Iwan Baan’s year in buildings (Photographic highlights from 190,000 miles of air travel) Take a nail, hammer this magazine into the wall and hang it up as a calendar.

Conversation between designer Tom Dixon, architect David Adjaye and fashion designer Paul Smith.

Timber slats hang like stalactites from the roof of a temporary pavilion on the South Bank, London.

Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat has enlisted architect David Adjaye and graphic designer Peter Saville for its newly opened showroom and office in east London

There is a new breed of client who collects architecture like stamps. In Mongolia, Taiwan, South Africa and Brazil, private developers are commissioning big names and hot young practices by the dozen to build huge, diverse developments.

Read the full transcript of British architect David Adjaye talking to Diego García Scaro about his temporary pavilion, Sclera, situated on the South Bank in London.

David Adjaye met Oscar Niemeyer while making a radio programme for the BBC on major figures in 20th-century architecture. Here, the young architect tells icon about it. The programme, which also includes Kenzo Tange, IM Pei and Moshe Safdie, airs in March.

“You know why giraffe necks are stripy? Giraffes are stripy because when they come together they form an optical haze that confuses predators. When you get a family of giraffes there’s this moiré-ing, and lions trip out, and what they have to do is to separate them to hunt them.”

Graduating in '93 was like being ejected into the void; it was the height of the crash. That forced me to start doing my own thing. I was born in Tanzania. I got here when I was ten, in the late Seventies. I studied at Middlesex and then the Royal College of Art.

Architectural exhibitions have become hollow, detached and lacking in curatorial drive.