AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm?
Tech firms have developed AI that can learn how to write music. So will machines soon be composing symphonies, hit singles and bespoke soundtracks?
Observer New Review
The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google
From California to London, the tech giants are employing top architects to build spectacular symbols of their immense global power. But they have their critics…
Caring Wood, Kent review – rebirth of the English country house
Inspired by Kentish oast houses and the Arts and Crafts movement, this confident, eco-smart family home is a model for grand living
Frank Lloyd Wright: fantasist or genius?
As an exhibition in New York marks 150 years since the birth of Frank Lloyd Wright, is it time for a reappraisal of this flawed hero of modernist architecture?
How real books have trumped ebooks
The digital revolution was expected to kill traditional publishing. But print books are ever more beautifully designed and lovingly cherished
The Age of Spectacle by Tom Dyckhoff review – birth of the iconic landmark
Tom Dyckhoff looks at the impetus behind the modern era’s frantic desire to erect eye-catching buildings