Robert Kusmirowski's sinister installation feels more than just historical.

A lecture by this 1970s iconoclast caused palpable excitement, says Charles Holland – but the rhetoric doesn’t match the buildings.

Alain de Botton spent a week at Heathrow looking into people’s souls.

It’s hard not to see this seminal artist’s work as a celebration of ephemeral 
America – but these days its glamour is less obvious. Mark Rappolt looks back.

Conversation between designer Ronan Bouroullec and icon editor Justin McGuirk.

Conversation between architect Julien de Smedt and Joseph Grima, director of New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Conversation between architectural historian Charles Jencks and architects Farshid Moussavi and Marjan Colletti, with questions from the floor.

Conversation between designers Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, and science fiction novelist and design commentator Bruce Sterling.

Like islands, the buildings in photographer Bas Princen’s latest series are isolated objects in the landscape.

Design's angry lion sets the world to rights.

“We wanted to make Something intriguing, where you might ask, ‘what is the logic?’”

“Non plus ultra” or “nothing further beyond” is the message integrated into the ornamental facade of Rafael de la Hoz’s Torres de Hércules in Cádiz in southern Spain.

“I’m ignored in Holland,” says Amsterdam-based Israeli designer Jair Straschnow.

Rem Koolhaas' view of Stefano Boeri's unused G8 convention centre in Italy.

Nendo has presented four new pieces at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Gamfratesi has won this year’s Walk The Plank award, a Danish gong for furniture design.

Squat yet striking, Dorte Mandrup Architects’ new community centre sits obliquely as the focal point of Herstedlund.

Design Academy Eindhoven opened its graduation exhibition amid confusion over the resignation of its director Alexander van Slobbe after only nine months on the job.

The driest place on Earth now has a museum dedicated to it.

There’s no one like Reyner Banham today. Imagine a serious architecture critic writing a detailed analysis of crisps – their form, their packaging and the reasons why people assumed they weren’t fattening.