Social design
What do you think about the function that social design can have at this moment in history. How can we define it? A brief description by points Social design refers to the practice of using design methodologies to address and solve
Elmgreen & Dragset: ‘Making art is a headache. Only 2.5% of it is fun’
From gay urinals to a Prada store in the Texas desert, the Scandinavian duo are as playful as they are provocative – as their clashes with Boris Johnson over the fourth plinth rocking horse proved There’s something hanging in the Berlin
‘Breathtakingly beautiful’: Kew’s Temperate House
Five-year project involved moving 10,000 plants and replacing 15,000 panes of glass After five years, 10,000 plants uprooted and replanted, 15,000 panes of glass replaced, 69,000 sections of metal, stone and timber repaired or replaced, enough scaffolding to stretch the length
Art in 2017: major events and museum openings
by Louisa Buck Whatever else 2017 brings, there can be no doubt that it is a bumper year for major art events. Here are a few stand-outs in a very crowded calendar. The Grand Tour Once every decade, international contemporary art’s three most
Bjarke Ingels to design 2016 Serpentine pavilion – but he’s not the only one
Julia Peyton-Jones’s swansong as gallery director includes four more summer houses in Kensington Gardens, designed by architects aged between 36 and 93 by Oliver Wainwright
