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Royal Academy of Arts to sell exhibits from architecture show

Exhibits from Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined will be available to buy from the RA website from 13 March 2014

Smiljan Radic designs Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion

Since London’s Serpentine Gallery unveiled its first summer pavilion in 2000, the erection of a temporary structure designed by a renowned or up-and-coming architect has become one of the summer’s most hotly anticipated design events. Here’s a look at this year’s design by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic

Eight shortlisted for UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015

Teams of architects and designers have been asked to design a pavilion on the theme ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’

How we designed the mobile orchard – by Alex Haw of Atmos

The director of architecture practice Atmos on creating an interactive ‘mobile orchard’, which Haw presented at this year’s Fabricate 2014 conference in Zurich

RCA students design floating black ball

Students at London’s Royal College of Art have designed a floating black ball that can follow people and even mimic the sounds they make…creepy, but cool.

London Festival of Architecture 2014 – get involved

The London Festival of Architecture takes place across the city in June. Here’s how you can get involved

Nicholas Grimshaw to curate architecture & design at NOISE Festival

Architect behind the Eden Project and Waterloo International Terminal will work with biennial NOISE Festival, which offers young designers from across Europe the chance to gain recognition and job opportunities by entering their work for free on an ePortfolio website

Is Avoriaz the word’s most beautiful ski resort?

Opening in 1966, the French ski resort of Avoriaz was only accessible by cable car and looked like something from an expressionist movie. It still does, and there are still no cars to be seen…

Thomas Heatherwick designs new Cape Town art gallery

British designer has unveiled plans to turn a former grain silo at Cape Town’s historic docks into a new gallery for African art

Contemporary chandeliers – six of the best

Our pick of the best modern, inventive takes on the chandelier, that most glamorous of lights