HS2’s graphics are an express delivery

New agency Fernandez Waddy turn round branding for new UK rail link in record time

High Speed 2 UK - Fernandez Waddy

China indulges its love affair with the car

New range of exhibition centres by Marques And Jordy set to roll out in September

Oasis Exhibition Centre, Longquan Chengdu, China - Marques And Jordy

Konstantin Grcic adds to his BD Barcelona range

Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona Chair acknowledged in new design

Bench B - Konstantin Grcic for BD Barcelona

A look inside Anselm Kiefer's studio

Phaidon Focus book goes inside the celebrated German artist's sprawling studio complex La Ribaute in France

Inside Anselm Kiefer's studio at La Ribaute, Barjac, France

Sandy Carson's (still) new here

Scottish photographer's love affair with adopted American homeland documented in ongoing photo series

I'm New Here - Sandy Carson

Islamic influences inspire exhibition centre in China

Sure Architects uses West Xia Helan stone and traditional Chinese techniques to create Islamic patterning

Ningxia Exhibition Centre - Sure Architecture

Ten questions for milliner Philip Treacy's photographer of the last 20 years - Kevin Davies

The photographer on how to please Valentino, the etiquette of shooting Princess Anne, why it's sometimes important not to follow the brief and being the best dressed man (in a Philip Treacy hat) at The Edge's wedding


Andy's Unemployment Rate goes on sale online

Christie's publishes details of their forthcoming online-only Warhol Estate sale, running Feb 26 - March 5

U.S. Unemployment Rate (1984) by Andy Warhol

Apple trademarks its stores

Interior design treatments become the latest piece of intellectual property the tech giant has registered

The Apple Store, Amsterdam. Courtesy of Apple

Tracey Emin takes over Times Square

Artist's neon love-themed artwork I Promise To Love You lights up the square this Valentine's Day

I Promise To Love You (2007) by Tracey Emin

René Burri's secret life as a colour photographer

Famous the world over for his black and white photographs of Churchill, Che Guevara, and Picasso among others, the legendary Swiss Magnum photographer lays open his lifelong archive of colour photographs for the first time

The cover of René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences published in April

Windows are reinvented in Peruvian tower concept

Translucent fibreglass composite lit by LEDs while each aperture is covered in a thin film to generate solar energy

Animated Apertures Housing Tower - B+U Architects

American artist tears apart 'art speak'

US artist David Levine, accompanied by 29-year-old PhD student Alix Rule, takes down artworld prose

Detail from the cover of October, summer 1986

Diane Meyer embroiders reality in search of truth

US photographer blurs the faces and locations in her photographs with embroidery to reveal hidden histories

Bernauer Strasse Berlin - Diane Meyer

Big Apple's little dwellings

Winner of the AdAPT NYC micro-apartment project boasts ceiling storage space and a double wall-mounted bed

nArchitect's winning AdAPT NYC entry

Architect Iñaki Bergera takes photos too

Spanish architect puts his career on hold to explore all things photographic

Gas Station, North Indian Canyon Drive, California - Iñaki Bergera

Olafur Eliasson's strobe-lit fountains come to London

Flashes "freeze something that usually our eye and brain would see in motion" he says on eve of new show

Model For A Timeless Garden 2011 - Olafur Eliasson

Facebook, Google, Pinterest logos given makeover

Istanbul-based agency Antrepo redesigns social networking sites taking inspiration from vintage cameras

Google logo by Antrepo

Fashion designer quizzed in hunt for stolen Picasso

Romanian designer and TV star Catalin Botezatu was questioned as part of the Rotterdam Kunsthal investigation

Romanian fashion designer Catalin Botezatu

New show explores racism in photography

Can photo artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin undo South African legacy?

Ceramic Polaroid Sculpture (2012) by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

Ai Weiwei makes new film on death of a protestor

Artist's latest attack on government features interviews with villagers over the death of Qian Yunhui

Ai Weiwei

Rä di Martino's remains of an imaginary world

Abandoned Star Wars movie sets form backdrop to Italian photographer's Every World's A Stage series

Every World's A Stage - Rä di Martino

What to expect from Frieze New York

The US fair promises a magic-themed speakeasy, a cemetery and the recreation of a legendary artist's restaurant

Still from Patron (2009) by Marianne Vitale

Herzog & de Meuron add to London skyline

Swiss architects to design new residential tower at Wood Wharf adjacent to Canary Wharf

Wood Wharf - Herzog & de Meuron

Russian digital artist Olga Tobreluts gets huge retrospective at Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Museum and curator Antonio Geusa pay homage to 'Helen of Troy equipped with a video camera and a computer'


New inter faith chapel points to North Star

Symbolically important Polaris provides focal point for new Florida chapel via giant skylight above wooden spire

Interfaith Chapel - Brooks + Scarpa and KZF Design Studio

Ferran Adrià sets out his stall

The elBulli star plans to open a market in his home town, dedicated to Catalan produce

Ferran Adria

Paris buses get new Jean Francois Porchez signage

The French master of typography develops Parisine Girouette, a clear LED script for the capital's bus network

Parisine Giroutte by Jean Francois Porchez

Meet MoMA's new poet

New York's Museum of Modern Art appoints Phaidon contributor and traffic broadcast transcriber as its first poet

Kenneth Goldsmith

The accidental art of Kerry Skarbakka

Meet the US photographer who puts himself in harm's way, then clicks the shutter

Over the handlebars (2012) from The Struggle to Right Oneself by Kerry Skarbakka

Steven Holl's yin yang museums

The award-winning American architect creates twin museums for a Chinese Eco-City

Steve Holl's Tianjin museums

Marc Quinn's baby reborn in Singapore

The British artist's sculpture of his infant son has gone on permanent display in a Singapore park

Planet (2008) by Marc Quinn at The Gardens by The Bay, Singapore.

Shomei Tomatsu Remembered

The seminal Japanese photographer's life and work is commemorated across the world

Untitled (Hateruma-jima, Okinawa) from the series The Pencil of the Sun (1971) by Shomei Tomatsu

Richard Prince's Picasso nudes come to London

Fourteen canvases, inspired by the great Spanish painter, go on display at Sadie Coles HQ next month

Richard Prince, untitled (2012) ink jet and acrylic on canvas, 141 x 126.4 cm / 55 ½ x 49 ¾ in, Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

American Airlines rebrand upsets Massimo Vignelli

Design legend is not a fan of the new corporate identity that replaces the one he created 45 years ago

American Airlines - Futurebrand

Rem Koolhaas creates futuristic furniture for Knoll

12-strong line featuring plexiglass swivel armchairs debuts at Salone del Mobile in April

Rem Koolhaas furniture for Knoll

Franck Allais subverts the city

French photographer's new series Subverting The City to debut at his first solo London show next month

London Bridge - Franck Allais

MoMA and CODA create wall made from skateboards

MoMA PS1 and design agency enlist support of local skateboard company Comet for their 'Party Wall'

Party Wall by CODA for MoMA PS1

William Blake etchings discovered

Treasure trove of 350 works uncovered by students and scholars

William Blake

Bill Finger's imagined crime scenes

Inspired by Gregory Crewdson, former cameraman photographs miniature film sets - then destroys 'the evidence'

Previously - Bill Finger

Banksy collaborator Ben Eine joins mile high club

East London street artist who became famous when David Cameron gave one of his pieces to Barack Obama during first official US visit has first ever airborne gallery in Upper Class on Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic

Ben Eine Gallery In The Air - Virgin Atlantic

Warhol Studio 54 Polaroid goes for $10,000

Auction of ephemera sees bids from celebrities, ex-employees and devotees of legendary New York nightspot

Andy and ever present Polaroid camera

New photographers stage last minute show in London

11.59 was conceived just a few days ago, is currently being put together - and opens on Wednesday!

There Is No Sun Without Shadow - Alex Catt

Giant giraffe animates Paris children’s centre

French practice Hondelatte Laporte Architectes creates quirky nursery and childcare centre in Paris suburb

Childcare Centre - Hondelatte LaPorte Architectes

Adobe HQ designed by artists using its own software

New Utah HQ features graphic images created by Adobe software nestling alongside murals created by street artists El Mac and Mike Giant - obligatory indoor basketball court and rock-climbing wall included (of course)

Adobe Utah interior - Rapt Studio

Steven Holl lets the light in in China

'Slices' cut out of concrete exoskeletons keep the neighbours happy by allowing sunlight to shine through

Sliced Porosity Block - Steven Holl

Space centre opens in Slovenia

Space technology museum is based on a habitable space station concept by local resident Herman Noordung

Noordung Space Wheel

Douglas Gordon's sharp new film series

The Turner-Prize winner returns to Morocco for his latest video series, on show during the Berlin Film Festival

Still from Sharpening Fantasy, 2013

New show uncovers LA has it might have been

Los Angeles' Architecture and Design Museum prepares for a show of local proposals that never broke ground

Frank Lloyd Wright's  Civic Center Plan (1925)

The Clock goes 24 hour at MoMA

The final full-day screening of Christian Marclay's video work takes place this weekend in New York

Still from The Clock (2010) by Christian Marclay

Hear Tate Liverpool's dawn chorus with a difference

The gallery plays music created via ahem, the bodily functions of local wildlife as part of a city-wide initiative

A dropping marked score from Bird Sheet Music – A Movement in Three Parts

Protestors don Niemeyer masks to save Brasilia

The architectural founders of the Brazilian capital are invoked in a protest against plans to overhaul the city


Larry Gagosian: 'The shows in the galleries educate - I like deals!'

"If a collector comes to me and says 'teach me,' I go numb," the uber dealer tells British Vogue

Larry Gagosian standing in front of a painting by Cy Twombly

Warhol inspires Sir Paul Smith's Giro D'Italia shirts

The pop artist's Monroe series inspires British menswear designer to put clashing colours on bicycle shirts


Ten questions for food critic Joe Warwick

The editor of Where Chefs Eat - the ultimate insider's guide to great food - talks about where to get a perfect burger at four in the morning, the imminent end of 'dirty food' and how waiters get their revenge on rude customers

Joe Warwick and Where Chefs Eat

London firm win Iraqi Parliament competition

The Stirling-prize winning firm Assemblage won the $1billion competition, with a low-cost, eco-friendly pitch

Assemblage's plans for the Iraqi Parliament

Nicola Tyson's Bowie night shots come to London

The New York artist's photographs from the seminal London club night go on show at Sadie Coles HQ this month

Peter Robinson (Marilyn), (Princess) Julia, George O'Dowd (Boy George), 1978. From Bowie Nights at Billy’s Club, London, 1978, by Nicola Tyson. Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Can you follow Alena Zhandarova's photo story?

The 24-year-old photographer channels Sherman, Wall and Crewdson in her fictionalised self-portrait series

From Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate by Alena Zhandrova

Matthew Barney's graphite skateboard

The American artist sticks a pencilly tip onto a skateboard in his latest Drawing Restraint series

Lance Mountain Riding Matthew Barney's board, by Joe Brook, courtesy of Juxtapoz Magazine

Piano, Kusama and Kahn up for Design of The Year

Renzo Piano and Yayoi Kusama are among the Phaidon subjects up for The Design Museum's 2013 prize

The Medici Chair by Konstantin Grcic

Bouroullec Brothers design Ready Made Curtain

New work for Kvadrat requires a degree of user assembly but don't worry: "The charm of the imperfect in opposition to the overly sanitised interior, is something we believe in," says Erwan Bouroullec (ie: you can't mess it up)

Ready Made Curtain - Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Scorsese exhibition goes back to the director's roots

The Deutsche Kinemathek Museum pulls in Marty's childhood kitchen table for its major new exhibition

Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro on the set of Taxi Driver (1976)

Will Chinese art continue its rise in 2013?

Warhol, Picasso and Richter outsold Chinese artists last year but can they do the same again this?

Early Snow (1957) by Zhang Daqian

Where there's a tweet there's a photo

Larson and Shindelman search through the half-a-billion tweets sent each day to choose locations to photograph


Atrium Studio designs for Moscow's Silicon Valley

Designers look to traditional townhouse style to house scientific brainboxes outside Russian capital

Living Quarters, Skolkovo - Atrium

Copenhagen plans for five new artificial islands

Planning Department wants to add to existing islands with new ones created by architects Tredje Natur and PK3

Krøyer’s Puddle - Tredje Natur and PK3

Nazi-looted poster art up for auction

Incredible story behind one man's battle to get back his father's graphic art collection looted by the Nazis in 1938

Phalanx - Wassily Kandinsky, Phalanx Exhibition (1901)

National Geographic photo winners

A Thai tiger, a Swiss mountain and a Kenyan dump top the US magazine's prestigious photographic contest

Indochinese tiger by Ashley Vincent, overall winner of National Geographic's 2012 photography competition

Damien Hirst's Brit Award revealed

The design for Hirst's 2013 Brit award is unveiled. He didn't pickle it, but he did put spots on it


Will BIG's viewing tower put Phoenix on the map?

The Danish firm reinterprets Seattle's Space Needle with push-pin style viewing tower for Arizona's state capital

BIG's plans for the Phoenix Tower

Have you seen these massive sea dice?

American artist Max Mulhern launched them on 12/12/12 from Gran Canaria. Any guesses where they'll end up?

Max Mulhern's Aqua Dice

The Summer Is Over for Luc Tuymans at Zwirner NY

Phaidon artist's tenth show in 20 years - delayed by Hurricane Sandy - finally opens at Zwirner Gallery

Luc Tuymans - The Summer Is Over Zwirner Gallery, New York

Whale backbone inspires spiral staircase

Canadian architect Andrew McConnell works the animal's vertebrae into a beguiling upward spiral

Andrew McConnell's Vertebrae Staircase

Jean Nouvel creates Paris art island

Pritzker-Prize winning architect oversees the redevelopment of a former Renault factory on île Seguin

Jean Nouvel's plans for île Seguin, Paris

The rail bridge as public art

Andrew Leicester's bridge in Los Angeles references the indigenous peoples of the San Gabriel Valley

The Foothills Basket Bridge - Andrew Leicester

MoMA buys flat-pack kitchen

Art museum acquires an original Le Corbusier fitted kitchen from his iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille

MoMA staff put their newly acquired Le Corbusier kitchen together

John Baldessari reworks the yellow school bus

The LA artist's contribution to the Art Fund's public education campaign references the chrome yellow school bus

Learn to Dream bus by John Baldessari (2013)

Korea's Hae-gue Yang debuts at Haus der Kunst

Venetian blind installation in Munich is inspired by immigration and Germany's past

Accommodating the Epic Dispersion - On Non-cathartic Volume of Dispersion - Hae-gue Yang

Frank Gehry's fish lamps alight at The Gagosian

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect shows his piscine interior lights, sculpted from a type of Formica


John Pawson designs new Schrager Miami venture

The hotel impresario's Miami Beach Edition Residences will have their own skating rink and bowling alley

Rendering of the Miami Edition residences, designed by John Pawson

Photographers' Gallery - three great collage shows

The London gallery steams ahead in championing collage as the photographic medium for 2013

Geraldo de Barros - Sobras 1996-98

Dutch artist's duck arrives in Sydney harbour

Florentijn Hofman's duck sculpture will float in Darling Harbour until January 23 as part of the Sydney Festival

Florentijn Hofman's Rubber Duck - image courtesy of the artist

What to expect from Simon Starling at The Tate

The artist is the second annual Tate Britain commission. What will he bring to the Duveen galleries?

Tabernas Desert Run (2004) by Simon Starling

Daniel Libeskind adds to Jewish Museum, Berlin

Architect reworks the Central Flower Market Hall, a 1960s industrial building with curving walls by Bruno Grimmek

The Academy of the Jewish Museum, Berlin - Daniel Libeskind

David Bowie first new single and video in 10 years

Where Are We Now? has video directed by artist Tony Oursler referencing Bowie's time in Berlin in the Seventies

David Bowie pictured in New York last year

New city proposed on banks of the Ganges

Studio Symbiosis plans futuristic-looking development of regimented rectilinear towers along riverbanks of Kanpur

Trans Ganga, Kanpur - Studio Symbiosis

Zaha Hadid design becomes first 'faked' building

Chinese developers 'pay homage' to Beijing's Wangjing Soho, and they're due to complete before the original

Rendering for Zaha Hadid's Wangjing Soho

Le Corbusier, painter, photographer and polymath, gets full NYC retrospective at MoMA next summer

Jean-Louis Cohen, author of our wonderful The Future of Architecture Since 1889, curates MoMA show

Le Corbusier working on Convent of La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle (1959) by René Burri

Gucci goes manga

Italian fashion house commissions Japanese artist Hirohiko Araki to produce international comic ad campaign

Detail from Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci (2013) by Hirohiko Araki

McDonald's furniture revamped by Patrick Norguet

Likeable Paris-based designer takes Maccy Ds upmarket with hand finished concrete furniture

Côme - Patrick Norguet and Alias for McDonald's

Texas pavilion borrows from Mexican beach huts

Cooper Joseph Studio creates deceptively light box on three columns in our favourite material - concrete!

Webb Chapel Park Pavilion - Cooper Joseph Studio

BIG designs with a twist in Miami

The Danish architects raise the bar for Miami condos with a truly innovative design

The Grove at Grand Bay - BIG

Chinese designers build 'cave' on the back of a bike

Liu Yang and Xu Dan create a cave of black foam on the back of a cargo bike

Eyes Closed - Liu Yang and Xu Dan

Martino Gamper makes a meal out of Moroso

Italian designer reworks classic furniture to dramatic effect

Metamorfosi by Martino Gamper for Moroso

The Portuguese architects' straw ziggurat

The IUT Group bring modern design to bear on one of the world's oldest building materials

IUT Group's Agricultural Mountain

Holiday with Matthew Barney

Tate Tours' New York break includes a trip to the avant-garde artist's studio

Matthew Barney in his studio, 2011. Photograph by Ari Marcopoulos

Daniel Lorch's organic desk lamp

Berlin designer attends free workshop and comes up with innovative new design for Philips

Moorea OLED desk lamp - Daniel Lorch for Philips

Tyrolean festival venue mimics its surroundings

Architects Delugan Meissel use the crevices of the surrounding area to indicate entrances to the building

Festival Hall of the Tiroler Festspiele - Delugan Meissl

Don McCullin goes back to war

War photographer explains how 'fake tans and Jamie Oliver' made him head for Syria

Don McCullin - Surma Tribes

Jeriel Bobbe's portable picnic table

Springtime arrives on two wheels via Dutch designer

Springtime - Jeriel Bobbe, Bloon Design