Category: Design
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Brutalist market: flats at London’s Centre Point taken off market
Half of tower’s 82 luxury flats remain unsold as Brexit jitters and tax rises bring ‘silly offers’
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Where design has a social dimension: Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández for 2018 Design Miami/ Visionary Award
Design Miami/ Announces Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández as the Recipients of the 2018 Design Miami/ Visionary Award. Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández as the recipients of the 2018 Design Miami/ Visionary Award. The annual award is given to creative talents across all fields that are engaging with design including designers, curators, architects, and…
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Officine Panerai to bring to life the brand’s seafaring history at 2018 Design Miami/
Officine Panerai presents The Newest Luminor 1950 at the 2018 Design Miami/ (Dec 5–9, 2018). Officine Panerai’s watches are a natural blend of Italian design, expert Swiss technology, and passion for the sea. Founded in Florence in 1860 as a workshop, shop, and school of watch-making, for many decades Officine Panerai supplied the Italian…
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Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 – from messy misery to a dash of magic
Firehoses, grenades and fibreglass sombreros feature in a shortlist that takes in Michael Dean’s evocation of economic despair and Cerith Wyn Evans’s sublime floating instrument
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Secular Retreat review – a simply miraculous piece of architecture
The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has built ‘a gliding swan’ of a house in Devon that strikes a perfect balance between inside and out, whichever way you look
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Speed Tail: McLaren’s first ‘Hyper-GT’ and the ultimate McLaren road car
McLaren has never built a vehicle like the Speedtail before. Being at the wheel of a Speedtail promises to be a truly sensational experience and unlike that enjoyed in any other car. Elegance has been created through reduction: every body panel is carbon fibre and has been sculpted to reduce drag. Only 106 will…