11 May 2017 • Syndicate
Ever wondered why email, trash cans, Google Docs and desktops look the way they do? The answer lies in 1960s hippie culture and LSD-taking creatives
15 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Design Museum, London
From next-gen mobility scooters to bloodstream nanobots, this pop-up exhibition explores how technology can better help an ageing population
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The man who put the 3D visual magic into Harry Potter has set his sights on the future of everything – from ‘experiential branding’ to training surgeons. Our critic lifts off at the London design festival
18 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
12 March 2015 • Mark Westall
In the 1960s and 70s, countries across Africa celebrated their independence with astonishingly avant-garde architecture. Oliver Wainwright reports on a fascinating attempt to chronicle this forgotten history
• Afro modernism: Africa’s avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
27 January 2015 • Mark Westall
After a ceremonial event to mark the preservation of the hallowed undercroft is blocked, skaters must question how open the space really is
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound’
13 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The future is here. Project Cyborg will revolutionise the way designers think by training materials to build themselves – and adapt to their surroundings
8 April 2013 • Mark Westall
French designer Ora-Ïto is converting the famous Marseille roof terrace into a haven for contemporary art
1 March 2013 • Mark Westall
From drones to drumkits, the Design Museum wants to see what you have made of your $25 credit-card-sized computer
18 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Master of delicate, beguiling structures, the young Japanese architect marks an exciting new direction for west London’s summer structure
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
What will we be making shoes out of in 2080? And will our clothes come from fruit? One college course studies exactly that
29 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A’s vast collection of furniture – from Jonathan Swift’s bureau to Ron Arad’s swervy bookcase – has a new home that is breathing new life into old wood
24 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Shops in Tokyo and New York are offering you the chance to turn yourself into a miniature plastic action figure
