Design
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2025 winners highlight bold visions and optimistic outlooks
This year’s top projects, which include bamboo flood shelters and desert domes, prove that architecture isn’t just about buildings but about survival, identity and belonging.
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Spring into action with brand new styles
Whether it’s a big trip, a key work project or a meaningful pursuit, this is the season to get things moving. Here’s how to dress the part in style.
The Japanese miniature artist who takes the little things in stride
Tatsuya Tanaka’s small-scale artworks are the result of dreaming big. We visit the studio where his mini masterpieces come to life.
You’ve got male: Brands to keep an eye out for in 2024
From a welcoming new Paris boutique founded by two upstart designers from Dijon to Italian jackets that marry natural materials with couture techniques, we look at this year’s trajectory of menswear.
The Zürich-based firm offering authentic modernist posters at entry-level rates
Publisher Lars Müller has long championed the power of print. Now a new online project is offering up his archive to collectors.
The Lee Ungno residence: A traditional-style dwelling built to champion Korean art
A Korean ‘hanok’ in the French countryside is a keeper of an artistic legacy and a link between continents.
São Paulo’s art scene revitalises amid political shifts and cultural renewal
Paulistano artists, galleries and art fairs have emerged from the ruinous Bolsonaro years with a new urgency to make their mark.
Hul le Kes proves that small-city manufacturing can be the right choice
Fashion is dominated by a few big cities but this label’s decision to build its brand in Arnhem has put the Dutch city on the map.
Interview: Kim Bora, award-winning director of ‘House of Hummingbird’
The lauded director on breaking into South Korea’s male-dominated film industry – and her next project.
The design agenda: A new archive space opens at the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity
Plus: modularly constructed cabins and an exhibition space in Mexico breaking free of the traditional gallery model
