Christo: London Mastaba; Tomma Abts – reviews

Serpentine galleries, London
Christo’s floating installation makes a big first impression, but can’t match the brilliance of Tomma Abts’s canvases

Autonomous car innovations: from jam busters to cures for queasiness

Last week it was revealed that Apple operates 55 driverless cars. What else is coming down the self-driving road?

Architecture biennale 2018: all hail the new queens of Venice

The appointment of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara as curators of the great architecture biennale is striking – but no one who knows their work should be surprised

‘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