Illicit photography makes a magnificent theme for an exhibition and Tate Modern brings us every bedsheet and bloodstain.

Neri&Hu Design and Research Office creates a hotel lobby that pays tribute to the local heritage of the land surrounding the Shanghai Expo.

Museums and schools dominate the shortlist for British architecture’s biggest honour, as David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid, Rick Mather, DSDHA, dRMM and Theis and Khan square up.

David Chipperfield co-curates an impressively refreshing Architecture room with projects formalistically arranged.

The shopping-and-sisterhood blockbuster is a vitally important text on the commodification of the city. And shoes.

Human muscle fibres provide unusual inspiration for Gnadinger Architekten’s project in Berlin.

Boiled leather furnishings, a collapsible bicycle and a socket light scoop prizes at the annual showcase for graduate designers.

The Bouroullec brothers reinterpret a Corbusier interior within the Unité d’Habitation, Marseille

This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by French architect Jean Nouvel, was unveiled yesterday in London’s Hyde Park.

Design revolution is at the top of the agenda in icon 086, the August issue, which is in shops now. Jerszy Seymour and Gaetano Pesce, representatives of two different decades of radical design, set the world to rights in an incendiary conversation, and there's much else besides.