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What Londoners really think of skyscraper architecture
With more and more towers planned, Londoners may have to get used to living in a ‘vertical city’ – but do people really want to live and work in tall buildings?
World Architecture Awards open for entries
The World Architecture Awards, which takes place annually as part of The World Architecture Festival is open for entries in the categories of completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects
SixE chair by PearsonLloyd and Howe wins Red Dot Design Award
Stacking chair adds Red Dot to existing design awards, including Green Product Award
Do designers really need millions of colours, asks Erik Spiekermann
We’ve come a long way from Henry Ford and his any colour ‘so long as it’s black’ line. Pantone’s system, now half a century old, offers more than 10,000 colours and is bigging up an ‘enigmatic purple’ for 2014 (18-3224), while digital screen colours now run into the millions. Maybe it’s all gone too far, say Erik Spiekermann. Erik Spiekermann set up MetaDesign and FontShop, and is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann
Terry Farrell helps launch London Gatwick bid for new runway
Architect and planner Sir Terry Farrell unveils plans for a second runway, which the airport says would help economic development – and make it London’s best-connected airport
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
56-year-old Japanese architect renowned for his disaster relief buildings is recipient of coveted architecture award
Hashima revisited: photographing Japan’s ghost island
Photographer Andrew Meredith was one of the first people allowed on to the tiny Japanese island of Hashima. It took him three years of negotiations with the authorities to gain access to this unusual place — once a densely populated mining community that was abandoned practically overnight in 1974 and left to rot. He documented his visit in photographs and records for us his feelings of being on the island
Pharrell Williams co-curates exhibition of conceptual toys
Exhibition of figures often known as urban vinyl is on show now at the Design Exchange in Toronto
Michael Sodeau chooses his must-see art and design events
The designer and designjunction creative director curates this month’s diary of art, design and architecture events
Wish you were here? Postcards by Jonathan Meades
Commentator, film maker, critic and author, Jonathan Meades, has also spent many years taking photographs and collecting postcards. These two loves have come together in Pidgin Snaps, a collection of 100 of his own pictures presented as postcards