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Gillian Wearing picks her top art, design and architecture events
19 November 2014The British Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing picks her top events for the coming months.
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Country life: Hauser & Wirth's new Somerset gallery
13 November 2014The contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth has spaces in Zurich, London and New York. So when it was announced it was going to open an art gallery in deepest Somerset, the question on everyone’s lips, was ‘Why Bruton’?
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Piet Oudolf - interview
13 November 2014Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf, the man behind the planting on the High Line in Manhattan and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Pavilion in 2011, talks to Cate St Hill about his garden for Hauser & Wirth Somerset, including the perennial meadow that sits behind the gallery buildings.
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Stephen Bayley on Terence Conran
11 November 2014Ten things Terence taught me:
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Back to (the New) School: the new University of Greenwich building
3 November 2014How do you update the home of time? Architecture students at the University of Greenwich will take possession of a brand new building this term. Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng has negotiated the area's historic fabric to produce an unobtrusive, elegant solution, with high-tech roof gardens and a 'crit pit'.
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Beyond phones and drones: critical design and digital technology
3 November 2014A small, but dedicated, constellation of designers and artists, who have long been surfing the outer reaches of speculative design and digital technology, are increasingly being courted by the mainstream. We investigate the distinctions and overlaps between critical, tech-infused design and art, the problems in securing funding for such projects, and ask what impact they might have on the wider world.
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Art attack: inside the Folkestone Triennial
28 October 2014Now in its third iteration, the Folkestone Triennial is going some way to reversing the negative perceptions of it as a town in decline. This year, the eight-week festival, curated for the first time by Lewis Biggs, brings together a mix of interventions that respond to Folkestone’s past as a resort and major port.
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Maps to Memorials: Exploring the Work of MacDonald Gill
28 October 2014Herbert Wright finds joy in the work of graphic designer and architect MacDonald Gill, on show at Suffolk’s Lettering Arts Centre.
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Introducing architecture practice RCKa
28 October 2014RCKa is only six years old, yet the practice has already clocked up, among other things, a Civic Trust Award-winning youth and community centre (TNG in Lewisham, 2013), a big city art gallery (Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery, 2011), and a prestigious laboratory project — most architects have to wait 20 years to land one of those — for the world’s largest currency printer De La Rue in the Hampshire countryside.
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Non-competitive advantage: Norway's blossoming design industry
24 October 2014Spurred on by the country’s wealth from North Atlantic oil and gas, Norway’s design industry is blossoming. We talk to its young stars about how to project a small nation, with an almost non-existant design heritage, onto the world design stage, and discuss the benefits of collaboration over competition.
