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Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age

Photographer and journalist Gareth Gardner on the Barbican Art Gallery’s new exhibition.

Douglas Coupland – Everywhere is Anywhere is Anything is Everything

Best known for his novels including Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Douglas Coupland has always created visual art too. Now, a new book from Black Dog collects and examines his artistic practice

Calling architects: win a £40,000 commission

The call is out – Blueprint is looking for a young architecture practice to work with an artist on a major new £40,000 commission. Blueprint has teamed up with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Ryder Architecture for this exciting installation.

Gillian Wearing picks her top art, design and architecture events

The British Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing picks her top events for the coming months.

If Only… wellbeing in design was second nature

Says biophilic designer Oliver Heath

Country life: Hauser & Wirth’s new Somerset gallery

The contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth has spaces in Zurich, London and New York. So when it was announced it was going to open an art gallery in deepest Somerset, the question on everyone’s lips, was ‘Why Bruton’?

Piet Oudolf – interview

Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf, the man behind the planting on the High Line in Manhattan and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Pavilion in 2011, talks to Cate St Hill about his garden for Hauser & Wirth Somerset, including the perennial meadow that sits behind the gallery buildings.

Stephen Bayley on Terence Conran

Ten things Terence taught me:

The European hotels redefining luxury leisure

Cutting-edge design is being applied to new hotels and restorations throughout Europe, bringing leading establishments firmly into the 21st century.

A new and unique take on luxury hotels in London

London is offering a new and unique take on luxury with a new generation of hotels.