Shigeru Ban to design Mount Fuji visitors’ centre
World Heritage site centre resembles upside-down latticed cone - an architectural inversion of the mountain itself
Klaxons love our Where Chefs Eat app
James Righton from the band tells the NME that he takes the restaurant guide on tour with him
Alex Brown's Painting Abstraction
Stand well back from your screen and see what happens to the hybrid paintings by this New York-based artist
How Mies invented modern architecture
Early Friedrichstrasse and glass Skyscraper projects were way ahead of their time - even for Mies van der Rohe
Origami inspires a rethink of the toothpaste tube
US design student Nicole Pannuzzo thinks we don't need new products, just better designs for our existing ones
Czech photos balance beauty and documentary
NYC's Czech Center show, You. Never Too Close, shows mid-career photographers with a common viewpoint
René Redzepi up for two James Beard Awards
The chef's Phaidon book, A Work In Progress is nominated in two categories of the prestigious US culinary awards
Why are these old Spanish men colouring in pigeons?
Among the punk and fashion books, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger pick out one on bird racing in the Photobook
Why Mies van der Rohe divided opinion
Genie behind the curtain wall or architect of cold technology? Let Detlef Mertins guide you to the answer
Who's who in these Nan Goldin photos?
Goldin's new book Eden and After features familiar friends with their kids. Read on to find out who they are
Ruth Root's Painting Abstraction
Chicago born painter's work appears to be painted on the wall, not the canvas. How does she do that?
Daniel Kovalovszky's unearthly landscapes
Hungarian photographer subverts conventional landscape photography with uncannily uniform forest shots
Martin Parr rewrites photobook history
The photographer tells the Financial Times why he would like to bequeath his incredible collection to the Tate
Have you seen Maurizio Cattelan's dinner service?
The Italian artist has produced a line of plates, mugs and tablecloths using his distinctive Toilet Paper images
Perrault unveils Austria’s tallest building
Dominique Perrault, architect of the French National Library, unveils the first of two towers in Vienna
Ferran Adrià hits the East Coast
Impassioned speech to 800 students at the Culinary Institute of America and MoMA Store launch among highlights
The Atlas takes a big look at some small buildings
New Editors' Focus feature lays bare the most diminutive buildings on the site
Nick Lander spills the (French) beans in Edinburgh
Author of new eBook The Art of the Restaurateur set to lift lid on the restaurant business at Talking Food event
The Insider's Guide to Berlin
Designers Philipp Schöpfer and Daniel Klapsing on the city's secrets from our downloadable Wallpaper* guide
Ed Ruscha’s LA Film Festival poster
The Los Angeles pop artist creates a 20th anniversary poster for his local film festival, based on a 1962 work
Take a look at the RCA’s Secret Postcard sale
£50 works by big names (as well as plenty of unknowns) go on show in London
Mugaritz in Chicago – some tickets still left!
Join world-renowned Spanish chef Andoni Luis Aduriz during a rare visit to Chicago this Sunday
Smiljan Radic creates 2014 Serpentine Pavilion
White, translucent and made of fibreglass The 48-year-old Chilean's plans for the summer pavilion are unveiled
Vitsœ reissues Dieter Rams’ noble plastic side table
Originally produced in 1962, the high end furniture brand has revived the occasional table, adding adjustable feet
LAPD opens its archives for Paris Photo
Most famous police department on earth gets its mug shot in the second edition of Paris Photo Los Angeles
The World We Made style hybrid air vehicle unveiled
Airlander can take-off and land on any surface, emits few greenhouse gases and can stay airborne for 5 days
Daniel Gordon wins the Paul Huf Award
The 33-year-old American photographer wins the young photographers award, for his still-life collages
When product design meets political resistance
From Suffragette teapots to protest robots, the V&A's Disobedient Objects examines the role of making in rebellion
Understanding Alice Aycock's Park Ave. Paper Chase
The artist says her new series of artworks are "the metaphorical visual residue of the energy of New York City"
First building in new district is a concrete church
Nameless Architecture eschews the usual shopping centre or office block for something more spiritual in Korea
Ferran Adrià on the road (and in the air)
A short report from the first few days of the Spanish super chef's US tour
Sou Fujimoto's tree-inspired apartment building
The Japanese architect's Arbre Blanc brings outdoor high rise living to a rejuvenated Montpelier
Martin Parr on Paris, pants and photobooks
To mark his Paris show, the photographer reveals his personal likes and dislikes to France's Le Figaro newspaper
How to read Bruce Nauman's works on paper
A new show in Toronto examines how the innovative artist explored the breakdown of printed language
Why Nan Goldin focused on children in her new book
In an accompanying essay the Italian writer Guido Costa offers insight into the inspiration behind Eden and After
Chapmans, Micallef and Collishaw search for God
The Stations of the Cross shows contemporary works themed around the Passion of Christ throughout Lent 2014
Italy V ArmaLite over use of Michelangelo's David
"The image of David, armed, offends and infringes the law" says government's culture minister
Wolfgang Tillmans' cosmic worldview
The German photographer explains how an early love of stargazing informed his wide-ranging world view
Time magazine captures One World Trade
The magazine greets New York's magnificent new skyscaper with an equally impressive photo shoot and video
Win a Ferran Adrià-inspired dinner party
Yes you read that right - Phaidon, Williams-Sonoma and Kitchit have your next modernist dinner party sorted
Morphosis brings a touch of New York to Los Angeles
Emerson College evokes concentrated energy of East-coast metropolitan centers in an iconic LA setting
Martin Parr's Acropolis Now
The photographer collates his water-damaged prints of Greek ruins into a new online series
John Baldessari reflects on his favourite things
A Goya etching, a picture by Sol LeWitt and a yodelling pickle from Damien Hirst are among most treasured items
Obrist and Herzog & de Meuron disrupt the Biennale
The Swiss curator and architectural duo present a 'mental universe' dedicated to two influential dreamers
Kengo Kuma's cake shop opens in Tokyo
Known for using unexpected materials on his facades, the architect looks to tradition for Sunny Hills cake shop
Homes of the starchitects recreated in Milan
Zaha Hadid joins Daniel Libeskind and Shigeru Ban in allowing their homes go on show at the design fair
Wolverine debut artwork up for auction
A Marvel comic recently sold for over a million dollars, could this original Wolverine artwork top that figure?
Turkey's highly entertaining TV tower
Çanakkale Antenna Tower combines broadcast functionality with day trip opportunities
Nan Goldin's grand master flash
Scopophilia exhibition pairs the artist's photographs with works from the Louvre's collection
Paul Rand's C logo gets a new lease of life in Indiana
Graphic designer's 1973 logo for the Indiana Visitors Center finds a modern role in the city
The Armory Show looks to the East
New York's biggest art fair seeks to undercut the curatorial clichés with a deeper look at works from China
Slovenians land futuristic stadium design in Belarus
Aluminium clad 'spotty stadium' by OFIS Arhitekti majors on acoustics - let's hope the supporters' voices are up to it
Massimo Bottura wins 'Nobel Prize of gastronomy'
Italian chef wins prestigious Swedish White Award for his renewal of one of the world's best-loved cuisines
The Rauschenberg Foundation distributes later works
MoMA, the Met and others benefit from the foundation's Gift/Purchase Program, placing later works with museums
Beatrice Galilee lands curator role at the Met
Lisbon Triennale and occasional Phaidon contributor takes up new position as curator of architecture and design
Why Joseph Beuys and his dead hare live on
New Phaidon Focus book looks (among other things) at the importance of his mysterious 1965 performance
Iconic street art goes on show in NY
Archive unearths sketches, paintings and photos of early works by Keith Haring, Futura 2000 and Lady Pink
Wes Anderson's Flemish painting inspiration
How the director's new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel was, in part, inspired by Phaidon books
Pompidou shows paparazzi shots alongside fine art
Centre Pompidou-Metz hangs pap shots alongside Warhol to examine our relationship with news and gossip
Stephen Shore's travels through Israel
In From Galilee to the Negev the photographer presents an impartial portrait of Israel and the West Bank
If only every in-flight safety message was this good
Fasten your seatbelts! Art & Graft dispel traditional passenger apathy with snappy pre-flight safety movie
Joel Meyerowitz at street photography screening
The New York street photographer joins director Cheryl Dunn for a special screening of Everybody Street
Piero Golia's models, monuments and sculptures
LA-based Italian artist who sat up a tree until someone purchased his art, sailed to Albania 'the wrong way', tattooed his face on a woman's back and disappeared for weeks has a show of new work at Paris Gagosian
VIP tickets for Ferran Adrià's tour are going fast!
You need to hurry if you want to meet the great man and get your copy of elBulli 2005-2011 signed in the flesh
Do Ho Suh takes to the beach in Perth
Hidden gems from the Korean artist, William Kentridge and Jeremy Deller intrigue at Perth Art Festival
Thomas Heatherwick's African art museum
V&A Waterfront unveils architectural plans by Heatherwick Studio for historic Cape Town Grain Silo Complex
Harvey Quaytman and social justice
Andrew Russeth, the editor of GalleryistNY, highlights his favourite passage from our new Quaytman book
Phaidon photographers' holiday tips
Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Sally Mann and Joel Meyerowitz tell The New York Times where they like to unwind
Steve McCurry's Children of the OMO photographs
Magnum photographer publishes his photographs to bring attention to ritual killing of mingi children
The sketches that became a furniture collection
South Korean designer Jin-il Park liked his early pencil strokes so much, he built a real life furniture series
Why the cross was so important to Harvey Quaytman
Impressed by Kazimir Malevich's 'spirituality' Quaytman believed minimalism had become too 'materialist'
Reworking Mies van der Rohe's only public library
Mecanoo and Martinez + Johnson will modernise Washington DC's Martin Luther King Memorial Library
How Geoff Mcfetridge created the graphics for Her
The designer drew from Massimo Vignelli's subway map when coming up with a look for Spike Jonze's movie
Daniella Zalcman's photographic tale of two cities
Vanity Fair contributor's new work is a love letter to New York and London - shot and edited entirely on her iPhone
BIG and Kuma shortlisted for Netherlands arts hub
The ArtA art and cinema centre in Arnhem has narrowed its architectural submissions to a final four candidates
Finding photographic beauty in rubbish
Diane Gatterdam and Laurie Frankel's artfully styled still lifes highlight our wasteful habits
Chris Martin's homage to Isaac Hayes
He describes his inspiration as “an unconscious practice of drawing” in new Phaidon book
The Mexican design museum's concrete jungle home
Zeller & Moye's new home for Mexico City's Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura has terraces jutting out into the trees
Stuart Hall on Samuel Fosso
To mark the cultural theorist's recent death, we look back at Different - Hall's book on marginalized photographers
Yoga mat smoothie, anyone?
Well, how about flip-flops and patchouli oil? Artist Josh Kline makes the most tasteful, foul-tasting health drinks
Nendo reinvents the chopstick
The 4000-year-old eating implement is given a contemporary twist by the world-renowned design agency
When colour brings structure
As architecture they would be unbuildable; as music, they would be unplayable, so why are these paintings a joy?
Architects plan a car park with a courtyard on top
UK practice Brisac Gonzalez have designed a multi-storey car park for Bordeaux with apartments on the roof
Harvey Quaytman's intellectual scavenging
Calligraphy, poetry and Islamic design all found their way into this artist’s work. Just don’t expect too much green
Can you spot the clones in these landscapes?
Landscape photographer Mathieu Bernard-Reymond’s populates his images with digitally manipulated doubles
Pentagram rebrand the Tonight Show
The design agency keeps the moon detailing when updating the long-running talk show’s graphics
Abstract painting from the age of the image search
How do online searches inform abstract painting? Quite directly, in the case of the American artist David Ratcliff
Zaha and co. rethink the drinking fountain
A group of London architects have come up with their versions of the water fountains for the capital
When fine art meets family portraits
Nan Goldin and Thomas Struth feature in Family Matters, a new exhibition that looks at changing family relations
Sterling Ruby and Barbara Kruger's LA dance works
The visual artists provide visual concepts for two pieces in the LA Dance Project's new Los Angeles residency
Classless still lifes inspired by Cuban shop windows
Catherine Losing and Anna Lomax's photo series Cuban Shop Windows places lowly products on a pedestal
The Simpsons and abstract painting
In our book Painting Abstraction, Bob Nickas looks at how cartoons can raise and answer some serious questions
Daniel Libeskind's Spanish spiral
The manufacturing firm, the Cosentino Group, commission an ornamental spiral from the New York architect
Is smashing Ai Weiwei's vase a valid artistic protest?
A 52-year-old artist broke one of Ai's Colored Vases at the Pérez Art Museum to highlight the lack of local shows
Our Editorial Director is Queen of the Cookbooks
WSJ Magazine describes how Emilia Terragni built Phaidon into a "prandial powerhouse"
Konstantin Grcic's clear glass furniture collection
The designer's sleek new Man Machine range pairs industrial strength panes with gas pistons
The hidden music in Harvey Quaytman
Could some regard for the painter's musical sensibility unlock additional meaning in his canvasses?
A still-image celebration of golden-age cinemas
French photographer Franck Bohbot reflects cinema's golden age in his photographic series of movie theatres
