Swiss firm Christ & Gantenbein has added a new gallery building to the Kunstmuseum Basel, featuring a graduated grey-brick facade and a monumental marble staircase (+ slideshow). (more…)
Milan 2016: British designer Jasper Morrison’s new collection for Swiss brand Vitra includes a modular sofa, a cubic-looking armchair and a simple plastic chair (+ slideshow). (more…)
Zaha Hadid Architects has announced it will continue to practice without its late founder and figurehead, who died suddenly last month. (more…)
The architecture college at Washington University in St Louis has announced it plans to prohibit students from using styrene in their models, citing health risks related to the chemical that is used to make foam boards. (more…)
Towering oak trees surround this addition to a family residence in Sardinia, which is raised up on concrete feet to minimise its impact on the wild landscape (+ slideshow). (more…)
Milan 2016: Italian furniture brand Magis has launched furniture and accessories by designers Konstantin Grcic, the Bouroullec brothers and Jerszy Seymour in Milan to mark the company’s 40th anniversary (+ slideshow). (more…)
Milan 2016: conceived as a technological update to the traditional oil lamp, Candela uses a 17th-century scientific discovery to create electricity out of heat. (more…)
The late Zaha Hadid‘s designs for a spiralling car park and public plaza in Miami have been rejected by city officials, five years after the architect was hired for the project. (more…)
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Philip Johnson was an impassioned supporter of Nazism, in which he found a “new international ideal”, according to a new book by American journalist Marc Wortman. (more…)
