London's Shard ©Getty Jan 14, 2013

Shortlist balances form against function

Design of the Year awards bring together a diverse list

Pininfarina’s Alfa Romeo Spider, circa 1970 ©Contrasto/Eyevine Peter Aspden Jan 1, 2013

Throttles and bottles

Italian supercar designers Pininfarina are taking on whisky in a bid to diversify

A Rapha promotional shot Dec 28, 2012

Change of gear

How a small British company pioneered a very different look for cycling

Pac-Man Dec 28, 2012

Spotlight on club king’s deco collection

PacMan’ heads to MoMA as a feud over royalties brews in France

The Galerie du Temps at the Louvre-Lens ©Iwan Baan Dec 7, 2012

Louvre on the move

The Paris museum has opened its first outpost in Lens northern France. Edwin Heathcote is mesmerised

Brasilia's Cathedral designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer ©AFP From MULTIMEDIA Dec 7, 2012

Oscar Niemeyer

A selection of works by modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer

Brasilia's Cathedral designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer ©AFP From COMMENT Dec 6, 2012

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

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

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

From COLLECTING Nov 23, 2012

Contemporary vintage

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

Nov 23, 2012

Shared memorial

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

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

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