Tamara Rojo: ‘I want ballet to be for and about everybody’
The artistic director of the English National Ballet on dance in the #MeToo age, embracing people’s flaws and the thing she misses most on tour
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Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard – shopping in the Instagram age
Thomas Heatherwick’s ‘kissing’ roofs top a new high-end shopping mall in the old coal sheds. But why does the whole King’s Cross scheme not quite feel real?
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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Macallan distillery review – whisky and spectacle galore
Easter Elchies, Craigellachie, Moray
Macallan’s new £140m distillery and visitor centre, by Richard Rogers and co, is a suitably subtle blend of hi-tech and theatre designed to put the beautiful business of whisky production centre stage
The Marvellous Mechanical Museum review – marvels ex machina
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Four centuries of automata whir into wondrous life in a show that’s as much performance as it is exhibition