Form Follows Seam: Designers Show What A Sewing Machine Can Do In Copenhagen

VÆRKTØJ exhibition at 3DaysOfDesign 2026 - Photo by Peter Vinther.

Stitched lamps, enfolded chairs, a leather sling suspended in steel — Erwan Bouroullec, Foster + Partners, and more work with the sewing machine for the VÆRKTØJ exhibition at 3DaysOfDesign.

2025 World Architecture Festival Shortlist Revealed

Populus hotel by Studio Gang - Photo by ©Jason O’Rear.

The 2025 World Architecture Festival shortlist features a sustainable resort camouflaging into the Saudi Desert, NYC Police Stations in dialogue with the neighbourhood, a Portuguese winery blending seamlessly into the vineyards, and the renovation of a San Francisco iconic tower.

Foster+Partners’ Ben Dobbin Designs Exclusive Limited Editions for The Dalmore Whisky

The Dalmore Luminary 2025 Edition by Ben Dobbin, Foster+Partners - The Rare - Photo by The Dalmore.

Whisky meets architecture on the eve of the Venice Biennale. Ben Dobbin’s design highlights the perfectly balanced nature of The Dalmore as well as the ebb and flow of Scotland’s landscape. The sculpture is the third chapter of the Luminary Series project co-curated with V&A Dundee.

Expo 2025 Osaka: Twenty Striking Pavilions

Netherlands Pavilion Osaka Expo 2025 - ©Plomp.

Renaissance gardens, traditional fishing boats and desert villages inspire the architecture of these striking pavilions at Expo 2025 Osaka.

Best museums and cultural architecture projects to look out for in 2025

The Tornado at FENIX. Artist impression. Designed by MAD Architects. Image Proloog.tv.

From Sou Fujimoto’s masterplan for Expo 2025 Osaka to Frank O. Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi. These stunning cultural venues will also celebrate Harlem’s black heritage, Chinese Opera and David Bowie.

Twelve museums and cultural architecture projects openings of 2024

Zayed National Museum by Foster+Partners - Image by ©Foster+Partners.

An art space carved in a grain silo in Norway, the new Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and the Shakespeare Museum in London feature in the 12 museums opening in 2024.

World Architecture Festival 2023 shortlist revealed

Bamboo Dome for G20 Bali Summit by Biroe Architecture © Biroe Architecture.

The World Architecture Festival 2023 shortlist includes a mosque designed by a woman, a submerged stadium, a tree-like energy station, and more.

24 architectural museums and cultural venues to look forward in 2021: from Tutankhamen to Aviici!

Wormhole library by MAD Architects - Rendering by SAN.

Discover 24 architectural museums opening in 2021: from Kengo Kuma’s Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Denmark to Jean Nouvel’s Pudong Museum of Art in Shanghai, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza and the Aviici Experience in Stockholm.

Top 10 museums to look forward in 2020: from Edvard Munch’s tower in Oslo to Tutankhamen’s new giant home in Cairo

Ateiler Audemars Piguet Museum - Courtesy of BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group.

10 museums inaugurating in 2020: from Tadao Ando’s Pinault Collection in Paris to Foster+Partners’ museum in China but also Grimshaw Architects’ pavilon at Dubai Expo, Frank O. Gehry’s expansion of Philadelphia Museum of Art and more…

Brexit: design and architecture professionals oppose the UK leaving the European Union

#BoatLeave protest on Wednesday 15 June 2016.

David Chipperfield, Sam Baron, Thomas Heatherwick, Foster+Partners, Tom Dixon, David Adaje and many other British designers and architects oppose Brexit as it could compromise Britain’s leading role on the world stage, scare foreign investors, impoverish precious creative exchange and even cause a shortage of construction workers.