter Aspden from COLLECTING Nov 30, 2012

How culture created Miami Nice

Ten years after its first Art Basel fair, the fortunes of the Florida city have been transformed

Detail from ‘Grand Opera, Paris’ (1995) by Valery Koshlyakov ©Saatchi Gallery From VISUAL ARTS Nov 24, 2012

Russian and Soviet art at the Saatchi gallery

Jackie Wullschlager reviews a new exhibition that gets under the skin of life in the former USSR

Alexander Calder’s ‘Small Crinkley’ outside Tadao Ando’s reception building at the Château La Coste ©Tom Cannavan From COLLECTING Nov 23, 2012

Contemporary vintage

Works by leading sculptors adorn Château La Coste’s vineyard in Provence

An aerial view of Roosevelt Island and the memorial park at its tip ©Polaris/Eyevine Nov 23, 2012

Shared memorial

A monument to Franklin Delano Roosevelt also serves as a fitting tribute to its late architect Louis Kahn

A rendering of the Klein Bottle Playground by Vito Acconci ©Courtesy of Acconci Studio Nov 17, 2012

Tubular belles

The works of architect Vito Acconci, 71, DesignMiami/’s designer of the year, are informed by his past as a countercultural poet and performance artist. Caroline Roux talks to him

Aron Losonczi’s ‘Litracon’ ©AP Nov 17, 2012

The stuff of modernity cements its reputation

Users of concrete shift to delicate or conceptual applications

Nov 17, 2012

Sit up and take notice

Miami online; Riyadh on the radar; a bespoke speedboat for ‘everyday oligarchs’

From HOUSE & HOME Nov 16, 2012

Inside outstanding

An extract from ‘100 Interiors Around the World’ looks at spectacular houses from Acapulco to Zurich that exhibit the effects of a modern aesthetic evolution

From HOUSE & HOME Nov 9, 2012

Proportional perfection

The latest in the series examines two homes, far apart in time and space, that influenced the modern movement

From FT MAGAZINE Nov 9, 2012

Interview: Dasha Zhukova

Dasha Zhukova, partner of Roman Abramovich, is expanding her Garage arts centre in Moscow, and now has designs on St Petersburg. Her critics in the art world may still not take her seriously, but they can’t ignore her

From HOUSE & HOME Nov 2, 2012

On a wave of colour

A new generation of Mexican designers is attracting the attention of the international market

From COLLECTING Oct 26, 2012

Spreading their wings in style

Following the influx of Chinese artists and photographers, designers hit the market

Oct 26, 2012

Towers of babble

Deafened in restaurants? Assaulted by noise in offices? Sound design is an essential but all too often neglected question

Oct 26, 2012

A breath of fresh air for public spaces

Ambitious initiatives are seeking to inject new life into the modern city

Oct 26, 2012

Shape shifters

One of the year’s wider themes in the arts is the interplay between past and present, and about the juxtapositions they can create. But does it work?

Oct 26, 2012

Bare Conductive design studio’s work is based on one sparky idea

That single material looks dark and a bit gunky. But its potential is in what it does – conduct electricity