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Celebrated and at times controversial British designer warns our cities are gripped by ‘epidemic of boringness’
Thomas Heatherwick, Tom Dixon and Paul Smith on powering London’s newest £100m regeneration project
Former London Mayor says he did not waste ‘a single penny’ of £46m of public money
From sold-out lectures to burgeoning biennials, why have architects become such crowd-pleasers?
The largest museum of 21st-century art from the continent has opened in Cape Town
Rather than regenerate the areas in which they are based, the tech titans have constructed private fiefdoms
More than £45m later, the champions of the Garden Bridge have thrown in the trowel
Aric Chen, in charge of assembling M+ Museum’s Asian design collection, talks about his formidable task
Politicians with panache, pop kids so bad they were good — and a particularly poised pooch. Jo Ellison reveals the year’s most attractively attired
Possible embarrassment unlikely to take gloss off flurry of Sino-British cultural exchanges
Project loses political support amid uncertainty over funding and how design contract was awarded
Backing business is key to tackling coastal deprivation, says think-tank
The capital has been thought of as an uncertain market for modern design. But change is in the air
The pioneering cancer centres are using art to aid and empower patients
London can do without the vanity project that is the Garden Bridge
Designers are rethinking lecture halls and the spaces around them
Critics of £175m crossing query fairness of procurement process
There is little surprising about proposed Googleplex’s retro-futurism
Thames foot crossing costing £175m scheduled to open in the summer of 2018
The role of bridges as enduringly potent city symbols is explored through photographs, engravings and artists’ representations
Designer Thomas Heatherwick straddles the worlds of art, architecture and manufacturing
PAD’s mix of art and design is luring crossover collectors
Caroline Roux on a celebration of Thomas Heatherwick’s tireless invention
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