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Surreal subversion: Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern
20 March 2019The Tate Modern’s new retrospective of surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning delights and disturbs in equal measure
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Living in a palace: Palacete Barão de Santos by Barbas Lopes Arquitectos
8 March 2019The conversion of a dilapidated nineteenth-century Lisbon palace into luxury apartments demonstrates that resuscitating past elegance needn’t clash with contemporary city living
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From 90s business park to new co-working campus: Republic by Studio RHE
6 March 2019Studio RHE is busy turning an unlovely complex of Nineties offices in east London into a modern, open and social co-working campus
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Block party: OMA and BIG take on Stockholm
28 February 2019In a city that has resisted architectural innovation since the 1980s, two new landmarks from two of the 21st century’s leading practices have risen, commissioned by the same developer. What do these new apartment blocks from OMA and Bjarke Ingels Group contribute to Stockholm’s skyline?
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House of God: Gatti Routh Rhodes gives Bethnal Green Mission Church a residential makeover
22 February 2019In east London, the rebuild of a community church space has seen 14 new flats created above, all with a generosity of light, space and amenities
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Designing for a building's many lives: meet Davidson Rafailidis
20 February 2019George Kafka talks to Buffalo-based practice Davidson Rafailidis, whose work breathes new and flexible life into old structures
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Meet the Designers in Residence
17 February 2019For the latest Designers in Residence programme at London’s Design Museum, an all-female line-up explores the theme of ‘dwelling’
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'I got here by sticking to my guns': Nicholas Grimshaw on winning the RIBA Royal Gold Medal
14 February 2019Best known for a series of buildings which wear their engineering credentials on their sleeve, as well as being linked in with the Brit high-tech pack, Nicholas Grimshaw receives the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture this February, recognising his lifetime’s achievements. We sit down with him for an exclusive interview
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The walls have years: Battersea Arts Centre and Bristol Old Vic by Haworth Tompkins
8 February 2019The Grand Hall of Battersea Arts Centre, London and the Bristol Old Vic have been brought back to life by Haworth Tompkins. The projects demonstrate an approach to cultural venues that is democratic, radical and unusually animated by the quirks of history
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Designing the domestic: Home Futures at the Design Museum — review
7 February 2019The Design Museum’s Home Futures show presents ideas of how the future of the home was once imagined
