Design
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Culture
A snowy photography museum, Peruvian art in Madrid, going rural in the fight against climate change.
Zürich: co-operative living
We head to Mehr als Wohnen, a unique mixed-use development housing a happy and healthy community.
Inner peace
The foreboding exteriors of the Fredensborg Houses have been compared with a prison. But inside, Jørn Utzon’s revolutionary housing project is as captivating as his masterpiece: the Sydney Opera House.
Material thinking
Inside Borre Akkersdijk's Amsterdam lab, where knitted fabrics for Adidas, Nike and Gore are engineered to look futuristic and perform brilliantly—proof that textiles, done right, need no logo.
Better together
Could a co-operative housing estate in Switzerland be the model for a new way of living, helping city dwellers escape high rents? We head to Mehr als Wohnen to find out.
Happy space
City dwellers pine for attractive and usable public spaces and city planners are taking note. We visit places where poetic verses are daubed on streets and ‘playable pavements’ allow children to let off steam.
Electric dreams
Japanese digital art collective TeamLab is using technology to remaster what it means to create and experience artworks. We took a stroll among the flowers in their brave new world.
On design
To celebrate the collaboration between Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer and Japanese designer Hiroshi Fujiwara, we contemplate the pursuit of perfection to achieve timeless appeal.
Room to glow
The apartment near Lake Zürich that shows how even a concrete new-build can be warm and cosy.
Inside scoop
Belgium might be small but its design industry is punching well above its weight, as evidenced in its biennale.
