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This year the Serpentine’s Summer Pavilion was designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić. It follows, and contrasts with, Sou Fujimoto’s cloud-like Pavilion which was visited by [...]

This exceptional exhibition pays tribute to the architect Oscar Niemeyer (1901-2012), who died last December, via the history of the construction of the city of Brasilia, his magnum opus and one [...]

Regarded as one of the most influential and important designers of the 20th century, Marcel Breuer (1902-81) “invented” tubular steel furniture at the tender age of 23, a revolutionary [...]

Opening tomorrow is this retrospective devoted to the unique work of Irish designer Eileen Gray. Along with Le Corbusier or Mies Van Der Rohe, Eileen Gray ranks among the architects and designers [...]

The Palais Garnier’s first ever restaurant L’Opéra has just opened its doors. Designed by goth Paris architect Odile Decq (check out this interview with Thierry Ardisson from 1990), [...]

Sibling design duo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have won the competition to work on ‘enhancing’ Versailles’ extraordinary Gabriel staircase, which leads to the royal apartments. [...]

Chanel’s Mobile Art Container, a travelling exhibition pavilion created for Chanel, came to rest on the square in front of Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe earlier this year, and [...]

One of the most important early modernists, French furniture designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was a member of Le Corbusier’s studio. This exhibition, opening soon at the Petit [...]

Haussmann this, Haussmann that… If you want to see what Paris looked like before 1850, when Napoleon III and his famous prefect replaced 120,000 squalid flats with 320,000 spanking new [...]

Editor-in-chief of weighty local fashion quarterly Citizen K, Frédéric Chaubin has been publishing his own photos of what he calls the ‘fourth age of Soviet architecture’ for a [...]