KREOD's Olympian ascent
Rio Pavilion is the latest project from the fast-growing design and architecture practice
When the Cold War went domestic
A new exhibition looks back at an era when the Soviet Union tried to better America's consumer goods
Bridget Riley by the man who knows her best
Phaidon author Richard Shiff walks you round a fantastic David Zwirner show of her Stripe Paintings
How Manifesta 10 is beating Russia’s anti-gay laws
Artists at the roving biennial have expressed themselves quite freely, despite new anti-gay legislation
Monica Bonvicini defined in five great works
Sex, styrofoam and stairways to hell - the thought-provoking artworks that will turn you on to this great Italian artist
Ross Lovegrove on design, nature and computers
We catch up on the great British designer's plans for the future at the launch of the online Phaidon Atlas
Parr, Bailey and Eijkelboom at Arles 2014
Long-standing Arles director François Hébel draws on old friendships for his final Rencontres production
Take a look at this new Ferran Adrià FT dinner video
Want a little glimpse at our super select Pollen Street Social dinner for How To Spend It readers? Of course you do
Young Americans of the Atlas
This week's Editor's Focus in the Phaidon online Atlas takes a look at new architectural talent in the United States
The Insider's Guide to Reykjavik
Filmmaker Vera Sölvadóttir on her favourite places as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide
Martin Parr in New York and Austin
The British photographer charms New York Magazine and the crowds at the Austin Center for Photography
How to snag a table at Noma Tokyo
René Redzepi's Japanese pop-up might not open until 2015, but booking registration closes early next month
Carsten Höller's new slide opens at the Vitra campus
Vitra Slide Tower is “a sculpture you can travel inside” - though you can appreciate it even if you don't take a ride
Less is More at Valentino's Chipperfield NYC store
The British architect is brought in by the Italian label to reduce 'superficial decoration' in its key flagship stores
Dieter Rams inspires Jason Wu
The Taiwanese Canadian designer draws from Braun’s ex-chief design officer for his new Resort Collection
Why Chilean architecture is having a moment
As the Serpentine Pavilion opens, we talk to Chile's cultural attaché and the minister for architecture and design
Why Joseph Beuys made a child’s telephone
A new Munich show of Beuys’s multiples offers great insight into the artist’s practice and concerns
Five unlikely choices from Art Everywhere US
We look at a few of the less-obvious choices in a poll for America’s summer billboard art show
Sou Fujimoto tells us about the bus stop he built
What happened when the Serpentine Pavilion architect went to the tiny Austrian village of Krumbach?
Have you seen Richard Prince’s Woodstock poster?
The US artist returns to the famous 60s rock festival, both lyrically and figuratively, for his new exhibition's poster
Monica Bonvicini on sexing up Minimalism
How the Italian artist finds fetishism everywhere - from building sites to Carl Andre works
World's earliest figurative art gets UNESCO status
The Chauvet Cave, championed by Phaidon author Jean Clottes, receives World Heritage status
Odile Decq on her new architecture school
Celebrated Parisian architect and educator aims to engage students in the 'laboratory of everywhere'
Le Corbusier cousin’s house reimagined in Basel
Art duo Kolkoz rework Pierre Jeanneret’s prefab house in a celebration of the architect and designer’s work
David Adjaye does neo-brutalism in New York
Affordable housing references Sugar Hill area's rows of terraced housing by placing one 'row' on top of another
See how the chefs eat
Literati Books and Vellum restaurant in Ann Arbor team up for a very special Eating With The Chefs meal
Focus on these futuristic façades
The Phaidon Atlas takes a look at some beautifully rhythmic digitally fabricated skins
"My first spherified olive was a revelation!"
Modernist Cuisine's Nathan Myhrvold pays tribute to elBulli 2005-2011 creator Ferran Adrià - "a philosopher and avant-garde provocateur who can reference the history and future of gastronomy in a single bite"
The Insider's Guide to Tallinn
Textiles designer Kärt Ojavee on her favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide
Tadao Ando’s first New York City project
The Pritzker laureate hopes his modest seven-storey block will “embrace the industrial character of the area”
What’s hot at Art Basel?
Warhol, Ruby, Nauman and Richter, are snapped up by collectors at the world’s biggest contemporary art fair
Björk comes to MoMA in 2015
The Icelandic artist is the subject of a full career retrospective curated by Klaus Biesenbach in March
V&A to open China’s first ever design museum
Arts and design institution is teaming up with Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki in Shenzhen
How Kuramata’s sushi bar ended up in Hong Kong
The great Japanese designer’s sole remaining work of interior design has joined M+’s permanent collection
MAD Architects talk about latest project
Nanjing urban complex references mountains, water and winding pathways found in Chinese shan-shui paintings
The Gwangju Biennale's incendiary plans
Curator Jessica Morgan draws from Talking Heads’ song Burning Down the House for the 2014 Biennale
Six things you need to know about Monica Bonvicini
Fetishism, Freud and transparent toilets - a brief guide to this great Italian artist’s work
Why Wolfgang Tillmans is choosing to show in Russia
The German artist will take part in Manifesta10 at St Petersburg Hermitage despite Russia’s new anti-gay laws
Design students create mirrored look-out in Scotland
Strathclyde design duo's £5,000 stainless steel structure debuts in the highlands
Barry Bergdoll 'New York is starting to feel nostalgic'
MoMA architecture curator says "London is a much more dynamic place these days than New York"
What to expect from Art Basel 2014
$4 billion worth of work is up for sale but the most engaging parts of the fair don’t require a chequebook
Floating city proposal for China's super rich
Electric cars speed along underwater tunnels, there's on-island food production and bespoke power generation
Dining out with Ferran Adrià in Hong Kong
The elBulli founder gives some advice on culinary creativity in one of Hong Kong's finest, and tiniest, restaurants
Pollock signature misspelled in the Knoedler case
Major gallerist failed to notice that forgers dropped a crucial 'c' from an abstract expressionist work
50 courses for Ferran Adrià - gone in 60 seconds!
We LOVE this Modernist Cuisine video of their meal celebrating Ferran and his new book elBulli 2005-2011
The Israeli Pavilion draws lines in the sand
At this year's Venice Biennale Israel presents a brilliantly engaging meditation on its national urban sprawl
Wolfgang Tillmans on middle age and architecture
Photographer considers whether his best work is behind him - unlikely, given the strength of his new shows
David Shrigley takes over Sketch
Acerbic artist brings his misfits, freaks and socially awkward characters to upscale Mayfair restaurant
How the Bauhaus houses were rebuilt
Mending bombed buildings in Germany is controversial, yet these ones are a great expression of Teutonic culture
Would you sleep in Antony Gormley's new sculpture?
The British artist’s 'inhabitable sculpture' has a hotel room inside it, and comes with an art market style price tag
Mystery of a 50-year-old Nauman art object solved
Bruce Nauman book author Peter Plagens reveals the strange story behind infamous funk art object the Slant Step
Ten buildings changing the way we travel
The Phaidon Atlas picks out airports, ferry terminals and cable-car stations putting the bon into bon voyage
Banksy likes blotter art, not keen on Sotheby’s show
The graffiti artist offers a little insight into his unauthorised London show, as well as some trippy appropriation
French Pavilion pairs Jacques Tati with Jean Prouvé
The French submission for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale interrogates and gently lampoons modernism
The Insider's Guide to Salvador
TV presenter Paula Magalhães on her favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide
Look what Renzo Piano has squeezed into Paris
Piano's building for film company Pathé snakes in between the façades of the XIII arrondissement
So, is there such a thing as national architecture?
OMA's Stephan Petermann, Diébédo Francis Kéré and MAD's Ma Yansong join us for a great debate in Venice
Roald Dahl’s Bacon portrait of Freud up for sale
1967 study of Lucian Freud was originally bought on the proceeds from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
What happened at the London elBulli dinner?
Guests and editorial executives from The Financial Times joined the elBulli chef for a gala meal and presentation
Bruce Nauman: from Smart Aleck to True Artist
Writer and author Peter Plagens explains how his view of Bruce Nauman went from disdain to admiration
Meet the speakers at today’s Phaidon talk
Great minds from Canada, the Netherlands, China and Burkina Faso discuss the state of national architecture
Why is Cliff Richard in the British Pavilion?
Sam Jacob and Wouter Vanstiphout’s show at the Venice Architecture Biennale takes a pop view of town planning
Larry Clark’s first movie screened in Amsterdam
The Foam gallery will be showing Clark’s early 16mm film, alongside shots from Tulsa and Teenage Lust
Have you seen Massimo Bottura’s art collection?
The chef talks through his collection of paintings, photographs and bronze bin bags with the Wall Street Journal
Monica Bonvicini shows some love in Zurich
Look out for the Italian artist’s Desire (2006) in the Swiss city this summer, as part of a wider retrospective
The Dominican Republic’s concrete legacy at Venice
The national submission remembers its 1956 fair, and how its citizens now live their lives in among the architecture
Deyan Sudjic and Barbara Radice on Sottsass
The Design Museum director and Sottsass’s widow discussed the great man last night. Here are some highlights
America brings an architect's office to Venice
The American Pavilion’s 'Office US' looks at how Meier, Saarinen and Wright built abroad
When Ettore Sottsass met Barbara Radice
To mark tonight’s Design Museum talk, we look at how Sottsass’s second wife enabled him to reach new heights
What links Mies van der Rohe to Ferris Bueller?
How director and Chicago native John Hughes sought out a Mies protegé's building for his 1986 film
Welcome to the Sottsass pleasure Dome
The great designer Ettore shunned public commissions, favouring ambitious private, hedonistic undertakings
Georgia O’Keeffe’s little sister’s retrospective
The Dallas Museum of Art appeals for Ida O’Keeffe anecdotes ahead of a show dedicated to the little known artist
The Insider's Guide to Venice
Event organiser Tommaso Speretta reveals his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide
Unseen since 1970 Bacon tryptych up for sale
Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer was painted at the height of his passionate affair with the petty criminal
When Sottsass met Bob Dylan and the beat poets
How a life-threatening illness led to the Italian designer meeting Kerouac and co
Steve McCurry's most difficult assignment
He's been in every war zone on the planet but Iraq was to prove his most difficult challenge
Take a look at Richard Prince's latest Instagram art
The artist is back on Instagram, and using posts from the photo-sharing site in a new series of works
Stephen Shore on photography's visceral connection
Watch our great video from the photographer's ICP talk in New York last week
How Sottsass went from page to product
We seek out the early sketches that became household objects for the design conscious
Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin's Museum of Ethnology
The photographer’s contribution to the eighth Berlin Biennale takes in denim, sneakers and TV static
Ten buildings built to be moved
From a lake school to Renzo Piano's eco hut, The Phaidon Atlas picks out some great portable buildings
Massimo Vignelli 1931 – 2014
The Italian-born designer credited with introducing European modernism to American graphic design has died
Did Halston do to fashion what Warhol did to art?
A new exhibition at the Warhol Museum looks at the influences, careers and legacies of the designer and the artist
How good a cook was Ferran Adrià's mother?
The elBulli founder tells Time magazine about his mother's talents, his rules for anarchy, and how animals cook
Andy Warhol’s Rolls-Royce is on eBay
The pop artist’s 1974 Silver Shadow is for sale with the online auction house, with a starting price of $89,000
McDonald’s reduces its top dishes to pictograms
The fast-food chain’s new French campaign eschews heavy branding for an illustration of its six big dishes
René Redzepi chooses snow for his Desert Island
The Noma chef requests a single day of wintry conditions as his luxury on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs
Shore and Parr meet Phaidon Club members
Two stellar names in the photography world host special talks in London and New York
Ai Weiwei’s floral bike protest staged in London
A copy of the artist’s installation-cum-protest is chained up outside the Lisson gallery as part of his new show
Colin McDowell enters peak beard debate in Sydney
At the Sydney Writers’ Festival The Anatomy of Fashion author urges visitors to London to be clean shaven
How to shoot Tadao Ando's most beautiful houses
Photographer Edmund Sumner talks to us about his friendship with the architect and the Ando houses he’s shot
Architectural Record's Innovation Conference
We just took our online Atlas along to one of North America’s most forward-thinking architectural events
George Lois has some Damn Good (Greek) Advice
Advertising legend gives closing address at TEDx Thessaloniki to launch Greek edition of Damn Good Advice
The biologist loved by Mies and Richard Hamilton
Why did the pop artist and modernist architect both draw inspiration from a controversial 1917 biological text?
Edmund de Waal launches his monograph at the V&A
To mark the publication of his book, the artist put in his final public appearance of 2014 at the V&A last night
Clerkenwell Design Week opens
Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, and Sir Paul Smith among big names at this year's east London design festival
The Memphis influence at New York Design Week
We detect the hand of Ettore Sottsass and co at New York’s independent design fair, Sight Unseen Offsite
Wired beehive follows Heatherwick’s seed cathedral
The winning design for next year’s Milan expo draws attention to the world's dwindling honey bee population
Danh Vo artwork stolen in New York
Danish-Vietnamese artist's huge copper chain links are taken from City Hall Park
Mies tower wins architectectural prize after 42 years
Commissioned by IBM, the 52-storey Chicago tower had one of the first computerized air-conditioning systems
