Mutts-have: architects create luxury kennels for pet charity auction

Celebrities and designers also turn their hand to producing pooch palaces for event

‘Azzedine Alaïa couldn’t give a damn what other people said was the new mood’

Ahead of the first UK solo exhibition of the couturier’s work, former colleague Sophie Hicks remembers his exacting pursuit of fashion perfection

Centre Point and the Hoover building review – from beasts to beauties

Denounced as vulgar when they were built, these newly desirable London landmarks have been reborn as luxury flats boasting distinctive dimensions as well as chequered pasts

Beyond the dazzle: behind the scenes at Cartier

More than 300 stunning jewels from the French house are on show at the NGA. But it’s the journey they took from fanciful notion to sparkling creation that’s just as interesting

Damien Hirst hates sausages! How Instagram became art’s new playground

Twisted selfies from Cindy Sherman, strange fruit from Wolfgang Tillmans, skull revelations from Damien Hirst … as artists muscle in on the app, what have we learned about them?

Former swimming baths in south London to reopen as art gallery

Turner prize winners Assemble are designing £4m gallery, which will open in September