Tag: Oliver Wainwright
Everything you need for a techno-utopian retirement
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
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
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
REVIEW: Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age
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
Lift-off ! My 90-second ride into the future of virtual reality
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
What happens to the Serpentine pavilions? Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee……
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?
The forgotten masterpieces of African modernism
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
Hello world: The New Whitworth Art Gallery
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
Southbank Centre bans street art event celebrating skate park’s salvation
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
Headset provides ‘3D soundscape’ to help blind people navigate cities
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’
4D-printing: from self-assembling chairs to cancer-fighting robots
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
Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space
8 April 2013 • Mark Westall
French designer Ora-Ïto is converting the famous Marseille roof terrace into a haven for contemporary art
What have you done with your Raspberry Pi?
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
Sou Fujimoto’s Serpentine pavilion promises a breath of fresh air
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
Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace
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
Pull up a chair: inside the V&A’s brilliant new furniture gallery
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
Print yourself: the rise of the 3D photo booth
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