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Is China finally ditching the mega mall?

Xintiandi, home to a two-week design festival at this year’s Design Shanghai, laid the ground for a new wave of developments that mix retail, cafes

Architecture

Rem Koolhaas on urban mobility

  The architect talks to Peter Smisek about how transport will shape the cities of the future, and why total connectivity might not be as

Architecture

Shenzhen Biennale

The architecture and urbanism festival calls for an end to the relentless churn of construction and challenges our thinking about city-making, but does it offer

Opinion

‘China is the world’s greatest urban experiment’

Ahead of the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture next week, the event’s co-curator, Alfredo Brillembourg of architecture practice Urban Think Tank, explains the continuing

Opinion

‘Cities are the solution, not the problem’

Dytopian visions of our urban future ignore the progress being made by well-designed and well-managed cities in tackling social and environmental problems, argues the director

Opinion

‘It’s all very tribal’ – Donna Loveday on the Cycle Revolution

We spoke to the Design Museum curator ahead of an exhibition, opening today, that looks at the lifestyles, motives and attitudes of cyclists in Britain

Design

Reclaiming the streets

From Bogota to Bristol, policymakers and community groups are devising creative ways to break the stranglehold that cars have over city roads, says Peter Murray

Opinion

Vienna, the Pearl of the Reich

An unflinching exhibition uncovers how the city’s architects collaborated in a frenzy of Nazi urban planning, writes Laura Snoad Totalitarian regimes, the Nazis included, tend

Opinion

Chmara.Rosinke: Nomads in residence

Polish duo Maciej Chmara and Ania Rosinke moved to Austria as students, stayed “by coincidence” and have made their home in Vienna. But their work,

Design

A laboratory for Mexico City

In Mexico City, Gabriella Gomez-Mont’s team is reimagining the megalopolis, with the help of video-game developers, robot designers and the city’s many informal communities. Icon

Architecture

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This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

10 must-see design exhibitions not to miss in 2026

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

5 Highlights from Design Miami 2025




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Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

MoDusArchitects completes contemporary Alpine home in Val di Non

Fondazione MAST kicks off 7th edition of Foto/Industria with a citywide exploration into the meaning of home

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

The newly opened Darsena Listening Suite at Il Sereno in Lake Como is a playground for audiophiles


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Inside a fully furnished Artemest London penthouse designed by Róisín Lafferty

Meet the creative duo behind Swiss multi-disciplinary design practice Gini Moynier

PINCH reaffirms the beauty of natural materials with its latest collection

Meet the dynamic duo behind collectible design gallery STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN



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Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

Moleskine CEO Christophe Archaimbault on writing as a creative detox

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LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Inside the Malmö studio of Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

10 must-see design exhibitions not to miss in 2026

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

5 Highlights from Design Miami 2025