Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's much-anticipated Kunsthaus Graz is about to open, in time to catch the end of the Austrian city's tenure as European Capital of Culture 2003.
Maybe we were looking in the wrong places. But while there are some designers you can't avoid, the one we were really looking for was never there. Not at Milan; not at any of the parties over the summer; not at the show openings. We once thought we saw him at the Design Museum but before we had made our way across the room, he'd gone.
There are modern castles in Northern Ireland. Jonathan Olley, an award-winning photojournalist, was in Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2001 to photograph the British Army barracks, fortifications and police stations before they were due to be torn down as part of the peace process.
A Bournemouth firm is collaborating with young designers to produce breathtakingly beautiful electroluminescent products.
"We've got no money." That's what Piers Roberts and Rory Dodd - aka designersblock - say when you ask them why they live and work in a dilapidated former pub in a shabby backstreet off Kingsland Road in East London. But the building is the perfect base for a company that is the raw antidote to the slick commercialism of much of the contemporary design scene.
If we are now in a situation where anarchy rules in form-making - if you can design it, you can make it - surely choosing to make a pod must signify something qualitatively different to acres of glass and soaring atriums?
Provence has little contemporary architecture of note. Immortalised in books in the 1990s as an expat's paradise, the area has responded with a planning regime designed to preserve its lure for wealthy foreigners.
Design legend and lifelong Kraftwerk fan Peter Saville reviews Kraftwerk'sfirst album of new material for 17 years. It was supposed to be released to coincide with the Tour de France but came out just after it had finished. And New Order thought that he was bad at deadlines...
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